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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (110655)	1/20/2008 9:25:34 PM
From: KPHinds	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I'm not brand new. I'm grandfathered, although my profile may not show it. I joined again because I wanted to see what Mike had to say about some things as I thought the market was about to crash. His comments have a lot more value than the crap that gets printed in the financial rags, although he is biased and most people can't successfully execute his strategies. Smart guy. I lost money betting against the market 8-10 years ago. I was right, of course, but I don't have the patience to play the market short. I can't do it, and I don't try-I have to commit. (the whole time two coworkers made $350K and $1.6M going long the internet stocks, although they later lost everything.) Since then, I actually went leveraged long at one point but generally just bought into some index funds. I really made money shooting the moon at work... there's money to be made going long right now, but I don't have enough insight to see exactly what it is. Note that I don't feel great about some of the longs that I do have. I may sell out one of them.