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To: energyplay who wrote (50502)	5/26/2009 11:07:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218800

at the moment i care not for general equities / specific debt best to do as little as possible and stay with on-line unreal tournament last man standing death match

To: energyplay who wrote (50502)	5/27/2009 12:47:36 AM
From: prosperous	Respond to of 218800

You can justify trading stocks in this environment with good companies like Intel J&J etc; however remember, Intel is still below its ~96 levels so buying and holding does not work well. If trading is the way to invest in stocks, it automatically eliminates most people since they can't trade well and will likely play a losing game. This is best done by a few experts, for most folks long term investing worked well since the stocks in free markets have had a positive slope of 9-10%. with huge interventions in the market, Nikkei is a prime example of what we may expect-a negative slope over long duration so long term investors get only dividend and capital loss which is nothing to write home about. The current stock ownership needs (last I heard was ~55%) to come down in such an environment since those holding for long term are net negative and the strategy that would get positive return in stocks (trading) is not suitable for most people's temperament.