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To: manohar kanuri who wrote (266)12/3/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: LK2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1989
 
RE--Does anyone really know what the future will bring?

Only G knows what the future will bring. In the meantime, some of us are betting blindly, some are betting shrewdly, on the stock market.

What stock prices will actually do doesn't depend necessarily on what immediate future industry/company conditions/revenues/profits take place. (Look at APM, and try to justify its recent price-action based on fundamentals. It that stock heading higher or lower? Will the company go bankrupt, get taken over, or maybe even start to make some money?

Regards,

Larry

PS--If you buy a stock and it goes up, that is one way of saying you are correct.

Or you could say that being correct and the price of your stocks are two separate factors.



To: manohar kanuri who wrote (266)12/3/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Z Analyzer  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1989
 
<<Every investor with a dollar in the market is making a bet that they know what the future
will bring better than the last person, and some of them are proved correct?>>
Not true. Almost everyone knows stocks will be higher if your time horizon is long enough. The difference is tolerance of the volitility along the way or desire to buy a Lexus instead (consumption today vs in the future or never). Z