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02-29-2008, 09:36

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Do Any of You Invest in Stocks and Bonds

Over the last almost 10 years I have pretty consistently been beaten to death in the stock market. Making my own independent decisions. Pretty much I can give excellent advice by telling you what I am doing, then you should do the opposite with great success.

Some of the things I have used in the past were:

1) Value Line Investment Survey
2) Investors Business Daily
3) Vector Vest
4) Zacks Elite
5) Gut feel for businesses that I personally found interesting or liked eating at

Which brokers do you like:
1)Schwab
2)Fidelity
3)Etrade
4)TD Ameritrade
5)Merrill Lynch and the other big boys

Do you follow a broker's advice or use an asset manager?

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02-29-2008, 19:32

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Do Any of You Invest in Stocks and Bonds

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Originally Posted by hardwood | view 151790

.... "Margin Calls" means you send them a check right now, not next week for whatever the market lost per bushel that day times however many bushels you were playing with. Not for the faint of heart.Frank.

Frank,

You probably know something about soybeans, I don't and have always felt commodity futures trading and margin investing too much for me.

I have done better when I have bought companies like Cracker Barrel, Nike, PF Chang Bistro, Outback Steakhouse. Where I new something about them.

I should have bought some of Warren Buffets Berkshire Hathaway years ago and let Warren take care of business for me. I may do that yet!

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02-29-2008, 22:55

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..... We only pick funds highly rated by Morningstar. We have used money managers in the past and they seemed to encourage a lot of "churn" which benefited them more than us.