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Investing

All my equity-related fun.

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All I can do is laugh…

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My stocks are down 4% for the day. My portfolio is at an 11% loss overall.
Days like these, I wonder why I don’t invest in the First Bank of Sealy.
All my positions are solidly in the red. Except for two. My two Israeli stocks. What’s up TEVA and ISL!

(C/K)ramer

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This has been posted everywhere already, but I watched this about five times.

A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks

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Read this article in the New York Times last week…
While Ray Kurzweil is one of the few academics I truly admire, I can’t see this working out well at all. For a number of reasons…

Holler Ladies and Gentlemen!

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I’m happy to find out that I’m in the top 0.91% richest people in the world! (click here to find out yours).
Now I have to start working on knocking off the 55,146,440 people above me.

Sorry YHOO

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I caved. I couldn’t handle Yahoo hurting anymore.
Bought Arena Pharmaceuticals and Sears Holdings, based on Cramer recs. I have to become more independent with my investing, but I currently lack that time/discipline/know-how to go out on my own. But as it happens, the one stock I have come up with myself, Teva Pharmaceuticals, is still the star!

Bad Day

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As good as life may be. Sometimes you just have crappy days. Despite Teva Pharm and Gamestop doing incredibly well today, Yahoo tanked. The CEO has got to resign, it’s like having an 80 year old half-blind man driving a Ferrari.
Nothing is working at work. We have no idea why. We deploy next week.
And it’s still Sukkot. I’m sick of Jewish Holidays.

My new stress

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I could make my life very simple like most of America’s workforce. Work my 9 to 5, and then avoid any kind of stress and decision making outside of those hours. Nope, I pile it on. So I’m in the stock market. I’m at a point in my life where all I’m paying for is myself, so there is no real stress, so after I get my paycheck and pay cell phone/rent/car insurance/car loan...

Zvi Band Relationships are our most important asset.

Zvi Band

Founder of Contactually.
I'm also passionate about growing the DC startup community, and I've founded Proudly Made in DC and the DC Tech Meetup.

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