Col Ingus wrote:
if youre expectancy is so good.. why are you selling a service instead of scaling?
same thing id ask any stock market trading guru who sells services...
Hey young man, thank you once again for saving my life and bringing me the wrist bp cuff, I'm now down to an average of 135/85, losing more weight and going to be dropping more.
When I first tried it out, I was ignoring my personal medical responsibility because I work out and walk a lot, but high bp is a silent killer as they say, and I had spiraled up to 165/110!
I then got serious about my meds and diet and exercise and weight loss program, was a bit of a wake up call.
Give me a pm shout when you come down next time, I'll return the favor and refer you one or more of my favoritas, I'm batting pretty good on those...
All my life my investments and expertise were in real estate, I was an appraiser, investment property appraiser, review appraiser, realtor and mortgage broker.
I never owned a single share of stock, my philosophy about stock was I was giving my money to other people I never knew and would never meet, and hoping they made money so I would make money, didn't seem logical to me, and I had valuable physical property in my possession. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, down and underwater 1/2 a cool mil later, in 2007 I found out just what could go wrong.
Ok, I did own stock. I worked for Lehman Brothers and they would contribute a dollar for every dollar employees put in to company stock.
Even with my limited knowledge of stocks, it made sense to me, as a math person, I figured the stock would have to spiral down to under 50% of it's value b4 I started losing money, so I bought bush loads of it.
What could possibly go wrong?
Again, in 2007, $250k worth of Lehman stock, down to 80k b4 I could frantically sell it, I once again found out.
Let's talk football betting. I mostly bet chicken feed for certain games, just to enhance my enjoyment of watching, where I have lunch money on a game, and by no means am I anywhere near an expert like these guys, but I'm better than the average bear, and for years, at the end of each season, I always came out ahead, albeit only slightly.
My advantage is I'm an egghead analyst, and I know math and statistics, and I analyzed home games vs away games, the type of weather, the turf where one team is more skilled, injuries, urgencies, wags and hunches and a variety of other issues, then created algorithms and made my calculations.
I showed one weeks guesses to a couple friends of mine who were serious bettors, and just by chance, I was spot on on almost all the games, they were stunned, to say the least.
They begged me to show them my pics for the next week and I warned them I'm just an amateur playing around and just got lucky, but they weren't having it. I give them my pics and I was way off that week and they lost their shirts, lol.
The moral of the story, if you want to make money off of investments, if you ever see me here offering advice...do the exact opposite!!!