Comments on: Investor Reaction to Market Volatility

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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:22:54 +0000

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By: $

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:00:41 +0000

I have taken all of your advice and bought a trailer park and filled it full of cows.

By: brad

brad — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:57:18 +0000

Actually, belted Galloways would be an especially good investment because I have insider knowledge that the International Belted Galloways Owners Association has finally reached settlement on a longstanding patent infringement suit against Nabisco for the Oreo cookie.

Witness the two parties in question and you’ll understand why:

The Oreo: http://www.youtube.com/oreo

The Belted Galloway: http://www.beltie.org/

The similarities in look and feel are too close to be coincidental.

By: Aleks

Aleks — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:28:20 +0000

Nice to see the market continue to sink. With the huge jump Thursday and Friday I was afraid that the bailout announcement might have been the bottom, and I missed it. However, this morning I see an article in the G&M saying that for the bailout to really work the US housing market needs to “rebound”. That’s not going to happen. The bubble hasn’t fully deflated yet.

I don’t know whether it’s a lesson I learned or just the way my brain is wired, but I don’t understand panic selling at all. I see the market dropping and I wish I had more cash to buy with; I think about rebalancing my existing portfolio; I regret that I didn’t do more to unbalance my portfolio back when I knew the correction was coming. I don’t for a second think that I should sell and lock in a loss.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:25:00 +0000

I think Cow-backed Securities (CBS) might be a better bet. i.e. for the ones selling CBS (us), not the suckers buying them. Of course, we’ll have to get them AAA-rated but we can manage that with a bit of sorcery. And if we sell enough of this pile of dung, we might even get the government to bail us out. I can’t see how we can lose!

By: Sampson

Sampson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:51:51 +0000

Not until after Oct 3rd.

By: ioana

ioana — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:33:30 +0000

Hmm I think they’re overvalued (cows). I think I’ma gonna short sell me some cows. Can I borrow someone’s cow?

By: guinness416

guinness416 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:35:34 +0000

Having done a bit of research, those belted galloways are good looking cows. Here are two for sale in Ottawa if you're interested in diversifying, CC.

By: Sampson

Sampson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:01 +0000

seems like a good time to pile money in if you ask me.