Comments on: Fools being Dumb agents

By: The (Asset Management) World is Flat : DumbAgent.com

The (Asset Management) World is Flat : DumbAgent.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:55:48 +0000

[...] find it interesting to pit these investors against the Motley Fool’s CAPS (already discussed here). It would be an interesting clash of [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:10:59 +0000

Or you could post when you “sell” or “cover” a stock to track your progress. It’d be a nice exercise in technical analysis.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:57:33 +0000

As in we should ‘get out’ once our financial goals of x dollars in gains is met rather than applying a specific time frame to how long we should hold onto the stocks. Otherwise, we could potentially hold the stocks forever and never really realize a loss or gain. I might be completely wrong though.

By: Ocean

Ocean — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:31:38 +0000

As in? I meant when should we check back to see how we did?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:52:12 +0000

I think it’s better to approach this from a payoff perspective rather than a time frame no?

By: Ocean

Ocean — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:03:17 +0000

What kind of time frame do you think would work? I left it open here, thinking I’d check back in around 3 months, and 6 and so forth.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:29:14 +0000

I think FCX looks the best out of the stocks bought. For shorting… I’d go with GM