Understanding the World Economic Crisis.

[mx250]

GRAEME'S MUG'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN STOCK MARKET TERMS

 for 2008 ,  and possibly beyond. 


CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.


CFO-- Corporate Fraud Officer.


BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.


BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.


VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.


P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.


BROKER -- What my broker has made me.


STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.


STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.


FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.


MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.


CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.


YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.


WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.


INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.


PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.

 

[caps 999]

hahahaha that ones a pisser 

[VMX247]

GRAEME'S MUG'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN STOCK MARKET TERMS

BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BROKER -- What my broker has made me.

STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.

 

these will be strongly used somewhere today.    :'(..someone pressed the wrong button 

[mx250]

They're talking of errors and automatic computer driven selling. We'll see.

"While the exact number of stocks affected by abnormal activity could not be determined, at least nine stocks were flagged with strange activity, including stocks such as Accenture, which dropped to 1 cent from its $42.17 close Wednesday." Ain't ya glad you ain't got Accenture shares - heart attack territory .

May you live in interesting times.

[Rossvickicampbell]

Billions wiped from the share market (albeit some only temporary) all because somebody claims to have a phat finger!!!!!