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Sun Jun 2

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on ikkyu2's blog post. 8:09 PM

The real danger of QE
ikkyu2 Should society decide what is and what is not of value? And are manufactured things automatically of more value than services? The problem with easy money is the possibility
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Sun May 19

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on tomlongrpv's blog post. 7:22 PM

How to Gain Exposure to Unusual Markets
The interactive brokers seem to just offer Europe and Asia and not Latin America and Africa. In any event most of my portfolio is trapped in my firm's retirement plan and must use the existing broker and so is limited to US
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Sat May 18

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on TMFAleph1's blog post. 10:18 PM

2 More Reasons the Gold Trade Is Dead
The goldbugs have all forgotten history. An "investment" in gold (and I use the term "investment" loosely here) yields no income and can produce gains only on the greater fool theory since its price
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Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on TMFPostOfTheDay's blog post. 4:13 PM

When Does the Party End?
The buying opportunities are much easier to spot than the selling opportunities. But in order to play the game of timing the market you have to spot both accurately. I doubt most of us can do that. So I sat by too
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Blog Post

tomlongrpv added a blog post. 4:01 PM

How to Gain Exposure to Unusual Markets
As a relatively new investor I have little experience in buying stock outside of typical American companies and some European companies. This leaves me not knowing how to expose myself to markets such as Asia (particularly [more]

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on TMFAleph1's blog post. 3:52 PM

2 More Reasons the Gold Trade Is Dead
Dragon,
You are challenging a religion by challenging the gold bugs. They are not really investors, they are just collectors. And their love of gold is based on faith. They need their own
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Sun May 12

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on rd80's blog post. 10:59 AM

What are you buying or selling?
My latest investments have been as follows:
CAG My firm has done work for ConAgra in the past and they seem well run and focused on long term ROE. They fit the relatively low risk profile I like to see for
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Sat May 4

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on ikkyu2's blog post. 10:44 PM

Apple's buyback and bond issue
I still wish I had bought more than just 200 shares back when AAPL was $86. And maybe I should have dumped some or all when it was $700. But I still think it is a good long term investment and this thread helps me better
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Sun Apr 21

CAPS Outperform Pitch Reply

tomlongrpv commented on drborst's pitch for MTNOY. 11:16 PM

And the cell phones offer reliable banking services too.

CAPS Outperform Pitch Reply

tomlongrpv commented on TrackDreman's pitch for PL. 11:15 PM

Again who the hell cares about Dreman?

CAPS Outperform Pitch Reply

tomlongrpv commented on TrackDreman's pitch for CB. 11:14 PM

Who the hell cares about Dreman? What does he know about insurance and the value of this company?

CAPS Outperform Pitch Reply

tomlongrpv commented on tutaemeia's pitch for MTNOY. 11:12 PM

I agree. We have to look for the unusual. I just picked up 1,000 shares of MTNOY for my portfolio.

Fri Apr 12

CAPS Outperform Pitch

tomlongrpv wrote about The Boeing Company (BA) . 6:04 PM

BA Outperform
The hysteria about the Dreamliner's batteries did not batter BA stock as much as I had hoped it would as I was waiting to buy. But I bought anyway. Again a long term and fairly conservative pick for my portfolio I think.

CAPS Outperform Pitch

tomlongrpv wrote about MTN Group (MTNOY) . 6:03 PM

MTNOY Outperform
Maybe some real growth will occur in unusual places. Like Africa. And maybe the growth will be in a technology that was not our fist technology in the developed world. Cell phones. Cell phones exist in places where land lines are no good in Africa. [more]

Wed Apr 10

Blog Post

tomlongrpv added a blog post. 10:26 AM

Weeding the Garden
IAs some of you know my portfolio here is one of my real life portfolios (the others are just bonds and mutual funds). I buy but rarely sell. We are now coming up on 5 years of my buying individual stocks by myself and [more]

Tue Apr 9

Caps Pick

tomlongrpv made a pick in CAPS. 9:57 AM

MTN Group (MTNOY) will Outperform the S&P 500

Sun Apr 7

Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on tomlongrpv's blog post. 11:07 PM

How to Buy in this Market?
HarryCarysGhost Well I just bought BA so I am likely to hand on and I am not sure COH has peaked. RDS-A is weak. As to YUM what would you replace it with? rd80 states the obvious choice
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Blog Comment

tomlongrpv commented on tomlongrpv's blog post. 8:24 PM

How to Buy in this Market?
HarryCarysGhost If I am too fragmented then what would you sell? I have already sold off a few positions. Teva and Bano Santander are my current losers but they may not be the right ones
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Blog Post

tomlongrpv added a blog post. 10:26 AM

How to Buy in this Market?
I have a bit of cash lying around getting nothing in return. This happens each year around this time in my pension fundand is higher because I sold off a couple of long term losers that couldn't manage to get ahead of 2009 [more]

Fri Apr 5

Caps Pick

tomlongrpv made a pick in CAPS. 11:15 AM

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (CAG) will Outperform the S&P 500

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