capitalism *is* fun :-)

As posted some time ago, check it out:
http://stocks.forbes.com/exosyphencom/

80% accuracy Now, should I be a nice guy and also make each stock’s weight in the portfolio available for you?
Also, I got 3 rewards in 2 weeks.

-80% or better picking accuracy
- Unsung hero - Top ranking gains earned on picks that have received relatively little agreement
- Perma bull - At least 80% of all takes are bulish.

I am looking out for some tool in which I can build a more complex portfolio. Perhaps I will replicate my complete portfolio somewhere.
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I think I will do some profit taking, and head for Starbucks.
Keep working people … I have portfolios to grow

As usual, I waste a lot of my valuable time chatting with Dan on things of which we can’t speak publicly, as we would risk to be missinterpreted. But just tonight, I will let you in on some of our private stuff. Please do not try to replicate anything at home. These lives belong to 2 people that are highly experienced in what they do. They poses large amounts of cash and logistics used to back the entire show.

For example, I could move to Bucharest, and with the amounts we individually pay as rent for our luxurious living spaces, we could share a big penthouse that would make every chick get wet faster then my car reaches 100. (That’s about 6.8 seconds). Or we could use the same amount of money to support a lot of people in need. But we just don’t feel like doing it. If we would combine our tech gadgets, we would achieve the most high-tech/sm in the entire world. Also, we would be the smartest guys in the room. Sounds tempting? But we made a secret deal not to ever do this. It’s enough that we get together 4 times a year (This is Dan’s fault anyway) and make the security staff of the hottest club in town say: “Not these guys again!”, when we step in.

Why don’t we do this? Because in about 2 years, we would become filthy rich. This is why we never work on stuff together. We would probably buy the biggest office building in town and turn it into a strip club. I would use my skills and cash to manipulate markets and drive oil prices through the roof, until a galon of gas is exactly 69 US dollars. That is right. We love the US dollars. We don’t get all wet about the Euro. We love the american way. We love capitalism. We don’t need a currency designed by some designer living off social aid because the factory he used to work in as a condom box designer, was relocated to Pakistan and he got fired. The US dollar makes you feel you actually hold money in your hand. Just look at the bill. (Or use Google to find a picture, if you only have coins in your pocket - this is how Google actually became so huge. People googling for stuff they would never see in their entire life, for real. Like pron.).

Dan would probably buy a Smart car an fit 2 Hummer engines in it. That is because we are not eco-friendly. At all. We like plastic. We like everything that can’t be recycled. Because 10.000 years from now, people would dig out our stuff and expose it in a museum : “A condom used by Dan to please someone’s wife”. Some advanced nation, would find the pit where I pour all the high performance engine oil I burn (and boy, I burn a lot), and become the Saudi Arabia of the year 13.069 by exploiting that. This why we should not be eco-friendly. What we do today, should be known for eternity.

Did I tell you about the time, me and Dan got drunk, and paid with brand new money, which had consecutive serial numbers? We spent the bills in reverse order. We used the last bill to pay for the cab. We were so drunk that we couldn’t remember Dan’s house number. I just told the driver to drive until he sees the biggest house on the street and stop there. He didn’t missed. I mean this guy lives in a freakin sky-scrapper. Get an elevator dude, I am tired of climbing stairs for an hour, until I reach your room. No wonder he used to get laid rarely. Those stairs exhaust any chick.

We don’t need to hear your comments. We don’t care about them.

What I really like about capitalism, is that everything can be bought with money, and handled as disposable items. It’s like living the ultimate eco-friendly life. Everything can be ‘recycled’ (read: passed on to others). You wake up one morning and realise that everything you do, resembles a giant market. Everything is for sale. Everything can be bought. You can even hedge everything. Money is what defines the “can’t do / can do” ratio in your life. Make sure to get that ratio as closest to zero as possible.

Everything becomes more interesting when you realise that even people are part of this huge market. Set a target. Find a proper entry level. Buy. Patiently wait to achieve your target, and then exit. Sell. Make sure everything is hedged. Don’t hesitate. Afterall, it’s all a technical thing.

Don’t make an IPO. Keep yourself closed. Avoid being traded on the open market

Ania mentioned me about the EarthHour. The idea is to get as many people as possible to turn off the lights for one hour. Well, for one thing, this can raise some notice but that’s it. Get to it people

I am not sure what exactly are we going to accomplish. Is this the best we can do for our environment? Turning off the lights for one hour a year, and prettending that we are actually saving the environment makes the same difference as switching from Pepsi to Coke. Home electricity usage amounts for a very small amount of the total electricity used on the planet. Most of it comes from clean and renewable technologies so the impact is insignificant.

While this subject has been brought up, and contrary to popular beliefs, a lot of time and effort has went into research on how to reduce carbon emissions, using modern technology. Part of rebranding and reshaping the company that I own, is to make it have a zero carbon footprint. We aim to achieve this through our offering of free, revolutionary and simple to use technology to reduce greenhouse emissions.

How about if everyone would use one hour to think and develop ways to reduce greenhouse emissions, instead of turning the lights off? We did it. Complex challenges have simple solutions. And we just found one

I was surfing the Chevrolet website, looking for some information on the upcoming 2009 Camaro, when I noticed that they have a section on biofuels and other alternatives. The page on E85 Ethanol is a very interesting lecture and shows the support of the company, for this great biofuel.

The best line I have heard in months: “Penguins are arabs of the bird world. Sitting on top of the arctic oil.”

I have spent most of the weekend drinking and having some good time with Dan. This is something cool to read.
Why do girls think that if they are beautifull, that is something that entitles them to marry rich guys? Let me tell you a thing or two.

If a girl doesn’t get married between the ages of 20 and 25, panic sets in after she turns 25. Whenever I see a single girl over 25, I start thinking : “Dude, I think there is something wrong with that chick”. Whenever I see a single girl over 30, I start thinking: “Dude, there is something wrong with that chick”. Let’s assume the number of girls equals the number of men. More, let’s assume the number of beautifull girls, equals the number of rich men. As a man, I have 20 years (between 20 and 40) to get married. As a girl, she has only 5. That reduces her chances, down to 25%. There are also girls that are beautifull, rich and smart. That would again cut her chances in half, to 12.5%. Again, I could consider brains, career, etc as qualities in a girl, and overlook beauty. That would again cut her chances down in half, to 6.25%. If I also factor in that a rich guy could be gay, not intending to get married, etc … the chances drop to 5%. Any investment banker would tell you that if you have 5% chances to make a profit, and 95% chances to loose, you shouldn’t invest. Market economy, girls

Think of a beautifull girl, as being a bottle of good wine. Once the bottle is opened, and stays open for several years, and several other man sip from the bottle … would you take the remaining of it’s content and consume it entirely or buy it? No. Like any smart man, you would take your sip, and move further.

Further on, with crude oil at $110.21, we should see some more democracy being soon introduced, to petroleum producing countries. Watch out Iran

There I was stuck in traffic, driving home from a business meeting, and eating up huge amounts of gas, when a corporate slave friend of mine calls. “How’ya doin?” … I am watching TV!!!

It was Thursday, 16:10 PM … and he was watching TV? How can you do that, if you work for a corporation? Watching TV at that time. Corporate world is going down the drain. How can they let people do that?

Next time you are after hot stock tips … watch out
It’s a great advertisement about the research department at Morgan Stanley, apparently made by Dean Witter.

Our most precious resource.

I was having a late night chat with a good friend. In capitalism, my good friend has a high position with one of the country’s largest mobile operators, and yet I do all the long calls. It’s sad, but that’s why I like capitalism.

Let’s move further. There are 2 kinds of “time” system in capitalism. Shareholder time and employee time.

Shareholder has days from 1 to 365 when it resets. It has hours from 0 to 24, when it again resets. Every hour and every day is good to play golf, watch a movie, get some sleep, go out, and so on. There isn’t “late”, “early”, and other adjectives we use when mentioning time, to emphasize the serious trouble we are in.

Employee has seasons. Months. Weeks. Days. Even the day is divided in working hours …. and well, whatever there is left (if any), is called lunch, evening, morning, etc. He has weekdays, weekends, days-off, etc. Every single minute has a lot of meanings.

Let me give you an example.

Employee: This minute is to late in the night, and he should go to bed because tomorrow is Monday and has to wake up early because they have some anual report they must finish by the end of the week.

Shareholder: This minute I feel like smoking a cigarette

Observe the difference. Not a single word to emphasize time.

It’s why employess have complex calendar softwares, Blackberries, watches, alarm clocks, etc, while a shareholder simply has a sandglass to enjoy the passage of time quietly.

Capitalism surely is fun