The Wall Street Wonder

About the 1%

2011-11-07T02:59:00.000-08:00

about the 1% - the real challenge is to keep the system and corporations in tact and to continue at the same time to improve the lot of everyone - taking from those who have is not the answer - but only seems to be for those who do not understand that pulling down or destroying that which creates such great wealth will not help those in great poverty but will only lessen their chances of having their lives improve - it is a different perspective that is needed to see that real wealth has not been created yet -

Liquidity

2011-06-30T01:04:00.001-07:00

I often think how very important it is to me at least to remember that the tools of the Wall Street Market that are called shares or stocks of a company afford an extremely important chance to the user of these tools and that is liquidity - the ability to move in and out of this marketplace - to cash in these securities (sell) - stocks - shares with great ease - where else can one sell what one has at a profit so easily and buy what one wants without much work and even specify a price if one wants to gain the asset at a specific predetermined price - profit can be made both upon entering this market by purchasing at a low price and upon existing the market by selling at a substantially higher price than one has originally paid for a security or share or stock of a company - but in addition there are an infinite number of points in between where the trader can obtain cash to do some other transaction whether he or she sells some of what he or she owns at a large profit or at a loss - in these cases the obtaining of the cash is a paramount factor altogether -

The Miser -

2011-05-08T06:43:00.000-07:00

well - I have been thinking a lot lately about this story that I read recently entitled:

"The True Value of Money is Not in its Possession But in Its Use"

and in relation to this story - what is exactly this entire concept of investing and in essence has it become more of a miserly type of activity as opposed to the use if the tools that are there to increase one's accumulation - things get a little sticky there for me since investing in the tools of wall street - such as stocks - at least with the radical changes in directions of the market in today's financial environment is a rather slippery slope to say the least - from one perspective if one takes the approach of trading rather than simply investing and in a large number or a sufficiently large collection of different securities - then there is a good chance that trading can be carried out such that a person can always be in a position to utilize some or at least whatever capital or cash that is needed at any single point in time -

Optimism

2010-07-07T23:44:00.000-07:00

Of course the investing in Wall Street can and should be considered an art form when performed in a relaxed and calm manner without all of the drama that is portrayed each and every day in the news outlets - to give either a gloomy or rosy image of what the economic weather is - to the contrary - the value of companies do not actually themselves fluctuate in such a harsh and volatile manner - but instead it is the public's perception that is being pressured in the various directions by either false or magnified and amplified misperceptions -

Money Tool - by Walter Paul Bebirian

2009-11-14T22:10:00.000-08:00

2009-07-29T15:29:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends -

whoever dares to read these words -

do not - ever look to me or anyone else on this planet as to what you should and should not invest in - everyone comes from their own perspective and that means that what anyone - no matter who they are - comes from their own perspective and can only guide you based on their own perspective which - no matter who they are - will be adjusted to benefit them over yourself -

2009-07-29T07:20:00.000-07:00

"Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out."
Lee Iacocca

2009-07-23T07:31:00.000-07:00

The Supreme Investing Rule

2009-07-20T16:31:00.000-07:00

it is not necessary for a person to have any one strategy to be successful at trading or investing - a combination of all or many strategies can work -

2009-04-22T05:46:00.000-07:00

A person who is skilled in the art of trading will always be able to see an advantage in any situation that they are faced with -

Information

2009-04-21T06:37:00.000-07:00

very often when you are a shareholder of a company you will receive information about different business relationships and deals and transactions that are going on with that company and some of it's suppliers and/or competitors and from seeing the relationships develop over time you may notice a trend where the two or three or sometimes even more of these companies together may find it advantageous to take a greater step towards working together and perhaps form a merged company
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this may happen because of changes in the industry or because of one company's business model complimenting or filling in the holes that exist in another company's business model -

The Perspectives -

2009-04-10T05:41:00.000-07:00

Now before you jump to the conclusion that the markets are just about making money:

think about a producer of some food that needs as an ingredient for that food some of the livestock that the cattle rancher has on his acres of land -

we have begun -

2009-04-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

well the first step has been accomplished and we have one follower here on the Wall Street Wonder and that is the journy of a thousand miles that has begun with the first step -

Now in the old days when many families worked on farms and big corporations had not been created yet - what was stock - stock was back then and in certain areas on certain farms - livestock which was the family cow - the whole group of cows that the farmers got up and milked or the herd of cows or horses that the rancher might tend to on acres and acres of land - so in general it was always good to at least start out with one head of cattle or stock to keep the family going -

here are a few heads of cattle or whatever you might like to call this family :

Dave's Girls @ Yahoo! Video

I wonder how all of that seems to not exist here in the city at all

Time in the Market vs Timing the Market

2009-04-01T07:09:00.000-07:00

the absolute ultimate investing
rule

Where is Wall Street?

2009-03-26T05:52:00.000-07:00

Perhaps you might think that Wall Street is still confined to that area in Manhattan where a few people started traded a long time ago under a buttonwood tree:

but today the influence and trading practices permeate every segment of our socienty and every day life:

The title of this site

2009-03-25T17:55:00.000-07:00

wonder |ˈwəndər|
noun
a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable : he had stood in front of it, observing the intricacy of the ironwork with the wonder of a child.
• the quality of a person or thing that causes such a feeling : Athens was a place of wonder and beauty.
• a strange or remarkable person, thing, or event : the electric trolley car was looked upon as the wonder of the age.
• [as adj. ] having remarkable properties or abilities : a wonder drug.
• [in sing. ] a surprising event or situation : it is a wonder that losses are not much greater.
verb [ intrans. ]
1 desire or be curious to know something : how many times have I written that, I wonder? | [with clause ] I can't help wondering how Stasia and Katie are feeling.
• [with clause ] used to express a polite question or request : I wonder whether you have thought more about it?
• feel doubt : I wonder about such a marriage.
2 feel admiration and amazement; marvel : people stood by and wondered at such bravery | [as adj. ] ( wondering) a wondering look on her face.
• be surprised : if I feel compassion for her, it is not to be wondered at.

Well there are a number of definitions of wonder as you can see - and perhaps I will be able to cover all angles over time - so let's just leave things open for now and see how things develop -