Posts by Jacob Wood9

nimblebear17 said:Tracking this market is an absolute nightmare. It’s incredibly difficult to forecast anything with any certainty. We see stellar earnings reports coming out for certain companies where we already anticipated strong Visa performance. Logic dictates that after such positive news, stock prices should climb, yet instead, they drop by a few percentage points. In these moments, I feel like I can toss my PE, PS, and P/BV ratios straight into the trash because those metrics seem completely useless. I am genuinely stumped here—could someone please walk me through why this happens?

If you somehow found yourself with 🙂 $100,000 in cash and wanted to invest it, which market would you target? Would you look at the US, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, or somewhere else entirely? And more importantly, would your strategy be a quick sprint or a long-distance marathon?

Well, I suspect that’s because most of those impressive-sounding reports are essentially just clickbait headlines.

A company might have a market cap of, say, fifty million dollars and pull in a million in revenue—which, granted, is a massive jump from the hundred thousand they made last year—but suddenly it becomes this monumental sensation.

Company X increased its profits tenfold.

Nicholas Sanchez3 said:Come on, Jacob Wood9, quit messing with your avatar. You're throwing me off.
😕
😬

What isn't working?
I was thinking about throwing in a self-deprecating joke, but maybe I'll just pass on that one.

nimblebear17 said:from Durotar 🙂

Fine, then how exactly does it operate on the NYSE?

In the States, everything runs on continuous trading, so you don't really run into those blackouts.

nimblebear17 said:Does anyone "perhaps" happen to know how the process works after the closing bell at 4:00 PM? I am curious about the order processing systems and everything else involved. Is this procedure standardized across all global exchanges, or does every single one operate on its own unique algorithm?
My apologies if "black-out" isn't quite the right term to use here 🙂
Thanks for the help.

And just out of curiosity, what country are you reaching out from?
That doesn't really apply to the NYSE.

John Bishop2 said:JPMorgan Chase is actually asking for this!!!

How exactly?
it certainly isn't happening to me

Carl Lee4 said:How did you all earn your first actual paycheck? I’m not talking about the stuff we did as kids, like renting out bikes to the neighborhood brats or picking up pocket money. I want to know when you landed your first real job and what it was.

I made my first real money working at an electronics plant, assembling circuit boards. I was pulling three different shifts just trying to stay afloat during my freshman year of college. I didn't have the guts to hunt for anything "classier" back then because my English wasn't great yet, so they stuck me in production. I still remember feeling so bitter watching everyone get ready for a night out while my shift started at 10 PM, staring down those loud machines, drills, adhesives, and boards... I grinded it out for two months and made decent cash, but after that, I told myself: thanks but no thanks, you won't see me back in this factory.

What was your start like?

I wonder if you were working at this place
😘

Rachel Brooks63 said:I mean, that seems perfectly fine, doesn't it?

Fair enough.
I find it somewhat difficult to wrap my head around the fact that someone enduring months of the kind of intense pain you described is being prescribed morphine instead of having a doctor actually investigate what might be causing it in the first place. It just seems a bit shortsighted, I suppose. Morphine and Acisal🙄 plus daily morning massages using Dip Relief

Rachel Brooks63 said:I suppose one might wonder if it wouldn't be in their own best interest to actually mention who they're talking about in the first place.

Don't you worry; once some actual competition shows up, you'll probably find out even his grandmother's maiden name. :kurjak:
:šimić:

So, just one person explaining things to another... basically, you donate blood, they perform some typing on that sample, and then your info gets added to a database. Later on, if someone is in desperate need of bone marrow, they might give you a call to see if you’re willing to step up and be a donor.
And I suppose that's pretty much how the whole process works.

Anthony Rodriguez58 said:It’s become trendy because it feels authentic... I suppose people have just grown weary of that soulless, generic pop music.
Why put 🙄 in the world music category?
Is Buena Vista Social Club considered cool, while Gypsy music is supposedly just for the unrefined?
Besides, you can actually enjoy Buena Vista without feeling like you're at some low-rent dive bar.

My point was more about the sheer snobbery involved.
If some guy singing over cheap synthesized beats suddenly managed to sell records like Bregović, I imagine the very same crowd that scoffs at country music would probably start bowing down to him—though they’d likely prefer seeing him at Carnegie Hall rather than a local town square fountain, which aligns pretty closely with what you're saying. But perhaps if he does a few tours in France first and then lands a duet with Tamara Obrovac, 🤣 suddenly his music becomes high art. Until then, he's considered low-brow, even though he's singing the exact same songs now as he was then. 🙂

Anthony Rodriguez58 said:I suppose it’s also worth noting that there are some truly exceptional Romani musicians from our neighboring regions whose work tends to leave international audiences absolutely spellbound, even though many of us here locally tend to dismiss it as nothing more than primitive noise.

It isn’t primitive. It’s just that it has become trendy lately, so now they insist on labeling it as "world music."🙄

It’s funny how things shift, I guess. Ten years ago, when you were just stumbling around drunk with a cigarette dangling from your lip, people probably dismissed you as some unrefined hillbilly. But now? Now that your old man is stepping out in a crisp white suit, even the most pretentious, high-society crowd seems to fall into a trance listening to him sing.
Take Bregović, for example. He’d probably say something like, it's St. George's Day, but I'm not exactly spending it with the one I love.👍 It seems like we used to just douse everything in those old-school fruit blends, but I suppose nowadays everyone has suddenly pivoted to green tea.🤣

Spawn said:one doesn't necessarily need to be intoxicated to appreciate poetry, for instance...

If you were to belt this song out like some folk singer in a dimly lit American tavern, you might start to realize that even highly intellectual lyrics can end up sounding rather ridiculous.😉
This was written by Bob Dylan

Another encounter, footsteps in the snow
And let a hand stay, since it's already near me
Because constantly, we are on the run
And we follow one another like shadows

In my room, you stay until morning
But now the nights are icy and blue
You talk about everything awaiting us tomorrow
When the time comes for waking and reality

You dream of the ocean, where we might go
One day into the sun and the glow
We turn off the light, you close your eyes
And our story feels so close to its end

Is it all just a dream
Girl for a Day
Girl for a Day
For a day

Since then, I see you many, many times
In the square, dancing, in some cafe
And I would wish for at least five minutes
To approach you so we could be alone

I spoke up, but it was already too late
About our long-imagined happiness
And I saw, I saw clearly
That you have nothing left to say to me

So I live alone again at the edge of town
And often I listen to the trains on the bridge
Or at midnight when the rain falls
I open the door to an unknown guest

I loved her, I know it now
The girl for a day
The girl for a day
For a day

icegirl78 said:Out there, you either have health insurance provided by your employer or you pay for it yourself. Here, employers cover it, and as I mentioned before, the coverage amounts are actually quite decent.

I suppose we should ask ourselves: who are the biggest users of the healthcare system? Retirees, most likely.
But who exactly is their employer?
When you see an elderly lady clutching a handful of prescriptions, what she’s holding in her hand probably costs $500, yet for her, it costs $6.75. It’s practically free, I guess.

Rachel Kim52 said:. And whenever I bring this up while living abroad, people back home just roll their eyes at me, claiming that's how things work everywhere. I’m telling you once more: it absolutely is not!

Look, honey, nothing is actually "free" over here; there's just no need for corruption when you pay your way through a bill (or via your insurance) and everyone stays perfectly happy and satisfied.🙂

That’s why those endless "waiting lists" don't really exist.

nimblestag31 said:And you honestly think doctors who are complaining are just making up ridiculous salary figures out of thin air? Why on earth would they bother doing that?!!!

Well, like the head of the association pointed out, they have their degrees and their passports; if they can find a way to command a higher salary using those credentials elsewhere, I suppose they should just go ahead and choose that option.
This top-tier expert apparently traveled all the way from Germany purely out of the goodness of his heart, purely for humanitarian reasons.😁

By the way, getting a degree here in America is basically free.

rowdylynx38 said:Would you ever report someone if they asked you for a bribe?

From an outside perspective, I suppose I would, though thankfully I’ve never actually found myself in such a situation.

I guess it really depends on the context, because I have this nagging feeling that a good portion of people end up paying simply because they don't know any better.
A guy might pay a few hundred dollars just to get bumped up on a waiting list for an appointment, even though a similar exam at a private clinic would cost him $600. At that point, what's the point of the blue envelopes, little gifts, coffees, or boxes of chocolates? 🤣

I suspect that at a place like Fox News, for instance, you could probably get just about anything if you had 5k euros to spare.

Honestly, those scenes are completely pointless.
It’s just stuff made for kids.
That particular scene where they gouge out the guy's eyes? A standard American ophthalmologist probably sees something like that every single day before heading out for a quick lunch break.
If you want to talk about actual, visceral violence, look at the scene in Casino with Pesci where he slits a guy's throat with a pencil right at the bar.😍

Charles Vaughn50 said:Oh sure, excellent, just excellent... you people who champion capitalism simply because it offers a handful of choices must be incredibly well-educated and high on the corporate ladder... but what about those folks who weren't quite as lucky as you (us) and happened to be born in less developed parts of the world where social structures don't exactly grant them the same opportunities we enjoy (in terms of education, living standards, etc.)? I suppose they get to make choices too, right?

From what I've been able to gather, those individuals have actually managed to thrive best under entirely new circumstances.
If someone made a guarantee, then a guarantee was made.😉 Where exactly is the issue?

And for instance, goldengull3 isn't from Chicago.🙂

beebop said:It’s just your standard capitalist mindset, I suppose.
People seem to live solely to work rather than working to live, which feels somewhat absurd when you consider we only get about 50 miserable years on this planet. We spend that entire window grinding away like fools for some corporate titan created by a system built entirely on human greed. It’s honestly quite repulsive; the whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.🙂

I suspect it might be problematic if you feel that much disgust, mostly because you might find yourself opening your own small business in a few years and then you'll end up loathing your own decisions.
In a capitalist framework, you are essentially selling your services to an employer within the labor market, who then integrates those services into a product to be sold elsewhere.
I guess the logic follows that the more skilled you are as a service provider—or a worker, if you prefer—the higher the price you can command, just as your employer commands a price for what they put on the market.
If you aren't driven by greed and don't feel the need to gouge people or hoard every cent, you could always sell everything you own, split the cash, move to a remote island or deep into the Pacific Northwest wilderness, and live like a hermit hunting fish and gathering fruit; perhaps then you would experience total freedom.
I remember watching a documentary on some commune dwellers, and after about thirty minutes of them rambling on about how they were completely liberated and didn't need money, the final shot was of one guy scavenging for spare change in a marketplace—stuff passersby had tossed aside—while kneeling on the ground right after their big "performance." It felt quite tragic, though I suppose it was also somewhat comical in its irony.

Kenneth White17 said:he’s going to pay people to hack into some databases... just so they can get their hands on my private information...

I’d say just put him on ignore.🙂

Maybe he'll send you a postcard from New York City instead.☕