I think he’s just stingy with the tax man
Hanera, sharing personal info with other people on the forum should be up to the poster’s own comfort level. Just because you shared a lot doesn’t mean I have to share any. And no one should be bullied into sharing any personal info on the forum. You can speculate all you want but that’s about it.
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On a brighter note, AAPL did shoot up lots. Congrats on your 5% gain! 
If tpeiman and I are the wealthist in estors on here, then stay away from stocks…Neither of us particularly care for investing in stocks…I have 5% of my net worth in stocks…left over from my sep ira…will probably die with that same basket of equities…watching the market is entertaining but too risky, especially options…
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@Elt1! That’s is no way to teach other people how to invest
Just because you are the wealthiest and didn’t accumulate your wealth through stocks, doesn’t mean other people couldn’t. There are many successful paths to become wealthy; there is no single path to do so…
better than striptease show?
More like a soap opera…
Buffet Magic never stops until AAPL becomes 1 Trillion ! hi hi hi !! 
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Warren Buffett is having the last laugh, must be giggling at Carl Icahn for highlighting to him Apple is a no-brainer to buy. Good thing about having WB on board is, he puts a rock bottom price of AAPL at $100, give confidence to those weak hands to hold and entice sidelined value investors to jump in earlier than they want to. When AAPL was around $130, WB said he would buy some more if price declines, how can price decline then?
Anyhoo, both services and other products shot up by 22% yoy. Implying Services continue to increase by leaps and bounds as pointed out by Tim Cook ages ago, and Apple watches are selling very well! Went to Las Vegas recently, many folks are wearing Apple watches in Las Vegas, on planes and in Airport. Services as the number 2 revenue generator is closing the gap to the number 1 revenue generator, iPhone… very exciting.
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We’ll see if I get burned on selling 165 calls against AAPL shares. They expire Friday and look pretty safe right now.
Icahn Sold $2B apple stake. Following Icahn move out, many hedge funds would have moved out of Apple. Then, panic picks up sellers are madly going up (market inefficiency) that the waiting Crane (Buffet) picks at bottom.
This is what Seth Klarmann Says Market over reacts on news and Market is in efficient !
Now, DPZ gets into that mode, dropped 17% from peak.
Correct, as long as the fundamentals are still in tact. Sometimes the fundamentals change so significantly a company isn’t investment worthy. I prefer to think of it like a feedback control system with poor damping. It’s going to over shoot above and below the target before it settles at the right price. That’s why it usually don’t make sense to buy after a big price increase either. There will be a chance to buy at a lower price. Something like Brexit, 2016 election, etc will happen that’ll cause the whole market to indiscriminately sell-off. I’d rather buy on a down 10% day than an up 10% day.
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@wuqijun has it right. You should invest in people first. Worker bees say they run the company and they matter most. They will study the quarterly financials…
On the real estate side, doesn’t the sponsor matter the most?
Only in special instances do we have special knowledge. You are assuming you are smarter and more clever than others.
TSLA has plenty of bears/doubters, always has. It’s volatile so if it gets it right it’s going to be a moonshot.
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I don’t know why my name is mentioned in a stock thread. I do not know the topic discussed here. Never bought a single stock in my life.
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Is stock investment popular in Germany? I know that real estate investment is not very popular there
Germans have the DAX index which is their S&P500 equivalent.
Your stock is Bay Area real estate. At least, you can give update “How is bay area during first half of 2017?”
We haven’t sold anything (RE) in 2017. But we’re submitting an offer in a multiple offer situation tomorrow.
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Yahoo! Finance categorizes market cap differently,
Small cap, less than $2B
Mid cap, between $2B to $10B
Large cap, between $10B to $100B
Mega cap, more than $100B
So TSLA $52B, NVDA $98B, QCOM $79B, BIDU $78B, and NFLX $79B are large cap.
Surprise that BIDU is still not a mega cap. Robin Li has a lot to learn from (Jack) Ma Ma (Huateng).