Monday 3 November 2008

2008 New Stock Market Terms and Definitions

I've not dropped by my own blog for a few days now. The directors are in town, so a bit busy. May be I should explain to them some new definitions in capital markets.

2008 New Stock Market Terms and Definitions…

CEO
--Chief Embezzlement
Officer.

CFO
-- Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET
-- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET
-- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING
-- The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO
-- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER
-- What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR
-- Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST
-- The idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT
-- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER
-- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION
-- The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW
-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO
-- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS
-- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR
-- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT
-- An archaic word no longer in use.


2 comments:

topui said...

obama win any good?

Dicken said...

Obama - seems to be America’s best answer to the £uc<€d up image in international public
opinion during the 2000s.

I don't envy him. His medium-term task looks gergantuan. Domestic
front aja dah cukup:
− to work on rebuilding structural competitiveness. kena spend gila2 on R&D, public infra, education. macam la ada duit.
− to set an energy policy in keeping with the current situation. note that US has never agreed to kyoto protocol
− Intelligent and coordinated international financial re-regulation. mapuh kerahh nak reform hedge fund industry!!
− Healthcare reform. (Go & watch Sicko)
− Improved social cohesion. US poverty rate has been increasing.

Democrats (Obama)are expected to come out with stronger government efforts to minimize impact to REAL ECONOMY (ie, rescue plan for mortgage buyers, increasing fiscal budget, etc) = + for emerging market nations including Korea that heavily depend on exports.

For now positive view of Barack Obama is more a matter of belief than proof. For 21 months dah keluar hudan. Time for him to bainat kan.