September 4, 2006
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WANTED: STOCK BUDDY
MyKi_Whatzerface : I want to find someone I can bounce ideas off of. I’m trying new things like buying half of a position. Also I’m experimenting with, instead of selling when a stock drops, buying more if I feel sure it will go back up. I’m snooping around recent IPOs and stocks hovering below the $10 mark. I’m trying out foreign stocks. Hedge funds and lots of individual, newbie investors like me have changed the market, especially since Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money” came on the scene. I am struggling with much of the lingo I read. I want someone who trades internationally. I just read that Japanese bonds are the way to go. The market is so scary these days; I need a pal to commiserate with. I need a buddy to help scheme with. I’m looking for someone who is good on the phone or doesn’t mind typing.
Comments (53)
Dear Prudy, Sorry I can’t be of help. I’m into laddered cds, interest rates are climbing rapidly. Also mutual funds of gold, silver, or other precious metals have done very well. I fear that stocks now are a bit like playing Russian roulette. I do wish you good luck and I think there is money to be made if one is either smart or just plain lucky. Cheers
Prudy! Welcome back! I hope R is the R from earlier this summer! I missed you and don’t ever leave us again! I need you! Love, Lana
i like the kinds of stock you eat…i’m no help.
It’s fascinating to read your life, as it’s so very different than mine. I stick my money, whatever I have left, in mutual funds and ignore it. So far, so good.
I am, like, clueless when it comes to stocks trading… I guess what I’d be looking for is a mentor of sorts who’d be interested in treating me like a toddler taking first baby steps in the stocks world (I have around 10 thou I could play with– and I don’t even know if that’s enough to get started or what!)
… good luck on finding a good stock buddy fit.
I cannot help, but I’m still popping my head in to say “Hiya!”
Told you before…buy Sirius in the summer and sell it @ X-mas…the Sterf factor
BTW—joke of the century…i’m now a CHRISTIAN writer
I just now read my guest book..I saw your comment from the secondI am clueless as to the image.anyway I would clarify it for you but i can’t:)
i was thinking yesterday about how i miss your words…dang it.
Prudence, do you know Sue Kuhnhausen personally? She’s in the news. The BBW Superhero. No I’m not being sarcastic.
Randy
WANTED: update?
Glad to see you posting more often. Can’t help with stocks, I’m clueless, but someday when I have more time in my life, that’s one of my goals to learn about all of that stuff… Maybe by then you can help me!
sigh. I’ve never been able to understand the stock market. I go purely by instinct.
Lynn
Yikes! I’m good on the phone and don’t mind typing…but I don’t know if I can handle the roller-coaster of stocks.
You are way braver than I in that arena!
I love you, Pru! GFW
Miss you! Please post soon! Lana
You are so brave with this stock stuff. Just the idea of it scares me. Hope you are doing well.
Is it turning autumn where you are yet? I’m sure it is, though I know the heatwaves have been pretty crazy. I have a couple of friends who live in Packwood, Washington, now, and my mom, of all people, just wrote them a letter about the weather and the cats and inquiring after their life out there. October is a beautiful month. I hope your stocks are good and that you’re dancing and being healthy and therefore beautiful. When your soul is happy, your body can’t help itself. Peace, Prudy! We miss you.
Prudy! So nice to hear from you.
I have such trouble when I can’t have what I want….
RYC And my mother in law was blessed to grow up there….I have yet to see it….
Prudy,
You KNOW you can bounce them off of me. I am intrigued that you are working on a new strategy! I think the strategy thing is key. Whatever you do. Determine some trading rules and stick with them. If they don’t work, change the rules, but don’t break the rules (even if I do sometimes as you know). Just need to find the next Manitowoc (MTW) I guess.
Bob
SEEN you snlurking around elsewhere
ryc: Thanks! I hope you are having fun lady. It was very nice to see your name. I can’t tell you how cool that was.
Things are changing and getting better. To every season I guess. I hope I’m due for the good ones. We’ll see.
RYC I think its fine to just visit….I have times for sure when i don’t want to post..and how delightful that writers and artists have met… consider me a kind of pen pal…:)
Thanks for coming by. I miss reading your post.
Pru, thanks for checkin in on me, when things slow down, after mom’s memorial, then I can call or email ya, still working on the slides…marilyn
I love you Pru.
I hope to see you again soon! Miss ya!
Prudy,
You still have that JLG? Was thinking of you when I saw the announcement of the OSK acquisition.
Bob
Can Prudy come out and play?
wow, long break. Hope life is treating you well! Hugs.
Pru, I sure miss reading your blog, you always had such a wonderful way with turning your phrases. I miss ya terrible…marilyn
prudy…today my friend died, and,of all things, i found i missed your voice in the comments…the oddest things come to you in grief…i hope you are well.
you came…thank-you…i think of you as a voice of reason in xangaland, and i missed that, but understand that you must do what you must do. thanks for the words, all of them, it means more than i can tell.
i pray your friend the best, and you as well.
Prudy,
Good luck with all of your trading! Whatever you do, I suggest you develop some rules for yourself so that you can test your strategy. If it doesn’t work, then try some small changes, continually refining your approach. Seat of the pants never worked much for me. I am FAR too impulsive, if you can believe it, and really need some rather rigid guidelines. Often when I break my own rules, I regret it. Even if it is about selling a stock too soon which seems to have something fundamentally wrong. When I allow the stock price to dictate my action, I seem to be more successful. Good luck and keep me posted.
Bob
hi back! was thinkig of you recently!
ryc: So good to read your words! That trip to Flagstaff sounds like it’ll be cool. Candy bars are not the worst you could do. I’ve slipped a bit (understatement) on my organic foods this month and have eaten fast food. I need to DETOX.
Things are going well, trying to keep a balance. I hope they are well with you. Your words sound/read well.
I miss your writing.
We do miss you. I’ll pop in once in a while to see if you’ve done anything, then run away to Boo to see what’s up there. I hope your stock stuff is going well. Making money? Happy holidays coming up, if we don’t see you poking about before then
Pru, glad you touched base with me..let’s talk soon…marilyn
it was a biopsy i had last week. it came back negative, so no more cancer for patti, and what a relief it was! and that word was dillio, not dildo…but, you weren’t the first to think it…nice to see you again…
I’m thrilled that you’re learning things – about God and herbs and love. The lilt in your voice and even just the order of your list make me so happy. You sound like you’re doing well. We miss ya!
Interesting comment! I wonder the reasons that brought you to that feeling.
keep checking, but I guess you’re still off looking for that STOCK BUDDY! do raise a flag or something when you get back! :-/
ryc: They will remember you! My loss was just a bit of backwashing. The anniversary of the divorce set it off and then the rest of it was a bit of time in the self-ickies. I’m out now. Got a kid, a student, in it though. Plodding through. Hope you are well!
And just where the heckity heck are you and why aren’t you writing? I’ve been wondering about you for ages. I come here and you always have this same thing. Miss you and your writing.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays! If you have another Xanga please do not forget me:)
prudy is always trying to see past what i present, to what really is….dang, girl, whay aren’t you updating? i miss the give and give!
happiest of new years to you and yours…
Also I am in a very introspective place these days, living so close to God that I almost don’t need interaction. I intuit so much more now that writing seems laborious. This is sounding pompous and I am so not that way. And I know you know that. Before I read the last line, I was already nodding in understanding. I envy you that place. As of late, I wonder if I should stop as well. I am contemplating and listening, but I welcome your voice whenever you wish to add it.
I just used “so” three times. And you wonder why I don’t write. This last part made me laugh, then go back and read it agian, and laugh all over again.
Happy new year Pru!
Miss you! Happy New year!
Jethro Tull is wonderful. My ex-boyfriend introduced me to Aqualung midway through our relationship. Or maybe it was early. He was very good at getting me into good music. In college, I became steeped in Thick as a Brick. I downloaded random other songs during the university days and heard from trusted sources that their early stuff is the best. I bought Benefit last year and just got Stand Up last week. I like some of the later stuff, too – singles like “Songs from the Wood,” “Whistler,” and others of the frolicky, magical ilk. I miss you, Prudy.
miss you!!!