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What stock would you buy and why?

Entoptic said:
You know as a gamer I thought the same thing when they made their most recent announcement but I believe they are going to blow the hell up because they are reaching out to new customers and not just gamers. Think about it for a second. How hard is it for your parents to watch a netflix movie? What if they could just say "Xbox play netflix" or "Xbox what is the current news". That is huge for non tech people and parents. Wait till E3 comes and check it out again. They might have some tasty games coming down the pipe.

There is a great podcast I listen to about games. It's called "the indoor kids" and they had a Xbox one episode which was very informative. Check it out!
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1) i think i read somewhere xbox sales were a small fraction of windows/office sales; so win8 sucking is probably the bigger issue.

2) you can play netflix on the xbox 360 since microsoft was pushing the media center angle last time. it didn't catch on then i doubt it's going to catch on now. even if they make it super user friendly.

3) a media center should be focused on tv/movie/media consumption, not on video games. to say we have an xbox one that plays video games (which will be the focus because all the other prior xboxes have been primarily for video games), with some media center functionality on the side is the wrong marketing approach.

microsoft has no clue about what people want(MS Bob, zune, win8, MS phones, etc, etc) and how to market it. odds are they'll mess it up.
 
its been a great two days for stocks! woohoo!





unless you own RIM that is
 
my reynolds american is up 19% in 4 months (that's not including a nice 5% dividend yield).

markets are too damn hot. need it to drop so i can buy more. been sitting on cash for too long...
 
BTW, in that time, UNP is up about 300%, and I didn't really take any risk. Nice dividends, too. It even split in 2008, so if you go back another year it's around 450%.

It's not hard to pick a winner when free money is reinflating the bubble.

Knowing when to get out, before the music stops, now that's the hard part.

:laughing
 
Marlowe said:
BTW, in that time, UNP is up about 300%, and I didn't really take any risk. Nice dividends, too. It even split in 2008, so if you go back another year it's around 450%.

It's not hard to pick a winner when free money is reinflating the bubble.

Knowing when to get out, before the music stops, now that's the hard part.

:laughing
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Go back 6 months and SIRI is up 7100%, just sayin.

Up 2000% since I bought it. I've had duds also but this one has cushioned them nicely.
Although not so easy to pick a winner from this point forward.
 
russ69 said:
That may have been the worse advice given in 2009.
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EEhhh I held bonds and bought bonds for another year after that and started buying stock in late 2010. Which was when the market really took off.
 
Marlowe said:
BTW, in that time, UNP is up about 300%, and I didn't really take any risk. Nice dividends, too. It even split in 2008, so if you go back another year it's around 450%.
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How did you not take any risk? Even if it was below book value doesn't mean there isn't any risk. Any single-company stock has tons of risk. Some more than others obviously, but even a big giant like Exxon or McDonalds has more risk than the S&P500.
 
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