Ecomike-
With your comment; "Just no honor left among thieves, LOL. What is this world coming to?"
You have given me the perfect opportunity to post something I ran across once. ;) Hope you don't mind me using your post as the lead in. I tie the story more into pinks and OTC's then big board stocks - no offense anyone - but I always keep this story in the back of my head at all times, regardless of how big my stocks are. Keeps me focused. :) Enjoy
(Added note: Scov - Thanks for keeping it in your profile so I could find it easily! - Jen)
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How the stock market works
Stock Market Lesson # 101
"Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.
He then announced that he would now buy at $20.
This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.
The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the
villagers "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.....
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys
everywhere!
Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works!!"
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