dope-wolf
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Signed Up August 30, 2012
Last Posted July 3, 2013 at 11:41 PM
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#33 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic
MumboCurrency markets can get extremely complicated, especially if you start working with cross rates.

I'm sure it can, however I think locking in currency for the sole purpose of buying and reselling can't be to difficult, provided you lock whoever your selling an imported product to into a fixed rate contract for a year or however long you locked your currency up for.

posted about 11 years ago
#32 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic

Thanks for the knowledge Sal, that whole currency thing is interesting and making me salivate.

posted about 11 years ago
#27 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic
SalamancerI do. I'm not currently authorized to use them on my Schwab account and have no real desire to play with them.

Futures can be used two ways - gambling or hedging. There's a big difference. Hedging is a 100% legit means of reducing risk exposure for a price. If you, for example, want to make sure that in one year you can get gasoline for a certain price, you can make a forward contract with a supplier. It will cost you some amount of money now if you want that price to be significantly lower than (or even the same as ) the current price. If you want to make it significantly higher, the fee will be minimal, but then you've entered into an agreement to purchase it for a high price in a year.

Of course, you can use combinations of forward contracts, buying, selling and short-selling to do almost anything from locking in prices to gambling on other people's housing debt.

If i'm not mistaken this can be done with currencies also I believe? Like you can lock today's exchange rate of euros for example for a year and import something from Europe and resell it in North America for a year without having to worry about the exchange rate fluctuating and fucking up your selling price.

Or on the flip side would you be able to also exchange usd for euros to people at a lower exchange rate than what is currently being offered by banks so on and so forth? provided again if the exchange rate goes up.

EDIT: Actually this wouldn't work because banks go with whatever the exchange rate currently is they don't buy currencies.

posted about 11 years ago
#25 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic
SalamancerThere aren't many investments that would have done better. Salary/wages would be unaffected if you kept your job, which is great, but if you owned a small business you'd probably be facing the same demand slump that ate into the stock market, damaging your business's balance sheet.

Good point, everyone suffered even those without investments.

Also Sal, Do you know anything about futures? that's like gambling on the stock market I believe right? I'd like to try that out.

posted about 11 years ago
#23 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic
Salamancer#21 If you kept your stocks from 2008 they'd be roughly recovered in value by now, I believe.

But yes, this is just what to do with a bit of extra money. Dope-wolf's point about investing in yourself is a great one. Best way to do that is usually to get more education.

They would be roughly recovered in value true. However instead of peoples stocks generating money for 5 years they spent 5 years trying to play catch up instead of flipping a profit for 5 years, that essentially isn't a good thing, you play the market to make money not spend 5 years trying to regain what you had in 2008.

posted about 11 years ago
#21 Investing! aka the TF2 hat ETF thread in Off Topic

In order to make a significant amount of money in stocks/investments without making high risk investments you must have a lot of capital to put up.

Playing the stock market safe and with very little risk will only generate you roughly a 5% return on your investment as a pose to the 1-2% return banks will give you. Playing a little more risky will generate you a lot more cash but also generate a lot more risk to loose your cash. The stock market is not steady either, look back to 2008 when the market crashed, anyone who had a money in the market were left with a little over half of what they had invested.

My personal advice to anyone investing money is to invest in YOURSELF and start a business, or invest in someone else's business and become a shareholder so that you have a say in decisions. Say you like building computers and you have around 50 000 saved up, You will get a much greater return on your money using that 50 000 dollars to start a business in building/fixing computers then playing the stock market for a couple years, provided you have a good business plan, hire the right employees and go out and look for sales. When you generate enough capital you can draw a salary from your business, write off car expenses and on top of all that put any remaining profits the business generates into your pocket at the end of the year (provided your business doesn't need money to grow)

posted about 11 years ago
#50 Most of you in Off Topic
ikpuredope-wolfDowntown Toronto on 4/20 (Young Dundas Square) going to this again was really fun last year. The cops just surround the square and watch everyone smoke up lol.

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2012/04/20120420_smoke_out1.jpg

see you there :)

Ill have a blunt ready from anyone from tf.tv :)

posted about 11 years ago
#21 Most of you in Off Topic

Downtown Toronto on 4/20 (Young Dundas Square) going to this again was really fun last year. The cops just surround the square and watch everyone smoke up lol.

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2012/04/20120420_smoke_out1.jpg

posted about 11 years ago
#57 HOCKEY IS COMING in Off Topic

GO HABS GO, came back from a 5-3 over boston last night to beat them in shootouts and take first in the northeast, fuck yes, going down to buffalo in april to see them spank the sabres.

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/ddf/incoming/article7766125.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/RYR107-NHL+Calgary+Montreal.jpg

posted about 11 years ago
#23 New MEdic LFT in Mentoring

A cool way to recycle a plastic bottle and convert it into a broom.

http://i.imgur.com/crgK7lc.jpg

posted about 11 years ago
#220 Wow really? in TF2 General Discussion
synchro He (supposedly) threw the match to have a good reason to leave the team.

This is by far the most stupidest theory in this whole thread lol.

posted about 11 years ago
#135 Wow really? in TF2 General Discussion
leakyblackymonster: and i get ddosseD?
12:05 AM - TWSS: its only logical your the better player and he doesnt want brands to win idk man we dint do it
12:05 AM - blackymonster: right

This is really suspect. obviously 0 shits given from this TWSS dude. This kid knows who did it for sure, I'd put money on it.

posted about 11 years ago
#120 Wow really? in TF2 General Discussion

Everyone just needs to revert back to the original post (if infact this log is true and this TWSS dude isn't lieing)

1) Admitted they knew of the DDoS attack.

2) Admitted they knew who did it.

3) They made no attempts to tell him to stop DDoSing.

4) Motive for the attack is whoever did it "hates brands"/wants brands team to loose.

5) Multiple people have come foward with internet issues when playing this team.

I mean cammon, this kid is basically saying "we are guilty" who gives a shit if it was bape or bullet. I think this log is enough evidence.

Hes basically saying we know who was responsible and we made no attempt to stop it from happening, that's just as incriminating. They could have easily been good sports and informed an ESEA admin or told the other team that they knew what was happening, however they made no attempts to do that. In fact they upheld the ESEA pause rules and limits to the full degree, while this was happening.

He even goes as far as to say "its only logical" that the best player on the opposing team gets DDoSed and not brands himself, he is basically justifying the DDoS attack lol. Which brings into question if it really was bullet doing the ddosing. Logically bullet would DDoS brands not "the best player on their team" if he has beef with him.

I watch to much of the first 48 on A&E.

leakyYou have to DDOS blackymonster to get to IM????
12:02 AM - blackymonster: thanks for the ddoss
12:02 AM - blackymonster: gg
12:03 AM - TWSS: It wasnt us
12:03 AM - TWSS: it was bullet
12:03 AM - TWSS: he hats brands
12:03 AM - TWSS: hates
12:04 AM - blackymonster: and i get ddosseD?
12:05 AM - TWSS: its only logical your the better player and he doesnt want brands to win idk man we dint do it
12:05 AM - blackymonster: right
posted about 11 years ago
#107 Got scammed tf2 items in TF2 General Discussion
crumpet#102 I wouldn't expect to not get ripped off in an unsecured transaction because I'm not dumb as hell

Do we need to get ikpure on your ass?

posted about 11 years ago
#99 Got scammed tf2 items in TF2 General Discussion
crumpetsorry I totally forgot, you're right
its ok to threaten people's family if there is money involved

Anything can happen when you try to rob people. Some people get killed over 20 dollars, I would say he got off easy.

posted about 11 years ago
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