How Investors Buy Hype Rather Than Reality As each new hot stock goes to market, there is a rush of investors scrambling to buy IPO stock at the offering. The calls to brokers from their clients asking for an allotment rises and the brokers scramble to get an allotment themselves in order to fill the… Continue reading The Glory of Investing in an IPO is Financially Painful
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Irrational Investing – The Gamble of Buying Apple Computer Stock
Market Darlings That Disappoint There is a lot of talk currently about Apple Computers whose shares reached an astonishing $644 in April 2012. Today they trade at $585 which is a 9% drop in value. It is reminiscent somewhat of the painful share performance of Research in Motion (RIMM) which reached an equally astonishing $148… Continue reading Irrational Investing – The Gamble of Buying Apple Computer Stock