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   From: jclarke.usenet@cox.net   
      
   Dan Goodman wrote:   
   > Jack May wrote:   
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   >> "Dan Goodman"  wrote in message   
   >> news:488d5122$0$60070$804603d3@auth.newsreader.iphouse.com...   
   >>> Jack May wrote:   
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   >>>> "Dan Goodman"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:488d1dd8$0$90340$804603d3@auth.newsreader.iphouse.com...   
   >>>>> MacFraggin@googlemail.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Which would probably mean depending on a financial advisor to   
   >>> shift   
   >>> investments over the decades.  But a competent person might have   
   >>> incompetent grandchildren....   
   >>   
   >> Yes, you need to reads the trends of what is being favored by Wall   
   >> Street in the random fluctuations of the market.   Essentially you   
   >> need to figure out the direction the "sheep" are traveling and   
   >> follow   
   >> them :-)   
   >>   
   >> That is what the people on Wall Street do by talking with each   
   >> other   
   >> a lot. For those of us not on Wall Street, that is much harder so   
   >> we   
   >> are at a distinct disadvantage.  CNBC helps but I am not sure how   
   >> much.   
   >   
   > But you also need to figure out the _next_ direction the sheep will   
   > move in.   
      
   There's more to it than that if you're looking at 200 years.  What   
   companies that were listed on the London exchange in 1808 are still in   
   business and doing well?   
      
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