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   From: dsgood@iphouse.com   
      
   J. Clarke wrote:   
      
   > 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:   
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   > >>> 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?   
      
   I suspect that at least a few are.  But yes -- forecasting which ones   
   would be would've been difficult.   
      
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