What is going on in the market?What happened to the fundamentals?What determines the price of a company?What about the present value of future dividends?Is this a simple world?Are we all playing the same game?What are the cracks in the system?Is there an unfair advantage?Which game are you playing?What does it mean to go long?What does it mean to go short?Does the investor own the stock?Where do people make a profit?What are the risks?How much can you lose?What about hedge funds?Why did they see a dramatic change in price?Is it legal?Is it sane?What about curiosity?What about stability?What about sanity?What about short squeezing?Who is David Shaw?What is high speed trading?What about those who live in middle-America?What about those who live in Manhattan?How do people use geography?What about a fraction of a penny?What about an annualized return?What about buy and hold?What about the day trader?What about the minute trader?What about the high frequency trader?What about chinks in the armor?Is shorting part of the efficient market?More efficient for what? More efficient for whom?What are the rules to the game?Are you playing the same game?Who is getting hurt?Who is playing the buy and hold game?Who is playing day trading?Who is playing stock trading?What game is your advisor playing?Who is getting paid?Who is getting the fee?What game is the government playing?Does the government invest in Wall Street?Who pays the fee?What about the 401(k)?How might one make sense of the signals?Why do the market experts come up with wildly different expectations?Who still hurts from 2008?What about index funds?What are the rules for the index?What about the S&P 500?What about buyers?What about algorithms?What about fundamentals?What about the signal?What do we know?What do we NOT know?So what?How does one win a game like this?How does one make an unrealized gain a realized gain?What about black swan events?What about market volatility?What about protection from market down turns?When the market falls, how deep does it tend to fall?What type of investor are you?Do you like to buy low and sell high?Do you like to buy high and sell low?Do you have an automatic deduction of your paycheck into a 401(k)?Do you do dollar cost averaging into a brokerage account?Do you believe the market is high or low, currently?Where is the DOW now?Is the market at an all time high now?What happens in one bad year?When you lose 10%, what happens?When you lose 25%, what happens?When you lose 50%, what happens?Do the bad years hurt more than the good years help?Is the market throwing a tantrum?Are insurance contracts investments?How do whole life insurance policies fit into all of this?What about stability?Do you have to play the game?Do you have to get wrapped up in all of the chaos?What kind of guarantees are possible?
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