If you had 1,000,000 in raw cash, and I told you to
A) go long on something for 5%
B) go short something for 5%
what would you pick and why?
Neither. I’d want to know what the hell happened to my other $9 million. 
You can go long or short or neutral anything, but what’s your time horizon?
FB and KING. All in.
I would go long Arian Foster.
^ He’s done.
No such thing as a sure thing.
Not sure about the long but I’d short the crap outta CHK
care to elaborate? i’m very curious
Short HLF, pyramid scheme
Short something 5%, or Long something 5% and why?.. You long. By shorting you can lose more than the stock price, since stock can technically go up to infitiy. Where if you’re long you can only drop the amount of the share value (and also have something to collateralize a loan with etc.)
Edit: interpreted that wrong… I’d long financials (mature industry yet huge growth potential and large barriers to entry), I’d short high cap internet type stocks. How APPL and GOOGLE are leading Exxon in market cap is beyond me. What does Google even make, its certaintly not a necessity?
i would never short goog googl
Seriously? Google has a near monopoly on global internet search queries. It is the world’s largest advertising firm by a huge distance. There are very large barriers to entry in its sector and it spins off so much cash now that it can buy up smaller rivals. It’s main concern now is arguably anti-trust issues.
Of all the large modern tech firms, I’d have least concerns about investing in Google. Apple had a great run for 10 years with Steve Jobs who is arguably the greatest genius of modern times. How will they survive without him? They didn’t do so well first time around and have produced zero new products since he passed away, so I’d definitely have more concerns there.
And that is ignoring the likes of Amazon and Netflix on enormous P/E valuations or Facebook which could easily go the way of MySpace and Bebo. Of all the world’s large internet and tech firms, Google is maybe the lowest risk at 20x P/E.
Teens these days think Apple and facebook are not cool. They still use google. Make your own conclusions.
Whenever I hear that teens aren’t using facebook, they list like thirty other things they are using. Then I remember that I don’t have time to check 30 different things and that the only people who will ever use them are teens who don’t have shit else better to do.
They are the future consumers. They don’t use FB because their parents are on it and find it hip.
when is pornhub going public, teens be loving that joint
I was with you until you called Steve Jobs the greatest.
Same here. Greatest prick maybe.
In what way do you not regard Steve Jobs a genius? He pretty much single handedly built Apple up into the largest company in the world with amazing innovations that no other firm has come close to achieving over the last 20 years.
And he also created Pixar as a minor side project.
Maybe he was a prick, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t great at what he did.