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 | re: Financial Goals and Milestones - Chris Farley on 6/18/13 at 10:07 pm
[quote]lynxcat[/quote]
1. Get married before going back to school
2. Have her support you
3. ??????
4. Profit
I don't have any hard set financial goals other than maxing out my 401k every year and then maxing a Roth after that if possible. My company matches 40% of what I put in all the way...
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O-T Lounge
| re: Do artists get paid to sing the national athem? - Chris Farley on 6/16/13 at 7:11 pm
Tree fiddy...
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Outdoor Board
| re: Favorite outdoor memory with your dad.... - Chris Farley on 6/16/13 at 5:26 pm
When I was about 8 years old we took our 15ft aluminum bass boat out on the Amite to putt around one afternoon. Once we were about 2 miles from the launch my old man realized we somehow lost the plug and our rig was filling up fast. He hauled arse back to the launch and it took everything his POS Jee...
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O-T Lounge
| re: Dorm prank ideas? - Chris Farley on 6/15/13 at 10:16 pm
Guy down the hall from me freshman year used to always leave his door unlocked when he was gone so we would always do weird shite to his room(steal his tv, rearrange his room, hide his mattress in his shower). He never knew it was us and always left his door unlocked. ...
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Money Talk
| re: Good time to invest in a nikkei ETF? - Chris Farley on 6/13/13 at 10:26 am
:lol: This dude is just a regular fricking George Soros huh? Cruising the globe and making 27% on riskless investments like it ain't no thing. An absolute guru.
[quote]I'm kicking myself for not getting in earlier but I'm pretty new to ETFs and didn't really see the opportunity until later[/quot...
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Money Talk
| re: Question about mutual fund selection - Chris Farley on 6/11/13 at 9:14 am
[quote]Risk must be average or below. Return must be above average or high. [/quote]
Doesn't exactly work like this :lol:
[quote]I basically ignore how the fund has been doing lately, that is a very unreliable indicator.[/quote]
:kige:
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O-T Lounge
| re: The dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say/ask? - Chris Farley on 6/9/13 at 1:56 pm
Earlier today I was sitting on this shitty beach near my apartment(in Boston). These two girls were walking by me and one looks at the other and says "what ocean is this?"...
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Money Talk
| re: Is now a good time to buy Banking sector focused funds? - Chris Farley on 6/6/13 at 1:18 pm
[quote]buy FAS its 3x ETF of the banking sector.....its up like 50% this year [/quote]
Do not do this. Leveraged ETFs are not investments, they're meant for day trading. ...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 6/5/13 at 5:42 am
It went ok. Felt like I failed when I was walking out but feel a little better now. ...
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O-T Lounge
| re: Best Car Window Tinting on the Northshore - Chris Farley on 6/4/13 at 6:30 am
I thought this was going to be another Principal Blackman thread. ...
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O-T Lounge
| re: You're my boy blue!!! (Ballin' arse hummer!) - Chris Farley on 6/3/13 at 8:35 pm
[quote]Monte Carlo ya bish[/quote]
Congrats ya poor...
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O-T Lounge
| re: You're my boy blue!!! (Ballin' arse hummer!) - Chris Farley on 6/3/13 at 8:27 pm
[quote]Fug em mayne. Haters gonna hate. Nobody else is saying what they cruise in. They all wish they could ride so clean.[/quote]
How clean do you ride? 97' Coupe DeVille?...
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O-T Lounge
| re: "What family members of yours fought in WWII?" - Taken from Patton on SECOT - Chris Farley on 6/2/13 at 12:12 pm
[quote]My dad turned 91 on May 2. I wonder how many of his shipmates are still alive. [/quote]
My step-grandfather served in the Pacific on a warship. The crew still has a reunion every year and there are only a handful of them left at this point out of >1000. :USA:...
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O-T Lounge
| re: Need help on getting my kid to run faster.. - Chris Farley on 6/2/13 at 11:16 am
[quote]Haha.. I just don't think he has that killer instinct most good athletes have. Don't think he cares if he wins or loses. [/quote]
My kid didn't get that killer instinct until he was 7, you should be fine here.
He's fricking 6 dude. Give him a few more years, don't start burning him out ...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 6/1/13 at 5:19 pm
(No Message)...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 6/1/13 at 6:07 am
Good luck fellas :cheers:...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/31/13 at 6:27 am
[quote]I was wondering when you might be headed back down South. You and the gal still together? Is your brother engaged yet? Seems like that pressure cooker is heating up...[/quote]
Yes, and he will be the first one to lose that battle. :lol: :cheers:...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 8:36 pm
[quote]How does it feel to be the failure brother?[/quote]
:lol: we'll settle this in 3 weeks. ...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 7:23 pm
[quote]Lynxcat[/quote]
Nice man, congrats. We're actually opening an office there soon and I'm hoping that's my next destination. Feel free to come chill in NY one weekend if you get too bored in Delaware.
[quote]It seems a few of you have NYC banking jobs. I'm curious: how does one come to l...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 4:44 pm
[quote]Are you moving? [/quote]
Yea, starting work in NYC in 2 weeks(same company). Where you headed?
THF I heard about your antics last time you were up there, I'm down with that. ...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 2:13 pm
[quote]Can I crash on your floor?[/quote]
Sho nuff. I might still be living in a hotel at that point though. Haven't even started looking for a place.
Thanks lynx :cheers:...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 12:54 pm
:lol: I would have called it quits after the 85.
You coming to NYC in a few weeks with my brother?...
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O-T Lounge
| re: What job produces the worst $30,000 millionaires? - Chris Farley on 5/30/13 at 5:37 am
[quote]Man I hope people don't really think it works like this[/quote]
Only gumps.
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O-T Lounge
| re: Best Watch Under $400 - Chris Farley on 5/29/13 at 8:57 am
[quote]Invicta watches are nice. They are big and heavy[/quote]
Don't waste your money on this knock-off trash. Citizen and Luminox are both good options in your price range. I would look at Victornix(sp?) and Hamilton as well. ...
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Money Talk
| re: Tesla making honest car dealers very angry - Chris Farley on 5/28/13 at 8:15 pm
[link=(http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/05/22/tesla-loan-energy-department/2351945/)]Tesla paid their loan off 9 years early[/link]
And they make a cheaper version for around 70k, 108k is not anywhere near the base model. Obviously out of the price range of most Americans at this poi...
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Money Talk
| re: Tesla making honest car dealers very angry - Chris Farley on 5/28/13 at 5:23 pm
[quote]Someone explain. It has a range of 300 miles and costs approx .02/mile to charge. That's $60 per 300 miles. [/quote]
That would be $6. ...
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Money Talk
| re: CFA Check in thread. - Chris Farley on 5/27/13 at 7:42 pm
Last night I built a probability tree with expected values(based on potential scores and how they would affect my confidence) to determine whether I wanted to take the CFAI or the Schweser mock exam. My life has hit a new low and I'm only on L1. ...
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Money Talk
| re: frick the series 66 - Chris Farley on 5/24/13 at 1:19 pm
[quote]frick. You. Don't even talk to me right now. [/quote]
I agree with this. Child's play....
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Money Talk
| re: Can someone explain the difference between 'Beta' and 'Standard Deviation'? - Chris Farley on 5/20/13 at 5:46 am
Although their rating system may use Beta as a factor, I don't think there is any significant correlation between Beta and a certain number of stars. Beta simply measures how much a security moves compared to the market. For example if the market goes up 10% and Stock A goes up 15%, that stocks beta...
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Money Talk
| re: Can Someone Explain Selling Puts? - Chris Farley on 5/17/13 at 11:11 am
I would suggest doing some good reading on this before diving in so quickly. Find a book on the basics of options(maybe an old Series 7 book) and read about them on investopedia. The fact that you think these are "no-risk" transactions shows that you aren't ready to do this stuff. If you can't expla...
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