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Nick G | I have a theory: When the stock market crashes, no one 'loses' money, am I correct? |
When you think about it, you cant lose money from a stock market crash until you go to cash in your shares at a lower price. It's like someone offering to pay you $1million for your car, but then decides not to pay you anything for it. You didnt lose the money, because you didnt have it in the first place!!
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You have missed the point, having stocks at a price only gives you the POTENTIAL to make money from them, IF you sell them. So if the market goes up one day, but then goes down the next, have you really lost the money that you COULD have made from the increase. NO, you have only lost the potential. |
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Big Raymond
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yes you are right. people are more focused on the actual money they are making or losing when there is no "realisation" of this profit or loss until you tranfer you asset. Your actual value will change, as it does daily on the market, but you only "lose" when you seel your holding for a value less than what you bought it for+ the eqivalent cpi for the period of time you held it for.
Just like a house you might own, a lot of people go around beating their chest and spruiking about how their home is worth $x million, these same people don't have the balls to sell it to prove this theory that they are carrying on about..
Its all relative to the time of purchase and sale, you have to sell for more than you buy+ cpi or you make a loss, the market fluctuation in between the buy and sell events is meaningless.
So when my BHP share go south today, or north tomorrow, i care not, as long as when i go to sell them they are worth a sh!t load more than what i paid for them. |
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Mark S IV
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If that were the case, then stocks are totally worthless, because they have no value until you actually sell them. You can't say that you made money, or that you lost money, in fact, you can't make any assertions about their value at all, therefore they are worthless, and you just paid good money, for worthless stock.
JuanB: So all those investment bankers like Morgan Stanley shouldn't have taken all those markdowns, after all, those aren't real losses, they're only potential losses. Actually, they were required by law to "mark to market", The problem is that nobody knows exactly what those mortgage loans are really worth, because nobody wants to buy them anymore. But they're not worthless either. On the other hand, the stocks that you and I own are openly traded every day. We know exactly what they're worth. They're not potential gains and losses, they're real gains and losses. Tomorrows gains and losses are potential, but today's are real. When you continue to hold a stock, you are gambling today's real gains, against tomorrow's potential gains.
Maybe if you were using real money, you would understand the difference. |
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Wes
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Yes, it's true, but remember that in a crash, everyone goes crazy and sell and they do indeed lose money. |
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JuanB
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You are right. And you are thinking like the Rich. That is how they think, I've seen similar ways of thinking before. In my words, you can't sweat the small stuff, and the price fluctuates up and down on a daily basis. If you don't have to sell why would you sell when a stock is worth it's lowest value. It is a good time to buy more. They are likely to go back up.
The only problem with it is lots of people who buy on margin, or have more stock than they can afford, and are forced to sell when the price goes down.
Another term in accounting and say if stock are owned by a corporation, they go by the book value. Book value is how much they paid for the investment. The accountants don't adjust that every day based on what the changes in the market say. No, that's a waste of your accountant's time. It is left valued at how much you paid for it until you sell it. |
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richard t
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Wrong..
If you buy on margin..................as the mkt crashes.you have to pony up cash or your positions are sold out to make your cash reach margin..............
also.all stocks do not come back.check JDSU |
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idgaf
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what you are saying makes no sense at all... you get stocks because you invest your money and purchase stocks... if the market crashes and you are not able to get any money for the shares you had, then you therefore lost all that you put in... i don't understand how you figure that trying to sell your car for a million dollars is similar... i mean, yes, if you had your car on the market and someone said i'll pay you a million but then backed out, sure, you never lost any money... but how do you figure that you wouldn't lose money on the stock market?? you have to put the money into the stock market in order to get the shares that will later on be worth nothing when it crashes... i know i was kind of redundant there, but i just want to make sure you get it... nice try though!! =] |
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immi
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its really a stupid idea :( i dont know then how you are living or working . |
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no, not true |
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