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This CHI team is in need of a HC and an offensive line.

I hear Pete Carroll is interested in solving one of the problems.   Besides that, this team is a disorganized mess until the season ends. 

LJ is running less this year, and becoming more efficient with his passing.  This is what makes him more dangerous now..... and with a legit Running Back. 

I wish this was required teaching in all 50 states for High School Students, for one semester.    A semester of "Personal Finance"

We need to get more people conditioned to believe that they have an opportunity to be successful.. And immensely successful if they start early.  Investing is not reserved for some exclusive club of wealthy people.  It is available to all... They just need to arm themselves with the knowledge to know what to do... 

Wow... Interesting, Raiders... Is this an investment or trade in WMT.  

I know TGT has been an absolute disaster w/ company misteps for awhile now....  to WMT's benefit.  

I think through everybody's contribution,  this thread is already setting itself up for how to approach investing/trading successfully....  

Raiders... Agree 100%, particularly in the areas in bold.  This is how I differentiate the two as well .    

WWE coming in January 

NFLX is all in on gaining subscriber growth  via sports entertainment,  which is an inflection point for the company.  

I start this thread because I think about how many $millions NFLX had to pay the NFL for the Christmas Day NFL Game streaming rights... while AMZN already has Thursday Night Football AND the capacity to pay for it with its AWS division.  

AMZN has the capacity to expand in this area if they so choose w/ its AWS profits, while NFLX is a streaming business....... and a streaming business only. 

AMZN (like GOOGL), has their hands in a lot of growth areas, with big profit drivers.  That is key. 

NFLX, congratulations on being the streaming pioneer, and WMT,  congratulations on being the commerce (not E) juggernaut, but what AMZN has in spades is its ability to do both, while having the cash generating machine of its AWS business. 

Neither NFLX nor WMT has the engineering talent to combat what AMZN is building.  Both of these companies are really vertical businesses in their own right.  NFLX in streaming, and WLT in retail, though, Walmart has made significant strides in their e-commerce. 

But I keep coming back to AMZN.  I (finally) bought this stock for the first time earlier this year (yes, 17 years late to the party), because their (relatively) new CEO comes from the AWS division, and is focused on profits and efficiency more than founder Jeff Bezos ever was.

Amazon is an interesting case study.  There is no way they are ever able to survive & achieve their immense success over the years w/o Wall Street's incredible  support.  You see, Wall Street typically punishes unprofitiable enterprises if they do not generate profits quickly, or have some roadmap to it, but AMZN was given an incredibly long leash by Wall Street for its first 15 years approximately of unprofitable growth.  Bezos was never about efficiency, but growth...   I know, because I watched this stock grow immensely, while being unprofitable all the while...  Now, we have an operator at CEO that ran the AWS division that is all about efficiency.  

Count me in..  AMZN has its hands in many businesses going forward, including AI, and with an operator even better than Bezos.  

Merry Christmas to all...  

I think your post is coming from someone with a  "trader's" point of view,... as opposed to an "investor's" point of view.  And yes, there is a big difference IMO.  Not that there's anything wrong with that in general.... but the first sentence in your post talked about "novice investors," so it become a big deal in this discussion.   


I would not advise anyone that is a novice investor to get involved in the game of trading stocks.    The first step for anyone that wants to learn how to learn to invest is to learn how to make that money available to do so.....  I.e.   """Save & Invest"""  .   

Now that you've gotten into the habit of having (more) money available at the end of each month, start to implement a plan to "dollar cost average" into an index fund (like the S&P 500).   Novice Investors don't need to learn about "selling".   You are investing bits every month that will help to buy shares on the dip (if in fact share prices go down).  Get into the mode of buying, not selling.   I consider myself an experienced investor, and I still don't sell my index funds under any situation... ever.   That is 90% of my portfolio, and it didn't see any activity at all in the last 12 months, except go up in value.  I only add to the funds if there is considerable market movement (< %10)... and that didn't happen this last year.  Happy Camper. 

So, the very small subset of the 10% which I have chosen to talk about on this site in recent weeks (PFE, INTC, F) represent such a small fraction, it's almost negligible in the total portfolio.  But it keeps me engaged in stock picking, I enjoy it, ... and for the most part, am successful at it. 

I truly hope you are successful at trading, but I know it is more difficult than being a patient investor like myself that still builds solid returns over time.  If I could give some bits of advice for the gamblers on this site, it would be this.  You need to learn to separate your fast-paced craving for sports betting from the patient investing in the business world  (And "day" trading draws a lot of similarities to gambling for those that do this) .  And if you are not successful in trading stocks... you could learn some sage advice from the index mogul himself, John Bogle. ... "Don't just do something... sit there."

Patience is key in this business...  Often times, the best decision is to do "nothing" in the investing world.  

It's going to be really interesting.   People need to remember that both J.k. Dobbins AND Gus Edwards were lost last year for BAL. .... and now they have D. Henry.... 

This coming from some one that has KC for the superbowl 

It's truly despicable if all this turns out to be true. 

See what I did their LIBS  ? I criticized a fellow Republican.   

If you want to be taken seriously,  you need to learn judge things at face value. 

Merry Christmas Everyone.  

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I would agree with you on the accuracy.   I think what's  most surprising to most people are the few INTs he has thrown this year. Say what you want about this guy's speaking ability  ( not directed at you), but his decision-making is considerably better over time.  

That being said, BOL to your plays ! 

After years of this, it is so damn hard to cap the Bowl Games, particularly for those that don't have anything to play for.

You have to get 2 things right, on top of the difficulty to begin with :

* what players are playing 

* what is the effort from those players 

College football is my favorite,  but I've learned to disassociate my interest from my chances of success from Bowl games. 

Texans had better draft or get some O Line help in the offseason.

They have the weapons at the skill positions... Tank Dell and Diggs are big losses right now.