[quote author="PANDA" date=1226186666]Graph,
It seems that you need to prove to this virtual communiity that you are the better man. That you are right and I am wrong. To be honest with you, I can really care less. Even the Doom & Goom guys like Jim Rogers and Peter schiff never predicted that the dollar would rally as it has. I am sure that Peter Schiiff didn't know that the international and Emerging Markets would get damaged as much as it did going down 50 - 60%. I knew that the DOW would drop big time, but i had no idea that international equities will go down as much as it did. I was very lucky to sell out of my China and Emerging Market ETFs when i did back in 2007, and it was not by listening to Peter or Jim. I made that decision after sitting on a 13 hour flight back from Seoul, and a nice Asian gentleman sitting next me told me that there is a bubble in Chinese equities and to get out when you can. During my trip back to Hong Kong, my manufacturer was telling me the same thing. These two men are the ones who saved me at least a $100,000 - $150,00 in losses, not Peter Schiff. Graph, you may truly be the winner over me in 2008, but let me remind you that my portfolio was concentrated in overseas equities from 2002 - 2007, and i did not starting buying precious metals just recently. Though, I strongly believe in Jim and Peter's long term view of Commodities and Asia, in 2008... people who followed their advice are all under water this year.
Graph, it doesn't make a man who purchased a new Woodbury home in 2006 a loser. It is only when the home owners sells his house today at huge loss that makes him a loser today. If he holds his house until 2013 - 2015... He will be just fine, and eventually he will become a winner. Irvine has been and always will be a great product. I feel the same way about Commodities and International Equities for the long run, except they much, much more undervalued than buying a home in Irvine right now. In 2008, I have been buyer and have not sold one share or one ounce of anything in my portfolio.</blockquote>
You completely missed my point. Panda, you are a smart guy, and please do not suffer from the same blinding ignorance of WHINEX, you are a much better, thoughtful, and kind person than he is. My point wasn't to prove that I am bigger or better than you. My point was you have basically spammed the forums with your wacky investment ideas, and you go back and forth in whether or not you are invested in them. Are you invested in those ETFs or not? At the beginning of this thread you made it sound like you were, and now you are saying you got out in 2007. You didn't borrow my time machine, so which is it?
If you are going to be talking about investing at all, then you need to disclose if you are invested or not. I am on record for saying I bought LEH when it was trading in the high $3 range, and I lost money on it. If someone invested along with me, then we lost money together, and they would know I suffered along with them. I also have recommended CGMFX is the past, and if anyone invested (I think Vicstah did, and I am sure he wants to kick me in the nuts if he did) in that fund then they suffered a loss along with me. What you are doing by touting these ETFs, funds, and currencies without letting people know you are invested in them, and people possibly thinking you know what you are talking about and invested in them, then they are losing big time money, when they should have been invested in something else like a savings account. You need to be careful about what you say, and you need to disclose more info on what you are talking about, like whether you are invested in them or not. If you are, then you need to have the decency to show your losses too. Why don't you post a picture of your investopedia account since you are not in the game?
Whether someone bought a home in Woodbury and 2006 and sells in 2013, or buys FXI back in August and sells today, then they are a loser. In fact if they bought FXI they are a big fat loser. How would you feel if someone here you respected, like awgee for example or IrvineSingleMom, invested in FXI when you first posted about it in this thread? I know that you have a big heart, just like me, and I wouldn't want to see them lose that kind of money, just like I wouldn't have wanted them to buy a house in 2006. Does that make sense to you now? It isn't about who is bigger and better, it is about what is disclosed and what is not, and who it is appropriate for. You need to be careful, people could get hurt by getting the wrong message. And for that, I think you do care.