Life is uncertain so choose your stock carefully

StephenW

A bank stock is like your spouse
Small resources stocks are like your kids
A biotech stock is like a one-night stand
Food retailers are like ladies of the night(On every street corner, open 24 hours, you go once a week and every visit costs $200.)
Defensive stocks are like grandparents
Contracts for differences(CFD) are like a menage a trois
New issues are like a secret lover
Stocks you have sold are like your ex

[from me]Advice is like gossip

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StephenW

Contracts for differences are like a menage a trois
            They sound like a really good idea. They are complex. At first you really don't know what you're doing. The end result is always the same (you get screwed). You have to keep your long-term investments separate.

That Marcus Padley is a smart,  an ex-Army guy, now a stock-broker.

In Sydney, CFD is marketed quite heavily to the Chinese communities through advertising in the Chinese newspapers. For myself, I prefer to buy lottery tikets - you still get screwed, but benefit/cost ratio is high, and sometimes the dreaming is better than actually winning. I think, but I have never experienced a winning yet.

So, hbv30year, is it a bull or a bear?