The Stock Market illustrated ...

Just a little forwarded mail from my ex-boss... is there a lesson to be learnt here?

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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for RM10. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at RM10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at RM20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.

The offer rate increased to RM25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at RM50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at RM35 and when the man returns from the city , you can sell it to him for RM50."

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings to buy the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!!

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Hahahaha!!! Was just thinking about my moo-lah stuck with some JSPC shares. Much talk about it going up, but it never does >:( Sigh... just gonna give it another half a year, cut my losses and pay off some of my housing loan with whatever $$$ that's able to be recovered :P