Talk:2270: Picking Bad Stocks

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clearly nobody told Randall about shorting stocks 162.158.18.160 20:57, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

I was going to say that Arachrah (talk) 09:29, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Can someone create a "stock market" category, or "economics"? There are a lot of comics referencing this. 172.69.33.89 23:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

You can start by listing these comics here, someone will pick them up to create the category.141.101.98.166 10:35, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Yep. General inofficial rule of thumb is, that a new category should have at least 5 comics or consist of a direct series. (the latter doesn't seem to be tha case here.)--Lupo (talk) 10:41, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Stock market related comics:
Please add


When he said "camping" I thought more of snipers in MMFPS games (or gate-campers in Eve) and I was imagining the robot waiting patiently hidden under the sofa until someone dropped a crumb, zipping out and hoovering that crumb up then zipping off back again. 141.101.98.148 11:30, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Shouldn't they be dropping the companies from a basket rather than an index ? From my understanding, indices refer to "official" lists of stocks, and custom ones are more known as baskets. 108.162.229.28 12:46, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

I suspect Cueball is more influential than expected 108.162.241.202 14:02, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

In BBC Radio 4's Dickensian-comedy-spoof series {w|Bleak Expectations} (from memory, during the [second series/season], though not available at the time of writing, at least direct from the BBC) at one key point Pip Bin uses his best friend's investment 'recommendations' (Harry Biscuit is also a notoriously bad inventor obsessed with using swans in many of his own devices) to invest in entirely the opposite manner. Not that I think Randall has heard these programmes (or, indeed, programs), so not an annotatable reference for the comic, but putting it out there as a recommendation in general because there's a good chance of humour(/humor) overlap. And it has Anthony Head in it, if there are any Buffy fans/etc, reading this... 141.101.98.148 15:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)