Topic: Jabber's English Note---041 @枫下论坛 The Rolia Forum

工作学习 / IT杂谈 / Jabber's English Note---041 -jabber(jabber); 2001-9-5 {633} (#189945@0)
To talk about some special topics, we need learn some special words.

Take stocks as an example. I don't think many of us have stocks of US and Canadian companies, because we have been here not for a long time. If you are learning English as I do, you may browse some financial news on the Internet or in the newspaper. You will frequently see a word---scoop. By scoop people mean some information from the inside, or inside information. If you have some scoop, you can take a lot of advantages in buying and selling the stocks. Every year, some big figures in the USA are put behind the bar because they utilized the scoop.

看来加拿大和中国一样，都是朝里有人好做官，内部消息对炒股很重要。可惜我等不但穷书生一个，而且新到贵地，实在无缘认识Scoop。 -pyramid(金字塔); 2001-9-5 (#190609@0)

You will have opportunites to play stock soon. Come in, please! -jabber(jabber); 2001-9-6 {331} (#191397@0)
One of my friends began to play with stocks 8 years ago. He invested $800. Because he was poor, he just bought 2 or 5 shares each time. He told me most of that sum of money has gone.

Scoop is a very useful word. For instance, as my company hired new contractors, I informed some of my friends of the news. It is kind of scoop.

They bought the shares themselves, or by an agency? I want to buy 100 share of Nortel now. -pyramid(金字塔); 2001-9-6 (#191595@0)

You can find some on-line sites to do that -jabber(jabber); 2001-9-6 {660} (#191742@0)
I opened a ROTH-IRA account at the beginning of this year. That's part of my retirement plan. I put in $2,000 and bought some ORACLE stocks. That's the only stocks I hold. I chose ORACLE because I believed database server softwares are always needed. A few days ago, I lost $400 within a single day... Since I bought Oracle stocks, I seldom looked into my account. I just let it go.

I do believe some people in Canada do on-line trading. Please ask the people around you which site they use....Put in $100. It is not a bad idea.
I figure out you are a person with a positive attitudes towards the life, even though you are stll having a hard time.

Thank you for your confirmation. -pyramid(金字塔); 2001-9-6 {351} (#191841@0)
I think I could try my best to this new life and my requests are not very high at beginning. The reason I want to buy Nortel is that the price is low now and I can afford it. Also I believe the economy will be better in future and the bankruptcy possibility of Nortel is very very few while the telecommunication will still boom in the not far future.

So scoop is not always a negative word? I think one is always trying to get more information s/he can and make use of as much relation as s/he can. That is not wrong. -birdincage(birdincage); 2001-9-6 {221} (#192154@0)
But for those big figures, they should be careful.

BTW, does that mean relation is very important even in western world? I wish everyone could live in a fairer world. I thought things might be better in North America.