Stockbrokers
Jokes
"I hear that you
drop some money in Wall Street. Were you a bull or a bear?"
"Neither, just a plain simple ass."
The Walton's
invited their new neighbors over to dinner. During dinner Mr.Walton was
asked what he did for a living.
Eight years old
Brian Walton jumped in and said, "Daddy is a fisherman!" To which
Mrs.Walton replied, "Brian, why do say that. Your daddy is a
stockbroker, not a fisherman."
"No
mom. Every time we visit dad at work and he hangs up the phone he
laughs, rubs his hands together and says 'I just caught another fish'."
Two women were walking through the woods when a frog called out to them
and said: "Help me, ladies! I am a stockbroker who, through an evil
witch's curse, has been transformed into a frog. If one of you will
kiss me, I'll be returned to my former state!"
One woman took
out her purse, grabbed the frog, and stuffed it inside her handbag. The
other woman, aghast, screamed, "Didn't you hear him? If you kiss him,
he'll turn into a stockbroker!"
The second
woman replied, "Sure, but these days a talking frog is worth more than
a stockbroker!"
A stock analyst
and a Wall Street broker went to the races. The broker suggested to bet
$10,000 on a horse. The analyst was sceptical, saying that he wanted
first to understand the rules, to look on horses, etc. The broker
whispered that he knew a secret algorithm for the success, but he could
not convince the analyst.
"You
are too theoretical," he said and bet on a horse. Surely, that horse
came first bringing him a lot of money. Triumphantly, he exclaimed: "I
told you, I knew the secret!"
"What is your secret?" the analyst asked.
"It is rather easy. I have two kids, three and five year old. I sum up
their ages and I bet on number nine."
"But, three and five is eight," the analyst protested.
"I told you, you are too theoretical!" the broker replied, "Haven't I
just shown experimentally that my calculation is correct?!"
Stockbroker's
creed: A man is a client until proven broke.
October. This
is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.
The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,
June, December, August and February.
A stockbroker
says to his colleague, "I don't think this line of work is for you. You
just keep losing money all the time."
"You're
right," he replied. "My whole life all I've done is lose money".
Next day he
comes to work and resigns.
His coworker
asks, "What are you going to do for living?"
"I
finally figured out how I can make some money from losing money all the
time."
"How?"
"I
am going to build a web page and take it public."
A man calls his
stockbroker all anxious and out of breath with this urgency in his
voice. He says, "Sell it all, sell everything fast, right away."
The stockbroker
tries to explain that the market is cyclical in nature and that for
long term outlook stocks still remain the place to be.
The man says,
"Let me tell you a secret. You know I've been married for 6 years now
and I've been your client for 5 years."
"Yes,
go on," the stockbroker says.
"Well.
My wife has this thing about the market. Her grandparents lost it all
in the great crash and ever since then her family found investing in
the market akin to original sin. When we got married I promised her
that I would follow in her parents footsteps and never venture in the
stock market and always leave all our money under the mattress."
"Wow,
I didn't know that. I guess you want the money because the market is
going down, in case she asks for it."
"No,
I want the money because she ordered a new mattress and it is being
delivered in two days."
A market guru
walks into a pizzeria to order a pizza. There the waiter asks him:
"Should I cut it into six pieces or eight pieces?"
The guru
replies: "I'm feeling rather hungry right now. You'd better cut it into
eight pieces."
A long time
ago, a visitor from out of town came to a tour in Manhattan. At the end
of the tour they took him to the financial district. When they arrived
to Battery Park the guide showed him some nice yachts anchoring there,
and said, "Here are the yachts of our bankers and stockbrokers." "And
where are the yachts of the investors?" asked the naive visitor.
A young
stockbroker decided to take a day off and visit some of his professors
in his old school. When he made his way into the entrance he noticed a
dog was attacking a small child. He quickly grabbed the dog and
throttled it with his two hands.
The next day
the local newspaper reported the story with the headline, "Valiant
student saves boy from ferocious dog".
The stockbroker
called the editor and strongly suggested that a correction be issued
and that the paper will tell the readers he was a successful Wall
Street broker and not a student.
The next day
the newspaper issued a correction and the headline read, "Pompous
stockbroker kills school mascot".
How many
stockbrokers does it take to change a light bulb?
"My God! It burnt out!! Sell all my G.E. stock NOW!!!"
Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and
sell it before it crashes (knowing that it's already burned out).
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