{"id":43961,"date":"2013-11-08T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=43961"},"modified":"2013-11-09T07:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T12:40:40","slug":"sizemore-on-cnbc-buy-twitter-with-your-play-money-not-your-real-money-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/11\/08\/sizemore-on-cnbc-buy-twitter-with-your-play-money-not-your-real-money-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizemore on CNBC: \u201cBuy Twitter With Your Play Money, Not Your Real Money\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/sizemoreletter.com\/\" target=\"blank\"><u>The Sizemore Letter<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I appeared on CNBC&#8217;s Capital Connection in Singapore this morning to discuss the Twitter IPO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, at 45 times trailing earnings, Twitter is highly speculative at current prices. \u00a0Could it go higher? \u00a0Abolutely. \u00a0But investors are pricing in a massive surge of revenue growth that may or may not materialize. \u00a0This is a speculation for your &#8220;play money&#8221; that you can afford to lose. \u00a0It is most certainly not appropriate for your retirement nest egg.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is at the cutting edge of a media revolution. \u00a0It&#8217;s all very exciting. \u00a0But their business model is still untested and hasn&#8217;t turned a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Should you invest in Twitter? \u00a0If you want to be a part of its media revolution, go for it. \u00a0But again, go into the trade with the right mindset. \u00a0This is a speculative trade in which you could make a fortune&#8230;or just as easily lose half your capital or more. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a prudent investment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA, is the chief investment officer of the investment firm Sizemore Capital Management.\u00a0<\/em><i><em><i><a href=\"https:\/\/order.investorplace.com\/?sid=%20OA8158\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to receive his FREE 8-part investing series that will not only show you which sectors will soar, but also which stocks will deliver the highest returns. This series starts Nov. 5 and includes a FREE copy of his\u00a0<\/i>2014 Macro Trend Profit Report.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on Sizemore Insights as <a href=\"http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/sizemore-cnbc-buy-twitter-play-money-real-money\/\">Sizemore on CNBC: &#8220;Buy Twitter With Your Play Money, Not Your Real Money&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/twitter-ipo-exciting-can-profit\/' rel='bookmark' title='Twitter IPO: It\u2019s Exciting, But How Can You Profit?'>Twitter IPO: It\u2019s Exciting, But How Can You Profit?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/sizemore-talks-ebay-the-future-of-mobile-payments-and-more-on-cnbc\/' rel='bookmark' title='Sizemore Talks EBay, the Future of Mobile Payments, and More on CNBC'>Sizemore Talks EBay, the Future of Mobile Payments, and More on CNBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/sizemore-on-cnbc-dell-wants-to-be-ibm\/' rel='bookmark' title='Sizemore on CNBC: &#8220;Dell Wants to be IBM&#8221;'>Sizemore on CNBC: &#8220;Dell Wants to be IBM&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/17W2Dp7\" target=\"blank\"><u>Join the Sizemore Investment Letter &#8211; Premium Edition<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Sizemore Letter I appeared on CNBC&#8217;s Capital Connection in Singapore this morning to discuss the Twitter IPO. &nbsp; Suffice it to say, at 45 times trailing earnings, Twitter is highly speculative at current prices. \u00a0Could it go higher? \u00a0Abolutely. \u00a0But investors are pricing in a massive surge of revenue growth that may or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/11\/08\/sizemore-on-cnbc-buy-twitter-with-your-play-money-not-your-real-money-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sizemore on CNBC: \u201cBuy Twitter With Your Play Money, Not Your Real Money\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}