Re: [Swarm-Modelling] About a model

[Marcus G. Daniels]

John Lee wrote:

> I couldn't understand the terms of "dividend" and "position" mean.
>  
`Position' is how much of a stock one owns (and implicitly the price you 
paid for that amount).   If you "take a position", it is risky because 
the value of the stock can change out from under you, and it can become 
less valuable (a bad position), but it can also be good because its 
price (your value) can go up.  A `dividend' is the value that a company 
pays you for buying in to their company above and beyond the sellable 
value of the stock at a given time; an incentive to weather (what they 
hope are temporary) decreases in the value of the company.