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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 5178667, member: 27832&quot;]And I&#039;m sure the rest of us don&#039;t really want to keep explaining over and over how percentages work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Say you&#039;ve got $1000 to put into stocks. You could buy 8 shares of Apple at about $125/share, or 33 shares of AT&amp;T at about $30/share.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, there are lots of good reasons to pick one or the other (or neither, or both). But &quot;AAPL would have to go up $125/share to double your money, T would only have to go up $30/share&quot; <b>is not one of them</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your argument is <i>exactly</i> as sensible as saying &quot;I want to hold some cash, but I think the dollar is going to lose 50% of its value in the next ten years. I don&#039;t want $100 bills, because they&#039;ll each lose $50 in value! I&#039;ll get $1 bills instead, because they&#039;ll only lose 50 cents. Better yet, I&#039;ll get it all in <i>pennies</i>, because they&#039;ll only lose <i>half a cent</i> in value!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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