stock tips
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Since I've found that one of the smartest ways to invest money is to follow the advice of people on internet forums, does anyone have any stock tips lately that they feel like sharing with the rest of us?
How many of you guys play the stock market at all?
How many of you guys play the stock market at all?
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Basically to make money off the market it takes allot of research and time.
Buy hi and sell low
[/ QUOTE ]Not using The God Zero as a stock broker would probably be my first piece of advice for you
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I think waiting just a tad more till sony hits a real low point would probably be a good bet. A year back was probably the best time to buy. I'd be willing to bet it'll start steadily rising at a decent clip in the near future.
Hi, i am also looking for some one who give me more detail of stock market. Also tips to invest.
you can get tips there as well as start off with "$100,000" to invest. follows the real market but you dont lose anything! or gain anything
So, who got rich?
cool. I do the same. I've been using wallstreetsurvivor since its partnered with e-trade. Fun to see how bad I am. :poly124:
http://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/
How much?
May 2010 - £250
May 2011 - £350
I think you have to buy multiple shares though right? I know little about it but it seems to make any kind of decent return, you need a lot of money to invest initially and are either prepared to wait a long time for a return, or gamble on quick share dealing.
Yes you do need to invest a good chunk of change to see a really good return.
I bought some Baidu stock last yr which is the Google of search engines in China.
The stock split and picked it up at a good price.
LinkedIn is set to go public May 19. http://mashable.com/2011/05/16/linkedin-ipo-3/
silver was doing awesome for a while, seems to be correcting a bit as of late but will probably bounce back up in the near future as the US keeps printing money and de-valuing its currency. if a change in the world reserve currency happens like there is a good chance it will, chances are anything US based will be fucked for a while. while stuff like lulu lemon might seem hot right now, if the US goes into economic collapse, people wont have any extra cash to spend on useless stuff like and it will tank hard.
look at what people are going to need in the long run, industrial metals are booming, copper and iron had huge jumps over the last couple years, at the current rate of consumption Tin is going to be gone in around 4-5 years, shit is just running out. there is also the energy and food crisis's happening and energy in particular is going to be a problem within 10 years at the current rate china and India is growing.
like I said, it all comes down to researching companies and paying attention to what is going on in the world. the main thing most financial analysts keep hammering on that i have read is dont just have your money sitting in US dollars in a bank account. chances are your 1.5%-2% interest rate you are making is nowhere near enough to even cover the cost of inflation, which they claim is ~3% but that has pretty much been proven by every financial analyst to be a complete fuckin lie, with the actual rate around 5-8%
I started reading/researching this stuff a while back and the initial feeling I got besides overwhelming rage, is that banks are complete cunts and there is no way you can rely on them to actually do anything to help you make significant returns, they are looking out for themselves and have been proven to be consistently screwing over their customers by gambling with their money.
Also, hitting up those nice Nigerian chaps that email me seems to do the trick. As soon as that cheque clears...
Clean energy
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No one wants to tell their secrets because then those stocks will go low, those two are the general picks expand on that.
actually we have so much power that we reached a new record for selling capacitys to other EU countrys.
If anyone bought a bunch of gold you might want to pay attention to the market right now, prices are dropping. (yes I have a perverse joy in the idea of the gold bubble bursting)
1: It's not easy and not fast money [it might feel that sometimes but its not) it require patience. Make sure that you wont need that money in the near future.
2: Research!!! The most important part! You don't need a PHD in economics but read at least a book about it [or a few good articles/blogs]. One of my friends that is a broker told me to invest ONLY in something you understand. Pick stocks/indexes that you can read about and you understand what they do. Ex: Disney, Mc Donalds, ActivisionBlizzard. Pick companies that you can google and you understand there activity. I will never invest in some alternative energy company [even if ppl say there will be money there] simply because I don't have a knowledge of the market. Same goes for pharmaceuticals:) I followed ATVI closely ever year and made good money with every release ActivisionBlizzard made simply because I knew CoD, SC2, WOW expansions sell like nothing else.
3: READ the news! A simple interview or opinion of a well known broker/journalist can skyrocket or f** up a stock in days! I suggest spending 20-30 mins [while you take a dump] reading the newspaper or watching some random money channel. Do it for a few weeks to get the hang of it and understand how it works. THEN decide for yourself if u still want to invest and how much. Otherwise contact a real broker [they take a fee] and let them handle your money.
People that just want to 'invest' because they have the money tend to lose it pretty fast. Rather go a play blackjack or bet on sports.
If you do invest, as said, do it with something direct like gold. Not by putting it into corporations.
(That or bitcoin....
"The International Labor Organization, the labor agency of the United Nations, estimates that tens of thousands of children work in gold mining and considers any child labor in mining as a “worst form” of labor because of the dangerous conditions."
and as far as Bitcoin, that crashed pretty hard recently
Bitcoin actually in the longterm is getting higher.
Either way I fully stand behind my sadness of the shortsightedness used to justify stock purchase here. This willful ignorance has helped create so many of the worlds woes with the push of making the stockowners investment value worth more and more for the shorterm over anything else the company might otherwise decide.
Next time layoffs occur I better not see any of the investors here claim sadness or frustration with the situation.
Stocks are the best long term investment you can make.
Invest in an indexed ETF (example: http://ca.ishares.com/product_info/fund/performance/XIU.htm) and leave it alone for 25 years.
I used to do things like short oil for fun. :poly124:
Seriously though, investing in stocks on your own takes a lot of knowledge, time, dedication, risk, etc. You're probably better off working with an equity firm that has professionals dealing with the day-to-day aspect of it unless you really know what you're doing.
Ryan, thats not my point. Stock is one of the most unethical ways to invest as well. Its extremely delusional to invest in such and then wonder why our career is so fubar.
*sent from my iPad, LOL*
So what is the alternative? Bonds aren't really worth putting your money into, moneymarket accounts pay about the same as the average savings account at your corner bank(ie: total shit) even if you have a huge chunk of money to put into a CD the interest rates are pathetic. Simply saying "stock market = evil" without suggesting a viable alternative isn't really productive.
I think blaming all of our industries problems on the stock market is extremely naive. We've got tons more issues than ceos laying people off to appease shareholders. Although this is a problem, it wouldn't stop being a problem overnight if game studios were no longer publicly traded. Take away the stocks and you're dealing with private investment, with the exact same problems.
Invest in things that you believe have value. Renewable energy, for example.
You need to take steps to be independent if you believe your career is fubar.
Investing in stocks gave me the funds to start a new career and not be dependent on games for 100% of my income. Working on games part-time is a lot more fun.
Its my understanding the gold prices are dropping.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-gold-prices-dropping-2013-4
http://www.usagold.com/cpmforum/
http://goo.gl/EfoU0
You might want to buy and wait for prices to go up or just wait it out and see if it keeps going down.
I guess a better phrase than evil or unethical would be non ethical and unmoral. You cannot shrug off the number one goal of a public company is to create higher investment return for the stock holders. Period. A public company cannot think long term as stockholders want more, not static or slightly less. Even if such would allow the company to be in a better position.
Much of the worlds economic distribution and environmental come from this result. Send the work overseas even though in the long run your creating a skills vacuum back home. Produce energy as it stands without being allowed to investigate and research new methods. Market and overprice ineffective drugs versus researching and producing cures. Fight against pollution control even though it reduces your workers output.
Absolutely, private companies can play this same game. But a private company has a choice. They have leaders who can try to see for the long term survival of their company without becoming a giant conglomerate.
It is naive to say all, which is why I didn't.
Yes, and No. A bank wants to be repaid with interest. Its only goal is to make sure you survive long enough for such. A private investor is an individual, which means they don't necessarily have to demand the absolute highest return if the owners can show reasons. In short, there is a few humans at the other end. Not a large mass of anonymous investors with different shares amounts. You the Ceo can only take one thing away from these masses as a whole. MAKE MORE MONEY! That is your job the board hired you for as representation from the stock.
So is your answer is if you can't beat them, join them? If so, sounds like an excuse not to change and instead have a blind eye to the rest of the worlds problems caused by said system.
Can you the individual change the system? No. But you don't have to limply follow it either.
What form of investment would you advise someone to put their money into? That is the point of this thread.
Whatever company that develops the Coup de grace for fossil fuels will be rich beyond what several generations could spend. The likelihood of that happening is increasing with each ?day?(year) and we should as predicted be in the largest energy generation shift by 2050. 2050 seems to be the magic number for most development models these days, but around that point will be the peak of clean energy, at least that's theorised.
So yeah, clean and renewable sources of energy, resources, production ect are the Long term way to go.
Renewable/Green or even Goggles "do no evil" are sentimental feelings outside the scope of what buying their stock will do. At the end the manager (ceo) will have to make decisions that create the largest revenue in the shortest time period no matter the long term cost.
Whether that be sending RnD and production overseas, or using cheaper or un safe materials to make the profit per unit higher.
Not my career, our career. The only way to have some level of security in this industry working in AAA especially is to be a B level or higher executive (but not Ceo, though most make so much severance and have so many fingers in pies, they won't have to worry if their kid has to have an emergency operation).
Fun for you. At the cost of the people who almost assuredly got screwed over along the way for your investment to raise.
Think what would happen if a company had no shareholders. They could more easily save, reinvest, and even offer more job security/benefits for their employees. Oh, I am absolutely sure some owners wouldn't look at the big picture and screw the employees over. They however wouldn't have people like you. I also agree though they couldn't expand as fast without that share support (which to me is a good thing because of the strings attached).
The only type of share holding I personally believe in is employee only private sharing.
Someone (EDIT: Earthquake) asked then what is the way to invest? Here is an example. You won't make much but you will be making a difference. Those sites that list business plans for like a small community in Africa who want to purchase a milk cold storage unit to get their product to market after it normally would have spoiled. They just need that small loan to purchase the 10k unit from a bunch of small loaners like yourself.
Yay a real suggestion!
Micro loans are cool for a variety reasons. I would love to know more about them. Do you know what the average return on this sort of thing would be? I've thought about micro loans before but have always been too lazy to seriously look into it.
One thing to keep in mind with return rates though, if your return on investment is lower than the average rate of inflation, you're losing money. At least from a basic economics standpoint.
Also more general microloan Q's:
Any organizations you've worked with that you would recommend? I don't really know where to start.
Any licensed brokerages that you can do it through? Most profit matching retirement funds that you get through an employer are going to be limited in regards to where you can actually invest the money (and opting out means leaving a lot of free money on the table, for instance my wife's employer matches $2 for every $1 she puts in, which is awesome).
What sort of risks are involved?