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Tomorrow headline: Stocks retreat as investors worry about Eurozone
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haha... so true

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Tomorrow headline: Stocks retreat as investors worry about Eurozone
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Yes, the U.S. added private sector jobs in November, but what if this increase in hiring is just for the holiday season?
Also, I just wanted to add this quote. It pretty much sums up why the markets were up today:
Customer spending was up but it was mostly on credit too so this growth is not sustainable into the New Year. Expectations about the economy haven't greatly improved IMO.
What do yall think about Netflix's prospects in the UK? They are due to launch service here soon, right?
Stock-Age, if you had 500k deposited in your bank account tomorrow what would you look to investing into?
Half into dividend stocks trying to get a yield of 3-4% and letting it reinvest in itself. One quarter into long term bonds. One quarter into a short selling portfolio.
Or you can just give me your 500K and I'll take care of it for you.
Half into dividend stocks trying to get a yield of 3-4% and letting it reinvest in itself. One quarter into long term bonds. One quarter into a short selling portfolio.
Or you can just give me your 500K and I'll take care of it for you.
That's pretty much what I told my dad, but my mom really doesn't understand stocks, or more, why you'd risk your money like that. As soon as I told her there's a chance that you might lose on the investment she started saying it didn't sound like a good idea, haha. But my dad is a pretty level-headed guy, and understands the basics of stocks, so we'll see where we go with it. And by short selling portfolio are you referring to short sales on homes or ... ?
Also, what dividend stocks would you guys recommend? Is there a database somewhere that provides a look into dividend stocks and the historical "winners" ?
In terms of dividend stocks there are quite a few bargains out there right now but you could always devote a good portion to staple stocks like IBM, Cisco, GE, AT&T etc those are companies that are bulletproof and have a history of consistent dividend payouts then you can portion a smaller bit of that money toward high yield dividend stocks many which are at all time lows right now but that would require active monitoring since they are much more susceptible to market swings.
As the other poster said above, seek a professional because you probably look like a fool with all that money.
No doubt. I'm not going to turn into a financial wiz by reading a few blogs or ebooks, so I'm definitely urging my pops to seek professional help. He's just so old school. He just wants to invest in real estate, but I keep telling him it's not really the best way to turn at this point in time. And of course, placing all of our eggs in one basket would be insanity. I know that diversifying one's portfolio is generally pretty good practice, but other than a 401k my mom and dad haven't built up much of a portfolio at all. I guess its time to start looking for someone to help us manage this. Thanks guys.
That's exactly what I told him. Flipping short sale houses is what's on his mind but I have been adamantly opposing that since day one. My sister also happens to be dating some dude who's in real estate / insurance so they're all up on my dad "making plans" and scouting houses already. I'm away from home for training so I can't really keep an eye on it right now, so I just gotta hope he doesn't do anything major while I'm gone.LOL real estate is a joke. Especially with $500K. My dad's friend has an investor coming over from China with $2 billion in USD for investments. That is how you force the market to change according to your plans.
With money you have the advantage of liquidity, you can pull out your money for the most part when things go sour unlike real estate.
The thing is you have a decent chunk of money but not enough to find a easy going investment where you put your money in and never look again. You got to work your money and not expect the money to work for you yet at this stage. Play your cards right and you could be seeing nice consistent growth over the years.
I would like to know too but I want to know does UK have a dominant player in the streaming market?
I think Netflix at ~66 is a good low to buy on but I'm not risking getting back into it again without a good idea.
I am not an invester, but I live in UK and I have to say that Netflix came way too late since Lovefilm is doing what Netflix is doing with way more marketing injucted nto it in the last year or so. The movie selection is not good, but I say, that Netflix will have a great competition.
Half into dividend stocks trying to get a yield of 3-4% and letting it reinvest in itself. One quarter into long term bonds. One quarter into a short selling portfolio.
Or you can just give me your 500K and I'll take care of it for you.
Stock-Age, if you had 500k deposited in your bank account tomorrow what would you look to investing into?
Got a nice ~12% dividend increase today in GE and another ~5% in WM. GE now yielding 7.6% on my average buy in price!
Nice! I'm hoping I'll have enough money eventually to have a nice blue chip portfolio which good dividends in a few years.
Start early, even if it's not a lot. I started my portfolio with about $4,000. Just make sure it's money you probably won't need in the near future. Compounding gains and dividends work best over the long term, even if it's from a small base.
Let's go bulls! clap clap clapclapclap
Everything is fine now, the Euro problems are all behind us and there will definitely not be any bad news coming out of Europe for the next day or so.
Up up up!
Started trading options, I'm down 70% on some AMZN $185 calls expiring on 21 Jan.
I'm down 5,000 bucks. I can barely sleep or think about much else. If there is anyone that has a repair strategy for this I'm very interested.
Started trading options, I'm down 70% on some AMZN $185 calls expiring on 21 Jan.
I'm down 5,000 bucks. I can barely sleep or think about much else. If there is anyone that has a repair strategy for this I'm very interested.
Yeah I risked way too much.
Can't believe AMZN stock can't catch a break even though they're having their best holiday season ever.
I was planning on selling calls against it, but that still makes me nervous. If I miss-time the sale of calls I can get in even worse condition, or if I do it right can recover most of my losses.
Don't know how else to do it other than waiting. Fucking calls man.
Yeah I risked way too much.
Can't believe AMZN stock can't catch a break even though they're having their best holiday season ever.
I was planning on selling calls against it, but that still makes me nervous. If I miss-time the sale of calls I can get in even worse condition, or if I do it right can recover most of my losses.
Don't know how else to do it other than waiting. Fucking calls man.
Yep it's over. I won't start one soon because I'm leaving for vacation in February.
In a fun sidenote when Zynga IPO popped up I was about to invest $5000 in it. Holy shit I am glad I didn't. I was one click away from the Buy button and refrained myself to see how it played. Gut feelings... fuck yeah!
In a fun sidenote when Zynga IPO popped up I was about to invest $5000 in it. Holy shit I am glad I didn't. I was one click away from the Buy button and refrained myself to see how it played. Gut feelings... fuck yeah!