Stock Investing

Apple maybe? Because at this point in time no one can live without computers.... seriously.

NS isnt a good place to ask, but Im pretty up on the stock market and my dad is huge on it. My only advice is that you have to be PATIENT because when you invest you wont get anything and will most likey lose what you put in instantly, you'll have to wait fot this whole problem to sort itself out, and check out the website for charts and other fun things http://www.investors.com/, it should have a lot of what you are looking for

cman, i have been watching the market and acquiring information from many many many other sources. I was just curious what NS would invest in. Thanks for your input tho

I can understand your eagerness, but don't waste your time trying to time the markets or stock picking - especially as a small investor.  Sure, you might get lucky, but its not a smart strategy.
Take a look into ETF's and invest in the whole market.. they're index funds, traded like stocks, with very, very low management fees.  There are some that invest in specific sectors... foreign markets, etc. 
Also, something like a 75/25 split in stock/bonds is a good portfolio is good if you're young.

I know guys who work on wall street and they advise not to invest. You're thinking fundamental economics, but shits about to get worse before it get any better. I know many adults who have gone bankrupt and lost hundreds of thousands.

Apple and other electronic American companies would be a really bad choice to invest in. Their stock has already hit as high as it may ever get. I wouldn't trust they would be around much longer at the magnitude they are at.

You're Canadian right? Two words: Foreign Bonds. These are probably the best reward for the lowest risk. The stock market should not be played right now unless you are willing to take a risk or possibly stay in it for 5-7 years. With foreign bonds you will see returns within a few years and it is probably the safest bet. However, I am not too familiar with where the Loonie is at currently so I am not sure it would be such a good idea. About a year ago when it was really high you should have bought American Dollars and then foreign bonds. Right now the USD has nowhere to go but down so buying foreign currency would be a very smart move. Especially in countries like Japan and a bit more of a risk but I predict great rewards in Tunisia.

yea this market is so up and down, mostly down for roughly the next 5 years that unless you plan on short selling you will have to wait some time to make any profit

If you have the time, daytrading is becoming more popular due to the volatility in the market.

Otherwise, biotech.

I would invest in P&G a company like that will never go under, and will always be a sure stock to make you money. My brother invested a couple thousand in them when we he was 13, and right now his stock is worth roughly 40k. Not bad.

word, Gold and silver are also going to move exponentially

Silvers good right now but wait a few months for gold, it's still going down a bit. Word though.

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If you can't afford to buy atleast a 1000 shares of a stock, bond, or fund, you are wasting your time and money. Unless you are serious about day trading and doing tech analysis, it's a losing game. Holding long on securities isn't exactly the most successful way of investing, especially in today's economy.. You'll have to learn about resistance levels, supports, arbitrage, options, futures, derivatives, wedges, shorts, etc. In the end, you (along with most people) will eventually bleed all your money away. Yes, it is a great time to buy into the market but unless you spread your money around and invest with knowledgeable investors, no single sector is as safe as it's perceived to be and market can always go lower. No one knows where the floor is and anyone claiming to know is full of it. IMO, your best bet is to open a Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, or put the money into a Money Market Savings account. This way you will be able to diversify or accrue interest on your money. Don't waste your time with CDs, since you can't access your money for an extended period of time and you can find comparable interest rates elsewhere in Money Market Savings Accounts which are also FDIC insured.

On the other hand, if you are going to invest, don't put all your money in the same sector. Diversification is key. Large Cap, Small Cap, Blue Chips, Commodities, Mutual Funds (SMAs), International, Real Estate, etc. ETFs and Index funds are interesting as well but they are aren't designed to beat the market but rather match the markets return, so they are more of a passive type of investing.

I graduated from college with a degree in Finance and I am currently working for a Fortune 500 company in the Corporate Finance and Revenue Management department so I have a solid foundation and grasp of the stock market and other financial systems.

If you have any other questions, let me know.

ns is def not a good place for this...

depends on what you want to invest in and for how long.

Im in mutual funds, which i prefer (and strongly suggest) over trying to play just a couple of companies. Im invested in foreign, developing and homeland markets. the nice thing about mutual funds is that they are long term- growth funds at medium to low risk investment. i do not own more than .8% of one company so unless the world reaches rock bottom i will be fine for the LONG run.

but... if i had to pick one company it would be LM Glasfiber but they are still a private company (they make the blades for the wind turbines).

i would of picked something in the oil investment community, not oil futures because they have a certain date to sell but something in that field. i forgot the companies name but my dad just invested in some oil when it was down to 33-34 a barrel.

i have to make a fake stock portfolio is a month. i will tell you some under valued stocks when i am done.

definitely man, there is alot of research going on and plans to make enormous windfarms... also check out: American Superconducters and vestas wind systems, quote= FAN

thats a horrible way to look at it. 1000 shares means nothing since stock prices vary so much.

thanks. i hear Vestas is one of the top leaders in alternative energy. anything alternative energy or alternative fuels i think is key and the spot to be. (im not saying invest everything in those sectors, you have to diversify but thats a given, haha).

if you leave out all of the political bullshit that goes on, people will realize that the world we will live in in the next coming decades will be transformed with new sources of energy and fuels. my own grandpa said he wishes he could be in my footsteps again to see how different this world will be soon.

but, im not to familiar with American Superconducters, i may have to check them out!

p.s. speaking of windfarms, i live in central montana and windfarms are going up all over the place. and... can you imagine the craze that will begin in T. Boone Pickens gets his massive wind farms going in the mid-west? it will be new energy craze, like our oil craze was. pretty excited i am! haha

what for? are you in college or high school?

my freshman year in college we did that fake stock thing where you invest into the market at real-time prices. it was fun and actually quite addicting, i didn't take first because i was just learning and picked some stable companies and some other risky companies that turned south. I think we invested $100,000 and i came out above that mark, so i made money but i think i took like 5 or 6th in my class (we only had about 25 or 30 kids tho haha).

ya i did that last year and will do it the next two years, we ended up like 117,000 or so

sweet.

i did mine a couple years back and i think i was around $107,000. alot of people lost alot in my class, haha.

I would go with resources, you always need resources and they've just been dragged down by the poor economies. With the situation right now that would probably be pretty safe. Maybe not oil and gas though.