Any Investors Here?
 

How much is Nissan supposed to lose this year? $2 Billion? :eek:

That's the wrong title for this thread. You have a "sky is falling" sensationalistic demeanor.

LOL, nah. But I do have a limit order for more Eli Lilly at 33.70...........

limit buy or sell?

do you short?

Oh it's a buy. 6.6% dividend yield, I think. I've been buying LLY on dips. And my cost basis so far is about $28.50, but that should be going up a bit since I think LLY will drop to my limit price today.

I don't short stocks, btw. Makes me nervous. :icon14:

nope not interested on investing..maybe because dont have the green to do so:icon18::driving::driving:

I just stick to mutual funds.

No-load, I hope. Otherwise the only person making good money is your broker, imo.

yep, although my broker did advise me which ones to purchase. Oh yeah, I guess I do have some stocks, I forgot about the IRA I inherited from my father, that the broker manages.

Nice to be in the position where you can forget about some of your investments.:icon17: Does the broker trade your stocks very often...snagging his/her commission along the way?

no, not often at all. mostly all preferreds with high dividends.

Mutual funds are the way to go. Also all of you should look at GLD. The safe bet :)

No load, sub 1% expense ratios. Set it and forget it style investing. I checked my balance about 3 years ago, and I'll check it again in 30 years.

Damn! I'm conservative, but kid, you make me look like a chart reader. lmao :tiphat:

Do you know Porsche almost folded this year? nissan is doing well, go Carlos!

What stocks are you investing in?
 

... any suggestions, along with how long/short term the plan to keep it invested is...

That depends on what kind of risk you want to take. I would be in cash right now. I got burned pretty hard very recently. This market is very unstable right now. feels like i'm in a casino.

and if you have to invest, invest in some dividends stock for now...

just incase you wanna risk.. go ahead and grab some financials lol.

south american emerging markets.

Fords probably not a bad idea..still bluechip n everyone seems to want the 5.0H!!..haha

I like anything in Greece


















LOL!

Like another poster said, it depends on your risk and your overall financial plan.

As a young investor, all of my investments are mutual funds ranging from very risky ultra small cap funds to modest mid-to-large cap funds. These range from 10-30% gains on a good year to obvious losses (albeit sometimes negligible with my safer funds) on bad years.

My recommendation for people just getting into the investment world is T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciate Fund. If you don't have an IRA, I'd recommend setting it up as an IRA; Roth if you plan on retiring on more money than you make now, Traditional if you're in a higher tax bracket now than what you plan on retiring at. Keep in mind, IRA accounts have annual contribution limits as well as income requirements.

Now, if you have no interest in Mutual Funds, or know more than I do about investing (which shouldn't be too hard, haha) disregard my advice!

One piece of advice I can give, is check out Morningstar.com. Fantastic site for stocks, funds, and other investment options.

as a reminder all views expressed here are the sole opinions of the poster and one should always contact their financial advisors before investing in the stock market at their own risk. just figured a nice disclaimer would be nice

I buy Wal-Mart stock.

From Arkansas!

As you have seen over the past two weeks, the markets are very volatile right now.

The best advice I could give you is: Wait and see if prices continue to drop, watch the news especially regarding Europe, Greece, Spain, etc. When you think things are cooling off a bit, buy some stocks that have gone down significantly but represent a good deal (low P/E, lots of cash, little or no debt). If you do your homework you could reap significant gains.

If you are older like me (55) the above applies, but is weighted more towards blue chips with solid dividends. I just bought some Merck and some Johnson & Johnson.

hahaha!!..i dont think anyone here is actually stupid enough to take advise from non-professionals..im a registered rep so i guess im sort of a professional but in no way can you give any advise without first determining suitability..

BTW great disclaimer!..haha

Now is a good time to buy, I did, as most stocks will be seeing that 10% loss over that past few weeks. Return into the shares within the next couple weeks to come

You should contact a trusted financial advisor, as with they're expertise they can throw it away much faster than an individual could ever do.

Stock tip, bypass the Dow and head directly to the casino.

Ford is a decent stock right now IMO. I bought at $7.70 about a year ago, and it recently was up to $14.50+, before falling with the overall market.

its at a little over $11 as I type this, and probably will get back to the $14-$15 range, but I don't know if it will get much higher than that. I was planning to sell at about $16. Doh. Missed that chance.

best stock I ever bought was netflix. bought most of my shares at $18. Its $99 today. I sold at $60. Wish I had known. Regardless I did OK. I try not to look at what it does after I sell. With Netflix its just too much fun not to look at what it does though.

Yeah Ford's not bad...u still did great with netflix!:tup:..my cousin swears by e-trade and purdy much spends his whole day on it..haha...i'd be interested in stocks myself but its soo much aggravation because im registered with FINRA and need to clear EVERYTHING with my broker dealer..its seems hardly worth the time for me..

the general consensus for 2010 seems to be just avoiding housing and health care sectors for obvious reason..

you never know with people, the world is full of crazies haha

im investing heavily into "the world's most powerful z34" my car!!! shoot for the money put down already it would have been a really nice down payment on a home!

I've got a 3% income employer contribution to my 401K so I actually have the spread a bit riskier than I would if it were all my own money. I don't actually manage it at the level of individual funds, but I believe I'm about 30% cash, 50% mutual funds from a variety of sources and about 20% stock.

M4Mustang might have some suggestions, that's his line of work.

This. One of the underlying themes in most of the best stock books I've read is that asking for a stock tip, and giving a stock tip, are bad ideas. It's best to engage in ongoing market education and make your own path.

I'm completely out of the market for the rest of 2010 except for about $10k I'm using to play with or test strategies. With the return of volatility there is opportunity to make some quick cash...or lose it.

From an investment standpoint I'm thinking about flipping a house this year...however even that doesn't look 100% appealing right now. If the banks start letting go of their foreclosure inventory, anyone who wants a cheap house will have the chance.

Well, My Eli Lilly was flying until one of their most promising drugs got sent back to the drawing board by the Feds.

But I'm still way ahead and the dividend rules.

Made nice buys this year on Goldman Sachs and Boeing.

I'm almost back to where I was before the '08 crash. :icon14: That makes me nervous, took some profits on Boeing last week. Most of my $$$$ is in stocks, the rest is cash just sitting waiting for another dive if it comes.

did someone say the sky is falling?

BTW I had too much ******* caffeine trying to study for a midterm and it has been 100% detrimental as my feet are tapping faster that a humming birds wings....

Any body do any investing?
 

I was wondering if anyone does any investing like via eTrade or scotttrade or any of the online brokers. I do a little and I thought we could get a little discussion going on our thoughts on the market.

1. also anything said here should not be taken as serious investing advice.
2. I figured putting this in the premium section would be better to keep the rif-raff out

I watch Jim Cramers Mad Money most evenings. Its a great was to put an hour on the treadmill every night.

So post your thoughts about this crazy market. what areas you are investing in. any market news or why you think the market is up or down.

Im pretty much a novice with the day trade stuff, I leave most of my investments with my guy at Edward Jones. but i like to feel involved a little.


Most of my stocks are pretty safe, Apple, Ford, Verizon, Exxon/Mobil.

some of my speculative plays include Skyworks Solutions, Micron Tech(both getting rough because of the Japan business) These companies produce the raw materials for lots of Apple products including the iPad2 and iPhones

I have Boeing too but not many shares.