Boiler Room: The Official Stock Market Discussion

[Domingo Halliburton]

My gawd the dives this morning wth is going on

bad earnings from big companies and bad durable goods report

 

[Futuristic Eskimo]

Yields tumbling

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

CLF halted. News pending.

 

[无名的]

Wanted to buy options back in December when NUGT was below $10.



I've been out of the game for the past two months.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Sure thing Jefferies...I mean FXCM


FXCM has super-tight forex spreads with no markups. See the difference in a free demo

 

[The Mad Titan]

I want to get into the market game, I keep saying it but I think its about time. How much should i look to start out with and whats a good company to start of trying to buy and trade stocks?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Yahoo spinning off its BABA stake. How much is that going to dilute the shares?


edit: furthermore is Yahoo actually worth anything without this stake?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

I want to get into the market game, I keep saying it but I think its about time. How much should i look to start out with and whats a good company to start of trying to buy and trade stocks?

there's really no minimum to start out. check out the sidebar to the right on reddit.com/r/investing

there's a couple links about getting started and a section saying "I'm new to investing, what should I do?"

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

AAPL generated $30 billion in free cash flow. That's crazy. Up 5% in after hours.

 

[GoPro]

I want to get into the market game, I keep saying it but I think its about time. How much should i look to start out with and whats a good company to start of trying to buy and trade stocks?

Sharebuilder offers the cheapest trade fee at 6.95 per.

I'd say tech stocks like apple, linkedin, facebook, etc are safe for a new investor looking to get his feet wet without worrying too much about drastic down swings. They're long term stocks though so don't expect a quick double/triple up.

Biotechs are where the quick money can be gained or loss. It's not for the faint of hear though. My bread and butter is MNKD(I dread mentioning it on here cause it seems every time I do, it tanks). It's been swinging up and down ~20% over the past couple of months.

Oil stocks are bound to rebound eventually. Could be at least a double by next year cause no way they stay this low for long.

 

[Futuristic Eskimo]

Sharebuilder offers the cheapest trade fee at 6.95 per.

I'd say tech stocks like apple, linkedin, facebook, etc are safe for a new investor looking to get his feet wet without worrying too much about drastic down swings. They're long term stocks though so don't expect a quick double/triple up.

Biotechs are where the quick money can be gained or loss. It's not for the faint of hear though. My bread and butter is MNKD(I dread mentioning it on here cause it seems every time I do, it tanks). It's been swinging up and down ~20% over the past couple of months.

Oil stocks are bound to rebound eventually. Could be at least a double by next year cause no way they stay this low for long.

You, my friend, have clearly only been trading in a bull market Some of these high P/E names will be the first to go if things fall off the rails.

Stick to bluechip, megacap stocks that pay a nice dividend to get your feet wet.

 

[GoPro]

Yahoo spinning off its BABA stake. How much is that going to dilute the shares?


edit: furthermore is Yahoo actually worth anything without this stake?

Im confused too as to how this affects yhoo stockholders. They don't seem too worried about dilution though. Apparently they are going to get shares in the new spinoff company equaling the amount of shares yahoo owns of baba.

 

[GoPro]

You, my friend, have clearly only been trading in a bull market Some of these high P/E names will be the first to go if things fall off the rails.

Stick to bluechip, megacap stocks that pay a nice dividend to get your feet wet.

I was referring to stocks that I doubt would lose 50%+ in value overnight like a biotech/penny stock can; DNDN, EXEL for example. Their bear runs are usually gradual and will give you some time to pull out. Granted I'm a fairly new investor myself.

 

[50CentStan]

shake shack , buy or nah?

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

shake shack , buy or nah?

The one thing I like about them is how few stores they have. They have a lot of room to expand.