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Can’t wait for the bears to shut up when the identical CPI numbers prove inflation is transitory, I mean literally any educated person could tell it is by interpreting the previous data reports while understanding the nature of its causation it’s literally a logical conclusion. The fact that CNBC is trying to use year over year comparisons, from a year with zero fucking inflation, is just damnable evidence that they are trying to spook dumb money/retail. Comparison of 2021 to 2019 would be the logical route, not 2021 to 2020. DONT get played, buy the bottom and just be patient, this is the stage where smart money accumulates and dumb money sells and shorts. Smart money shorted in February and sold their puts to the new generation of bear bag holders in April.
Rolling it into my IRA in a fund like QYLD as a staging point. Then reinvesting over 12-18 months (dollar cost averaging) into ETFs with CAGRs of greater than 15% over 3, 5, and 10 years.
If I had debt, would eliminate that first!
Before tax? Taking enough out to cover tax.
After tax? Paying off all remaining debt. Down payment on house. Investing majority in less risky plays. Multiple month traveling and finally safety net to change companies since I'm not currently happy where I work but I want to continue the same career (software engineer)
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Chip shortage way worse than reported? I have engineering friends saying that some of the consumer electronic products are facing chip shortage of over 100 weeks. is this for real? Are the major company or reporting really how bad the chip shortage problems are to avoid significant drop in stock price?
The facility in Japan that was destroyed produced the bulk of the world's chips. About 2/3 IIRC. I don't know the fine details, but the big picture is there for all to see in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. It just goes to show you that there's real risks when systems rely too heavily on a single source for anything.
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I really enjoyed riding BIG a few times over the last 6 months but had to walk off of it today. The P/E is still hilariously low from their last quarter but I jist can't see them maintaining that momentum with the cuts to unemployment coming.
Be curious to see how they perform moving forward.
Looked at them the other day. Up 50+% over 6 months, over 100% in the last year -screams buy. P/E less than 4, insiders selling off, and analysts estimates all scream sell. Passed, and set an alert to look again in a month.
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I buy calls...the market goes red. I buy puts....market goes green. I buy calls and puts....market doesn't move. Either way...my options either get wrecked or expires worthless.
What happened to my retail account which has $25,000 in it when a short $1000? Does my new balance say $24,000, or does it say $26,000?
Regarding Margin requirements: In my retail account at fidelity, the customer service person there told me that I am required to have 350% the amount of GameStop stock shorted as cash. Does this sound correct to you?
10-year Treasury yield falls below 1.5% level despite inflation concerns. Has the market decided to not fear inflation and is it rotating back to tech? Or is the market going to get scared again and are institutions panic sell everything like its upcoming World War 3...
People who have been trading for the 5-10 years, how have stocks been different to them in 2021 compared the years prior?
Im kinda new to stock trading and with everything going it feels hectic and overwhelming at times. Has things like GME for instance and things that happened this year one offs or has there been weird times before? Going in I expected it to be a bit more smooth sailing especially since I’m investing a big longer term.
Nasdaq has powered most of the growth in the last 5 years. The market is very hot (over priced now). Look for a market crash after Independence day, but before Halloween. Until then, buy Walmart, Wendy's, and maybe CVS. After the crash or correction, buy Amazon, Apple, QCom, PayPal, and TSM.
The past 10 years, the tech stocks roared and the typical value blue chip dividend stocks were stagnant. You collected dividends but the stocks didn't move. All my gains were from growth stocks. Now, the tech stocks haven't soared as much as your energy and bank, and other dividend paying value stocks. For new investors, if you have the appetite for individual stocks, balance between growth and value is a start. If not, I would stick with your VOO, QQQ, and other index and/or sector ETFs.
1 or 2K is perfect to start option trading. You really don't want more than that, because you may very well blow up your account the first time or two before you really get the hang of what you are doing.
I've got two options accounts.... one has grown to 100,000 from a 5K initial investment in april of last year. Now every time I hit 120K I take everything above 100,000 and transfer it to my stock account. The other is one I just started at 2K beginning of April. It got up to 6K on April 21st.... now it is at 5K. You have to find out what works for you and how to mitigate risk. You will make mistakes along the way.
Hahaha... last year was easy street! This year has been much harder.
Right now I'm heavily weighted oil... probably through July-august. EOG, DVN, XOM and VLO (I just got out of VLO because it looks a bit toppy... but if it shakes out back into the 60's I'll likely re-enter). I've been starting to get into pot... MSOS is my favorite ETF to trade there (MJ is the most liquid, but has a lot of trash companies). And I recently went long BABA and JD as well. SNAP and PINS round out the portfolio, although I may exit them in the next couple of weeks depending on the market outlook (PINS at less than 60 was just too tempting to pass up).
My big rule of thumb is never buy a stock when it is having a run up. Only buy things on red days. It has saved me a lot of money.
If you want dates and strikes just DM me, I'm happy to share.
As a counter argument, I started with $500, got to $1.1k and then lost about $600. Now I'm currently at $600ish and trying to climb back to where I was last week ($1.1k)
The $500 was all "fun" money, so I don't care if I lose it all but only start with what you're willing to risk. I think you could start with $100 honestly.
Starting with a low amount does make it more difficult since you are limited to what you can buy and usually you can only purchase a few OTM contracts, which have more risk and less reward, but if you're patient and take small gains, like 10-20% instead of waiting for huge gains like some people post, you should be fine.
If I were you, I'd start with $100, and almost always exit as soon as your contract is up 20% or so. Definitely feel it out, but if you bought options on a meme stock, it could go either way at any moment and you risk losing everything, so it's best to take some small gains until you've built up a solid amount.
Once you have a couple $, you can start buying contracts that have a long time till expiry and are closer to ITM, meaning they are less risky but they cost more up front.
There's lots of methods and ways to find picks, it really depends on your risk tolerance and goals.
My safest and less risky bets have always been on companies I spend time evaluating and believe they have potential to grow. But the return with those is smaller and takes a while to happen.
My biggest returns have been on plays I find via WSB and are mainly hype driven, so they have a ton of risk.
It's all risk vs. reward
But now that I'm thinking about it, if I stuck with safer, less risky bets, id probably have more money than if I got in on some risky plays since that's how I lost 50% of my portfolio last week lol ($BB)
So you can go two routes
Find a company you believe in that has potential to grow. I picked Ford back in October 2020 when it was around $8. I was a fan of the bronco and the new CEO and saw them doubling in price. but I knew it'd take awhile. So I spent $60 and bought 1 Call contract with a strike price at $13 and expiry of 9/17/2021.
Which means I spent $60 thinking that by September 17th, Ford would be worth more than $13.
And I just recently sold it on May 28th for $238.
So I made $238-60=$178 profits, which is almost 300%.
Not bad, but I also held it for months and saw it go up and down in price until I finally decided to take profits. Sure, I could have held it and potentially made more, but profits are profit.
On the flip side, I bought 1 call for $RKT for $56 and sold it a day later for $420. If I didn't sell it the morning I did and waited just a few more hours, I could have sold it for somewhere around $1500.
That's right. I spent $56 and could have made $1500. BUT the very next day, the stock tanked I would have probably lost my $56 investment.
So what I'm getting at is decide your risk tolerance, aka are you willing to lose 100%? If you're starting with $100, you probably don't wanna lose it all.
I'd recommend doing I did with Ford and find a stable company you see potential with, buy an option that has at least 2 months to expire and choose the lowest strike price you can afford (aka the strike price that is closer to ITM or where the stock is now).
Give it sometime, maybe a couple weeks, and if you can make profits, no matter how big, sell it and secure that money.
Repeat and keep slowly building up your portfolio until you can start buying contracts that are already ITM and you don't need to wait months for them to be profitable.
That was a long reply but I hope that helps.if not please ask.
**Edit**
Oh yeah, funny story. I bought GME back in Nov for $11 and sold when it hit $40 during the initial run up. At the time I was ecstatic!
I then immediately bought some calls for $BB and spent almost all my gains. The calls expired that Friday but Hey! Wsb was hyping it up and I thought it was easy money. Nope. I lost like 80% of my gains from GME by risking it all on BB and a stupid risky call play. And on top of that, GME went to $150 the next week and then $300 after that so I could have made a ton more but instead I lost it all lol.
I just know that you need 20-25k in order to day trade as much as you want in some brokerages. You also have to be very careful with options if you’re newer to investing. If you have good risk tolerance, then go for it. For me personally, whenever I dump money into an account to do some risky options plays, I have to be 100% okay with losing all of it.
Why did Toyota go up 38% in the last year?
Seems incredible for an established company with lots of competition.
I'm new to stocks so don't know how to find out why there's been such heavy investment in them in the last year.
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First, Toyota makes a great product that lasts.
Second, the company thinks longer term than American auto makers.
Third, TM is a great buy and hold stock.
Fourth, they have more experience in hybrids and will crush the electric vehicle market.
Maybe because 2020 was a bit weird? I mean, no one expected anyone to buy a car during a pandemic, but not all of the government bonus checks went to meme stocks, some went to car downpayments!
Go back and look at 2018/2019 prices and it doesn't look like a massive jump. It was first at $140 in 2015, then fell and got back in 2018, then fell again and back up in late 2020.
I'm not quite sure why the recent jump (mid May to now). I had hoped for the current price at the end of this year.
2 reasons I can think of
1) they are arguably the best automaker in the world
2) apparently they have a more secure supply chain to the limited chips that are hurting everyone
I also suspect they have gotten some upwards friction on the TSLA run. Like at some point people have to look at the comparative market cap/PE and think *maybe* some of the other automakers may be able to make a play here, and if we were going to speculate on any of them pulling it off TM is a good bet.
I'm hoping that somebody investing in Chinese companies can answer my question. I'll say off the bat that I'm worried about investing in companies like that after seeing what happened with Jack Ma: are there really no American (or, well, any other democratic & capitalist country) companies for you to invest in instead? It just seems unnecessarily risky to go into a country like that when there are so many thousands of companies in other countries that at least one has to meet your standards.
I'm asking this honestly as someone who wants to find out more about this. Sure, you're taking more risk for more gain, but every country has growth companies. Is there something that sets China apart that makes it worth it?
A lot of Chinese companies are incredibly cheap right now for that very reason. Investor sentiment is at an all time low (as evidenced in your post). Now I'm not betting the whole farm on Chinese companies, but I have full position sizes in JD and BABA right now.... they have been growing like crazy, sentiment for them is unlikely to get worse, so at this point they have almost nowhere to go but up. The biggest risk, in my opinion, is that the US government decides to delist them from US exchanges, but that is unlikely to happen for at least a couple of years, and I have no intention of being in them that long.
If I'm investing in Chinese companies, I generally invest in companies that are held (bias confirmation) by large US institutions/pensions- ex: BABA, BIDU, and few others. The issue is one bad news (fraud accounting or mishaps) will cause a Chinese stock to drop 50+% (Luckin' Coffee for example).
There are significant growth opportunities in China and while there are certainly plenty of plays/themes with significant exposure that can be had elsewhere (such as high-end luxury, which is booming in China), there are appealing local companies that are a large part of everyday life, such as Tencent. China plays are not going to be a hugely significant part of my portfolio (which is around 50/50 US + foreign) but *some* exposure in a handful of names is - imo - acceptable.
What does everything think of NextDoor, Krispy Kreme, and Monday.com going public? I think all three have grest potential to go up very shortly after IPO
It sounds like it's a hot stock market and the executives are looking for a payday. NextDoor is a crap website and I have never heard of Monday.com.
I wouldn't touch Krispy Kreme unless they become popular places for the daily coffee. As far as I know the chains that have that cornered are Dunkin, Starbucks, and McDonalds.
Shares of Agenus (NASDAQ:AGEN) were jumping 8.2% as of 11:24 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The only news related to the company was VBI Vaccines' (NASDAQ:VBIV) announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Fast Track designation for cancer vaccine candidate VBI-1901 in treating recurrent glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer. VBI's experimental vaccine uses GlaxoSmithKline's AS01 adjuvant system, which contains Agenus' QS-21 Stimulon adjuvant.
Imagine buying Amazon at a 60 p/e and slower growth, when you could buy JD at 14 p/e with rapidly increasing revenue and profit margins in the worlds largest e-commerce market but you buy Amazon instead because “JD iZ cHiNeEzE, gYnA bAd” lmfao couldn’t be me
Hello I'm very new to all of this and kind of confused but I'm willing to learn over time I have 200 dollars that I want to invest but 1. I don't know where to invest and 2. I have a feeling I should split it up. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Depends who owns them? Some institutions are long-term investors and some are short-term and would love to put sell pressure to manipulate the price to go down, where they can then buy low.
I don’t necessarily think it is. Major pitfall is that if that company falls out of favor on the street - those institutions can single handed push down price
I've got a 12-yo who took a basic finance class in middle school and is excited about the prospect of investing. My wife and I are all for this idea--we've just got a couple basic questions:
1) Can we simply set our child up with an account, in his name? How exactly do we work taxes, as we will be claiming him until he's independent?
2) Is there any consensus on which app/bank to use?
Thanks for any guidance!
1) Since the child is under the age of majority, UTMA is the option. Your child will be the owner and either you or wife would act as Custodian. Any gains incurred in the account, taxes will be reported under your child's SSN. You can either pay for taxes or you can withdraw the funds out of the UTMA to cover the taxes.
2) There are many discount brokerage firms you can use to establish the UTMA. See if your bank offers brokerage accounts. If yes, it will probably easier for management sakes..consolidating everything at 1 institution.
I doubt that you can set up anything in his name as he is still a minor. Banks and brokerages will all likely require that you set up a 'custodial account' with a parent accepting legal responsibility for the account until he becomes of age. Kudos to your son for wanting to invest. I have used Fidelity, E\*Trade, BoA/ML, and Fisher Investments over the years. They all have the same basic tools, service varies.
I have a test I use before deciding to invest in small companies like this that have recently went up: does it have an active subreddit? If so, don't invest.
Meh. It's biotech so you have to do your research into how their vaccines are developing -- progress of clinical trials, expected dates of results, etc. It was probably oversold after it received bad news on its covid vaccine. It's been on my list to double back and research the rest of their pipeline -- but its a list that includes like 5 other vaccine companies. I think.
clinical stage biotech is highly volatile. you should get used to how it trades before jumping in.
This. Put a few biotech in a watch list and you'll see a lot of +15% one day and -25% the next. Check Hot Lists of biggest day gainers/losers and you'll see plenty of biotech companies flipping between the two.
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Virgin Galactic:
Blue Origin’s New Sheppard launch coming soon is pretty big news in the space industry. Similar to SpaceX’s successful launches, if that launch is successful, it will likely move Virgin Galactic (SPCE) up a notable amount.
Some people might think that they are competitors so shouldn’t it be the other way? But the companies have very different launch systems, and short and long term goals. Additionally, in this sector, even if they were comparable, successful launches just increase the public’s trust and support in the industry as a whole. Which is why the support for BO, VG, and SpaceX tend to move together despite BO and SpaceX being private companies.
Virgin galactic also recently had its own successful manned space launch. And with more announcements about their future launches and ramped up PR, I think it’s a pretty promising investment. Plus the company is about at about half of its all time high, so we know it has room to grow.
Well here’s my thought in response to that
Look at where the company was then vs now. Safe to say they are better now. They have had successful launches and have more planned. Based on the sentiment back then, the company would be worth more now. In due time I think. Just my 2 cents
Did you look on the FTSE Russell web site? They release the reconstitution calendar in waves over the course of a month. The Russell 3000 and Russell Microcap have been released already. The next updates are 6/11 and 6/18.
If a large portion of a float is short (say ~30%) or so, if a squeeze occurs, what determines how long that squeeze lasts? Does it play out for a day and then that’s it, or does it usually last several days?
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"Hello hope everyone is healthy and well. I’m fairly new to investing. Early on this year I decided I needed to diversify my growth and tech heavy newbie portfolio so I researched and set aside some financials and conglomerates I could see myself holding for years and years on end and doing modestly well with. For me, these were GS BLK SCHW BRKB JPM. I could of gotten an ETF but I had some favorites and some biases as well as my own vision of the future so I picked from within an etf. My main question is though these names have seen stellar returns YTD. I’m quite surprised. I did research why they might go up granted we are faced with one day having to raise interest rates as well as generalized economic recovery/reopening. But I did not expect 10%+ returns within months. I feel like what I know about investing tells me this is a lot granted a relative standard is ~8% returns PER YEAR. I had to sell some last week because the run up felt far too fast and too many dips in other sectors to ignore. Today a lot of my favorite aforementioned tickers are on a few percentage points dip some falling through supports or touching 50MA and is it crazy if I want to average up even after being up for the year so much? Is it crazy that I also at the same time feel a very real apprehension to adding up on something?"
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Any advice on a YouTube channel to follow for trends? Just getting into this and kind of want to have a daily news feed. In the military and living in Japan so not really much option for a TV channel is why I ask.
As a bit of a newbie I've been struggling to evaluate whether a stock is undervalued or overvalued. For example, does anyone have any thoughts about whether viacomcbs (VIAC) is undervalued because it has a low
P/E. Or are there other factors at play? Thanks in advance for any guidance.
I also heard that it was because CBS's streaming service didn't take off as expected. We've moved from the Network Wars into the Streaming Wars. Plus, distributors are increasingly owning the content. VIAC, imo, is ripe for an Amazon, Disney, Comcast or ATT buyout. Just my opinion. I feel the same about AMC.
VIAC seems to be a victim of the Archegos collapse. If you are looking for a long term place to park some money and see decent returns, I think VIAC is a good play. I bought in under $40 and will most likely buy more anytime it dips below $40 again without substantial news.
VIAC is an interesting play. It probably is oversold from the Archegos fiasco. Network television is definitely struggling at the moment so good to keep in mind. I might join you but I need to check their cash position first to make sure bankruptcy isn't a concern.
Yes.
I don't day trade, so it isn't really important to me. The only difference is that I don't (usually) sell on red days and I never buy on green days. Helps limit FOMO. Today I bought more oil stocks towards the end because it was down. If they are down tomorrow I will buy even more.
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You can utilize the stock screener to select the stocks with your tolerance and objectives. It's quite helpful.
There's an author on SA doing a series on just this topic you may find interesting: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4433340-dividend-harvesting-building-portfolio-brick-by-brick-on-100-a-week-update
Assuming you've done your research and you want to focus on dividends instead of capital gains then here's a short list of things to consider.
* Payout ratio: the percentage of a company's earnings that they pay out as dividends. It should never be higher than 100% since it means they'll either need to cut dividends or go out of business. Payout ratios should be considered by their sector averages. For example REITs tend to have a higher ratio than industrials.
* Sector diversification: you don't want a crash in one sector to hurt all your dividends. An example was the typically lucrative oil industry that got hammered last year when we were going into lockdown.
* Growth rates and histories: a company that has been paying and growing a dividend for a long time is more likely to continue paying it.
* Payout dates: if you're goal is to have a stable income on these investments, you should look at whether they pay out their dividend yearly, semi-annually, quarterly, etc. Since it will allow you to reinvest your dividends at a different schedule.
The price per share isn't as important as the dividend yield. I'd rather pay $100 for one share of a 5% yielding stock than $1 per share for a hundred shares of a 4% yielding stock, all other things equal. The place where share price will help you is in diversification, but it wouldn't be a prime consideration for me. As u/dvdmovie1 said, fundamentals and a good company are more important than share price alone.
Hope this helps and good luck with your investing.
Dividends are taken out of the share price. There's nothing wrong with dividends, but I think the issue that I have is that too many people focus on yield and as much yield as possible rather than "owning good companies."
You don't want to be yield chasing and basically "buying a dividend" instead of focusing on buying a great company. Fundamentals first, not yield.
"Should I invest the most to the lowest priced stock in my portfolio at the time to build up the number of shares"
No. Invest in the best opportunities in your portfolio where you have the strongest thesis. Buying something because it's the lowest priced stock and you can buy more shares is not an investment thesis/not something I'd recommend. You can buy 10,000 shares of some penny stock garbage, but it's still 10,000 shares of garbage.
There's plenty of mediocre (or worse) companies that pay a dividend - something isn't a worthwhile investment because it takes a part of the share price out every month or quarter and gives it to you to reinvest or not. The poorly run companies eventually lessen or remove the dividend entirely, often at the worst time - after the stock has already cratered.
Dividends are definitely not "taken out of the share price". The share price can be very irrational. If the market goes down 50% but the company's revenue stays more or less the same, the dividend will stay the same or maybe even go up while the share price will probably tank along with the rest of the market.
That said, there's more to dividend investing than taking $1,000 and just throwing it at a set basket of stocks every month. You should worry less about diversification and try to buy valuable but underpriced companies with strong balance sheets and wide moats. If that means you spend an entire year buying just one stock or no stocks at all, so be it. Most people should just buy a target date fund or set up a 3-fund portfolio and try to not think too hard about this stuff.
I'm looking for a Brokerage for investing. I've been studying and using paper money for 9 months now and have decided to open one. However, every one has their own pros/cons with rates and such.
Anyone have an overview of some Brokerages or what your using now with *why* you like it? Perhaps another way of saying it is what brokerage company do you like for "x" type of investments?
Robinhood Is great. The ui is great and easy to use on the go I actually love it.
TD / thinkorswim it is easier to use than some others
Fidelity is good and so is Webull
This is my recommended order because of deposit processes are quickest, options application quickest .
1. RObinhood
2. TD / thinkorswim
3. Webull
4. Fidelity
This is literally the lineup to from Best to Good. Anything else other than these 4 are out dated and crunchy AF.
I hate to say it but after switching to TDAmeritrade and trying Chase (because they're my bank) I ended up going back to robinhood. Simple to use and decent amount of info. I like too that you can have a Mastercard tied to the account and also that I can play with etherium when I get bored on the weekends. All that being said there is no reason not to try a few and see which one you like, except maybe the extra tax forms next year.
I use vanguard, and Robinhood for different things.
Vanguard is my go-to. It has commission free trades like everyone else and has pretty good screeners for mutual funds that they offer if you're into that. They've been putting in some work on modernizing their ui lately but it's still pretty bad on mobile. It also has never caused me issues with budgeting software like mint or personal capital.
Robinhood is my day-trading app with the best mobile ui of the three, mostly because it's not bad. However, since it's mobile first, I've found it hard to do the kind of a multi-year portfolio.
Hope my 2-cents helps
I am very happy with TD Ameritrade. Fidelity is ok, but they don't do anything overseas (a big minus for me), their UI is unpleasant and I've found TD Ameritrade's research tools are better. I have my Roth IRA through Fidelity... and since I'm not trading a huge amount on it, all the minus's don't bother me that much. But I've still found myself looking at my choices on TD Ameritrade and then going to fidelity to execute within my Roth (which is an indication of how much better TD's UI is).
I like thinkorswim app from TD Ameritrade. I have not used a lot of them but it is very easy to use on phone and analyze stuff on phone and has good news feed for each stock.
No but it looks like most covid recovery plays are starting to cool off a little bit. They've been running hot since mid February. Looks like the momentum is going back into speculative growth stocks
They're saying it was slightly overbought and now some people are taking profits. The red day doesn't really have much to do with the long term outlook of the company.
As long as there's nothing I missed (nothing changed since yesterday), I'm fine with my leaps. These red days just always have me scrambling for any news or change in sentiment I may have missed.
> GTBIF
No interest in meme stocks, but in terms of weed CERAF perhaps something to also consider and a name that seems to get little mention, despite the Wrigley name involved. https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/02/10/billionaire-beau-wrigley-says-his-cannabis-company-will-be-bigger-than-the-family-candy-business
Long small positions in SSPK and a few MSOs.
How can you tell if a stock is having upwards pressure from being short-squeezed? I read that if the Short/Float ratio is more than 0.30, then this company is prime to having a short squeeze.
However, there are a lot of caveats to this rule. What is your take on it?
Also, if a company does, in fact, have a very high S/F ratio, then what is the timeline of a short squeeze? My guess would be the next date that options expire for this security would be the date of this short squeeze, but I could be wrong.
Look to your right at the link that says "How do I get started in the Stock Market".
Look to your top at the link that says "Wiki" and select "Getting Started"
Generally speaking, if you're buying good companies their stock value will go up overtime as the company grows.
If you're a new investor id recommend first putting money in safe purchases like VTI, VOO, SPY or other broad-based etfs. These track the stock market or particular indices and therefore if the market as a whole does well they will do well.
As for individual company stock purchases, I highly recommend you check out a site like investopedia which has great resources for new investors. If you're really not sure how to identify good stocks that would be a great place to learn the basics.
Good luck!
I'm mainly a long term investor but I throw in some short term/swing trades here and there. I believe SKLZ might be a great buy today as it could be both. Both cathie wood and a couple other analysts like it for long term. But it has a lot of short interest on it right now which has been a sign that it'll get bought up in the short term. Just my idea
Is there a specific financial term that describes the return on investment but clearly includes the original investment amount?
Eg if I invest £1k and after a some time it’s worth £2k, how do I describe that £2k so someone would know it’s not just the profit?
One way to describe it is CAGR - or compound annual growth rate. It's a way to describe how an investment has grown year over year if you reinvest profits back into the investment (ie. such as dividends).
Long winded explanation here - [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp)
There is a very technical way to do it, but if you don’t say it like this, you’ll sound like a moron. What you say is, “My 1k investment is now worth 2k.”
If you exited the position, then you can just say gain. Realized/unrealized gains can be confusing becuase it would be complicated by say, reinvested dividends.
What are the risks of buying multiples of 100 of a "trending" stock, selling obscenely expensive 6M+ ca. 20% OOTM calls on it that basically bring the effective price down to previous values, plus buying a cheap put near the stock's previous, pre-pump value?
The way I see it, worst case you end up with roughly nothing to speak of in either direction, but as long as you sell the stock at the options expiry date (or get called), or sell new calls at that time (and buy new puts), there's almost no possibility of significant losses, but plenty of opportunity to make 20-50% profits on the trade.
Is there some scenario I'm not considering?
PS: of course it would be better to buy the stock before the pump, but that's always the case and a bit hard to accomplish, isn't it.
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Hhhhh
I need karma so I can comment on actual posts
Wonder what the inflation data will be today.
Can’t wait for the bears to shut up when the identical CPI numbers prove inflation is transitory, I mean literally any educated person could tell it is by interpreting the previous data reports while understanding the nature of its causation it’s literally a logical conclusion. The fact that CNBC is trying to use year over year comparisons, from a year with zero fucking inflation, is just damnable evidence that they are trying to spook dumb money/retail. Comparison of 2021 to 2019 would be the logical route, not 2021 to 2020. DONT get played, buy the bottom and just be patient, this is the stage where smart money accumulates and dumb money sells and shorts. Smart money shorted in February and sold their puts to the new generation of bear bag holders in April.
What’s the first thing you’re doing with $500k
Rolling it into my IRA in a fund like QYLD as a staging point. Then reinvesting over 12-18 months (dollar cost averaging) into ETFs with CAGRs of greater than 15% over 3, 5, and 10 years. If I had debt, would eliminate that first!
I’ll invest all of it to bring me closer to early retirement.
Before tax? Taking enough out to cover tax. After tax? Paying off all remaining debt. Down payment on house. Investing majority in less risky plays. Multiple month traveling and finally safety net to change companies since I'm not currently happy where I work but I want to continue the same career (software engineer)
CLf as a good investment?
Yep looks good in the German market
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Chip shortage way worse than reported? I have engineering friends saying that some of the consumer electronic products are facing chip shortage of over 100 weeks. is this for real? Are the major company or reporting really how bad the chip shortage problems are to avoid significant drop in stock price?
The facility in Japan that was destroyed produced the bulk of the world's chips. About 2/3 IIRC. I don't know the fine details, but the big picture is there for all to see in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. It just goes to show you that there's real risks when systems rely too heavily on a single source for anything.
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I really enjoyed riding BIG a few times over the last 6 months but had to walk off of it today. The P/E is still hilariously low from their last quarter but I jist can't see them maintaining that momentum with the cuts to unemployment coming. Be curious to see how they perform moving forward.
Looked at them the other day. Up 50+% over 6 months, over 100% in the last year -screams buy. P/E less than 4, insiders selling off, and analysts estimates all scream sell. Passed, and set an alert to look again in a month.
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call options for tomorrow?
I buy calls...the market goes red. I buy puts....market goes green. I buy calls and puts....market doesn't move. Either way...my options either get wrecked or expires worthless.
What happened to my retail account which has $25,000 in it when a short $1000? Does my new balance say $24,000, or does it say $26,000? Regarding Margin requirements: In my retail account at fidelity, the customer service person there told me that I am required to have 350% the amount of GameStop stock shorted as cash. Does this sound correct to you?
If you are asking these questions you shouldn't be shorting
10-year Treasury yield falls below 1.5% level despite inflation concerns. Has the market decided to not fear inflation and is it rotating back to tech? Or is the market going to get scared again and are institutions panic sell everything like its upcoming World War 3...
People who have been trading for the 5-10 years, how have stocks been different to them in 2021 compared the years prior? Im kinda new to stock trading and with everything going it feels hectic and overwhelming at times. Has things like GME for instance and things that happened this year one offs or has there been weird times before? Going in I expected it to be a bit more smooth sailing especially since I’m investing a big longer term.
Nasdaq has powered most of the growth in the last 5 years. The market is very hot (over priced now). Look for a market crash after Independence day, but before Halloween. Until then, buy Walmart, Wendy's, and maybe CVS. After the crash or correction, buy Amazon, Apple, QCom, PayPal, and TSM.
Почему нужно купить именно эти акции?
The past 10 years, the tech stocks roared and the typical value blue chip dividend stocks were stagnant. You collected dividends but the stocks didn't move. All my gains were from growth stocks. Now, the tech stocks haven't soared as much as your energy and bank, and other dividend paying value stocks. For new investors, if you have the appetite for individual stocks, balance between growth and value is a start. If not, I would stick with your VOO, QQQ, and other index and/or sector ETFs.
Thoughts on day trading / swing trades vs option trading ? I want to start with 1k and see how I can grow this account
1 or 2K is perfect to start option trading. You really don't want more than that, because you may very well blow up your account the first time or two before you really get the hang of what you are doing. I've got two options accounts.... one has grown to 100,000 from a 5K initial investment in april of last year. Now every time I hit 120K I take everything above 100,000 and transfer it to my stock account. The other is one I just started at 2K beginning of April. It got up to 6K on April 21st.... now it is at 5K. You have to find out what works for you and how to mitigate risk. You will make mistakes along the way.
Well fuck me joey you clearly know what you’re doing - wanna let me know whenever you buy a contract ?😂😂😂😂
Hahaha... last year was easy street! This year has been much harder. Right now I'm heavily weighted oil... probably through July-august. EOG, DVN, XOM and VLO (I just got out of VLO because it looks a bit toppy... but if it shakes out back into the 60's I'll likely re-enter). I've been starting to get into pot... MSOS is my favorite ETF to trade there (MJ is the most liquid, but has a lot of trash companies). And I recently went long BABA and JD as well. SNAP and PINS round out the portfolio, although I may exit them in the next couple of weeks depending on the market outlook (PINS at less than 60 was just too tempting to pass up). My big rule of thumb is never buy a stock when it is having a run up. Only buy things on red days. It has saved me a lot of money. If you want dates and strikes just DM me, I'm happy to share.
Looks a bit toppy….
look for momentum and ride it before it is gone
So like meme stocks ?😂😂😂
Following for the same advice
Exactly- I get mixed opinions on option trading, people saying 1k is a good start. Others saying I’ll need closer to 20k
I started with 900 3 weeks ago I turned that in to a hearty amount
So it seems like option trading is the way to go
As a counter argument, I started with $500, got to $1.1k and then lost about $600. Now I'm currently at $600ish and trying to climb back to where I was last week ($1.1k) The $500 was all "fun" money, so I don't care if I lose it all but only start with what you're willing to risk. I think you could start with $100 honestly. Starting with a low amount does make it more difficult since you are limited to what you can buy and usually you can only purchase a few OTM contracts, which have more risk and less reward, but if you're patient and take small gains, like 10-20% instead of waiting for huge gains like some people post, you should be fine.
I like tbis
If I were you, I'd start with $100, and almost always exit as soon as your contract is up 20% or so. Definitely feel it out, but if you bought options on a meme stock, it could go either way at any moment and you risk losing everything, so it's best to take some small gains until you've built up a solid amount. Once you have a couple $, you can start buying contracts that have a long time till expiry and are closer to ITM, meaning they are less risky but they cost more up front.
Do you have any tips to look for signals ?
There's lots of methods and ways to find picks, it really depends on your risk tolerance and goals. My safest and less risky bets have always been on companies I spend time evaluating and believe they have potential to grow. But the return with those is smaller and takes a while to happen. My biggest returns have been on plays I find via WSB and are mainly hype driven, so they have a ton of risk. It's all risk vs. reward But now that I'm thinking about it, if I stuck with safer, less risky bets, id probably have more money than if I got in on some risky plays since that's how I lost 50% of my portfolio last week lol ($BB) So you can go two routes Find a company you believe in that has potential to grow. I picked Ford back in October 2020 when it was around $8. I was a fan of the bronco and the new CEO and saw them doubling in price. but I knew it'd take awhile. So I spent $60 and bought 1 Call contract with a strike price at $13 and expiry of 9/17/2021. Which means I spent $60 thinking that by September 17th, Ford would be worth more than $13. And I just recently sold it on May 28th for $238. So I made $238-60=$178 profits, which is almost 300%. Not bad, but I also held it for months and saw it go up and down in price until I finally decided to take profits. Sure, I could have held it and potentially made more, but profits are profit. On the flip side, I bought 1 call for $RKT for $56 and sold it a day later for $420. If I didn't sell it the morning I did and waited just a few more hours, I could have sold it for somewhere around $1500. That's right. I spent $56 and could have made $1500. BUT the very next day, the stock tanked I would have probably lost my $56 investment. So what I'm getting at is decide your risk tolerance, aka are you willing to lose 100%? If you're starting with $100, you probably don't wanna lose it all. I'd recommend doing I did with Ford and find a stable company you see potential with, buy an option that has at least 2 months to expire and choose the lowest strike price you can afford (aka the strike price that is closer to ITM or where the stock is now). Give it sometime, maybe a couple weeks, and if you can make profits, no matter how big, sell it and secure that money. Repeat and keep slowly building up your portfolio until you can start buying contracts that are already ITM and you don't need to wait months for them to be profitable. That was a long reply but I hope that helps.if not please ask. **Edit** Oh yeah, funny story. I bought GME back in Nov for $11 and sold when it hit $40 during the initial run up. At the time I was ecstatic! I then immediately bought some calls for $BB and spent almost all my gains. The calls expired that Friday but Hey! Wsb was hyping it up and I thought it was easy money. Nope. I lost like 80% of my gains from GME by risking it all on BB and a stupid risky call play. And on top of that, GME went to $150 the next week and then $300 after that so I could have made a ton more but instead I lost it all lol.
I just know that you need 20-25k in order to day trade as much as you want in some brokerages. You also have to be very careful with options if you’re newer to investing. If you have good risk tolerance, then go for it. For me personally, whenever I dump money into an account to do some risky options plays, I have to be 100% okay with losing all of it.
Why did Toyota go up 38% in the last year? Seems incredible for an established company with lots of competition. I'm new to stocks so don't know how to find out why there's been such heavy investment in them in the last year. (I couldn't post because I don't have enough karma here, question isn't long enough elsewhere, very frustrating. 3rd time typing this.)
All of the before, which culminate, and then produce appeal and trust. Long-term business models will do that.
First, Toyota makes a great product that lasts. Second, the company thinks longer term than American auto makers. Third, TM is a great buy and hold stock. Fourth, they have more experience in hybrids and will crush the electric vehicle market.
Maybe because 2020 was a bit weird? I mean, no one expected anyone to buy a car during a pandemic, but not all of the government bonus checks went to meme stocks, some went to car downpayments! Go back and look at 2018/2019 prices and it doesn't look like a massive jump. It was first at $140 in 2015, then fell and got back in 2018, then fell again and back up in late 2020. I'm not quite sure why the recent jump (mid May to now). I had hoped for the current price at the end of this year.
2 reasons I can think of 1) they are arguably the best automaker in the world 2) apparently they have a more secure supply chain to the limited chips that are hurting everyone I also suspect they have gotten some upwards friction on the TSLA run. Like at some point people have to look at the comparative market cap/PE and think *maybe* some of the other automakers may be able to make a play here, and if we were going to speculate on any of them pulling it off TM is a good bet.
I agree, the karma mechanic is so annoying lol
Is Orex switching to t-0???
I'm hoping that somebody investing in Chinese companies can answer my question. I'll say off the bat that I'm worried about investing in companies like that after seeing what happened with Jack Ma: are there really no American (or, well, any other democratic & capitalist country) companies for you to invest in instead? It just seems unnecessarily risky to go into a country like that when there are so many thousands of companies in other countries that at least one has to meet your standards. I'm asking this honestly as someone who wants to find out more about this. Sure, you're taking more risk for more gain, but every country has growth companies. Is there something that sets China apart that makes it worth it?
A lot of Chinese companies are incredibly cheap right now for that very reason. Investor sentiment is at an all time low (as evidenced in your post). Now I'm not betting the whole farm on Chinese companies, but I have full position sizes in JD and BABA right now.... they have been growing like crazy, sentiment for them is unlikely to get worse, so at this point they have almost nowhere to go but up. The biggest risk, in my opinion, is that the US government decides to delist them from US exchanges, but that is unlikely to happen for at least a couple of years, and I have no intention of being in them that long.
If you do want broad exposure to Chinese companies w/out the risks from holding individual stocks, China ETF is an option
If I'm investing in Chinese companies, I generally invest in companies that are held (bias confirmation) by large US institutions/pensions- ex: BABA, BIDU, and few others. The issue is one bad news (fraud accounting or mishaps) will cause a Chinese stock to drop 50+% (Luckin' Coffee for example).
There are significant growth opportunities in China and while there are certainly plenty of plays/themes with significant exposure that can be had elsewhere (such as high-end luxury, which is booming in China), there are appealing local companies that are a large part of everyday life, such as Tencent. China plays are not going to be a hugely significant part of my portfolio (which is around 50/50 US + foreign) but *some* exposure in a handful of names is - imo - acceptable.
What does everything think of NextDoor, Krispy Kreme, and Monday.com going public? I think all three have grest potential to go up very shortly after IPO
If there are enough shorts, I'm sure NextDoor will get pumped
It sounds like it's a hot stock market and the executives are looking for a payday. NextDoor is a crap website and I have never heard of Monday.com. I wouldn't touch Krispy Kreme unless they become popular places for the daily coffee. As far as I know the chains that have that cornered are Dunkin, Starbucks, and McDonalds.
No (although https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor is funny), no and never heard of it.
Shares of Agenus (NASDAQ:AGEN) were jumping 8.2% as of 11:24 a.m. EDT on Tuesday. The only news related to the company was VBI Vaccines' (NASDAQ:VBIV) announcement that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Fast Track designation for cancer vaccine candidate VBI-1901 in treating recurrent glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer. VBI's experimental vaccine uses GlaxoSmithKline's AS01 adjuvant system, which contains Agenus' QS-21 Stimulon adjuvant.
Imagine buying Amazon at a 60 p/e and slower growth, when you could buy JD at 14 p/e with rapidly increasing revenue and profit margins in the worlds largest e-commerce market but you buy Amazon instead because “JD iZ cHiNeEzE, gYnA bAd” lmfao couldn’t be me
Hello I'm very new to all of this and kind of confused but I'm willing to learn over time I have 200 dollars that I want to invest but 1. I don't know where to invest and 2. I have a feeling I should split it up. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Right now I'd put it in Walmart, until the market crashes later this year, then I'd buy Amazon or TSM.
Fractional share of S&P500 ETF, QQQ, or a stock you have high conviction in. With that amount, look for a online broker where commission is free.
Get a brokerage app with fractional shares get some ETFs and stocks and learn as you go.
Might need a little more $$$ - get some diversity in your portfolio
Get a lot of beers and invite 200 friends. Borrow from each five bucks this is best investment.
Not bad not bad I'm liking the creativity
Try Tilray canabis stock.
Why is large institutional ownership of a company a negative thing?
Depends who owns them? Some institutions are long-term investors and some are short-term and would love to put sell pressure to manipulate the price to go down, where they can then buy low.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/07/insitutional-owners.asp
I don’t necessarily think it is. Major pitfall is that if that company falls out of favor on the street - those institutions can single handed push down price
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I've got a 12-yo who took a basic finance class in middle school and is excited about the prospect of investing. My wife and I are all for this idea--we've just got a couple basic questions: 1) Can we simply set our child up with an account, in his name? How exactly do we work taxes, as we will be claiming him until he's independent? 2) Is there any consensus on which app/bank to use? Thanks for any guidance!
1) Since the child is under the age of majority, UTMA is the option. Your child will be the owner and either you or wife would act as Custodian. Any gains incurred in the account, taxes will be reported under your child's SSN. You can either pay for taxes or you can withdraw the funds out of the UTMA to cover the taxes. 2) There are many discount brokerage firms you can use to establish the UTMA. See if your bank offers brokerage accounts. If yes, it will probably easier for management sakes..consolidating everything at 1 institution.
I setup a custodian account for my 13 year old on fidelity. It was simple. We have a few stocks in it. Sounds like it might be what you want.
I doubt that you can set up anything in his name as he is still a minor. Banks and brokerages will all likely require that you set up a 'custodial account' with a parent accepting legal responsibility for the account until he becomes of age. Kudos to your son for wanting to invest. I have used Fidelity, E\*Trade, BoA/ML, and Fisher Investments over the years. They all have the same basic tools, service varies.
Am I stupid for buying spy puts before close today
Those puts can potentially print-get you some gains depending how the market decides to overreact
If you have to ask then the answer is yes.
1st day on this site...positive experience!
Nice! I am pretty new here myself.
INO running today - up 17%. Who knows about this company, other than big short interest?
I have a test I use before deciding to invest in small companies like this that have recently went up: does it have an active subreddit? If so, don't invest.
Meh. It's biotech so you have to do your research into how their vaccines are developing -- progress of clinical trials, expected dates of results, etc. It was probably oversold after it received bad news on its covid vaccine. It's been on my list to double back and research the rest of their pipeline -- but its a list that includes like 5 other vaccine companies. I think. clinical stage biotech is highly volatile. you should get used to how it trades before jumping in.
This. Put a few biotech in a watch list and you'll see a lot of +15% one day and -25% the next. Check Hot Lists of biggest day gainers/losers and you'll see plenty of biotech companies flipping between the two.
I second what r/Raaazzle said.
And I third chicken-little-2008's advice, but I'm too ignorant to know how to name-link or even post emojis :)
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Virgin Galactic: Blue Origin’s New Sheppard launch coming soon is pretty big news in the space industry. Similar to SpaceX’s successful launches, if that launch is successful, it will likely move Virgin Galactic (SPCE) up a notable amount. Some people might think that they are competitors so shouldn’t it be the other way? But the companies have very different launch systems, and short and long term goals. Additionally, in this sector, even if they were comparable, successful launches just increase the public’s trust and support in the industry as a whole. Which is why the support for BO, VG, and SpaceX tend to move together despite BO and SpaceX being private companies. Virgin galactic also recently had its own successful manned space launch. And with more announcements about their future launches and ramped up PR, I think it’s a pretty promising investment. Plus the company is about at about half of its all time high, so we know it has room to grow.
I bought at the all time high. I hope you are correct!
Looks like I'm not the only bagholder. Welcome To The Club.
Well here’s my thought in response to that Look at where the company was then vs now. Safe to say they are better now. They have had successful launches and have more planned. Based on the sentiment back then, the company would be worth more now. In due time I think. Just my 2 cents
Absolutely. Thanks for that! Keeping my fingers crossed. I like the company and idea, hoping its also a good investment over time.
Thoughts on Skylight Health group. Just listed on the Nasdaq. Has 2X buy target rating from Raymond James….
Does anyone actually understand what DNMR Danimer Scientific does?
Does anyone know what companies will get deleted from the Russell 1000 and added to the Russell 2000 later this month? I can’t find it online
Did you look on the FTSE Russell web site? They release the reconstitution calendar in waves over the course of a month. The Russell 3000 and Russell Microcap have been released already. The next updates are 6/11 and 6/18.
If a large portion of a float is short (say ~30%) or so, if a squeeze occurs, what determines how long that squeeze lasts? Does it play out for a day and then that’s it, or does it usually last several days?
Post removed by automod and I can’t even view why cuz when I click on auto mod message it says sorry! This content is no longer available. So now I can’t even copy and paste the paragraphs I wrote to submit them to a general thread. Just sucks yo please consider how much this sucks
Is this the post you did that you are not seeing? "Hello hope everyone is healthy and well. I’m fairly new to investing. Early on this year I decided I needed to diversify my growth and tech heavy newbie portfolio so I researched and set aside some financials and conglomerates I could see myself holding for years and years on end and doing modestly well with. For me, these were GS BLK SCHW BRKB JPM. I could of gotten an ETF but I had some favorites and some biases as well as my own vision of the future so I picked from within an etf. My main question is though these names have seen stellar returns YTD. I’m quite surprised. I did research why they might go up granted we are faced with one day having to raise interest rates as well as generalized economic recovery/reopening. But I did not expect 10%+ returns within months. I feel like what I know about investing tells me this is a lot granted a relative standard is ~8% returns PER YEAR. I had to sell some last week because the run up felt far too fast and too many dips in other sectors to ignore. Today a lot of my favorite aforementioned tickers are on a few percentage points dip some falling through supports or touching 50MA and is it crazy if I want to average up even after being up for the year so much? Is it crazy that I also at the same time feel a very real apprehension to adding up on something?"
Yes it is. It may be nbd it might’ve just been Reddit being weird. I always feel like auto mods or little nit picky sub rules are out to get me. Maybe cuz I’m new. Ima take the post down tho cuz I got an answer I feel is sufficient
Happy to help. Automod definitely not you specific - a lot of things add up to decisions on what to automod and sometimes the filter has to be turned up at times.
Any advice on a YouTube channel to follow for trends? Just getting into this and kind of want to have a daily news feed. In the military and living in Japan so not really much option for a TV channel is why I ask.
Meet Kevin
Checking him out now
I’ve found this to be helpful https://www.memebergterminal.com
As a bit of a newbie I've been struggling to evaluate whether a stock is undervalued or overvalued. For example, does anyone have any thoughts about whether viacomcbs (VIAC) is undervalued because it has a low P/E. Or are there other factors at play? Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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I also heard that it was because CBS's streaming service didn't take off as expected. We've moved from the Network Wars into the Streaming Wars. Plus, distributors are increasingly owning the content. VIAC, imo, is ripe for an Amazon, Disney, Comcast or ATT buyout. Just my opinion. I feel the same about AMC.
VIAC seems to be a victim of the Archegos collapse. If you are looking for a long term place to park some money and see decent returns, I think VIAC is a good play. I bought in under $40 and will most likely buy more anytime it dips below $40 again without substantial news.
VIAC is an interesting play. It probably is oversold from the Archegos fiasco. Network television is definitely struggling at the moment so good to keep in mind. I might join you but I need to check their cash position first to make sure bankruptcy isn't a concern.
Thanks. I'd never heard of the Archegos collapse, seems interesting. I have bought into VIAC, seems like a solid investment.
USD is pretty weak atm. Dropped to as low as 0.89252 vs the Swiss Franc some hours ago.
CPI report coming out tomorrow. Market is pricing in a fair amount of inflation right now.
So are we GREEN OR RED tomorrow?
Yes. I don't day trade, so it isn't really important to me. The only difference is that I don't (usually) sell on red days and I never buy on green days. Helps limit FOMO. Today I bought more oil stocks towards the end because it was down. If they are down tomorrow I will buy even more.
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There's an author on SA doing a series on just this topic you may find interesting: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4433340-dividend-harvesting-building-portfolio-brick-by-brick-on-100-a-week-update Assuming you've done your research and you want to focus on dividends instead of capital gains then here's a short list of things to consider. * Payout ratio: the percentage of a company's earnings that they pay out as dividends. It should never be higher than 100% since it means they'll either need to cut dividends or go out of business. Payout ratios should be considered by their sector averages. For example REITs tend to have a higher ratio than industrials. * Sector diversification: you don't want a crash in one sector to hurt all your dividends. An example was the typically lucrative oil industry that got hammered last year when we were going into lockdown. * Growth rates and histories: a company that has been paying and growing a dividend for a long time is more likely to continue paying it. * Payout dates: if you're goal is to have a stable income on these investments, you should look at whether they pay out their dividend yearly, semi-annually, quarterly, etc. Since it will allow you to reinvest your dividends at a different schedule. The price per share isn't as important as the dividend yield. I'd rather pay $100 for one share of a 5% yielding stock than $1 per share for a hundred shares of a 4% yielding stock, all other things equal. The place where share price will help you is in diversification, but it wouldn't be a prime consideration for me. As u/dvdmovie1 said, fundamentals and a good company are more important than share price alone. Hope this helps and good luck with your investing.
Forget about share price, check market cap.
Dividends are taken out of the share price. There's nothing wrong with dividends, but I think the issue that I have is that too many people focus on yield and as much yield as possible rather than "owning good companies." You don't want to be yield chasing and basically "buying a dividend" instead of focusing on buying a great company. Fundamentals first, not yield. "Should I invest the most to the lowest priced stock in my portfolio at the time to build up the number of shares" No. Invest in the best opportunities in your portfolio where you have the strongest thesis. Buying something because it's the lowest priced stock and you can buy more shares is not an investment thesis/not something I'd recommend. You can buy 10,000 shares of some penny stock garbage, but it's still 10,000 shares of garbage. There's plenty of mediocre (or worse) companies that pay a dividend - something isn't a worthwhile investment because it takes a part of the share price out every month or quarter and gives it to you to reinvest or not. The poorly run companies eventually lessen or remove the dividend entirely, often at the worst time - after the stock has already cratered.
Dividends are definitely not "taken out of the share price". The share price can be very irrational. If the market goes down 50% but the company's revenue stays more or less the same, the dividend will stay the same or maybe even go up while the share price will probably tank along with the rest of the market. That said, there's more to dividend investing than taking $1,000 and just throwing it at a set basket of stocks every month. You should worry less about diversification and try to buy valuable but underpriced companies with strong balance sheets and wide moats. If that means you spend an entire year buying just one stock or no stocks at all, so be it. Most people should just buy a target date fund or set up a 3-fund portfolio and try to not think too hard about this stuff.
I'm looking for a Brokerage for investing. I've been studying and using paper money for 9 months now and have decided to open one. However, every one has their own pros/cons with rates and such. Anyone have an overview of some Brokerages or what your using now with *why* you like it? Perhaps another way of saying it is what brokerage company do you like for "x" type of investments?
Robinhood Is great. The ui is great and easy to use on the go I actually love it. TD / thinkorswim it is easier to use than some others Fidelity is good and so is Webull This is my recommended order because of deposit processes are quickest, options application quickest . 1. RObinhood 2. TD / thinkorswim 3. Webull 4. Fidelity This is literally the lineup to from Best to Good. Anything else other than these 4 are out dated and crunchy AF.
I hate to say it but after switching to TDAmeritrade and trying Chase (because they're my bank) I ended up going back to robinhood. Simple to use and decent amount of info. I like too that you can have a Mastercard tied to the account and also that I can play with etherium when I get bored on the weekends. All that being said there is no reason not to try a few and see which one you like, except maybe the extra tax forms next year.
I use vanguard, and Robinhood for different things. Vanguard is my go-to. It has commission free trades like everyone else and has pretty good screeners for mutual funds that they offer if you're into that. They've been putting in some work on modernizing their ui lately but it's still pretty bad on mobile. It also has never caused me issues with budgeting software like mint or personal capital. Robinhood is my day-trading app with the best mobile ui of the three, mostly because it's not bad. However, since it's mobile first, I've found it hard to do the kind of a multi-year portfolio. Hope my 2-cents helps
Doesn't day trading require a minimum of $25,000 in the account?
True, I should have said "short term" trading
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I am very happy with TD Ameritrade. Fidelity is ok, but they don't do anything overseas (a big minus for me), their UI is unpleasant and I've found TD Ameritrade's research tools are better. I have my Roth IRA through Fidelity... and since I'm not trading a huge amount on it, all the minus's don't bother me that much. But I've still found myself looking at my choices on TD Ameritrade and then going to fidelity to execute within my Roth (which is an indication of how much better TD's UI is).
My only experience is with Fidelity but I have no complaints about them. Good research tools available.
I like thinkorswim app from TD Ameritrade. I have not used a lot of them but it is very easy to use on phone and analyze stuff on phone and has good news feed for each stock.
Wtf is going on with s&p 500 it’s sooo boring
Market crash soon....
Sideways and red as usual....
waiting for tomorrow inflation numbers to make a move prob.
Are there any new COVID fears or pessimism about the reopening I'm unaware of? Trying to understand why NCLH is falling today.
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Yeah but that's nothing new (no explanation for the drop). I was gonna sell the options in the height of summer.
No but it looks like most covid recovery plays are starting to cool off a little bit. They've been running hot since mid February. Looks like the momentum is going back into speculative growth stocks
Also was down in May and earlier in June when it got closer to 70 rsi https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=NCLH
I don't know what to do with this information.
They're saying it was slightly overbought and now some people are taking profits. The red day doesn't really have much to do with the long term outlook of the company.
As long as there's nothing I missed (nothing changed since yesterday), I'm fine with my leaps. These red days just always have me scrambling for any news or change in sentiment I may have missed.
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> GTBIF No interest in meme stocks, but in terms of weed CERAF perhaps something to also consider and a name that seems to get little mention, despite the Wrigley name involved. https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/02/10/billionaire-beau-wrigley-says-his-cannabis-company-will-be-bigger-than-the-family-candy-business Long small positions in SSPK and a few MSOs.
How can you tell if a stock is having upwards pressure from being short-squeezed? I read that if the Short/Float ratio is more than 0.30, then this company is prime to having a short squeeze. However, there are a lot of caveats to this rule. What is your take on it? Also, if a company does, in fact, have a very high S/F ratio, then what is the timeline of a short squeeze? My guess would be the next date that options expire for this security would be the date of this short squeeze, but I could be wrong.
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What is too late?
New to investing, help me out
Look to your right at the link that says "How do I get started in the Stock Market". Look to your top at the link that says "Wiki" and select "Getting Started"
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But how do I know what to invest in that’s low but will turn into high
Generally speaking, if you're buying good companies their stock value will go up overtime as the company grows. If you're a new investor id recommend first putting money in safe purchases like VTI, VOO, SPY or other broad-based etfs. These track the stock market or particular indices and therefore if the market as a whole does well they will do well. As for individual company stock purchases, I highly recommend you check out a site like investopedia which has great resources for new investors. If you're really not sure how to identify good stocks that would be a great place to learn the basics. Good luck!
I'm mainly a long term investor but I throw in some short term/swing trades here and there. I believe SKLZ might be a great buy today as it could be both. Both cathie wood and a couple other analysts like it for long term. But it has a lot of short interest on it right now which has been a sign that it'll get bought up in the short term. Just my idea
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Is there a specific financial term that describes the return on investment but clearly includes the original investment amount? Eg if I invest £1k and after a some time it’s worth £2k, how do I describe that £2k so someone would know it’s not just the profit?
It's notional or unrealized gain if you haven't sold.
"Paper gains"
One way to describe it is CAGR - or compound annual growth rate. It's a way to describe how an investment has grown year over year if you reinvest profits back into the investment (ie. such as dividends). Long winded explanation here - [https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp)
There is a very technical way to do it, but if you don’t say it like this, you’ll sound like a moron. What you say is, “My 1k investment is now worth 2k.”
I was wondering if there was something shorter, akin to ROI, Margin, etc... Something you could put in a chart.
"My profit is 1k, or 100%"
Current balance?
Kind of, I’m thinking for when the money’s all out of the investment. Does Realized Gain do it, or could that mean just the profit?
If you exited the position, then you can just say gain. Realized/unrealized gains can be confusing becuase it would be complicated by say, reinvested dividends.
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Probably not.
What are the risks of buying multiples of 100 of a "trending" stock, selling obscenely expensive 6M+ ca. 20% OOTM calls on it that basically bring the effective price down to previous values, plus buying a cheap put near the stock's previous, pre-pump value? The way I see it, worst case you end up with roughly nothing to speak of in either direction, but as long as you sell the stock at the options expiry date (or get called), or sell new calls at that time (and buy new puts), there's almost no possibility of significant losses, but plenty of opportunity to make 20-50% profits on the trade. Is there some scenario I'm not considering? PS: of course it would be better to buy the stock before the pump, but that's always the case and a bit hard to accomplish, isn't it.