With only $100, what are the best moves, deals, investments, etc that I can do to make a gain with 30 days to work with?\n\nI am open to ALL ideas...please make advice realistc.
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Catch the very end of yard sales where they are trying to get rid of stuff.  Haggle down only premium items.  Collect them, then have a yard sale and sell them at a markup.
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If you're willing to accept the risk of losing it all, buy a call or a put option that's just out of the money.  In other words, pick a publicly traded company (with a lot of volume) that you feel strongly about.  You can make a lot of money quickly if you think the stock will rise or fall and you pick it correctly.  For example, say you think that you have a strong opinion on Microsoft (MSFT), here's what you do:\n\nThe stock is currently trading at $28.77\n\nIf you think it will go up, buy a CALL option, which gives you the right (but not the obligation) to buy MSFT a higher price.  For example, you can currently get a DEC 30 Call on MSFT for .20 per share on a contract (of 100 shares).  \n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSQLK.X\n\nSay you buy 5 contracts and the stock goes up to $32 before Dec., you can either sell to close your option for the going price or exercise it at $30 and make $2 per share.  Here's what you would net:\n\nPurchased 5 contract ($.20 * 100 * 5) plus say $15 commission = $115\n\nExercised ($30 * 5 * 100) = $15,000\n\nSold ($32 * 5 * 100) + $15 commission = $15,985\n\nMade $15,985 - $15,000 - $115 = $870 profit on $115 or 405% return.\n\nTruth be told you'd probably just sell the option, but the profit would be about the same.  If you think MSFT will go down, just do the same thing with a PUT option.  That said, if you guess wrong you could lose your initial $115 and if it doesn't move much you could lose most (or all of your money).
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I would open an account with sharebuilder, there are very cheap and you do not have to buy tons of stocks. They have good investment tools also. In my opinion, the most important thing is to be consistant and make sure you are putting something away every week or month. It becomes a good habit and the money starts to pile up.
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Buy high quality stocks in companies that you know something about.Start by looking for names in your kitchen cupboard, your garage, your cleaning supplies closet, or on your telephone bill or utility bill.  Go to the reference Dept at your library and read Value Line, Standard & Poors Outlook, and Morningstar. Also look on the Internet;(Quicken.com Zack's Brokerage Reports.com MSN Money.com. Morningstar.com, Best investing Sites.com Market watch.com Businessweek.com, Forbes.com Buy only the ones that won't cause you to lose sleep at night.  If your stocks go down in value, don't worry.  The good ones will come back.But use money that you won't need for 4-5-6 years. You can start buying at any time, although the market seems to be a bit high right now.  Be patient and buy stocks gradually. Look into "DRIPS"(Dividend Reinvestment Programs). It's better than compound interest at the bank
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$300 - $500???  Good returns????\n\nWhat a waste of time and effort!\n\nWhere you park that amount of money doesn't matter a hill o' beans.  Even 0% return is fine.\n\nYou should be concentrating on adding to that nest egg and getting it to a sizable amount before talking stocks or mutual funds.  When I say "sizable, I'm talking $5k - $10k at the very least.\n\nIf you invest that money and you aren't charged any fees at all (not likely) and you make a super-duper 20% return on $500 the first year, you've made a measly $100.  How long would it take you to find $100 to add to that nest egg just by working at Taco Bell?  A couple of days?\n\nPut that money wherever you want and concentrate on building it up before you start talking investing.  Otherwise the hard work over such small amounts of money in return will burn you out.\n\nIf you really want to invest that money wisely, buy some books on investing or on your education in some field that really gets your blood flowing that will enable you to make serious money by making yourself more valuable either to an employer or out in the business world.\n\nThen you'll really see a super duper exponential return on your money if you do it right.  The first book you might consider buying with that money is a book by Warren Farrell entitled "Why Men Earn More".  It was written primarily for women but it will be no less helpful to you as a guy.  It'll teach you where the money's at.\n\nNumber two on the list you should consider would be, "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason.  Then if you'd really like to get serious about making some really serious money, number three should be, "Mentored by a Millionaire" by Steven K. Scott.  Number four could be, "The Millionaire's Secrets" by Mark Fisher.\n\nGood luck!  Invest in yourself!
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I would stay away from penny stocks. This stock is at a 52 week low for a reason. Also, penny stocks can be manipulated easily with pump and dump schemes.\n\nYou're better off putting your money in other transportation stocks like JB HUNT or Fed Ex. Both are excellent companies.
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Overall, not too bad . . . you made a profit.\n\nConsidering the timeframe you are trading, I don't understand why you are referring to a an exit at 1.1006 "which looked like an important resistance".\n\nIt looked like recent resistance was ~1.1055 and sloping upwards.\n\nI would have tried to 'trade the range' of it coming down to ~1.1055 and having hat as a 'buy on stop' or not had any exit order in place, in the hope there was significant weakening due fundamental events (of which there are many these days).
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'John Blaze' is full of sh*t; you don't need $25K to daytrade. Open a brokerage account. Study John Murphy, "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets". Don't trust money managers; they will rip you off. Take control of your money. Find a stock that has huge price swings daily or weekly such as Juniper Networks or Redback Networks. These are high 'beta' stocks. Depending on your age, part of your portfolio should be speculative. If you are in your 20s and your portfolio is less than 100K, then definitely you should be using your knowledge and investing in high beta stocks to profit greatly from their daily and weekly price swings. You have the years to do that. 'Short' the stock when it goes down, and go 'Long' when it goes up. As your portfolio grows to a couple Mil or so, then you can pull back and put some of it in stuff that is a little lower beta such as the QQQ. As an example of how well you can do by taking control of your money: if just do your normal 1% per day on that 100K porfolio over a year through profiting from the swings, how much would you have after one year? You got it my friend, way over $$$1Mil!! Give it whorl, go for it!
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I own ADDL.ob, this stock has price of around 0.75, and a market cap around $30mil.  If you are looking for penny stock ideas, you might want to check out http://www.Top10Traders.com - there are a number of traders at the sight that are investing in penny stock.  Top10Traders is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck  !
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The first answer the guy has it right. 4xmadeeasy. forexreckoning. etc etc. all of those cost a lot of money and for what. If you could find a company that could return you 12% a month each month for 100.00 a month would it be worth it? I thought I would try this company after looking at all the rest and realizing that this was less expensive and if after 90 days I didn't like it I would be out 300.00. Guess what after 30 days I am up 800 dollars real money on 3000 invested at a very conservative level. I am figuring that 100 is worth it so far. My money is hedged in the trade so if one goes up the other goes down. My 3000 gave me 100.00 plus in interest and over 750.00 in trades. As it stand right now I will make 140.00 in interest in November alone not including my trades. I think I like this program and I more than got 12% on my money. You can find it at www.freedominforex.com. The company is called FreedomRocks. By the way I didn't have to stay up and watch for trades. I would follow the program and then wait for my broker to send me an email and then adjust my account according to the program.
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Here's a little something I've learned about Cramer. When he pushes a stock, the next day in the first 1/2 hr, the stock goes up. To make money off of his hype, get ready to short it.
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Scottrade.com $7 per trade dude..   Optionsexpress is good as well when you get a set of balls... ... You do know it is highly likely u will lose money right...  Some of us do this for a living and still get smoked - so dont give up right away .
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Several years ago there was a commodity traded, maine potatoes.  Every year for something over two-dozen years, the price would go up in the middle of January through early February.  Information was not as free back then, I could track causes better today on the Internet.  So I had some money and practiced trading in corn, making a little bit while getting the ropes.  The target was this, the smallest increase was 8 cents a pound, 50,000 pound contracts.  I caught it on a down tick and felt like a surfer catching a wave.  Unfortunately, it was a tsunami.  There were several millionaires who had also spotted the trend and they thought they could buck it.  So the price went limit up, trading stopping after the first couple of minutes, doing this for a few days, then limit down, again stopping trading after a few minutes into the next trading day.  I got a margin call, but it was for more money than I had, so the brokerage confiscated my position.  When the dust settled, the price had indeed gone up as I antcipated, but I was trapped out, unable to profit from it.  For that matter I was paying off that debt to the brokerage firm for years, instead of paying off my mortgage, which is what would have happened if those guys hadn't been greedy.  Meanwhile, it bankrupted something upwards of 100 rich traders who had tried to turn the market, and sent something like 60 to prison.\n\nThis doesn't happen all the time.  Just be careful, you can lose more than you put in, although trading the option MAY limit that.  For instance, even in stock options, if you sell a naked option and things go against you and someone calls that option and you haven't had a covering option to cancel, you are on the hook for supplying the shares.  Be careful of trading too close to the expiration.  I remember positioning for one thing expected to go up, and by the time the events began driving it up, my option was close to expiring, I got almost nothing out of it.\n\nA good plan is a wonderful thing.  But with commodities and commodity options, there is still uncertainty, and definitely danger.
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Find a few solid companies that have been around awhile, trading around $3-5. Do your research and look at the charts seeing how it performs.  What you want to find is something called a "rolling stock". This is a stock that goes up and down about $0.25 a few times a day. Once you research and find a few candidates. Your strategy is to Buy a stock and sell it when it goes up $0.25. The same after selling it, sell it short (this is the exact opposite of buying, in this case you want the stock to go down) when it drops $0.25 unload it, and buy again, do this up and down thing as many times as possible. Practice. Practice Practice. Don’t let your profit get eaten up by brokerage fees, try http://etrade.com Good luck!
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Hello,\n\nI completely agree with wanting to invest your money.  Afterall, what's the point of making money if you can't make more money with your money (got that?)?  Anyway, I've tried all different investments from stocks and bonds to IRA's, 401k's, and real estate.  I'm really a big fan of diversification.\n\nHowever, the only investment I've really been happy with so far is real estate.  Over the past 5 years, I've bought 3 different properties (all have tenants, and I'm making more than the mortgage payments on 2 properties).  \n\nThe 3rd property I got  was using Carleton Sheets no money down methodology (he's a GURU in real estate, and yes, his methods do work!).  You can actually buy a property for absolutely nothing down (NO MONEY FROM YOUR OWN POCKET).  I payed over $500 for his course 3 years ago, and I just saw it online for $9.95!!!!  This is a steal at $9.95 (I'm actually going to buy it for my friends for Christmas).  It was featured on TV, so I got the website from there.\n\nBefore you invest in anything, I highly suggest the Carleton sheets course.  http://www.alllsite.info/real-estate.php
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Unfortunately, I'll probably dealing primarily with stocks listed on American exchanges, I'll see if I can come up with a Toronto one.\n\nAltria (nee Phillip-Morris, MO) is a great stock to get because it's a solid tobacco company with some great brands (Marlboro) and they're just entering the smokeless tobacco market, which could be a huge payoff.  Also, this "light cigarette" class action hit the stock too much and I expect to see MO gap up in the future.  And they pay a 4.20% dividend.  It's hard not to like it.\n\nFor alcohol, the market seems to be going into liquor as opposed to beer these days, especially among the younger crowd (who tends to drink more).  This isn't strictly empirical, but I think going into a liquor company is a better bet.  For that, DEO is your best bet.  They have a great stock of brands (Morgan, J&B, Cuervo, Tanqueray) and are have some beer and wine brands (but their strength is far and away their liquor).  It's relatively cheap at 19.51 P/E and has a 3.90% dividend also.\n\nI don't know too much about weapons, but if you're into military stuff, Halliburton and even Boeing are sound investments.  Handguns, Smith and Wesson (SWHC) is the only one that comes to mind it's forward P/E seems a little high at 27.56 for manufactured goods in what seems to me a tight market, but there's not much industry data to go on (not very many handgun companies).  They're trading on the upper end of their 200dma so this stock could move upwards (and it's been trending up all year).  Analysts are bullish, so I'd say it's worth watching.\n\nFor gambling, you need to go where the money is, and that means what's hot.  No casino's hotter than Sands (LVS) which has exploded over the past year, but I'm worried that the money might have been made there.  It's the best casino stock out there, but it's the most expensive.  Casinos are still a good investment, but I'm thinking with concerns over the Democrats taking over (and the economic / legislative ramifications) you might want to go a little cheaper.  Harrah's (HET) is another good casino stock that's not so pricey as Sands.\n\nAs far as sex stuff, it's pretty hard for me to come up with a recommendation.  I'm sort of cold on the industry because a lot of it is privately held, and the public issues don't get coverage.  If somebody can come up with a good investment, I'd love to hear it, though.\n\nHowever, I'd be interested to know why you're interested in sin stocks.  As I touched on earlier, some people think a Democratic congress could hurt some of these companies (especially tobacco).  Maybe you're thinking these were irrationally factored into the price and that these stocks could jump up after the election?\n\nEdit:  Full disclosure.  The only stock listed that I own is MO.
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AMAT is a solid company but there is a huge overhead supply of stock that is just waiting for an opportunity to be dumped on the market at break even.  Tell you what to do.  Take a small position, maybe 100 shares.  If it goes up 2 bucks a share add to the position.  If it goes up another buck add some more.  I agree the solar is a potential but this stock has been a dog for so long I expect it will take a good while to work out the overhead supply.