How good is the Dow Jones <DIAJ>?
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As what?  An economic indicator?  It's by no means perfect, but it is continually evaluated to represent the most significant industrial stocks in America.
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I would like to thank the previous respondee's answer. He was sure to point out the obvious that some are a good buy and some aren't. Now that we cleared that out of the way, let's look at healthcare from a single unit, the index. Also mind you healthcare is a vast industry including great growth potentials in the biotechnology and nanotechnology arenas. But also has some laggards in the larger areas such as drug stocks in Biogen.\n\nThe healthcare index (^NYP)  has been in a downtrend since mid-March. With the lackluster markets bringing everything down with it, I see no reason for this downtrend to slow. Give or take though, I don't think we will see any more than about a 3% loss for the index from here. Right now is not the time to buy, in my opinion, but we could see some tremendous value plays in about 2-3 months. And as with any thing in the market, the small-cap growth stocks usually lead the way in a bullish advance. So I would look for small growth plays at that time.
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Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 are indexes or baskets of stocks.\n\nThey're used as a proxy for the various markets.  So when the S&P, Dow, and NAsdaq are up, they say the market is up.\n\nHere's how you read the #'s part.\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/university/tables/tables1.asp\n\n\nHere's general info on the indexes.\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/university/indexes/\n\nFor Thu, Dow closed at 12,103.30  \nIt was down73.24 or -0.60%\n\nToday's high was 12187.03\nToday's low was 12090.26\n\n\nHope that helps!
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finance.yahoo.com  \n\nGet a quote for the Dow and then click on historical prices.
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Fundamentals are nice to look at, but never ignore the technicals which are the charts. Charts never lies, no matter what's the rumor is, go back and look at the charts.\n\nTo look at fundamentals, look at its sales and profit history, hows the sector performing, are the funds jumpining into the stock.\n\nTechnicals look at if there are any spikes, what's the chart doing, hows the volume for every close, pullbacks, support on 50 and 100 day moving average\n \nYahoo Finance, and MSN Money have great tools to make use of to enhance your stock experience.
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No it's not worth it. You can catch free Montley Fool articles on Yahoo! Finance and anyway they're not all that great. You can reach the same conclusion as Montley if you put some effort into your research. If you want decent stock advice why not just watch Cramer on CNBC, he's not bad at all. Go to the library, look at quarterly report, check your library database to see if they have Value Line or Morning Star whose reports are objective and great
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Well, I own it, and we recommend it, but I wouldn't say anyone has been making any earth-shattering money with it lately.  It's been relatively flat in recent years.\n\nI still think it's a good buy, though, as the company seems to remain on a good growth trend.  The share price today is relatively low for this stock, and if/when it comes back into favor, it should provide some nice profits.
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This is just my personel opinion, but I don't think its a good company, I think its a horrible company.  \n\nLooking at the fundamentals, its revenue has grown about 270% in the past year, of course this is a phenomenally good growth rate, but in $ terms it went up about 175 million (from 67 million to 242 million).  During the past year their net loss was 862 million and its increasing too (albeit not as fast as revenue) and stands at almost 4 times revenue for the past quarter.  It could be 10 years (or never) before these guys make a profit, and they will have to dilute their shares (ie issue more shares to raise cash) before then.\n\nTo make matters even worse, their stock price peaked (at almost 8$ per share in early December) and has been trending sharply down since then, so even from a technical point of view they look terrible.\n\nSo, we have a fantastic growth rate but utterly terrible fundamentals and technicals, whats to like.\n\nAgain, just one opinion.
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Dow Jones is the name of an index provider. They determine the constituents of hundreds of indexes.\n\nTypically when people refer to "the Dow", or "Dow Jones" the really mean the Dow Jones Industrial Average which comprises 30 companies.\n\nThe constituents for all of the Dow Jones Averages (including the Industrial Average) can be found at:\nhttp://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/?event=showAverages\n\nThis page above also has the historical components list too.
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THe NASDAQ originally meanr,National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation.  Its a computerized trading system.  In other words there isnt a physical place, a building like the New York Stock Exchange.  The number you see quoted is a composite of around 5,000 stocks traded on the computerized system.\n\nThe S&P 500 is an index of 500 stocks. It is 500 of the most widely held U.S.-based common stocks, chosen by the S&P Index Committee for market size, liquidity, and sector representation.  The only reason a company is deleted from the index is if it goes bankrupt or it merges with another company.  The S&P 500 accounts for 70 percent of all capitalization of the US equity markets\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted average of 30  stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.  The average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The Dow Jones averages are computed by summing the prices of the stocks in the average and then dividing by a constant called the divisor. The divisor for the Dow Jones Industrial Average is adjusted periodically to reflect splits in the stocks making up the average.  Since it is price weighted a $1 increase in a lower-priced stock can be negated by a $1 decrease in a  higher-priced stock, even though the lower priced stock had a larger percentage change
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I've used Scottrade and Ameitrade.  I prefer Scottrade since their commission is lower, $7 for both market and limit orders.  They have 2 offices in my city (in case I need to go there in person) and their scottrader is pretty darn good for streaming quotes and streaming Dow Jones News.  They also have a scottrader elite for accounts over $25K which offers advanced technical analysis and level 2 trading (an extra $10/month).  There is no inactive account fees and all you need is $500 to open an account.  They also offer quite a bit of other research such as free S&P reports on companies.  One final thing is that they offer access to options, bonds, and funds.  I took a look at cybertrader.com and it appears they are geared more towards active traders (at least 20 trades/month), which may not sound like a lot but in reality it is unless your an active trader.  They also offer services in the futures area, which I've never personally used but you may be interested in.  You probably need to decide what type of trading you want to do (active or occasional) and do you want access to futures, options, bonds, funds, etc. and go from there.
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Yahoo's price is incredibly volatile.  If you are the type that wants to see good performance every year, you shouldn't buy Yahoo.  Stocks are a long term investment, you can't get hung up on short term trends.  Look what it did in 2000.\n\nSee Yahoo's chart below.
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both the nasdaq and dow are summations of many companies' stocks. the dow is composed of about 30 big companies and is the best index for the overall stock market. the nasdaq is a couple hundred successful companies. \n\nbasically, each company sells equity in the form of stocks. owning a share of stock means that you own a small piece of the company and are entitled to vote for the managers and receive dividends should the company decide to pay them.
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Its one of the the better Mid-Cap stocks. Though its valuation (standalone) is expensive but when adjusted to growth its pretty k.
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Check out Yahoo Finance
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Darts and a WSJ. :)\n\nThis strategy outperforms quite a bit of Wall Street pros, based on a few studies.
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There's a latest review on this site at the site below\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=7