after I buy certain stocks how soon can I sell them or cash them in?
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Theoretically you can sell it again right away after you buy.  But, if you sell that stock and buy another one, you cant sell that one for three days, until the trade settles, unless you're a daytrader with $25,000 dollars in your account.
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there are two ways that may help you. scott trade which for the minimun amount to open charges just 7.00 a trade if your buying and selling. this way you get real time live trades and information with no brokers. there is also what is known by few as drips. you buy the stock right from the company itself. if you search drips in the net you will come up with a list of many companies selling their stock some require as little as 50 to 100.00 to open a direct stock account with them and that price includes as much stock as you can get depending on its price. you can put so much in each month if you want and you'll get the shares to that amount. each company is differant on how much you start with and how long you have to keep the stock before selling it. its usually 60 to 90 days with some. good hunting!
693322
Sell when your in need of money. Coca Cola is a good stock. It also pays dividends.
27508
It depends on the terms of the buyout. Likely you will get stock in 123, but you could get 123 stock and cash or just cash and no stock. All depends on the terms of the sale.
1170586
What you are hoping to capture by buying a calendar spread is the decay of the first expiring option relative to the decay of the second. Read "Options as a Strategic Investment".\n\nA short term option loses its time value faster than a longer term option. So, if the decay on the longer is a penny a day...and the decay on the shorter option is 1/8 a day...you are capturing 11 1/2cents per day and protecting yourself in case of a big market move. Is it a given that you'll make money??? Absolutely not. Every time you think that, think to yourself "there are a million other people out there that have thot about this for at least 25 years...chances are I am not thinking anything original" !
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YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING !!!   No one should have more than 5 % of their total investments in any one stock.   If you purchased it at $ .50 (total investment = $ 5,000 ), wait til it hits $ 1.00 and then sell off half.  You now have all of your investment back and no matter what happens,  you are safe.  If it goes to $2.00,  sell off another half.    Then just sit back and hope that it goes to $ 10 and splits.  In a few years, you could have 10,000 shares worth $ 100,000 but, in the meantime, you have had no sleepless nights worrying about it.
1100770
depends on who you invest in and are you wanting money quik or long term.its all a big gamble,you might invest in a company and the stock might fall and you will loose money.
217009
Put it in fixed deposits.\nhere after depositing ur money you cont touch it for a period of time.\nalternatively you can invest in stocks /mutual funds...etc..
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have you noticed how many people just reply with utter crap?\nand don't even read your question properly.\nanyway in that short space of time, not much can be done, your only hope is to buy a porfolio on the stock market, which is buying multiple shares to balance out the risks. you could buy now online with a broker they will do it all for you (thats their job)\nthen sell them just before xmas, think wisely as buying stocks in menial things before xmas can sometimes be huge sellers at the actual xmas period and same vice cersa
848983
Need more specific information.  I would sell as quickly as possible and take the equity and put it into something more managable.
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743159
well one month is a very short term u r looking at \nat this juncture as of yesterdays close the mkt seems to be correcting so if u wnna enter some stocks enter biggiwes \ndont go in for sugar stocks and banks \nmay be IT will help but thats also run up a lot. \nbe a long term insvestor and enjoy
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"Only init 4 profit" seems like a nice person, and I have to say I love the name. I would like to add to what he said about the 3 day settlement period. You can buy and sell all you want as quickly as you want you just have to meet SEC requirnments. There are basically two laws that apply here, the settlement one and a day trading one. the settlement one has been covered by "only init 4 profit" and the daytrading one just states that no more than 3 day trades can be made within 4 business days. Now the law also says that you can have permission to get around them if you meet certain requirnments, they simply are to have a margin account type with a minimum of $25,000 in the account at all times. If it goes below 25,000 you have to stop making more than 3 trades within 4 busibness days untill it gose back over the 25,000 mark. also by having a margin account you never have to worry about the settlement dates no matter what the account value is.\n \nAlso if you are looking for an online broker, I use Scottrade, they are very cheep $7 trades for market and limit orders.\n\nHope this helps.
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Yes and it does have to do with dividends.  You'll want to exercise early if the stock is about to pay a dividend and the "time value" of the option is less than the dividend.  \n\nWhat does that mean?  Well, a stock's price should drop after a dividend is paid so if the current market price is just slightly above your option's strike price, the option could go from an "in the money" option (meaning if you exercise you'll get some cash) to an "out of the money" option (meaning you'll get nothing).  Still, even this wouldn't mean that you'd definitely want to exercise the option unless the expiry date of the option was also coming up.  I.e. the stock price doesn't have a reasonable chance of recovering from the dividend payment to get back "into the money".
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Many brokerages use the same leased system which does not do real-time margin calculations, only updates overnight.  In other words, your account does have the cash from your sale but the computer won't know that until tomorrow.\n\nYou can't take the funds out of account until settlement day, but generally speaking one can telephone a representative @ the brokerage and place a new order to buy the same day as the sale.  The representative will see what has happened.\n\nMany brokerages will do this "live" order at the usual low online commission, but yours may impose a fee or a higher commission.  Good idea to find out first.
242398
You could do it in the stock market trading volatile stocks like Google.  You could make it fast, but you could also lose it fast.
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No not form some time.\nAs a seller you need to figures out what you can sell for and God help you if you just got the house in the last three years or have a equity line of credit, you will be up side down.\n\nIf you have some equity do be greedy the longer you wait the less you will make. \n \nThe reason for this is that the bubble is breaking checl out this web site and see why has happen and why you may get screwed.\n\nBest of luck.\nhttp://www.breakingbubble.com/index.htm