What is a good stock market selection strategy?
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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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I like Scottrade.  $7 market orders, fast executions, good customer service when I need it, which hasnt been often.  Their website provides a lot of good research information.
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Investing in the stock market is generally a good thing, but stocks under $5 are usually the 'junk' of the market, and while you might make a lot on a few of them, the vast majority will only lose you money.  I'd recommend paying a few dollars more for something that has greater potential.  I've been following a $9 stock called Landec (symbol LNDC), which I think has potential.  In the under $5 range, you're usually gambling.  UNIB is a gamble that might be viable, but it's hard to know.  \n\nRather than just randomly buying stocks that anyone on the interet is touting, I'd suggest you do a little more reading about the market first.  Pick up some books by Peter Lynch or Benjamin Graham first, and that will help you become a better investor.\n\nBest of luck to you.
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You could ask this question every day and you would get a different answer every single time.  Learn to trade the markets for yourself and dont rely on hot tips from friends or websites. At least if you learn a bit you can evaluate if someones' idea holds any water.
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The best way to do anything yourself is to learn something about it first. You'd be surprised at the thousands of books available on this one subject at your local library.\n\nBut most people spend more time deciding the color of their new car, than they do on a mutual fund advisor, for example. \n\nAre you really wanting to do this yourself, or are you asking about someone who is an expert who can do it for you?\n\nIf you invest in the stock market right now, or just buy into all the ETF's you can afford, it's a crap shoot, like rolling the dice, and the odds are probably not in your favor, whether you have an expert fund manager or not, because mutual funds are always "in" the market.\n\nThey say "Buy and Hold" for the long term is better, but that depends on when you get in, and what your definiton of "long term" is. \n\nThe Dow is now approaching all-time highs last seen in Jan 2000, so if your long-term definition is more than seven years, then you won't mind waiting another seven years for a profit.\n\nIn my opinion, the name of the game is capital preservation. When the risks are high, like right now, you get out of the stock and bond markets and park your cash in a interest bearing money market fund or CD or Treasury Bill.\n\nThis is simply not a good entry point for investors. Be patient, wait a few months, and you'll be able to buy much more stock a lot cheaper, the risks will be lower (even though they will seem higher), and your chance of success greater.\n\nIf you wish to research the “Buy and Hold Strategy” further, or perhaps trade yourself, I recommend two book titles. One is called "Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?" The other is "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer?" They will give you plenty to think about.
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First research, research, research.\n\nYahoo finance has some excellent tools as well as a glossary of financial terms and stock screeners.\nI would recommend creating a practice portfolio for a few weeks.  List the stocks you are thinking of buying and use a performance view using the current price.  Yahoo will tell you how much money you have lost or gained.  I recommend a diverse portfolio. (don't put all your eggs in one basket)\n\nTry that for about a month and then use one of the online companys like scottrade or etrade for reasonable commissions.\n\nGood luck
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Be very suspicious of individual recommendations. For sure the person providing the recommendation has an agenda. Here are a few guidelines to make your own picks: -\n* Make sure the company has a strong balance sheet for its size.\n* Check to see how the owners (insiders) are behaving. If they're all selling that may be a bad sign.\n* Are the shares liquid? Is there plenty of trading? If not, why not?\n* Understand their business. If you know nothing about biotechnology, it's probably not a great idea to invest in a company in that sector.\n* Check the news on the company for the last year. Make sure you're not missing a lawsuit, or something similar.\n* Ideally, the company will be profitable with strongly rising sales & profits. High margins & strong positive cash flows are very desirable.\n\nGODD LUCK!
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Commodities are very risky and in order to dissipate risk you will need a sizable portfolio. The safes and most strategic way is to diversify through Commodity based Mutual Funds or even better Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Check out ticker: DBC. Best of Luck
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I have a great trading pair for you.  Basically you pick 2 stocks that are very similar, but you think one is better than the other.  So you short the one you don't like (Sell-short) and go long on the one you do like.  I think wind energy is going to be a better investment than coal, so I want to go long on Florida Power and Light (FPL), because they are the nation's largest owner of wind farms.  I want to sell-short TXU, because they are planning on building up to 10 new coal-fired power plants.  \n\nNow, even if both stocks go down, as long as FPL goes down less than TXU, you will make money.\n\nIf you are looking for other strategies, and to see what the best traders are buying and selling, I would suggest http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck!
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Stock market is a kind of business where things happen so fast that one can’t handle it. It’s like a fighter jet where one mistake makes up loose a lot. \n\nBut once you had a good grip on it, you do get good returns. I suggest you to enter in the market after learning and getting good info about how it works. \n\nIf you have 100$ for example as saving, I suggest you keep 33% of it in safe deposit, invest 33% in secure stocks, and take risk or do learning with 34%, so you wont loose all. \n\nIts better to start with any online company in the initial phase. and yes if you want to learn trading try to find some game or go to this website www.fxplayer.com or FXCM trading website become their member and start dummy forex trading, it will help you in understanding the logics and tricks of trading.\n\nIn this world, 5 things exist in all businesses.\n1- Seller\n2- Buyer\n3- Product\n4- profit/loss\n5- How quick you make a decision\n\nThe best TIP for any business like trading or anything that my dad told me is\n\nDon’t hold your stock or goods if you are getting some profit, cos you don’t know what price the next customer will offer you. \n\nWith my 15 years of business experience, when ever I go opposite to his direction, in 80% cases I never got the best price. Indeed experience counts a lot.
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If I were you I would definitely stay out of the stock market altogether right now.  You need WAY more knowledge than it appears you have and any money you "invest" without knowing what you are doing is basically just outright gambling.\n\nAlso, you say is there a good "stock" when in fact the most important rule is to diversify and buy many stocks. If you buy only one, it could go bankrupt, which has happened to me twice in the past when I was young and didn't know better.\n\nWhen you do buy stock though, one good strategy is to find a product or service that has just come on the market and you and your friends love it.  If it is that good, then probably lots of other people will love it as well, which means more sales and more profit for that company.  Just make sure it is a product/service that is innovative and just came out, like....krispy kreme when people were first getting into it.
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The best stocks would be Oil stocks, Mineral stocks, and communication stocks.  In the telecomunications area look at fiber optic makers like AVNX, JDSU, CIEN etc.  Try to watch MAD MONEY on CNBC.  It is a good show about what is currently hot. It is on at 6:00pm, 8 and 12 I believe.  make sure you do your research or consult your financial advisor before purchasing anything.  Good luck
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good is a very relative term, depends on the individual. Reliable woould really never go with stocks. No stock is guarenteed to maintain value. Generally big comapnies like GE, Boeing, IBM, Catterpillar, ALCOA are generally good. However, if you look at returns, stocks like GOOG, Starbucks, etc are great
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Everyone is different and as a result, different people look at different things before they purchase a stock.\n\nI suggest you get a book or five on stock market investing and start learning as much as you can if you want to become good at it.\n\nAnd by the way, companies that cater to people who invest in the stock market by selling them up-to-date information and analysis charge hefty fees for their services, so I wouldn't plan on doing this without a nice, big nest egg to begin with and a good job to back yourself up when things go against you and you lose some money.
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It's been mathematically "proven" that you can get high returns AND reduce your risk by buying diverse high-risk investments which have no correllation.\n\nAlso, Equities (Stocks) have had some of the best returns historically, and are still considered a very good investment.\n\nOf course you don't want to be STUPID about it and buy the riskiest stuff possible.  Get some AGGRESSIVE mutual funds with low fees (Vanguard has some).  Spread your money around to highly aggressive funds that have little correllation.  For instance, some Domestic High Growth, some Foreign aggressive growth, maybe some Real Estate Trust Funds, some High Tech, Some Health Care.\n\nLook at the historic returns of the sector and the fund.  Look too at the risk vs. return.  If, as you say, risks don't matter, then go for high return funds, with a reasonable risk.  And spread it around - but make sure you spread it around to different TYPES of investments - all that are aggressive, but some that move contrary to each other (like foreign vs domestic, or REITs vs Stock)
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I've been quite successful with the Franklin Templeton family of funds. There are lots of\ndifferent funds to choose based on your risk tolerance.
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This depends on your goals, level of risk you are willing to accept, and many other factors.  For me, I like shares of small start-up companies.  Very high risk, but very high rewards IF it pans out.