After you've sold shares of stock do you keep up with their performance?
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Sure. If it's a roller-coaster stock.
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They're all good to watch. Not many worth buying, unless you like being manipulated.\n\nAnyone with a million dollars or so can pump and dump these stocks and send their prices soaring, so that you get in, then plunging, so that you lose everything very fast. \n\nOr the average guy, you for example, can start a new company building furniture. It's decent stuff and you have it built in the Caymans so your cost is cheap and you make money. Take the company public and issue stock with an IPO. \n\nWhen the stock soars on the IPO, sell your shares and start a subsidiary, and put all your money into that new company making T-shirts. Of course, the furniture company's stock fell considerably, because you took all of the cash out. \n\nWhen you make money on T-shirts, go public, and when the IPO soars, sell your shares, and buy back the furniture stock at depressed levels. Of course, the T-shirt stock goes down the tubes, because you pulled the cash out, but hey, you're making a killing onthe stock.\n\nThis is legal manipulation. You've been warned. Penny stocks are very risky for a reason, or lots of reasons. Buy something with known value, that's been around awhile, and will continue to be around. So what if you can't buy as many shares? You can still double your money, and reduce your risk in half, by investing in the future of a stable company not ran or manipulated by shysters.
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I can't answer this specifically for those companies, but what generally happens is that your stock is converted to stock in the new company, at a rate specified by the takeover company. (1 share in the new company for every 2 shares owned in the target company, for example)  You should receive a letter soon, explaining what has happened.
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The sale of such a small amount will not affect the overall price of the stock.  You'd have to sell a very large block of stock to move the price on most shares and then if you were successful in lowering the price, the fact that you were buying a larger block than you sold may move the price back up making your trade a loser.
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Even though it's difficult you'll need to trace back to the source of where you purchased the stock.  Most brokerage firms can order year end statements showing a summary of your purchases.  You then need to piece the puzzle together.
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I bought my first stocks 5 years ago. at first I didn't really know what I was doing. I just bought what I thought was good. but then I started reading about value investing and learning how to actually value a company to assess wether or not I was getting a good price for the stock.\n\nI use a valuation method that uses EPS, although most people recommend using free cash flow as a more accurate measure of a company's financial strength. Basically I try to estimate what a stock will be worth in the future, and what price I would need to buy it at now to ensure a certain rate of return.\n\nI try to keep my estimates very conservative, to have a large margin of error. so far, in 5 years, I have a total return of 43%, compared to 12.5% for the S&P 500. That comes out to 10.25% annualized, vs. 2.5% for the S&P.
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No. It would not. Go ahead and do it. When I started I put all my money into one stock--10 shares of Household Finance.  You have to start somewhere and sometime.  Now is a better time than a month ago.   But next month might be a better time still or even next year.
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RUNS GREAT\nMUST SELL\nMUST SEE
1153107
Good way to track performance of investments. Any other data related job
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I've done that with what I call 'loose change'.  Sometimes I've got a few dollars sitting around, obviously not going to make a lot of interest and not large enough for something substantial.  If some risky thing has been going down but I still feel it worth holding onto (its kinda fun when you sweat over a $90 stock moving a couple of bucks while a stock selling for less than a dime now goes for a buck or two, and yes, I've had that happen), then making an extra small trade can average down the value of your position.  When the stock starts to tick up for whatever reasons, you now have a lower break-even or profit point.  Again, it is only if you've got a few bucks left not doing anything and at Scottrade for $7 plus a half-point, it doesn't hurt much.  Of course, I also got a couple that are cluttering up my list because it will cost more to sell than they are worth today but that is part of the risk, right?
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I think you should keep it up because you'll get more experience selling (and that's an invaluable skill!!) and, therefore, would pay off more in the long run.\nBut, hey, it sounds like you'll probably win anyways.  good luck!
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(Since you're talking about the IRS, I must put up a disclaimer that this advice is worth what you paid for it.  Nothing.)\n\nIf you have records showing how much you paid for the stock when you bought it, the amount you paid is your cost basis.
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If the company was public and was acquired, you should own stock in the new company, depending on the offer.\n\nCheck with any trader or research the company who bought them.  If you held the shares in a brokerage account, they would have given you a statement showing how many shares you own of the new company.
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Well, you are right, if over time they don't go up or down, and there is little to no dividend pay out, you don't make a profit or suffer a loss.\n\nRemember, investing does not come with any guarantees and any investment can go up or down or stay level.\n\nHowever, and this is where the words "over time" become important, the stock market has always risen.  Yes, over shorter time periods you can watch it go down, or zig zag (and btw..dollar cost averaging in a zig zag market can make a good profit), but over longer periods of time is rises.\n\nTake a good look at a DOW or S&P chart and you can see this for yourself (I know info is out there that actually details this but I can't offer up a link without investing a ton of time).\n\nAnd as to whether or not you should have pulled it in year 1 instead of waiting 4 more years?   Well that's a big DUH!  Because if we could PREDICT the future, investing would be perfectly safe for everyone wouldn't it?\n\nYou can't predict the future so you are in effect placing a bet.  You bet your investment grew more than it would have if you'd just bought a CD instead, on the day you intend to cash it out.  Depending on the investment, the date in and the date out, your answer will vary.\n\nIf you do figure out how to know in advance that your stock will be worth exactly the same on future dates, let me know.  I think I could get rich with that one.
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With respect to the market in general, there's been a good-sized pullback from May to the current period.  Those stocks which have suffered most are the ones which have had the largest amount of growth (precious metals, emerging markets, etc.).  Many funds not only lost all of their gains Jan-Apr, but many actually dipped into negative YTD territory.\n\nSo you have to ask yourself: is this money you have in Fidelity on a permanent downward trend or an overdue correction?  Are your losses due to the possibility that your investments at Fidelity were focused on the highest growth (and therefore most volatile and overdue for correction) funds?  What are the long-term performance records of the funds you've chosen (4 months is a drop in the bucket of time)?\n\nBasically, you can't just look at gains and losses.  You have to look specifically at the funds you've chosen, and balance them against your personal risk tolerance.  It's very likely that with the right (or wrong) combination of funds, you could have lost as much with T Rowe Price, Vanguard, Bridgeway or any number of fund families.  If you don't believe me, look at their Websites and check the fund performances.  Red ink all over the place.\n\nDon't dump funds just because they're going down or buy them just because they're going up.  How do you know you're not buying at the top or selling at the bottom?  You'll inevitably wind up buying high and selling low.  Understand why you're buying into a fund and if the circumstances that made you buy them still make sense, stick with them.  If circumstances have changed, that's the time to re-evaluate and think about selling.  Also think about selling if the assumptions you made originally were wrong.
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Depends on how their shares are doing financially if you need money you can always sell them
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If you are making a profit, sell. It is still very much above its long term average and can easily fall.