Should I buy more stock or sell what I have?
918311
Even a small holding like this can be a great opportunity to learn about the stock market.  Try to save more and add to your position.  I am not crazy about At&t, but since you have the shares why not find out a little more about the company - listen to their quarterly conference call:\n\nhttp://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=113088&eventID=1392075\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about the stock market, 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!
691600
Either buy one key of the white stuff down south and move it up North then flip that double your money in 5 days or Bet 10K that San Antonio will cover against Dallas on Sat. Ha ha that's the risky side. Or just watch the news if they say gas will get MORE expensive just put it all on EXXON stock and wait for their profits to come out get your residuals then sell. It should get you at least 5K. 1 or 2 yr period to double your cash you have to be risky though and watch whats hot on silicon Vally jump on that early
2610
Whether you're hit with the AMT or not, the real answer is that you should exercise the shares when you are ready to sell them, there's no other reason for you to exercise shares unless you're leaving the company.  \n\nThere are tax and AMT issues, but without understanding your full income picture there's no real way to answer that question.\n\nI know of several people that exercised stock, held it and then placed margin buys against the value of the shares, when their stock tanked the margins were called and at least one of these individuals had to sell their house to pay off the margin call.  I was in your position a few years ago, i exercised and sold immediately all shares that i exercised.  [if for no other reason to 'diversify my portfolio']
858018
I'm a long-term investor and believe in holding stocks... for decades.  If your gut, however, is telling you to take a profit... there's no harm in it.  And if you think some other stocks show more potential, no reason to hold off reinvesting in those.  As for me, I'm keeping my oil stocks... indefinitely.
460909
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.
293467
A 5% return would be pretty average, depending on the stock, but you shouldn't count on a monthly "income" from it.  The market moves up and down, but as a general rule it moves up.  Of course, you risk investing in a stock that drops, and then you could lose that much or more each month, which is why diversification is vital.  The safest bet would be to invest it in a few different mutual funds, which provide instant diversification
419357
Don't focus in the price per share. You could buy an over-priced $1.00 stock. Focus on good companies with sound financials and a good business model that you believe is going to keep the company growing. Even if the price per share is $100. You can buy as little as one share. Another couple of things: always diversify, and think looong term. Good luck!
12833
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.
661299
Buy a diversified series of HIGH QUALITY, LOW EXPENSE mutual funds. One good piece of advice is that especially when just starting out, owning individual stocks is just way too risky. In many cases, it's more akin to gambling than investing. So go with mutual funds, which are much more diversified, and therefore spread the risk among many, many more holdings. The key, of course, is buying quality. So make sure you hit ALL the asset classes, like Large cap stocks, small/mid cap stocks, international stocks, emerging markets stocks, government debt, corporate debt, hi-yield debt, foreign debt, emerging markets debt, real estate, commodities, and precious metals. That's 12 categories right there, so with $1200, you're talking about $100 each. This is called asset allocation, and it's a step beyond simple "diversification", which most idiots think is buying a hardware tech stock AND a software tech stock.\n\nAdd systematically on a monthly basis. That means make sure you put the same amount of money in every month, no matter what. Soon you won't even care what any of the markets are doing. They're up? Great! Some of my investments are worth more. They're down? Great! Now I'm buying quality investments at an "on sale" price.\n\nThen sit back and re-balance each year, back to your original percentages. Again, this is called asset allocation. It's is very important, perhaps the most important thing you can do with your money. The thinking being, what's BEEN hot is more than likely not going to STAY hot. All markets are cyclical. There's hundreds of years of data to back this up. Yet some people still think they can ride the next hot wave. They usually wind up begging on the street for beer money.\n\nNow, this sort of portfolio should average 8-12% per year, so just split the difference and say 10% on average. Will it do 10% EVERY year? Of course not. I'd be surprised if it EVER did EXACTLY 10%. That's an annual average. With that average, your money should double roughly every 7 years.\nSo, if you're starting with $1200 or so like I said in my example, then in 7 years , even if you added no more money, you should have about $2,400\nin 14 years you should have about $4,800\nin 21 years you should have about $9,600\nin 28 years you should have about $19,200\nin 35 years you should have about $38,400\nin 42 years you should have about $76,800\nin 49 years you should have about $153,600\nin 56 years you should have about $307,200\nin 63 years you should have about $614,400\nin 70 years you should have about $1,228,800!\n\nOf course, if you keep adding money in that $100 a month, you'll become a millionaire MUCH sooner. The key is discipline, and sticking in when markets are up OR down. Don't try to time the market--you'll NEVER get it right.\n\nBy the way, here's a handy formula:\n\n$100/month x 12% x 20 years = $100,000.\n\nSo if you need $300,000 in 20 years and have no idea how to get it, just save $300 a month and you're there. If you don't get 12%, you'll wind up with less naturally. But IF you still wind up with $250,000, I'd call that one hell of a failure.\n\nOh, and if you qualify on income limits (generally, if you're a single filer and make under $90,000/yr), and do this all in a Roth IRA? Then every penny will be 100% TAX-FREE. That's a deal that's too good to pass up. That's why I tell anyone who's under 30--if you make under $90,000, and therefore qualify to do a Roth, you'd be a fool not to. Just having the power of youth (and therefore time) on your side is such an advantage, to squander it would be such a waste!\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
13889
there's no specific time to sell a stock, always look at its technical and fundamental details before making a decision. Google properly prompted you to sell it recently due to its pull back. Its nice to keep it now, as it was a pull back where it found support on its prior high. We will see how it goes the next few days before making a decision to sell. If it breaks its support on its prior high on above average volume, it will definately be a sell.
520222
Well, your stock is not worthless, its worth $3 per share right now (and thats up from just $2 per share a few days ago), you can simply open an account and sell it if you want.\n\nNo telling what the stock will do from here.  They filled a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization), not Chapter 7 (liquidation), meaning they are trying to cut costs, sell whatever they can, and emerge from the bankruptcy.  When (if) they emerge they will try to give the stockholders as much value/ownbership of the new company as they can, but no telling what they will be able to give you (if anything).  \n\nThey may say we had to give 90% ownership to other people to get enough money to reopen, or they may be able to get money to reopen with less (or more) of the company given away, again no way to tell (or they may never get the money to reopen and they will eventually end up liquidating the company and then you'll almost certainly get nothing)\n\nSo, you can just sell what you have for 3$ per share (as of today), or you may want to say what the heck lets roll the dice and see what happens, and hold on to the stock (realizing down the road you could get alot more or alot less than that 3$ per share, again very hard to say).\n\nGood luck with it.\n\nBy the way, here is the link to your stocks current sell price.\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DCNAQ.PK
1034247
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.
581164
If you have enough money, buy both, that way you won't be worried about what to buy. If you don't want to do that, then just think about which one you would need, and/or want more!! Hope that helps!
758273
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).
824543
without researching i would suggest purchasing penny stocks.some have sold for under 3 bucks and resold for 5 to 7 a share.you would have to buy a few thousand to make a substantial profit.
1017513
You can open a share builder account. I can't tell you which stocks to buy, that would make me your broker.\n\nYou can also learn to trade options, which can also make you alot of money in a short amount of time.
130134
Other, I used the prices and volumes to guide me when to sell or exit.  For instant, If my stock going up, have a long run, one day the price is decline like 5 percent, the volume is double or higher from the last session. That is a yellow flag for me, and I have to a decision quickly before it decline further.  I usually sell it with no hestitate when that happen.