Stock Picks

[Karth]

Hey Guys, decided to start this thread for any people wanting to get into stocks/bonds/ETFs, as an extra salary.  Also was bored and wanted to see if there were other people who dig into this sort of stuff.  Non-US nationals can also invest in the US stock market  (many brokers you can look into who have cheap commissions)  Even if you are not old enough to trade, I highly suggest getting into it, in some ways it is like gambling and gaming; especially if day trading with penny stocks which I used to do for fun with like $500.  Again if you do invest long term, even if its just with $500-$1000, you can still make a ton of money.  Although obviously the more you invest (be diverse with your investments) the safer you will be.  Oh and feel free to call me a capitalist.. I am using what my country is best known for..

My Picks ATM:

Apple- Pretty straight up buy, with over $160Bn cash on hand every single launch their stock goes up, I bought this at $99 not so long ago, and they always are profiting from every single product launch.  As their numbers go up = so does their stock.  Atm the stock is at $106.74 and I believe it will go at least $115 by the end of the year.  Even if this stock goes down $5 because of PR media related issues hold on to it, as it can make you a huge gain. Buy low, sell high.  Another bonus with the amount of cash on hand is that the company likes issuing dividends.

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Gilead Sciences- As im in the industry this is one of the big stock picks atm.  Just this month it hit a low of $96, and after a HUGE earnings report skyrocketed to $113.  Sovaldi (their Hep C drug) costs $94,000 for a 12 week course of treatment for the pills.  Yea it sounds a lot but it also means that this company is making huge profits as people are buying it because of its 99% cure rate and because its just an oral pill.  Its projected $10B in profit, with only 2 other competitors who dont even beat it. 

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I will post more when I can, these are for long term gains because you can get the federal capital gains tax down from 30% to 20% (they increased it) based on how long you hold it.  You should still be able to daytrade most of these stocks I post if you wanted, Apple especially can be quite volatile depending on media coverage.  If you guys also want me to post how to invest and such then I can post a guide on here.. feel free to debate my picks. 

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[MrTiki]

I've always been interested by the idea, but I've never really wanted to get involved as it seems so risky. The stock price has to increase by a fairly significant amount just to break even on the cuts taken right?

[Betaknight]

I've always been interested by the idea, but I've never really wanted to get involved as it seems so risky. The stock price has to increase by a fairly significant amount just to break even on the cuts taken right?

You mean mo=mk?

[Riddlez]

Invest in Heineken, they've gone by some drops past time, so they're cheaper now, but they have always done that, and then started rising significantly again.

[Karth]

I've always been interested by the idea, but I've never really wanted to get involved as it seems so risky. The stock price has to increase by a fairly significant amount just to break even on the cuts taken right?

There are many factors, including how much you invest being the primary one, with the stocks I listed if you had $80K to invest, in a few weeks you could easily make $7K profit.  You wouldn't invest in stocks around the 90-100 range if you only had $500-$1000, as after taxes and fees you would only make $60 for example compared to what you could make with $80000 investment.  With $500-$1000 people invest in penny stocks or stocks around $10-$30 per share, also make sure the volume is high or else the stock price won't fluctuate, only unless it's a long term investment in a startup that just went IPO and has a good futures rating.  Anyways let's say with $1000 you bought a stock at $20 per share which has a huge volume and just released an earnings report making the share price go up $10.  Your net asset value would be increased $500 to $1500, which is huge.  Again some traders play with highly volatile stocks daily, I used to make like $100 a day with my $2K bank account for fun, all depends I will explain more later.

Invest in Heineken, they've gone by some drops past time, so they're cheaper now, but they have always done that, and then started rising significantly again.

That's true especially after Oktoberfest I'm sure their earnings report will be good news

[Walko]

I should learn how stocks work haha

[MarshalKim]

Invest in Korea

[Gizmo]

My grandparents do that, they pay a guy in a bank to do all that shit for them, and it turns out it's a good way to make money. From what I've heard, bonds are the safest bet.

[KL4R1N0G4MPR0S]

What are Stockz?

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Dis thread haha D:

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[Newkirk]

When I took a Civics class in high school we had a game where we were given like $5000 fake dollars to invest in stocks for a semester and see who couls make the most money. We didnt do so well but I learned a lot about the market from it. I'll be looking into this sometime I'm sure.

[KL4R1N0G4MPR0S]

Invest in Korea

Guaranteed Win.

[Killington]

When I took a Civics class in high school we had a game where we were given like $5000 fake dollars to invest in stocks for a semester and see who couls make the most money. We didnt do so well but I learned a lot about the market from it. I'll be looking into this sometime I'm sure.

We did that in grade 7, the most successful student lost 50% lol

[Riddlez]

When I took a Civics class in high school we had a game where we were given like $5000 fake dollars to invest in stocks for a semester and see who couls make the most money. We didnt do so well but I learned a lot about the market from it. I'll be looking into this sometime I'm sure.

People who followc Economy in my Dutch highschool do this as well, only they start off with 30. They'd follow the actual stockmarket.
Some guys made nearly 50.000 euros after a year.

[Betaknight]

When I took a Civics class in high school we had a game where we were given like $5000 fake dollars to invest in stocks for a semester and see who couls make the most money. We didnt do so well but I learned a lot about the market from it. I'll be looking into this sometime I'm sure.

People who followc Economy in my Dutch highschool do this as well, only they start off with 30. They'd follow the actual stockmarket.
Some guys made nearly 50.000 euros after a year.

Holy cow. How? My dutch highschool doesn't do that. As to why idk too much about it. We study most part in theory (not much of it) like dividend and examples with buitelandse beleggers etc...