Stock Advice?

jaylib

jaylib

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Alright so long story short for my economics class we are playing an online stock market game, and i need a few ideas of stocks that would be a good investment. Any ideas?
 
hey man im in my schools advanced business and marketing class and we do a lot of stuff like that.

stock idea number 1- symbol bjs, it started out as a joke between me and my friend cuz we typed bjs into the symbol thing but it turns out its a oil and petrollium pumping company that is really close to its 52 week low but shows really strong signs of going back up soon by a big margin and its stock scouter rating is an 8 which is good.

stock idea number 2- gold, simply gold, look it up, gold fucking owns everything, my teacher has invested in gold ever since he was a teenager and he makes damn good bank on it, whenever the us dollar goes down, gold goes up, and in the past 2 weeks gold has gone up 112 dollars an ounce. bomb ass stock. thats all i got for now

good luck
 
Buy. Pretty Much anything not associated with investment banking, until this bailout thing gets figured out. Avoid oil, it's on the way down, has been for 3 months, no confidence in it, less usage. Remember-when everyone else is going one way, seriously consider the other.
 
Yeah, buy for the long run, dont worry about what happens to your stock, a day, a week, a month from now. Predict where you're going to be a year from now. And if it's up, buy buy buy.
 
Not trying to be a dick or anything but gold is not really that great of an investment long term it pretty much just tracks inflation. It has been going up lately because the dollar has been weakening.
 
well im doing the same thing, the vse? im in one too for econ club and i invested all my money in AIG the day they fell apart so i bought like 100,000 shares for a dollar and now theyre up to 4 bucks so i got like 400,000 dollars, 250,000 more than anyone else, basically when a stock falls apart buy that shit up and even if it goes up a few cents you sell it and make bank. or sell short stocks because everythings dropping just sell short stocks that are doing poorly and youll make bank too
 
warren buffet seems to thin GE is going places, he invested 2 bil in it, he knows his shit

i think if you want a power trio of money making invest in aig, lehmann, and general motors
 
Even "proffesional" advice is biased as to how that guys stock is doing at the time. The safest way is just to follow the basics for moderately aggressive investments for long term. However, if you are doing one of those games for class with no real risk, go crazy and invest in a lot of different companies. Don't bank on one or two.
 
Lehmann would be hard to invest in since they no longer exist. Anyways the way to win a game like this is to take on crazy risk. If they let you do fun stuff you need to make bets in the futures market since that will allow you to get the most leverage. If that is not an option just find some stock with a really high or low beta and hope guess which way the market is going to move next.
 
sell short GM right now, theyre closing down one of thier plants and dropping most of thier SUVs stocks will plummet for a little
 
well first you should discuss how classroom stock market game is pointless because you should not be investing in equities with out at least a 3 year time horizon. more aprpriat 5 years that being said. right now in the current economic climate for financials i love BAC but for you class game it wont have enough time to come back. i would look at pepsi PEP or procter and gamble PG people aint going to stop drinking soda or eating potato chips cause the economy sucks PEP. and they aint going to stop buy toilet paper tooth paste or dish sopa either PG
 
yeah but look at the fine print buffet didnt just buy the common stock they created a new preferred for him that pays him a 10% dividend. he pumped capitol in tand they are paying him for it. i wouldnt hold your breath.
 
history says your an idiot. if you look at the long trerm return of gold it cant even compare to the s&p plus its twice as volital dont get mne wrong there are certain times when gold can be profitable but a historic view say over the long term your betteroff in treauries then gold! annaul average return for gold over the last 100 years 1.27% annual average fro treasuries 3.4 s&p 10.81%
 
If you're betting on a recession, think of companies that manufacture inferior goods. They would prosper if people have less money to spend.
 
sin stocks are good in a recession

boos guns and gambling ha ha, but as i said earlier think of things people need that they wont cut down on because they have less money. like tooth opast adn toliet paper. PG proctor and gamble

 
wow..calm down..

when people are losing faith in securities, it makes sense to invest in commodities..

Gold in 2001: $276.50

and in 2008: $836.50
http://www.kitco.com/gold.londonfix.html

even if your figure for annual average return is correct..that is over 100 years. In much shorter, though still longterm bursts gold is very profitable.. BUT OVERALL it is a safe bet.

During the Great Depression I am pretty sure that some of the wealthiest investors got out of securities and invested their money in gold because of its relative safety. Gold has always been valuable. You might lost value but you won't lose everything.

Obviously this isn't professional stock advice.. just my opinion.

 
well if you bought gold 2 years ago yeah burt coming out of the great depression it sucked. gold from 1930 -1936 only gained only 2.7% average annual return over that time period. the s& p average over 11% so if you think you can market time great gold is good going into a recession but sucks in recovery. and i think we are cloer tro the bottem then the top so my bet is gold will suck stocks will be good over the next few yaers
 
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