Fidelity brokerage account has $5,000 cash balance to invest in equities. Looking for growth of capital over next 5 years. What would you buy?

Self ^ | April 1, 2021 | Self

[4Runner]

Checked The Motley Fool. Can't afford a subscription. Their guru David Gardner is supposed to be the bee's knees.

[dadfly]

ok, sorry about not using the term right. not a big stock player these days.

i guess what i mean is don’t sell anything if you can help it, and don’t buy anything you don’t need.

as an addendum, if you’re handy and creative, i mean that you should make it yourself or repair it yourself, if possible.

[Quilla]

Possibly private message. :)

[alexander_busek]

A ticket OUT of America to a SANE place!

No one ever suggests such a think and simultaneously says WHERE.

Regards,

[Chode]

oh don’t i know it... ny just passed legal pot

[Kevmo]

It’s been legal here in California for a while. Still the highest margin cash crop by far.

[Chode]

100%

[HKMk23]

Yes. UCT is diversified across different markets; they do a fair bit with medical equipment, for example. They are a contract manufacturer, and have a facility in Shanghai. They can serve both sides of the Pacific without being bound to Chinese suppliers. Their biggest clients have customers in China and Taiwan, but of the top five, second-place TSMC is in Taiwan, but the rest are not. Top-ranked foundry leader Samsung is in S. Korea, as is #4 Hynix; third-ranked Micron is here in the US, and the fifth-largest, Kioxia, is a Japanese firm.

UCT’s Top client, Applied Materials, has STRONG relations with all of the top four, placing millions of dollars in fab tooling in those foundries annually.

Strong demand at the foundries is a tide that raises all ships.

[Kevmo]

When China invades their renegade province Taiwan, all those ‘rising tide’ foundries will only be serving Asian countries. That makes Micron the better investment.

[HKMk23]

[sigh]

I remember the Cold War, when the American press used to tell everyone that the Soviets were that suicidal. Sure terrified a bunch of folks.

I was never a believer.
And I was right.

RE: Taiwan

I don’t believe the Chinese — for all their rhetoical idealism — are really that stupid.

They’re more like the eGOP: they make lots of noise about their position on things, but stop short of the implementation phase.

Yes, having Biden The Brain Cell in the White House surely tempts them, but then there’s the other 330,000,000 of us to deal with, AND a mammoth loss of status internationally.

I don’t see a win for Beijing.
I don’t think they see one, either.

[minnesota_bound]

I started with $13,000 in 2009 and bought Ford stock. It tripled that year (never again..) Starting in 2014 I bought apple then netflix then in 2016 nvidia then in 2018 AMD stock.
I now have 7 figures after taxes (nest year taxes) and was looking to retire but the stock is down like 20% as the wrong guy got in office.

I also borrowed money from the broker called buying on margin and was able to buy more stock otherwise. I tried Telsa but got out this year as it went down and went back to AMD. I will look at Starlink ipo when Elon Musk offers one.

I bought 1 stock at a time. I have a Yahoo finance page portfolio I call Money and have some 30+ stocks that I look at. I organize them in the order I have owned them and can at a glance see what stocks are doing well. If all red not to worry much as it is not my stock only affected. If mine is red and all others green then I worry !

[Kevmo]

[sigh]
People used to say the same things about the 3rd largest army in the world. And then Saddam invaded Kuwait.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Don’t risk what you can’t afford to lose. However, if you have extra that you want to take a chance with on some penny stocks that may possibly be big movers in the future, consider these:

AMYZF (American Manganese)—It has a patented process for recycling batteries. With a big switchover eventually coming to electric vehicles, this will be important. [Side note: After holding for four years, I sold half a million shares in March of last year for seven cents a share. Bad move. In December it topped $2.00 a share. Today it is at $1.23 a share.]

CWSFF (Cielo Waste Solutions)—They work on turning landfills into diesel fuel. With all of the landfills around, this may have promise. Today it is at 66 cents per share.

And, if you really want to take a really long-shot flyer on something, try this:

CWYGF (Carnegie Clean Energy)—It is a company that is working on harnessing ocean wave energy. As far as clean energy goes, while solar doesn’t work at night, and wind energy doesn’t work when the wind isn’t blowing, wave energy is constant. One problem is that it is only listed on the Australian stock market, and it requires an extra fee for foreign brokers to buy it. One positive is that it is currently only four-tenths of a cent per share. So you can buy 100,000 shares for only $400 (plus a foreign market fee, which may run anywhere from $15 to $50. I paid $15.). [Disclaimer: I own 450,000 shares.]

[HKMk23]

True, but got...what for it?

If anything, his little excursion laid the platform for a globally noteworthy demonstration.

Soviets, and Sino-commies are philosophically different beings than Islamist Sand Fleas. And — even among Islamists — Saddam was his own brand of twisted.
I don’t believe a Soviet regime abutting Kuwait would have done what Saddam did under the conditions he thought were to his advantage.
Nor do I believe a Sino-communist regime in those same circumstance would have indulged the nationalistic hubris Saddam did.

The incident is worth bringing to the table for discussion’s sake, but the differences between the major players being considered is, in my opinion, invalidating.

That stated, I DO believe that, if Taiwan had no border between it and the PRC but a political one, we’d be speaking about Taiwan in the past tense; that band of seawater giving an operating lane to the U.S. Seventh Fleet is crucial.

[HKMk23]

Yeahbut...you’re on a roll, so...

[SamAdams76]

I have had a 401(k) for 35 years now with much of it in Fidelity funds. Diversify the hell out of your portfolio and adjust it periodically as you get older (more towards fixed funds) but even at retirement, you should still have about 60% in equities. That's my advice. Don't go looking for fads or the "next big thing" or you can get burned.

I rolled into a seven figure balance a few years back with that approach.

[Kevmo]

The problem with fleets is they are slow moving easy infrared targets.

China will invade with a sampan “internal civilian immigration” force.

[Kevmo]

The Soviets DID invade Prague, did help crack down on Poland, did invade Afghanistan.

Those were separate countries, not renegade provinces.

[Pelham]

QS

[alexander_busek]

I remember the Cold War, when the American press used to tell everyone that the Soviets were that suicidal. Sure terrified a bunch of folks. I was never a believer. And I was right.

Actually, it's a good thing that that mindset (that the Soviets were suicidal) prevailed. If we had, instead, adopted a more lackadaisical attitude towards the Soviet threat, we might have enacted different policies, and the Soviet Empire might still be here today.

I, for one, am GLAD that President Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative (vulgo: the "Star Wars" Program).

Hysteria would have been inappropriate, but it was only due to our very staunch stance towards the Russkies that the "Evil Empire" outspent itself and, eventually, bled out.

So, in a way, you were actually wrong, HKMk23.

Regards,

[Kevmo]

Nowhere.

There is no where left to flee tyranny. We either turn and fight for freedom now... Or we luze it forever.

Rev 13:4
“Who is like the beast? And who can wage war against it?”