Posted on 01/28/2013 2:08:16 PM PST by dennisw
Trying to focus on the markets for today and each day and the economic news
A number of people have talked about such a thread. Lets see how it goes. This is where you can impart some investment wisdom to your fellow freepers. You can vent about the big one that got away. You can chime in how Obama is out to wreck American capitalism.
how did your day go as far as investments? Your opinion on today economic news?
I figure oil will rise as turmoil in the Middle East increases.
Plus, I don't think Obama will get anywhere with cap and trade over the longer term.
(BTW...have you seen Sony? If you had invested a month ago you would now be up about 50%.)
All financial news given to general public are lies. Big boys with special connections know what is REALLY going on and they make money on it. Public doesn’t have a chance.
Samsung is up greatly in the last 6 months as APPL has been sinking. Samsung is the worlds largest consumer of chips and supplies Apple with chips even as they sue and counter sue each other
You want get in on the ground floor for being pinged to this list?
ping list-— on off let me know
On, please.
I took a small position in FIO today. I see it’s down 3% in after hours, haha. No biggie. You have to expect some shenanigans with a stock with a >30% short interest. I’ll be buying more tomorrow unless they have some substantial news to dissuade me. It’s like compressing a spring and once it is released it goes back the other way. I wish ONVO would come back down but it will sooner or later.
You're right. We should just give up. Sorry you won't be joining us on the thread.
Please add me to the ping list.
well I used to have the ticker as a gadget on my laptop but now it is illegal or a copyright violation or some such so I have no clue what the market did today at this moment.
Put me on ping list Thanks
I don’t know if you can get CNBC live on the computer or not but you can go to Yahoo! Financials and build watch lists. Bear in mind they have a 15 minute delay. If you have a brokerage account they should provide you a trading platform.
I do have a brokerage account. What is a trading platform? (Someone I knew from high school does investing for me but I need to learn how to myself.)
Yes, please ping me.
Okay, how do you trade stocks now? If you wanted to buy or sell 100 shares of IBM (for an example) how do you accomplish that?
This will give you realtime market numbers and allow you to track stocks you own as well as stocks you might be watching in the event you want to buy shares.
We’re here to help you not embarrass you. We all had to start somewhere. Help us help you.
It used to be if I wanted some Microsoft or some such I would call schwab and put in an order with some limitations (or whatever you call them). Now, I have turned what little I have over to someone to invest for me (for a fee of course) in the hopes that I can retire in about 15 years. I don’t think I could buy anything now.
Now we're getting somewhere. That is called a "limit" buy. Nothing has changed. If you are still with Schwab, then you can call them and have them set you up to daytrade. You'll login and set your password and you should be able to call up streaming quotes. You build your stock lists and hit the trade button to either "buy" or "sell" with an open market or "limitations". Your brokerage should walk you through the process step by step. Plus you always have us to help you with the process.
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