Posted on 03/01/2019 5:24:55 PM PST by TermLimits4All
Back when there was a financial cable channel, FNN, they ran a contest with high school kids making faux investments over a period and picking winners who then got their names read out over the television show.
I was watching one afternoon when they read out the names, and one of the kids was named Hugh Rection. I don’t think anyone at the network ever realized how they had been pwned.
Proctor & Gamble - they won’t make any profit on price but they’ll learn about dividends per share
you might also point out Nike’s recent price crash - as a result of a torn sneaker during a game. Which is learning about how a single defective product can cost a company billions in stock.
You become a business partner with someone.Do a credit check on the company or CEO and top VP. Products people will always use are good. Water, waste collection. Some of the health supplies especially that which reaches the geriatric market. (A lo of us are getting concerned about avoiding adult diapers.)
Invest in the life after this one. It lasts a lot longer. Run a credit check on the Biblical Jesus. God bless you.
The safest thing is to go with a fund and let them run it.
Look at what the largest retirement funds invest in.
Until end of the screwl year is strictly short term day trading territory. Throw darts, set limits, trade fast.
ARMN
It will be gold
Oops
I meant AMRN
Pic stocks kids can relate to like microsoft, Verizon, disney.
Amarin? I’ve got that one. It’s been good to me. I sold half for quick profits and regret it. It’s a keeper.
In fact not. Candle analysis and indicators somehow works. Using it you can clearly see the bad trades to avoid. All in all stock market is near all time highs in near all time long bullish period. One might think investing into stocks is not the best idea right now based on this very fact.
Show them how to find price - earnings ratios and that low is better than high, how to look at a 1, 5, and 10 year graph, how to look up dividends, and how to look for news of changes in senior executives once they’ve identified a potential target. Maybe a little bit about sectors and about volatility.
If you want to buy them some real stock, make them research companies in their areas of interest - industry leaders and secondary plays.
Don’t forget load and no load mutual funds (and closed end funds and index funds).
‘Candle analysis’ is a new one on me.
A friend of mine got nervous and bailed out of the dot.com bubble when it was only maybe a quarter of the way in. He thought he was very smart. Within weeks he took his loss and bought back in.
I only know one person who got out of the dot.com at the top. Market timing is a good way to lose money.
The DOW is only four hundred points from the best ever. We’re getting into liquidation territory and 26400 may be a potent resistance point. But with the still low intgerest rates, bonds are unattractive and money markets still return nothing. Stocks are the only place with potential right now, with buy and hold always being good advice.
Correct would be candlestick patterns. You might be right though.
Hershey’s, M&M Mars, Coca Cola, pretty much all the things people buy that aren’t good for them... especially as the holiday season approaches.
Until we know what it takes to win the contest, it’s hard to say. If it’s capital gain, I wouldn’t go with mature stocks like chocolate or candy. And since they aren’t playing with real money, maybe even look as the over the counter stuff. It’s a fun assignment for the kids, okay. But depending on how old the kids are, the burden of calculating P/E ratios and cash flow projections could drain the fun right out of the exercise.
Choose stocks that pay a reasonable (not too high or too low) dividend. ABR, CVI, KMI, TWO, SUN - to name just a few. Good earnings, very good dividends.
Very true forever...until the invention of ETF's.
I have always beaten the market and market professionals (just have a knack), but do it with ease now that I can invest in market sectors using ETF's.
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