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A monkey throwing darts at an SP500 list would have performed well over the last decade.
It must have a dividend if it's an individual stock.
I look for:
1. consistent earnings growth for the last few years
2. a low p/e ratio like 20 or less (they can have a higher one if they have good growth)
3. a business I understand
Plus no dumb sjw bullshit, sjw crap sign of stupid management
My dad had no idea about stocks. I first learned about getting a brokerage account when I was an intern at Intel. Another guy there asked if people wanted to go in with him on a trade so we could all split the commission, which was like $100 at the time. I think three of us bought the stock in the one guy's account and made some money. We had to trust him not just to keep our money, but he proved himself trustworthy.
Then I opened an account and made a few hundred dollars on Catalina Marketing, which was the first to put ads on the back of store receipts. I was hooked.
I remember having to use a payphone from engineering school to trade. No cellphones then. And I'd be excited to get the newspaper to check how my stocks were doing.
BayArea saysA monkey throwing darts at an SP500 list would have performed well over the last decade.
True, there's a saying: "Don't confuse a bull market with your own ability to pick stocks."
Booger saysIt must have a dividend if it's an individual stock.
Most of my stocks pay a dividend, but the best one I ever picked doesn't pay one: SHOP That's why I started looking at revenue growth as my main criterion.
daytrading strategies are totally different.
@Eman I bought SHOP because I was not impressed with a company I used to work at, a competitor of SHOP which frankly sucks by comparison.
I had the choice to exercise options at the sucky company after quitting, but I knew that they were not going to do well, so I put the money into SHOP instead.
It has gone up 48x since then.
This has made me re-evaluate my trading strategy.
Patrick saysI look for:
1. consistent earnings growth for the last few years
2. a low p/e ratio like 20 or less (they can have a higher one if they have good growth)
3. a business I understand
I pick the biggest dumpster fires on Wall Street Bets hoping to get rich from the next short squeeze.
BayArea saysA monkey throwing darts at an SP500 list would have performed well over the last decade.
True, there's a saying: "Don't confuse a bull market with your own ability to pick stocks."
Booger saysIt must have a dividend if it's an individual stock.
Most of my stocks pay a dividend, but the best one I ever picked doesn't pay one: SHOP That's why I started looking at revenue growth as my main criterion.
Tell me the stock market is in a bubble without telling me the stock market is in a bubble:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1412080378530066438
I am long oil stocks. Thanks to the OPEC meeting today ending in complete chaos, I am going to be a very happy camper when the market opens tomorrow. $100 barrel oil here we come!
If you’re re-evaluating your “trading” strategy, then why establish the above criteria? Wouldn’t that have been more for investing?
I go with index funds. 50% domestic, 25% international, 25% commodities. Max out the 401(k) every year.
Low cost. Dollar cost average. But then again I'm still building the nest egg for retirement and don't need to tap into it yet.
I also kick myself for not venturing into crypto. My buddy was trying to convince me to buy into Etherum back when it was $30.. then again at $300.
I am long oil stocks. Thanks to the OPEC meeting today ending in complete chaos, I am going to be a very happy camper when the market opens tomorrow. $100 barrel oil here we come!
Just use one of the 'Dogs of the Dow' or 'Dogs of the S&P500' methods of organizing your blue chips by dividend yield and picking the top ten and re-balancing annually, to use the long term cap loss in your favor.
Are you just referring to the inevitable production of cap losses that will be produced some years due to annual rebalancing and selling a dog that may have fallen in share price? And using that loss to hopefully offset cap gains from that year (and carry unused losses forward if needed)? Or something more elaborate?
How do u prevent picking dow stocks that might get kicked out of dow. ?
Some of the most iconic companies in U.S. history have been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. They include General Electric, AT&T, Sears, and General Motors.
Value stock appreciation in 3 years: 2%
Growth stock appreciation in 3 years: 265%
I am willing to bet that AAPL is up more in the last month than any value stock will be in an entire year. AAPL just made an all time high as I am writing this, per CNBC.com
Bingo. Go growth and layer on options for income and hedging and that's how you drastically outperform the market. The trick is you have to be OK with volatility.
I guarantee you in 3-5 years AAPL will double again, heck it just went up about 20% in a month, but that's because it was basing for the prior 6 months.
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1. consistent earnings growth for the last few years
2. a low p/e ratio like 20 or less (they can have a higher one if they have good growth)
3. a business I understand