Stock investment tips.

So certain events have occurred and I've decided to be a millionaire instead of a nurse, mainly to avoid any misunderstandings, since any misunderstandings would be big misunderstandings.

Anyway, I have my flaws, people misunderstand me, which I believe I have mentioned, perhaps I also am impatient and prefer to go my own way when learning things and end up out of the loop, not using the right terms and lingo, however on the plus side I have often been called a good judge of people/character and I believe I am quite competent and intelligent when I am committed.

What would be the absolute raw basics of investment then? I believe that I have the potential to become exceptional if I apply my finely honed reasoning skills to this task. I shall have my million in no time.

https://mtgox.com/
bitcoin as quadrupled in a month, I think its capped out and not worth investing in

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Oh I love beekeeping.

Hydrogen extraction from xylose (abundant plant sugar) breakthrough.

From the article.

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2013/04/040413-cals-hydrogen.html?utm_campaign=Argyle%2BSocial-2013-04&utm_content=shaybar&utm_medium=Argyle%2BSocial&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2013-04-04-08-30-00

' >The team liberates the high-purity hydrogen under mild reaction conditions at 122 degree Fahrenheit and normal atmospheric pressure. The biocatalysts used to release the hydrogen are a group of enzymes artificially isolated from different microorganisms that thrive at extreme temperatures, some of which could grow at around the boiling point of water.

' >“The potential for profit and environmental benefits are why so many automobile, oil, and energy companies are working on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the transportation of the future,” Zhang said. “Many people believe we will enter the hydrogen economy soon, with a market capacity of at least $1 trillion in the United States alone.”

Oh and I've changed my name because "Sambo" is also an obscure racial epithet and I do not waste my time on such things when there is a simple solution. I am pragmatic.

protip:

Buy Facebook while it's cheap.

>>166
thou jesteth.

You say that because facebook was made famous by the IPO debacle last year. I don't listen to hype though so I will look at facebook objectively.

At a glance facebook stock has stabilized at around 28, above its low of around 20 from August 2012 to November 2012, suggesting the IPO fiasco resulted in it being undervalued and it has since recovered.

Net income is 32 million. After reading their recent annual report and taking into account the 1.5 billion increase in R&D and marketing spending and I estimate this is the equivalent of around 1.5 billion invested in intangible assets making facebook an average performer.

Facebook is trying to diversify, releasing a smartphone, software and buying out successful startups. Facebook is already saturated with capital and prices are no longer volatile, so its value as an investment largely depends on the success of the innovations resulting from its massive spending. 32 million is suspiciously small, you could speculate that they limited spending to the most profitable investments using positive net income as a benchmark, despite having more potential investments. R&D spending increased by a billion from 388 million in 2011 to 1.399 billion in 2012 suggesting there may be administrative difficulties in managing this much research. Growth in facebook users and ad revenue is obviously winding down.

I would wait for more developments, research their upcoming products and try to take advantage of anticipated rises before selling shortly afterwards. I will not be investing in facebook, I believe my attention would be more productive elsewhere.

I'm a gay lord, but just on the weekends.

>>168
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I guess I will just have to continue being' Samooborona Charles !TzcAECrLis

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I eat dicks for the lord!

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>>174
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>>175'
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My advice: Read "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet"

Ignore gold. Ignore stocks, invest in bonds.

>>177
James Bonds?

Another material in the same "family" as graphene.

http://www.chem.uidaho.edu/faculty/ifcheng/graphene%20page.htm

Its imperfections give it superior properties.

SBO stands for Samooborona Bez Oruzhiya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo_(martial_art)

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>>179
As always I am highly skeptical of sources of information like this, instead of taking it literally I view it more as evidence to be judged.

Burton Malkiel and Mirriam MacWilliams have excellent credentials, but then are they telling us the whole story? It is easy to find a short cut then claim you buckled down and took the hard route. Then there is the fact that 1000s of other investors have seen and heard the same thing.

Burton Malkiel and Mirriam MacWilliams are worth the time since the evidence is high quality enough. Not sure about the others.

DUMP ALL UFC STOCK

THEY ARE ABOUT TO CRASH

EVERYONE IS DUMPING THEIR PVPs

Is KFC still OK

Was in a /pol/ bitcoin crash aftermath thread. OP posted this as an example of the merits of the other potential investments out there.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CHTP#symbol=CHTP;range=1y

"i had very big gains (=70%) with micron and amd last year"

>>181
What is a pvp? Is this the UFC you are referring to?
http://uk.reuters.com/business/quotes/chart?symbol=UFCS.P

>>182
Drop in quarterly earnings which you might want to look into but otherwise they look like an average performer, they have also come out recently with boneless wings which is good.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YUM+Key+Statistics

I have been doing far more than what I mention in this thread, I might share a few predictions later.

pol says the dollar is about to collapse.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52005

Again I will take this as evidence to be judged rather than literally.

How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore

http://os24.org/files/a-z/speculation/Jesse_Livermore-How_To_Trade_In_Stocks_(1940_original)-EN.pdf

CNAM has received a small amount of attention.

http://www.waste-management-world.com/news/2013/04/17/china-armco-metals-keeps-rising-up-5-4-in-2-days.html

>>186
Dogbert is meant to be cynical satire but he in fact turns out to be quite right about many things and I for one seek to emulate him.

So during my travels throughout the netweb I am getting the impression most other investors are interested in indexes and funds like TZA, FAZ, UPRO, UVXY, ETF and SPXA as well as a plethora of trend analyzing tools like bollinger bands. It is all very alien to what I currently consider to be sound investing.

This might not be too related to this thread,
since it's not HARDCORE DAY TRADING or whatever, but...
I'm going to start a Roth IRA soon. Any advice?
All I know about them is what I've read in a dozen blogs after performing a google search.

Is asking for advice in this thread a bad idea?

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>>189
If you're looking for technical details then I've got nothing.

In principle I approve, everyone needs a cache to fall back on in case of unexpected events in their life.

Should everyone be prepared to take on the optimal level of risk needed to gain the highest returns on their investment? Due to the law of diminishing returns $1000 is worth more to a poor man than a rich man, the differing impact of monetary losses means the poor man's optimal level of risk is lower.

Does a rich man need to bother with IRAs? A rich man is less likely to lose so much that he finds himself in poverty, however a proportionately smaller amount of money needs to be sequestered to keep him from poverty, IRAs serve as a suitable benchmark for how much should be saved.

You can't withdraw without paying fees and taxes until you are 59½ but who ever spends 100% of their money anyway? If like me you are trying to reach $1 million, you need not spend the $5000 at the bottom of your pile, an IRA could represent your bottom margin, if things really get bad you can always withdraw early but you are unlikely to.

I'm not sure how easy it is to play around with the money in your IRA, I assume they have a way to conveniently withdraw money from failing stock to IRA cash and allow you to invest it elsewhere. I suggest just investing mainly in low risk bonds and putting a little into stocks, mainly just to see what their response is when you try to move it around frequently.

>>190
If they can supposedly invest a few $100s and receive 20 times the returns in a few days why are they advertising it over the internet?

Today’s 50 Top Trending Stocks : http://club.ino.com/topstocks/?id=268376&ticket=7a96a7bcbbg06a07207606c074072

Still keeping tabs on this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10033806/Graphene-paint-could-power-homes-of-the-future.html

You ought to as well.

As with all new technologies they tend to experience a bubble like the dot com bubble and the railway mania, due to the unpredictability larger companies engaged in other reliable and related technologies might be more desirable. You will then have to carefully watch the market for the warning signs of a bubble, the NASDAQ increased 80% over 6 months from October 1999 to March 2000, far exceeding the last peak and becoming obvious, hopefully not just in hindsight, after December.

>>195
harder than diamond while being only one atom thick
what the fuck am I reading... to even explain the basis of my confusion right now would take a modest paragraph.

Anyway, it seems like it would be expensive and difficult to manufacture. Might have to wait a long while yet

>>196
' >it seems like it would be expensive and difficult to manufacture
This is the kicker, it is in fact now no longer expensive and difficult to manufacture.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/press.html

Graphite is an abundant mineral composed of carbon, its structure is many layers of graphene stuck together. They put a piece of sticky tape on some graphite and peeled off a layer of graphene.

' >harder than diamond while being only one atom thick
' >to even explain the basis of my confusion right now would take a modest paragraph
Long story short, carbon atoms can form 4 bonds. In diamond each carbon atom bonds with 4 other carbon atoms. In graphene each carbon atom bonds with 3 other carbon atoms. What happened to the 4th bond? It is "shared" among the 3 other carbon atoms.

In diamond, carbon atoms are bonded by a sigma bond. In graphene they are bonded by a sigma bond plus ⅓ of a delocalized pi bond.

Compared to other 1 atom thick materials graphene is a very strong material. Its unique properties can be used to produce superior materials with many different applications in industry. A rough example, airlines spend $200 billion on fuel every year, if a lighter stronger material reduced the mass of aircraft, reducing fuel costs, that would save around $2 billion for every 1% reduction in fuel costs, if a business commercialized graphene technology for this purpose and undercut existing technology they would receive a proportion of these savings. Even if their profits represent only 1% of these savings that is still $20 million. If you owned 1% of the shares in that company that would mean $200000, possibly a lot more as other investors get excited and pour their money into it. Hence the bubble I was talking about earlier.

Technology can be very profitable because products and services are very easily reproducible throughout the entire economy.

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>>198
Bravo.

>>197
It is worth mentioning in my example it would take many years to integrate new technology into the aircraft, begin production and  gain the benefits of reduced fuel costs. The financial benefits though would arrive quicker, after the business proves their new materials are the future the airline industry will need to employ them to begin the design and development process.