<p>I know most of you are business major (or maybe plan on becoming one), but how are you involved in learning about everyday business in our society? Do you watch MSNBC? Read Wall Street Journal online/offline? Participate in a club? Etc? Please do share. I am looking for some ideas.</p>
<p>I read investment banking books. :(</p>
<p>Hahah. Well I guess that's the best way to do it.</p>
<p>About how many hours do you work per day? Do you get weekends off?</p>
<p>buy stock... and then cry on days like today</p>
<p>I order free annual reports, read the wall street journal online, and read economics books.</p>
<p>I have reuters.com as my homepage. I also read books about finance/investing.</p>
<p>Opened a penny trading account, read Economic books, read Economist, (i know i know it's not all about business, but it's a great perspective) and read Trading books. Currently reading "Man behind the money:greenspan" </p>
<p>yeah. nerds. i want to major in IR too. go figure.</p>
<p>"Opened a penny trading account"</p>
<p>I thought you have to be over 18.</p>
<p>Sent in all the forms and have my checking with 500 dollars :) So by the time the mail gets there hehe. </p>
<p>Birthday's in 2 days =)</p>
<p>read the wsj/ft/hbr, and watch cnbc religiously</p>
<p>cnn here. cnn>cnbc =P congrats on Wharton dude. be nice if one of CC member hits fortune 500 and mentions CC :)</p>
<p>cnbc>bloomberg>cnn</p>
<p>You guys should read a series 7 study guide, its interesting, informative and will allow you guys to now the more technical aspects of trading</p>
<p>Manage my business (FX trading+liquidity), starting up a finance club (if the school passes it that is), internship at a HF, read a bunch of magazines (economist, blommys). Prefer WSJ over FT. FT feels so "bread and butter-ish" while WSJ is more of a "bread, butter, and gravy".</p>
<p>P.S. why anyone would study for the series 7 unless it was required for the job is beyond me lol. If you want to know the practical aspects of trading, just check out some good books on them. Much more entertaining than a 6 hour exam.</p>
<p>Anyone here watch Mad Money?</p>
<p>I watch it sometimes cause I like to laugh at his antics. Zero net investment value but a whole lot of entertainment.</p>
<p>He acts a lot crazier in person :) Quite a lot of people watch him. Amazing how almost every invester knows of him, Soros and Warren.</p>
<p>Most watch him for entertainment reasons as well . I doubt soros and buffett need Cramer to make their money (particularly when soros doesnt actively invest while buffett being a value investor probably cringes at Cramer's recs). Cramer's results get inflated because the stock prices pop up 10% to 22% as soon as he mentions them on the show. I would bet that a lot of money could be made by fading Cramer: short the stock when it open the next day after Cramer mentions it and close it for a few percentage points gain.</p>
<p>(Sorry, my post was a bit unclear. I certainly didn't imply that Soros or Warren ever bother to wtach him) Meant to say I find it humorous as those three are often the most publicized. </p>
<p>In a few other stock daytrading forums that's a thought that's passed around, shorting Cramer stock 2-3 days after.</p>
<p>For companies such as Apple and AMD which he heavily favors, they won't change much in prices, afterall the sheer volume of the stock being passed around is massive. However, for his low biotech companies, perhaps it would work.</p>
<p>I for one can't. Shorting is much too risky most of the time and being in school for the larger part of the day, I can't find stop the fluctation in time should something good happen. Although Cramer stands and makes a lot of money behind all his stocks (afterall, he knows full well ahead what companies he intends to give good PR to.) Smart guy.</p>
<p>He actually can't trade stocks like that (would be free money tho) after a SEC investigation. He can only have a charitable trust and owns just the shares of his company (thestreet I think).</p>
<p>first mahras you need to read what i wrote again, i said READ not study a series 7 study guide. Everything is inlcuded, from trading to regulations, the concepts for puts, calls, valuations, tax policies etc etc. It explains everything so people can better understand the market. Obiously there are other ways to learn this, but the study books give it to you in a concise way that is easy to read and understand. it is just another option</p>
<p>And when you said intern at hr, are you refering to a hedge fund, if so you are just crazy thinking that you could intern. Considering what, in undergraduate classes, the largest number of people heading off to a hedge fund may be at most 10 at prestigious colleges, the normal number being 2.</p>