<p>For those who invest in the stock market or on a virtual stock exhange, what criterias do you use in picking companies to invest in? What documents do you analyze? Do you invest for immediate gains or for the long-term?</p>
<p>theres so many investment styles, best way to learn is go to message board, in yahoo message board you actually learn quite a bit. Usually when you go to a stock on yahoo you go to the message board and people on there will post why they got in n w/e you'll learn along the way. Theres also a lot of penny stock pumpers on message board so just be careful </p>
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<p>I've actually read all pages on the "Chart School" icon of the stock chart website, I make it imperative to read Businessweek, WSJ, Thestreet, watch CNBC and learn at least one new thing about finance every single day. I don't really invest in the stock market yet(just dabble on a virtual portfolio with the possibility of running an actual mutual fund; some people might know what I'm talking about:)) and if I do, it wouldn't be in penny stocks so I don't have to worry about a "pump and dump". I started the thread as a forum of discussion for those interested in investing and hopefully learn something I don't already know or better methods of investing.</p>
<p>i'm investing in a bunch of foreign index funds, china;s fund gave a 40% return last year, so did the singapore fund.</p>
<p>EDIT: besically, index funds in developing countries. </p>
<p>I also used to hedge options, but that's rather quantitative balancing than investing.</p>
<p>I worry about the stability(or should I say unstability) of foreign markets so I tend to stay away from currencies on ForEX and securities of foreign entities.</p>
<p>Maybe when I become more of an expert.</p>
<p>rule 1 : never invest money you cant lose</p>
<p>Being an econ guy and not a business guy, I'm much more comfortable with foreign bonds and commodities. If I want in on equity, I just buy index funds. Buying shares of individual companies just seems odd to me, unless:</p>
<p>a) you've got enough money to buy significant voting power; or
b) you've got access to inside information.</p>
<p>penny stocks are cool if you have little money cuz a) you lose all your money or b) or double it or triple it in one day =D</p>
<p>benefit of investing in companies is you can kind of predict whats gonna happen next</p>
<p>the reason I invest in index funds of china, brazil, australia, singapore, thailand, south africa is because i have some contacts to high authorities in those countries for inside information. </p>
<p>I agree with you completely nauru, i would feel weird investing 10,000 dollars just in Dell or Apple.</p>
<p>Wow. How'd you get those type of contacts, Untilted?</p>
<p>...um insider trading, SEC, martha stewart...</p>
<p>have you ever seen the movie wall street?</p>
<p>What business major hasn't?</p>
<p>I just bought some OXGN options high risk weee either a) i lose ~$800 or b) i make $20k</p>
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<p>me. :P </p>
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<p>"penny stocks are cool if you have little money cuz a) you lose all your money or b) or double it or triple it in one day =D</p>
<p>benefit of investing in companies is you can kind of predict whats gonna happen next"</p>
<p>yeah I'm with you. I put in some spare cash a few months ago just for the fun of it. Lost 25% the first day, made 100% the next week, then lost 50%... you got to love the volatility and the adrenaline rush that comes with it :P</p>
<p>sounds like you were trading subpennies scorpion</p>
<p>yeah, i had one hurricane stock (ecci), and the rest were pretty much subpennies. (bhub, lsmj, mume, and more. now I'm in gbdx and lets see where that goes)</p>
<p>lsmj daamn when'd you get in</p>
<p>some of these investment "styles" aren't styles at all. They are simply gambling, with no theoretical basis whatsoever...</p>
<p>got in at .0008, after the first run. I figured that the bhub thing killed it, and so i was got out at .0004, and went in mume for 50% gain. It wasn't one of my better trades lol.</p>