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And can anyone tell me how I can determine how many shares a company has issued?
MIC, that is an awesome response and very nice of you to take the time to help answer those questions for poster follownoone.
http://beginnersinvest.about.com/ : Great resource for beginning investors and experienced investors wanting to tighten up on their game. I have been reading article after article.
Not a problem. Love to learn and help.
This was very helpful. Thanks for the info.
Came across your link via Newbie's board and figured I'd give your questions a shot. Note I'm only student and have been in the market for less than 2 years now, so I'm not a great source, but here I go anyway.
1. How to measure the economy?
In the US we have the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). They offer GDP data and various interactive data tools. Thier site is here (www.bea.gov) Please note that sometimes the data isn't always what it looks like so following someone like Peter Schiff and checking his site and his YouTube channel for his personal analysis would be a great idea. I consider Peter Schiff to be a genius. He knew that the government involvement with mortgages was going to cause a bubble and eventually burst and cause a recession. Mind you, during the time he was warning about this all the government came out and said that since real estate is a tangible asset there would not be a burst like in the dot-com boom. Obviously after what happened in 2008 we now know Peter was right. Of course he wasn't the only one who warned of this, but he and Ron Paul were two of the big ones.
2. What cycle of the economy are we in?
If by cycle you're asking between the boom and bust cycle, the answer is a boom. Big board stocks and blue chips have rallied recently big time and caused a bull market. However, this isn't a sign of recovery. It's the FED (Federal Reserve) printing money to tune of billions of dollar a month to help give the imprecision all is well. Nothing more than a government fraud in my opinion. This can go over and the bubble can burst at any time causing big losses or the FED might continue doing its thing causing the markets to go up while taking away value from our dollar since the more money they print to give the impression all is well the less value there is the dollar already in the market.
3. What businesses / sectors do well in each cycle?
I like looking at the Markets Data Center from Wall Street Journal (link here: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/page/marketsdata.html). Under the US Stock tab they have a panel for Industries/Sectors you can use that to track different Industries/Sectors and check their performance
4. How does the dollar and gold/silver relate to each other
Well the dollar is a currency and gold/silver are pressisious metals. Since we are no longer on the gold standard the dollar is a fiat currency and is simply faith based. We assume it to be worth a dollar not because of its value, but because you are told that's its value. The dollar actually lost over 90% of its purchasing power since 1913. (Chart here: http://www.small-business-goldmine.com/images/MeltingDollar-1913.gif)
5. How do you evaluate a company for investment?
There is a lot of different metrics. Google fundamental analysis a lot of stuff will come up. Your broker most likely even has a lot of learning material on their site. They have a very strong incentive to teach fundamental analysis since when you make better trades you trade more often with larger amounts thus driving them more commission. Ask them if they have a knowledge center on their site or try to look it up.
6. How to read charts for short / long investments?
Reading chart is a lot to learn. I recommend learning moving averages and stochastic oscillators. Moving averages will show you trends and stochastic oscillators will tell you when a stock is overbought or oversold. You can learn a great deal from stockcharts.com they have a charting service as well as a charting school and education center.
7. What are the various reports that measure the economy and where can I get them from and when?
See answer to question 1
8. What indexes to pay attention to and why?
Well if you want to sounds intelligent, I’d say track the majors one. But in terms of usefulness I'd say gather a list of indexes and try to understand what they track, if they cover a segment of the market that you think is important to your investing/trading strategies and analysis pick those indexes to track.
9. What to look for in international economies and how they relate to and affect the US economy?
I was watching an interesting video clip where an investment manager said he likes domestic stocks with international exposure so he can buy the stock on the NYSE for instance and if it has exposure to China and China does well his investment would capture sales and revenue from China doing well. He also said something I found to be funny, that he looks which countries they are installing the most elevator in because elevators are a sign of more large buildings and corporate offices. Not sure how that acutely works out though.
10. When to invest long and trade short?
Not sure if you mean long vs. short term or long vs. short positions. Long vs. short term is hard to say and is a matter of one’s personal analysis. Long vs. short positions, I'd say if you thing there is upside potential go long and if you see downside go short, but keep in mind shorting is very serious and losses are technically unlimited.
11. What signs to look for to short a company?
Overvalued companies, companies with legal problems, declines in sales and/or equity
Returning back to the basics : Recent losses prompted me to hit the reset button and really dig deep into my investor education. Here are some questions I came up with over the weekend and appreciate any direct explanations or links:
1. How to measure the economy?
2. What cycle of the economy are we in?
3. What businesses / sectors do well in each cycle?
4. How does the dollar and gold/silver relate to each other
5. How do you evaluate a company for investment?
6. How to read charts for short / long investments?
7. What are the various reports that measure the economy and where can I get them from and when?
8. What indexes to pay attention to and why?
9. What to look for in international economies and how they relate to and affect the US economy?
10. When to invest long and trade short?
11. What signs to look for to short a company?
Thanks.
You have probably found out by now but, the lack of color is because the price paid was between the bid price and the ask price so it is not classified as either a buy nor a sell.
You know when someone sells it shoes up as red and when
Someone buys it shows up as green, what does it mean when there is no color what does that represent? Does anyone know?
There was a good one called mffais.com but they don't give out that free info anymore. You can look at this one for daily inst ownership:
http://www.insidercow.com/notLogin/latestInstitutional.jsp
Quiz Time! Does anyone know a website or free software to chart out or detect institutional trading on a stock. Something to show if a institution/mm/hedge funds is buying and selling a stock. P.S i need one that does pink sheets. TIA!
Ok, thanks for your help!
Yes, you would put in a limit order to sell at .0002 and hope that you get filled.
Sorry, 0.0002.
Ok thanks. And how would I sell it at 0.002? Is it the same idea?
Just put your order in as a limit for .0001. Leave it there and if you are lucky it may fill on at the bid.
How would I buy a stock like ELAY at 0.0001 with a limit order?
Wrong board. Read the sticky. Ihub questions don't belong on this board.
Which penny stocks can you transfer to Etrade? Etrade generally does not accept any penny stocks from another broker unless you are bringing over a good deal of other stock and cash and there aren't too many pennies in your port.
Use Etrade, they don't have a surcharge like share builder. I had the same problem and just switched over. You can also transfer your stock for a fee ...
I use ShareBuilder but, the Low Price Security Surcharge is killing me..
Anyone know of a goodBroker for sub-pennies?
Hi Lucas, how is the learning process going? Have you been able to find what you have been looking for?
I'm just wondering....
What are the rules in regards to Market Maker employees posting on iHub?
What are the rules in regards to Market Maker employees influencing iHub boards?
Is there any way to verify if someone is a Market Maker employee?
If one is suspicious of an iHub poster being a Market Maker employee, who would one report them to?
Thanks for your time and understanding,
Dwayne
I could be wrong, but I think your cash balance more than covers it. Full value is 1500 plus you need an additional half of that which would be 750 - that is under your 3k cash amount. If it goes down your full margin amount - the 6k will be the broker's collateral. But when and if they give you a margin call I am not sure. If I were you I would get on the phone with your broker - or better yet, email them this way you have your explanation in writing.
? about Shorting Stock / Margin Trading:
Example: I have a $6,000 margin account with $3,000 accounting for cash. I want to short sell 100 shares of JDOE that costs a total of $1500.
Although I have more than enough liquid capital to borrow the shares, do I still have to get $750 in a margin loan from eTrade even though I have $3,000 in cash?
OR
Do I just borrow the shares up until the cash value that I have before they call it if the cost gets near or exceeds the liquid amount that I have in my account?
Any clear explanation on how this works is appreciated.
On the right...."show intro"
Did u read the ibox? - it has a bunch of links.
Good luck Lucas. There are plenty sites out there to glean from. Here is one that I like. http://perfectstockalert.com/
Simple easy to follow videos.
Im just starting out does anyone have any websites that i can go on and get some good pointers
they were on the grey market first...no shares and no trading
all disapered
Looks more like a suspension from what I could see. If that is the case you still have your shares and hopefully it begins trading again soon.
Excellent! Thank you :)
just by what that stated
I just looked it up and it appears that it is an SEC suspension (temporary). Where do you see that they filed to go private?
nothing like that here is a reply to an investor
hope is not against the board rules
Just got off the phone with Brook. Here is what he said:
1. They are still in full product development.
2. They are about to bring on another advisor to act as a CFO.
3. They are still launching the product this fall.
4. Since they have not yet launched the product, it is still hard to raise funds.
5. The SEC said that since they haven't filed anything recently, MTVO had to file or go private.
6. Even though Brook doesn't have money for audits and filing paperwork, we still own our shares.
7. In the future, they may file again, or they may stay private going forward.
8. Bottom line, we still have our shares.
Hope that is helpful to everyone.
I am not a chartist so someone else will have to chime in on that.
When a stock goes private there is usually a cash value given to shareholders. If you didn't receive anything there may have been some type of corporate action, such as a rev split, that wiped out the current shareholders.
1. Does having a margin account also remove the 3 day settlement restriction for OTC/Pink trades? I know that most brokers consider penny stocks to be non-marginable. However, if I restrict myself to trading within my account balance, will the margin account cover my settlement period and allow me to both buy and sell another OTC stock before the 3 day settlement is over?
There will be NO 3 day restriction if you have a margin account. Doesn't matter if they are otc's or big boards. If you are using your own money and not borrowing you shouldn't have any problem.
2. With a margin account with less than 25k, are only trades that are both bought and sold in the same day counted towards the 3 day-trade limit? For example, lets say I do this:
Monday: Purchase stock A
Tuesday: Purchase stock B, C, and D and sell them all the same day.
Wednesday: Purchase stock D
Thursday: Sell stock D
Friday: Sell stock A
The pattern day trading rule would apply if you purchased the same equity and sold it on the same day. Your example would constitute 3 day trades because on Tuesday you purchased B, C, and D and sold them the same day. They are three different equities so you would have been charged with three daytrades for Tuesday. Doesn't matter if you did all of them in one day. Matters how many you do.
3. If you have a margin account above 25k and get the "Pattern day trader" status, are there no more restrictions? Or does that have its own set of rules?
As long as you stay above 25k you will be fine. No, there are no other restrictions. If you fall below 25k you could get an Equity Maintenance call and they will suspend your account.
2 Chart Questions: What is the best timeframe to use when swing trading? And roughly how many indicators must line up to get a 50%+ success rate (not necessarily a net profit but just that the chart moves in the direction indicated)?
a question for this board
what happen to the shareholders when a ceo decide not to file anymore?
and the sec delisted and they went private?
stock not trading
any recourse?
I have a couple of follow up questions to steven's question:
1. Does having a margin account also remove the 3 day settlement restriction for OTC/Pink trades? I know that most brokers consider penny stocks to be non-marginable. However, if I restrict myself to trading within my account balance, will the margin account cover my settlement period and allow me to both buy and sell another OTC stock before the 3 day settlement is over?
2. With a margin account with less than 25k, are only trades that are both bought and sold in the same day counted towards the 3 day-trade limit? For example, lets say I do this:
Monday: Purchase stock A
Tuesday: Purchase stock B, C, and D and sell them all the same day.
Wednesday: Purchase stock D
Thursday: Sell stock D
Friday: Sell stock A
Would that be ok? And if so, when is the next time I could make a same-day buy/sell? Would it be the following Tuesday?
3. If you have a margin account above 25k and get the "Pattern day trader" status, are there no more restrictions? Or does that have its own set of rules?
Sorry I was typing fast....My experience was that I signed up online and transferred money and started trading pretty quickly with Etrade Pro..then within days of setup...one of their representatives called me and when I was talking with her I asked about pricing for the service and that is when she offered a free trial......just wanted to be more detailed for anybody else that may be new or wondering....thank you...
Thanks. I will give them a call.
You can try Etrade Pro when you are a new investor to Etrade.......they may even give to a free trial period if you talk with them on the phone.....without restrictions.....easy to set up /download /transfer money online....
ETF's, Commodity/Futures, Forex
I am looking for a list of all securities trading options that are available in the markets.
I generally stick to individual stocks but need to expand my investing quite a bit. Having a list of investing options to learn and explore will allow myself and other beginning investors to expand our investing.
Here is what I can think off of the top of my head. Please add to anything that I am missing. Mods, if we can make a list a sticky, that may be helpful for other beginning investors:
* Individual Stocks
* Bonds (State, Municipal, Government, Corporate, Junk)
* REITS (Real Estate Investment Trusts?)
* Mutual Funds
* Options Trading (Calls and Puts)
This is all that I can think of right now.
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