stock exchange

[horsepwr]

What's the best, fastest way to buy stocks?

and what would you buy a few shares of right now?

[AmericanViking]

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Not sure what's hot right now since the market has been plummeting, but e-trade is suppose to be an easy site.

[daved150]

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gm...ford.
payne webber and a credit card
merryl lynch and the same card (bank card or whatever)

gm and ford aint going anywhere!!!

[Akamai]

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Scottrade Etrade or tdamerica all internet brokers.



I would look more towards stocks that have a decent dividend.


Akamai

[firstenrgy]

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Scottrade Etrade or tdamerica all internet brokers.



I would look more towards stocks that have a decent dividend.


Akamai

I would stay clear of stocks right now although I think we have hit a remp low in an orverall bear market.

You can make money shorting stocks but an easy was is to be short in a fund. Call letters are RYVNX (200%short the nasdaq) Been in and out of it for a year nor and has made quite the return recently.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui

[3Vandoo]

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I would go in the big

google is low now,
microsoft too
GE
Nvidia

stay away from natural ressources for a bit, wal mart since people needs stuff all the time.

also tifany, apple and dell are some good ones

[dixiechick]

Bargin days at the Stock Market

When you've got Home Depot stock selling at $19.75 a share, Walmart at $51.39, Coke at $41.50 (I bought mine at $46 in '92)...

You have to buy stock through a broker... look for a discount broker like ETRADE.com, www.Scottrade.com, tdameritrade.com...

Despite what some people say this is actually a great time to buy stocks, but you need to be able to hang on to the stock until the market gets better and that might take awhile. Only invest money that you won't need for up to 5 yrs or more.... no one really knows how long it will take.

IMO I would buy blue chip stock... solid companies, like Coke, Pepsi, Apple IBM, Walmart, Proctor Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, UPS, etc., and I would look at companies that pay dividends. I'd reinvest the dividends. Be sure and do some research on them... make sure they aren't in trouble (like bankruptcy such as Kmart, Sears, Delt just to name a few).

In '87 when the market crash, black monday, I bought my first stock... Walmart. It was at $21 a share on monday, and I bought it on Tuesday at $27. I sold it in '92. No I didn't make a killing, but I made enough to put down on my first house.

[horsepwr]

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gm...ford.
payne webber and a credit card
merryl lynch and the same card (bank card or whatever)

gm and ford aint going anywhere!!!

that's exactly what I was on when I posted this thread. and I still haven't bought any. GM, Ford and GE are at the top of mind. Someone else mentioned GE too. Companies like that aren't going anywhere, like dave said. They ain't folding in any crash. But when they're beat down like they are, it's times like these that fortunes are made of. When I'm 'hooker' rich again, I'm buying. I don't care to hear anybody 10 years from now telling me about how they bought a few hundred shares of this and that back in the '08 market crisis..."and now my couple hundred shares is $1.7..." you know the story. I've heard it too many times already from missed opportunities.

[dixiechick]

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Now if I could find a company that will trade my house for some stock....

[daved150]

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Now if I could find a company that will trade my house for some stock....

call chrysler

[firstenrgy]

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that's exactly what I was on when I posted this thread. and I still haven't bought any. GM, Ford and GE are at the top of mind. Someone else mentioned GE too. Companies like that aren't going anywhere, like dave said. They ain't folding in any crash. But when they're beat down like they are, it's times like these that fortunes are made of. When I'm 'hooker' rich again, I'm buying. I don't care to hear anybody 10 years from now telling me about how they bought a few hundred shares of this and that back in the '08 market crisis..."and now my couple hundred shares is $1.7..." you know the story. I've heard it too many times already from missed opportunities.

Be careful! This is a different ball game now. we are coming to an end of a long economic expansion and period of easy credit that we will more than likely never see again in 20-30 years+.
When the dow was at 12,000 I sold 50% of my portfolio 13,000 sold 50% again 13,500 I liquidated all stocks. The dow hit 14,000 and I was having the missed opportunity blues too but now I'm looking like a genious.

[trip]

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etrade or scottrade

very simple easy cheap systems

gm ford, no no no no no

i've been 95% cash for a year

and i ain't buying nothing yet

today 80% of other stock exchanges in the world hit new yearly lows

we just broke too new closing lows, or will in a few minutes

this is not the time too buy

what has happened to the financial system is historic

worldwide people have too much debt and not enough profit too cover the debt payments, that is why the market is going down, people are raising cash

plus, you have very smart people who have been shorting stocks, like crazy for a year

i repeat this is not the time too buy

if you have spare money, pay off your own debt, credit cards, car payments, and extra mortgage payments

stocks go up when folks have spare money to invest and that is when the economy is good, that time is not now, like firstenergy says, what has happened is changing things for now, and we do not know what it will change into

[horsepwr]

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appreciate the input trip. I guess I'll just swindle my way into some new toys for my toys instead. It's getting more difficult to justify this and that past the wife though. 'but I need such&such because...', you know the bit. She's starting to pull the, "well that sounds like a good Christmas gift", when I mention my next mod. and I have no patience. When I decide on something that I want, I can't wait no 2 months.

[snickers1]

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What's the best, fastest way to buy stocks?

and what would you buy a few shares of right now?

i am heavily in it and i have a financial adviser that set up mu portfolio and made sure i was very diversified, so with that said right now i try not to look at my accounts cause it makes me sick... but you don't put your money in the stock marker cause you plan taking it out tomorrow you should in for the long run... ride out the ups downs...

[horsepwr]

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i am heavily in it and i have a financial adviser that set up mu portfolio and made sure i was very diversified, so with that said right now i try not to look at my accounts cause it makes me sick... but you don't put your money in the stock marker cause you plan taking it out tomorrow you should in for the long run... ride out the ups downs...

yeah, I'm in for the long haul on some things already. I'm just wanting to buy into some things that I couldn't afford that many shares of in the past, and hold on to them as well. multiply the splits, and watch the decimal point move...in the right direction, that is, here sooner or later...hopefully sooner