im trying to invest in some stocks, which are the best short term?

Question

Is it better to stay with the biggest companies or go with other companies that aren't as well known?

Answer 1

It all depends on how much risk you are willing to take and what you purpose for investment is. Bigger established companies (the blue chips) are quite low risk, but they post lower returns than the smaller unknown companies with high growth rates. Remember that the higher the risks, the higher the returns and vice versa. Short term investment is an expensive and risky and is mostly done through the short selling stocks.
If your are investing for conservation of capital with modest returns, then I suggest more established companies with a low Beta. If your investing for capital gains, it will take a long time (ceteris paribus) for blue chips to post substantial capital gains. If your investing for the dividends, then the financial sector is a good place to be p.e. banks and brokerage firms have high dividend pay out ratios.

I'd recommend you to click on Yahoo! Finance, which is an excellent site for beginner-investors. The one thing you should never do is invest in a company without researching it. Check the income statement and the balance sheet, compare it to its industry to see how it's doing, check-out the ratios and compare and check-out the analyst ratings.

Answer 2

What do you consider short term? The stock market is best when you have a 5 + year horizon (Think about all those tech stocks during Feb. 2000, example JDS Uniphase was around $96, today, 7 years later it is $16.49 (and that is after a 1 for 8 reverse split). Try CD's, for best yields see www.bankrate.com

Answer 3

I think, with global warming becoming such an important issue, the best place to invest is wind energy. Here is a link on my favorite wind energy stocks, Tower Tech, TWRT.ob, and Gamesa, GCTAF.pk:

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewPost.aspx?postID=166

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Good luck.

Answer 4

First of all, when it comes to stocks, there is no such thing as "short term".
It is best to go with companies that are established, however, as far as new companies are concerned,go with the ones that seem to have a future. For example, when Kodak first came out, my grandfather immediately bought stock in them, saying "People are always going to need pictures". Look at Kodak now.

Answer 5

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