With $7,000 what type of small and if possible quick investments would you suggest?

Answer 1

Invest in yourself - buy some books on investing in stocks. Then put $1000 in a mid-cap index fund, put $1000 in a "trading" account where you pick stocks, and put the other $5000 in a money market fund.

Try to pick some stocks with your trading account. You may make money or lose money, but the odds are very low that over a period of two or three years you will make more money trading then you will just in indexing. If you did, congratulations maybe you're one out of the 100 people who can pick stocks, or maybe you just got lucky. Wait another year to see.

Do more research on Index funds, specifically the academics behind them. Markowitz, Sharpe, Fama, French, etc. Read a book by Bogle. When you're convinced that Index funds are the way to go, and you will be, put the rest of your money in an Index fund.

If you have a very long time horizon and want to get the same results with less capital, you can do leveraged indexing. I run a web site that shows people how to do it with options, but don't visit it until you've learned all about the basics of indexing. There's also the Ryder funds and ProShares ETFs too of course.

Nobody on Wall Street profits if you index. They want you to trade your brains out and make them rich on commission fees, and then give up and give your money to them and pay active management fees until the day you die. Indexing is the cheapest way to invest and the small cost savings add up to 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars over a lifetime of working.

Answer 2

If you don't need the money in the very immediate future, I'd recommend opening a brokerage account (www.scottrade.com, www.tradeking.com) and buying exchange traded funds (these are mutual funds that trade on the stock market like stocks) that track the S&P 500 (a listing of the 500 most important US companies). Quick, easy, and you don't have to do a lot of research, or risk losing a lot of money on a bad stock.

Two examples are the iShares fund (IVV) or the SPDR fund (SPY.) Good luck.

Answer 3

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Microsoft MP3 Ruling Could Spell Trouble for Other Companies
Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 AM - by Jeff Gamet
The U.S. District court in San Diego, California, ruled that Microsoft must pay Alcatel-Lucent US$1.52 billion in damages for infringing on MP3 encoding and decoding patents. Should Microsoft lose an anticipated appeal on the ruling, it may mean more than a hit to the software company's bottom line. It could also mark the beginning of lawsuits against other companies that think they have properly licensed MP3 technology.
Computerworld reports that the Alcatel-Lucent lawsuit started in 2003 and originally claimed that Dell and Gateway Computer were infringing on 15 patents with technologies used in the Windows operating system. In an effort to discourage suits against companies that resell its operating system, Microsoft filed a declaratory action stating that it should be targeted with a suit. Alcatel-Lucent bit and sued Microsoft.
The court ruled that Microsoft's Windows operating system does infringe on Alcatel-Lucent patents that relate to MP3 technology. Microsoft contends that it properly licensed the technology for encoding audio files from Fraunhofer. The German company co-developed the technology with Bell Labs, which later became Lucent, and now is Alcatel-Lucent.



Acording to Apple's iPod MP3 players account for %30 of apple/s
totla revenues,and apple MP3 players account about 75% of Mp3-player
sales in the United States.This could be Huge im goiving the company
a phone call to see whats going on This could be a PTSC....

And it has only Outstanding Shares: 160,006,250 MP3 portfolio
opportunity THIS COULD DO A HUGE RUN ???

These patents can be regarded as `signposts' leading to the MPEG-2
and MP 3 data compression standards. Here a few details on some CPVD
patents:

US Patent 4682248: Audio and Video Digital Recording and Playback
System
US Patent 4755889: Audio and Video Digital Recording and Playback
System
European Patent EPO 237561: Audio and Video Digital Recording and
Playback System
European Patent EPO 140957: Audio Digital Recording and Playback
System
US Patent 4636876: Audio Digital Recording and Playback System
US Patent 4472747: Audio Digital Recording and Playback System
Canadian Patent 1237520: Audio and Video Digital Recording and
Playback System
Canadian Patent 518409: Audio Digital Recording and Playback System
Japan Patent 2053230: Audio and Video Digital Recording and Playback
System
Japan Patent 2596420: Audio and Video Digital Recording and Playback
System

Answer 4

By quick investments do you mean day trades or swing trades or am i not even close?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

put half in danskin inc(dans) and half in alteon(alt) before they take off (not after) imo