Stock Market Help!!!!?

Question

What are some stocks to invest in as of right now??

Answer 1

1. Do you know how to analyze stocks and do homework on them? if not, maybe you can get books such as:
Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson
Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World by Jim Cramer
One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch.

2. If you do know how to analyze stocks, here are a few starting points for your RESEARCH and STUDY:

1. Basic Materials:
a. FCX (Freeport McMoran, Gold and Copper)
b. ATI (Allegheny Technology)

2. Consumer Discretionary:
a. GME (Gamestop) -- Major gaming cycle is here (3 major consoles), large Generation Y
b. NTRI (NutriSystem) -- obesity problem is a long term trend
c. SNDA (Shanda Interactive) -- Chinese Online Gaming Company. Chinese Middle class is growing, and I can see them getting addicted to online games.
d. JBX (Jack in the Box) -- Regional fastfood (growth to be national) with Mexican Qdoba grill exposure. you remember the Chipotle (CMG) spinoff by Mcdonalds?
e. CKR (CKE Restaurants) -- Carl's Jr. Fast food and other fastfood chains. Good small cap fast food long term growth at a reasonable price?

3. Consumer Staples:
a. UL (Unliver) -- Much cheaper and better growth
than PG (Procter and Gamble)
b. HANS (Hansen) -- Growth Drink Company
c. PEP (Pepsi) -- Large diversified drink company
d. CEDC (Central European Distribution) -- Central
European drink company)
e. WBD (Wimm Bill Dann) -- Fast growing Russian
Diary and milk company. Look at the chart! Wait for
pullback?

4. Energy:
a. Integrated Oil:
COP (Conoco Philips)
b. Drillers:
ESV (Ensco)
GSF (Global Santa Fe)
c. Refiners:
VLO (Valero)
TSO (Tesoro)
d. Oil Sands Exposure
CNQ (Canadian Natural Resources)
e. Oil Services:
HAL (Halliburton)
SLB (Schlumberger)
f. Oil Shipping/Services
TDW (Tidewater)
g. Rigs and other oil services:
NOV (National Oilwell Varco)
RIG (Transocean)
h. Coal:
BTU (Peabody Energy)

5. Financial Services:
a. Brokers:
GS (Goldman Sachs)
LEH (Lehmann)
b. Banks:
JPM (JP Morgan)
IBN (Icici Bank) -- Indian Bank
KB (Kookmin Bank) -- Korean Bank
NBG (Natonal Bank of Greece) -- Greek Bank
c. Exchanges:
NYX (New York Stock Exchange-Euronext)
CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)
d. Others:
LUK (Leucadia), a mini Berkshire Hathaway
e. Online Broker:
ETFC (E*Trade Financial)
f. HXM (Homex) -- Mexican Homebuilder

6. Healthcare:
a. Big Pharma: (I don't really like big pharma)
MRK (Merck)
PFE (Pfizer) -- Value play.
b. Biotech:
GILD (Gilead) -- Great pipeline
c. Medical Equipment:
MDT (Medtronic)
ISRG (Intuitive Surgical) -- Robotic surgery
d. Healthcare Insurer:
AET (Aetna)
HUM (Humana)
MOH (Molina Healthcare)


7. Industrials
a. Aerospace/Defense:
BA (Boeing)
BEAV (BEA Aerospace)
TDG (Transdigm Group)
b. Congolomerate:
GE (General Electric) -- Large cap to come
back
c. Infrastructure:
CAT (Caterpillar)
MDR (McDermott)
FWLT (Foster Wheeler)
d. CX (Cemex) -- Mexican Cement company.

8. Technology:
a. AAPL (Apple)
b. GOOG (Google)
c. NVT (Navteq) -- they make digital maps for GPS
d. SIRF (Sirf Technologies) -- they make chips for
GPS
e. GRMN (Garmin) -- They make GPS products
f. RIMM (Research in Motion) -- Blackberry maker
g. GLW (Corning) -- Optical and flat panel display
play.
h. FNSR (Finisar) -- Optical equipment under $4
speculative play.
i. LVLT (Level 3 communications) -- Speculative
under $6 optical equipment play.
j. CSCO (Cisco) -- Networking equipment
k. AKAM (Akamai)
l. DOX (Amdocs) -- Billing software company


9. Telecom:
a. AMX (America Movil) -- Latin America/Mexican Telecom play. This is a great growth area at a good price
b. T (AT&T)
c. NIHD (NIHD Holdings) -- Latin America Telecom
d. BRP (Brasil Telecom)
e. VIP (Vimpel) -- Russian Telecom company

10. Utilities
a. SZE (Suez) -- French Utility with growth

Good luck!

Answer 2

If you want the best diversification in one holding, buy SPY. This is an ETF (exchange-traded fund) that invests in all 500 companies of the S&P 500. It's a great start and will do better than 3/4ths of all other mutual funds or individual stocks you can pick over a 5-year period (according to the statistics).

You MIGHT get lucky and pick one of those four. But... do you really want to take that chance?

Answer 3

according to efficient market theory, you can pick about any stock and the probability of it going up or down should be about the same as any other. I however am not a proponet of the that theory. Chinese stocks at the moment are very attractive from both a technical and a fundamental standpoint in my opinion. The easies way to invest in Chinese stocks is through a mutual fund. There are several closed end funds that are currently selling at significant discounts to net assets. Here they are CHN, TDF, CAF, JFC, GCH. Also three index funds FXI, PGJ, and GXC. I am not too thrilled with the index funds because they are cap weighted, but they have outperformed the closed end funds so far this year, except for CAF.

Answer 4

What do you mean by " much anticipated and predicted crash... of stock market". Were you the one expecting this? Have you ever invested in the markets? If so, have you ever gained much? I do not get the rational for your question! Mr. You need to do some research! I think that today was just another "down" day in the markets caused by a long haul by the housing and credit crisis!

Answer 5

Investors who buy stocks at random without doing the research and understanding the market lose money - it's more fun to just take your money to Las Vegas for the weekend.

Answer 6

Buy anything. Anything might go up or down.

But seriously, when you get an answer how would you know the person answering is not pumping a stock that they really think is a dog and want to dump?

Answer 7

I really like PGIC right now. Its bouncing off the 50ma here and should go back from its current state past 6.00. It would be good for like a week or so. Could make 15% back or so in that time. Not bad!

Answer 8

If you do not do your own research to determine what you want to invest your money in, that is called gambling.

Answer 9

Walmart (WMT), Pfizer (PFE) and Motorla (MOT)

Answer 10

GALE and KERX