What stocks are good to invest in at the time?

Answer 1

Do you know how to study and analyze stocks? If you don't maybe you should think about ETFs or mutual funds.

Otherwise, the following can be a starting point 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

Answer 2

As others have said, you need to first learn how to invest before doing so. Knowing a good stock and when to buy it is completely different than knowing when to sell.

I won't presume you do or don't know these things.

That said, here's a few that I currently like now.

AAPL - strong stock and growing

CROX - post split depression, finding support around 46/47

POT - smoking stock totally kicking butt with support around 80ish.

PCP - another stock to get high on. It's been moving well and is at around 130 right now

RIMM - no jokes here, just a strong stock that just broke through to 200 and is now around 228. Moving very well. Be sure to use trailing stops

ICE - finally on the move again

FCX - solid metal stock moving well

PCU - copper stock also moving well. Support around 108/109.

Hope that helps!
7/15/07

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Answer 4

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