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Stock Thread 2018

Are the FANG's falling out of favor?
Might take a little while longer than initially thought to break that $1T sound barrier.
 
anybody noticed investing via robots thru morgan stanley or wells fargo? is that a turnoff to you?

how much investment funds should you have at the bare minimum, before you reach out to a human investment advisor to be taken cereally?
 
AwakeNAlive said:
anybody noticed investing via robots thru morgan stanley or wells fargo? is that a turnoff to you?

how much investment funds should you have at the bare minimum, before you reach out to a human investment advisor to be taken cereally?
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Well, the stats say that human investors under perform the market on average, so there is good argument for never reaching out to an investment advisor if you want the highest chance of maximizing your returns.
 
Looks like FB is crawling back out of the hole it fell into.
Up 8% from its recent low. Should have back up the truck.
 
I'm already carrying enough FB to cover the bed of the truck and recent events had me too spooked to toss in some more. Although seeing that % bump makes me wish I had pulled the trigger on it again. It will be back to 200 soon I'd guess.
 
It's interesting for sure. Not sure what happens to existing shareholders when a company is brought private like that
 
Cycle61 said:
It's interesting for sure. Not sure what happens to existing shareholders when a company is brought private like that
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one would also figure that if he said something like that he is now under SEC scrutiny as to its veracity. I believe there are examples of people who've tried to stoke up the market and got their hand slapped for it. so, one would have to assume there's some legs to the story.
 
Any thoughts at SNAP chat's stocks. It's price is almost half of what the IPO was back in early 2017. Some people I work with still find it very useful and entertaining app. I don't use it, but I'm like 40 where some of my co-workers are in mid 20's. Trying to gauge it's popularity.
 
My thoughts are that betting on individual stocks in tech is incredibly risky. For every Amazon there are a dozen or a hundred that do nothing, or go to zero.
 
when i run my errands on the weekend, i tune into financial advice on news talk radio or bloomberg ... there is a warning about being too heavily weighted in tech stocks right now.


the great thing is that they don't discourage you or encourage you to do anything. the advice or stories reveal that you are your own boss when it comes to investing your own money. not to invest more than you can stand to lose. keep your portfolio diversified, that kinda thing ...


one of the callers on one show who called in wanted to know what to do with a $300K windfall from winning a lottery pot. he disclosed that he lost his entire retirement savings during the recession and had been living on veteran benefits since then. claims he was betting on winning stocks like lehman brothers, doubling his money and did really well until everything dropped to 0.

there you have it in a nutshell. you can fall into the perception that you know what you're doing until it doesn't work.


i don't know people who own snapchat but i do know people who openly talk about owning google, apple and tesla. i think it is okay to own individual stocks but not to get overboard and own too many shares. they say 4% is the cutoff point of owning any one particular stock.
 
Elon Musk is looking even more like a conman. Would be funny to see his BS "$420/share funding secured" comment bite him in the ass by the SEC.
 
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