Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.
I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.
I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.
Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'
Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.
When we had the 'flash crash' in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.
We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.
When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.
It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.
There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.
As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.
Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks
Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.
Even I have been at that point in my life where I thought I didn't have enough extra money laying around to start investing in stocks for my own retirement plans.
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.
I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.
I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.
Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.
But I've been day trading stocks and I've been doing it pretty successfully.
If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.
We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.
I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.
Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.
Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.
Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.
The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head. Anyone can acquire the know-how for analyzing stocks.
Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.
The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".
I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. Im going to invest in music.
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
I would advise someone who has just retired to be something in the broad range of 50/50 stocks and bonds.
I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
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