Any investors here?

[SERE Bear]

My recent distraction has become learning about investing in the stock market. Is anyone here putting money into mutual funds, individual stocks, bonds or even options traders?
For the last 10 years all my money has been in the Vanguard S&P 500 mutual fund but I have been playing with the idea of moving some of it into a few individual stocks.
An interesting theory I just stumbled across in the three investment portfolio that uses a total market index fund, a bond index fund and an international market index fund. Basically the theory is that if you portion your money within these three mutual funds, and keep funneling money into it, that you will outperform 85% of all professional speculators.

For you young guys http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm basically invest 15% of your income.


So, any investors here?

 

[HeHateMe]

i like to buy risky stocks at a discount. i also buy high beta stocks that aren't going anywhere anytime soon and sell covered calls against my holdings on a monthly basis. average 3%/month with that strategy...

 

[Ares]

Lol this is creepy.... I was just looking at investing money sitting in an IRA from a profit sharing deal with my old company.... literally 10 mins before you posted this thread.

I got that IRA doing nothing right now and then a 401k that I am contributing to through my company.... and its set for the "Aggressive" distributions.... w/e the **** that means...

 

[clonetrooper264]

Lol this is creepy.... I was just looking at investing money sitting in an IRA from a profit sharing deal with my old company.... literally 10 mins before you posted this thread.

I got that IRA doing nothing right now and then a 401k that I am contributing to through my company.... and its set for the "Aggressive" distributions.... w/e the **** that means...

Aggressive = going for high risk, but high reward types of stocks and such

 

[Ares]

Aggressive = going for high risk, but high reward types of stocks and such

Yes I realize that.... its more about the layers of the investment for me..... I distribute my money to buy shares of a fund that goes out and invests in stocks but I don't know what stocks.... I mean all the distribution is to me is a % to a fund that is considered more "Aggressive".... but other than looking at its performance historically its not clear how aggressive the different funds are.

Basically all I am doing it saying "Here... give my money to these risky investor dudes who don't play it safe"

EDIT: Get back to work

 

[HeHateMe]

All this being said, the market is due for a fucking massive correction. So much money has been made in terms of valuation in the last couple of years, it can't go up forever.

I'm so against shorting, but I'm starting to learn more about it because it seems we got a pretty nice bubble developing.

For a good read, check out "the big short"

by the same guy that wrote moneyball, one of the best books I've read for business philosophy imo.

 

[Ares]

All this being said, the market is due for a fucking massive correction. So much money has been made in terms of valuation in the last couple of years, it can't go up forever.

I'm so against shorting, but I'm starting to learn more about it because it seems we got a pretty nice bubble developing.

For a good read, check out "the big short"

by the same guy that wrote moneyball, one of the best books I've read for business philosophy imo.

Its much like betting on stocks taking a dive right?

 

[clonetrooper264]

EDIT: Get back to work

:fist:

 

[HeHateMe]

Its much like betting on stocks taking a dive right?

It's exactly that. You "borrow" shares and SELL them, but you must buy them back at a lower cost to cover your bet and profit. It's risky because you cannot control your loss if the stock moves up, but it's also the way the market is made. I'm told by many folks in the hedge fund business that most of the money is made on the short trade intraday and short term swing. I believe it because I have to be so patient on all of my long plays, especially speculative investments. There is too much info for me to share comfortably on this forum though, so I hope we can touch base in person sometime like maybe at a BBQ that I'm supposed to be planning this summer, and I can answer any questions to the best of my ability without worrying about some ****** on the MB losing all his money and blaming me...

 

[number51]

I got a guy, he gets his share, I make money every year. Two things I don't want to do:
1. Do massive research.
2. Stare at the ticker all day.

I enjoy going to the casino, I learned how to minimize the house advantage for the games I play. It's amazing how many people never bothered to learn how to play, they just throw money out there and get there asses kicked. Same thing with investing, If I wanted to have more control over my investments I would need to read up, a lot. I trust my financial adviser, so far so good.

BTW it takes about an hour to learn how to play blackjack and craps the right way. Investing would take much more time and it would never end. If you want to do it right the amount of research needed to stay ahead of the game is a full time job and I already have one of those.

 

[DC]

HHM is right. Very tricky world but if you have the time and tenacity you can make money. I invest in some big blue chips divvy stocks, but lately I've been playing pennies.

It goes against everything, I KNOW! But they're so much fun! Got burned bad on one earlier this summer that reverse-merged then did a 200-1 R/S. Had high hopes for that one. But not all of them are scams...indeed!

 

[Nail Polish]

I invested in my cousin Bruno's invention..It was a reusable weighted down body bag. He never figgered out how to retrieve it from the lake sans the body though..I lost some money, but I knew enough not to complain

I knew he should have put a dump switch in it where the bottom would open up and dump the skeleton after the little fishies swam thru the well placed holes to get a snack

 

[Ares]

I invested in my cousin Bruno's invention..It was a reusable weighted down body bag. He never figgered out how to retrieve it from the lake sans the body though..I lost some money, but I knew enough not to complain

I knew he should have put a dump switch in it where the bottom would open up and dump the skeleton after the little fishies swam thru the well placed holes to get a snack

Did you murder your wife and use an experimental body bag to get fish to eat her corpse?

 

[HeHateMe]

btw, disclaimer should be in place for anything I've ever written about stocks on CCS. I am not a financial adviser and anything I say about securities is not investment advice. It is for conversation purposes only and any position I recommend or buy into is subject to change with no disclosure.

 

[Ares]

btw, disclaimer should be in place for anything I've ever written about stocks on CCS. I am not a financial adviser and anything I say about securities is not investment advice. It is for conversation purposes only and any position I recommend or buy into is subject to change with no disclosure.

Too late, I already followed all your advice, lost all my money and now plan to move in to your house.

 

[HeHateMe]

Too late, I already followed all your advice, lost all my money and now plan to move in to your house.

you should actually be up 3 pennies/share right now.

 

[ruprecht]

Angel investor. Lets make lots of money.

 

[Ares]

you should actually be up 3 pennies/share right now.

Fucktards gonna fucktard, nowutimsaying?

 

[ruprecht]

Angel investor. Lets make lots of money.

You have the brawn, I have the brains.

 

[Nail Polish]

Did you murder your wife and use an experimental body bag to get fish to eat her corpse?

No...Strange story..We experimented by digging up some guy buried in Giants Stadium in NY. My cousin Bruno kept calling him Hoffa..We dumped him in the bag, and then in the lake...But like I said, there was no way to get the bag up without the body

Did you ever hear of this guy Hoffa?..I never did