Before you buy anything, make a brokerage account and read investopedia articles and/or the books in the OP list. If you don't have a broker, you can't buy stocks and if you blindly buy things without understanding how the stock market works or doing any research on the individual stocks you're buying, you will lose money and it will be entirely your fault.
Wheat lad, quick rundown on wheat market? Thinking about going long wheat, what hsoukd I know ?
Anyone long gas here ? NG dropped again and I believe literally Hitler 2.0 will show himself in near future so gas is good mid term position, thoughts?
I really REALLY want to invest in AREC, what's the chances I'll lose my ass?
Sebastian Garcia
timed the vix pop and drop really well today...done for now. Anyone in here strictly play macro moves? Mainly trading vix or commodities. I find it way more interesting than researching companies and their balance sheets.
>being wrong on the internet Damn I got my hopes up and everything.
Zachary Campbell
>they don't understand the concept of compounding interest + DRIP new shares + dividend growth + capital appreciation
to each their own I guess.
Jayden Foster
>HJLI
Turned into a complete piece of shit. Guess will go long and wait for the lotto algo hit.
Kevin Foster
some one fat fingered their sell order and accidentally bought. It triggered a giant short squeeze that's effecting the whole market.. D:
Camden Robinson
>didn’t buy JNJ on the dip >Found not liable for talc >Now it’s on the Rip I can’t never get a good divvy aristo
Nathaniel Young
its WAY too slow, barely even half even if you pick ideal companies, compared to brain dead buy and hold of growth equities
dividend buyers are all life failures: either they were born a boomer which can never be fixed, or are a 25 year old boomer which is their fault but they are already ruining their retirement which also likely cant be fixed if they are stupid enough to do this in the first place
making under 15% annually without ever timing the market is just pathetic
Evan Diaz
279 support held, we are going back to da moon baby!
Alexander Edwards
buying the rumor and selling the news on TTWO for a couple extra bones. PAX is tomorrow night. Borderlands 3 is probably getting announced.
Oliver Perez
Can a stock legitimately go to 0? What happens if you own a stock that gets delisted,goes to 0, etc. Always wondered
Aiden Adams
Congrats weaboos, the Fed and PPT is going to bring Nipponization to you.
Can you gentlemen take a look at MMS for me and tell me what you think the future holds... theres an idiot I know who put 35k in at $0.12 average.... and my friend is feeling fairly nervous now...
Brandon Butler
If you want penny positions
>KRFG
They're current. Letter dropped this morning and Chinese merger pending.
to clarify, the share price was never 11 billion or whatever. it was like 5 dollars, they did a 5-1 reverse split so it went up to 25 dollars, diluted to 5 dollars, reverse 5-1 reverse split again to 25 dilute again ...
today the share price is 1 cen but as a convenience charts show the old price as if the reverse split was in effect before it happened.
Lincoln Flores
Is it time to buy Nokia?
Was expecting price jump after they got that 5g contract but it plummeted on the news of "accidently" sending data to China
John Green
They basically release more shares and sell them to raise money, then the price goes down so they reverse split to keep the stock high enough to stay listed. They then release more shares, and have been doing this for years.
Gavin Perry
LPTX
David Roberts
TTWO
Nathaniel Sullivan
HMNY
Thomas Smith
Lottery tickets
Ayden Moore
A timeshare
Josiah Morris
Just buy one of everything and you can't lose.
Brandon Sullivan
don't follow other or you will lose money.
Dylan Adams
a monocle and top hat
Tyler Turner
>people here make fun of coiners while investing in penny stock shipping companies and biotech really makes you think
Cameron Johnson
I'm too poor to pump and all my buying power is sitting in REFR with its head up its ass
Julian Roberts
AMRS going hot today. Get on board
maybe ALT to here soon but more unsure on that
Oliver Jackson
a bloo bloo bloo
Lincoln Green
Done
Joshua Morgan
I bought a lot of X today for a long term hold. ALOT of X.
Lincoln Torres
> its great if you have a liquid $2k to invest every month,, but I am a low wage poorfag, so I need something more volatile to make money off of. Crypto and weedstocks are my poison of choice. My "conservative" investment is tied up in my 401k
Gabriel Moore
>shipping companies and biotech are fake Wow I never knew I was taking sugar pills and that elves deliver my Amazon packages. Thanks!
Asher Sanders
At least biotechs actually produce something of value
Ryder Morales
X Bull Run!
Jace Bennett
>invests in certain combinations of untangible 1's and 0's
My almonds are activated
Jeremiah Wood
i invest 1000-1500 a month and i buy no individual dividend stocks, its just way too low of returns to be worthwhile, all index funds is the patricians choice
Jace Rogers
ALT exists to be pumped and dumped Completely worthless stock, imo
as long as the BL3 unveil goes well tomorrow. First 2 games were cash cows and they've been working on this one a long time. I'm not promising any sort of moon shot, but I'm hoping to see 2-3% easy.
Christian Ward
Things I want to buy: UP! Things I want to sell: DOWN!
This life really is hell, isn’t it?
Jeremiah Long
I'm losing like half a Yang an hour at this rate my account's going to be blown up by 8pm tonight.
Asher Roberts
If you're looking for the "real" way to use options, ie, not as moonshot lotto tickets, here's a good writeup that illustrates it. (warning, long and spread out over multiple posts.) In this case you dont need the bank, just set up the trade for yourself.
A lot of banking businesses are mysterious, but the exotic-derivatives business is actually very straightforward and normal. It is a sort of manufacturing business. You think about a product that customers might want, a need that they have that can be filled by a product you can build. Once you have an idea for a product, you design it and figure out how to manufacture it efficiently. You figure out a price: You add up the costs of the raw materials and labor that you use in the manufacturing, add a markup for profit, and check to be sure that the price you get is something that customers might pay. You give it appealing packaging and a cute name, and create a marketing strategy. You go out and market it to customers, telling them a compelling story about how it will meet their needs and also make them stronger and more attractive and get them invited to all the cool parties. Then, when you get orders, you manufacture the product and deliver it to the clients. They get a product that they like and that serves their needs; you get your markup. It is like building an iPhone or whatever, except that instead of glass and silicon the raw ingredients are stocks and debt instruments.
Jason Hill
For instance, you might notice that your customers are tired of low interest rates on their savings, and would like to receive high interest rates on their savings. Aha, you might think, a market opportunity. Of course you cannot economically manufacture a thing that pays 8 percent in a 2 percent interest-rate environment, but you can manufacture a thing that pays 8 percent except sometimes it doesn’t. For instance you could manufacture a thing that gives the customer her money back with 8 percent interest, unless some stock drops by 20 percent in the next year, in which case she gets the stock instead (or nothing, or her money back without interest, or whatever you think makes the best story). As a derivatives person you might describe this internally as “we sell a bond and buy a put, and pay the put premium in the form of higher coupons on the bond,” but that’s not what you’d say to the customer. To the customer, you’d emphasize the 8 percent interest rate, and the unlikelihood that the stock would drop that much.
And then either the stock will drop that much or it won’t. If it does, the customer is sad, and you have a bit of a marketing black eye. If it doesn’t, the customer is happy (she got a way-above-market interest rate), but you have a loss, right? Well, no, not really. The customer was betting that the stock wouldn’t drop by 20 percent, but you weren’t betting that it would. You were manufacturing a product. The way you manufactured the product was by going to your derivatives factory and assembling the components. The components of this product were (1) interest rates (roughly, you bought a bond from your own bank, which used the money to fund its business) and (2) stock. Specifically, in derivatives terms, you have bought a put from the customer, and there is a well-known formula that tells you both how much that put is worth and how to replicate that value by buying and selling the underlying stock. You’d use some of the customer’s money to buy some of the stock, and then use the formula to dynamically adjust your stock position as the stock price moves, buying more stock when the stock drops and selling some when it moves up. If you get the formula and the inputs right, your stock trading will make you enough money to pay for the put.
The conventional way to describe this is that you buy the stock to “hedge” the derivative that you sold to the client, but that doesn’t quite capture the business here. The business is not taking big risks by making bets with clients, and then trying to mitigate those risks; the business is manufacturing stuff to sell to clients. The Black-Scholes formula doesn’t (just) tell you how to use stock to hedge an option; it tells you how to use stock to replicate an option, to manufacture one.
