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    Stock Market - If I want to learn to trade where do I start assuming I know nothing?

    Stock Market - If I want to learn to trade where do I start assuming I know nothing?


    If I want to learn to trade where do I start assuming I know nothing?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:42 AM PST

    Short Selling

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:01 AM PST

    So I just recently learned this was a thing, however i'm not so sure how it works and the knowledge center at scottrade was no help. It's my understanding that short selling is when you sell a stock that you do not currently own and receive the money at the current share price and then at a later date have to buy the same amount of shares and pay an amount based on the current share price at that time. So basically its how you make money off of a company when you think their stock will drop.

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    Should I buy bitcoin

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:12 PM PST

    I have enough money to buy one bit coin maybe even a couple. I know it's going to go up in value but I don't know if I should buy one and sit on it. What does everybody think? Also, I don't know shit about investing so how would I buy stocks of this? What websites do I use? I want to get started in getting some stocks of bitcoin or something because I know it's going to be valuable

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    Is baba still a good buy? For the long term

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:16 AM PST

    Podcast recommendations

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 06:24 PM PST

    Trying to make monies, who to listen too..

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    Pretrade question

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 03:56 AM PST

    Hi everyone, If pretrade of a stock shows positive increase - is that usually an indicator to buy when market opens? Is there any sense to this?

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    I'm 22 years old and I know just the basics about the stock market. Do you have any suggestions of what I should learn (and eventually master) first?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:45 PM PST

    If the market went belly up tomorrow and we had a 21st Century Great Depression, what would be the safest investment?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 12:04 PM PST

    If the world went to hell-hell-in-a-handbag tomorrow and the US turned to riots in the streets and Great Depression style market crash, where would you put your money to prepare for it and why?

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    $OSTK Inexplicable day

    Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:58 AM PST

    Does ANYONE have a clue what is going on with overstock... soaring past few months, then a massive plummet past 5-6 days. I am aware they are affiliated with blockchain, but with bitcoin reaching the record 10k it seems to have zero effect on overstock. Regardless, I cannot find anything on the internet about whats been going on. Up to 64 6 days ago, now sitting at 45 WTF

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    As a college student who just started investing, I am looking to place my money in stocks and primarily mutual funds to grow my savings long term. I have invested in one mutual fund that has done well in only a couple months. Looking to diversify, what are some other good mutual funds long term?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2017 11:14 PM PST

    TECH had a correction today... and here are 3 things I think that caused it

    Posted: 29 Nov 2017 08:42 PM PST

    Posted this on another sub, and we got some good discussion going, so thought we start the conversation here too.

    So this is all my opinion obviously - no one knows exactly why the tech sector took a big poop today, but what we can do is analyze the market and figure out what could have caused this to better hedge (or diversify) ourselves for next time. If you don't want to read this wall of text that follows, you can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/j42b76Ugso8

    1) Profit Taking - it's almost the end of the year, and stocks have had a great year thus far, especially tech stocks. Some like $NVDA are up about 100% on the year. Some like $MU are up even more than 100%. Going into the Holiday season, a lot of investors (especially the big boys) tend to take time off, travel, spend time with family and friends, etc - but they want to rest easy and thus start scaling out their positions. I'll admit it's a bit early for this, but if a few of the big players decided to sell today, it could have triggered a bunch of algos to sell as well, causing the big "panic sell" that happened which caused a lot of stocks to drop 5%, 10% or more.

    2) Sector Rotation - this happens every once in a while. Back in June we had a day where tech had a big drop (similar to today), and we saw financials start to rally on big volume. A lot of investors (again, the big boys), took their money out of tech and put it into financials as there was a lot of good news surrounding banks at the time. I believe something similar happened today - if you look at the volume on the QQQ (nasdaq) and XLF (financials), you can see they both had a very heavy volume day. QQQ to the downside, and XLF to the upside - in fact XLF even gapped up at open and made new highs. But if you dig a bit deeper, you can see that there was a lot of bullish action in XLF and in tech (both QQQ and individual picks) for longer term calls - so this leads me to think that it was just a investors taking money from tech, and putting it into financials, and then when investors who focus on tech stocks saw this dip, they picked up huge call blocks on tech stocks as well (because fundamentally, nothing changed with any of the tech companies to justify this big of a drop).

    3) Tax Reform Vote - this ties in with my previous point. Banks would benefit greatly from a tax reform, and the "big boys" threw a lot of money into financial stocks and XLF in preparation for this vote to be a success and have it pass. I think this, in combination with the 2nd and 1st point is most likely what happened today as we prepare for the big vote tomorrow. This was essentially the market pricing in tomorrow's decision in anticipation of it passing. But once again fundamentally, this doesn't really affect Tech stocks in particular (if anything, if the bill fails, it affects all stocks, so all sectors should have dropped today).

    I also found it funny how the DOW made new ATH today. All the more reason I believe this was just a temporary shakeout, and we will be back to ATH in the near future. For me personally, I went from about 90% cash, to about 5% cash, as there were too many opportunities to pass up on. I believe fundamentally we are still strong, and that this dip is temporary. But please do your own DD as well! Happy investing :)

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