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    It's moronic Monday, your chance to ask any of those lingering questions without fear of harassment. Investing

    It's moronic Monday, your chance to ask any of those lingering questions without fear of harassment. Investing


    It's moronic Monday, your chance to ask any of those lingering questions without fear of harassment.

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 04:05 AM PST

    We encourage all our visitors to ask those investing related questions they were always too afraid to ask.

    The members of /r/investing are here to answer and educate!

    NOTE If your question is "I have $10,000, what do I do?" or anything similar. There is no single answer to this question, but we will also need A LOT MORE information if we are to give some sort of answer

    • How old are you?
    • Are you employed/making income? How much?
    • What are your objectives with this money? (buy a house? Retirement savings?)
    • What is your risk tolerance? (Do you mind risking it at blackjack or do you need to know its 100% safe?)
    • What are you current holdings? (Do you already have exposure to specific funds and sectors?)
    • Any other assets? House paid off? Cars? Expensive girlfriend? (not really an asset)
    • What is your time horizon? Do you need this money next month? Next 20yrs?
    • Any big debts?
    • Any other relevant financial information will be useful to give you a proper answer.

    Be aware that these answers are just opinions of Redditors and should be used as a starting point for your research. You should strongly consider seeing a registered financial rep before making any financial decisions!

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    What’s one piece of investing advice you wished you had listened to when you were younger?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 02:08 PM PST

    I'm interested to see what other people regret doing when they were younger and how they have grown from those mistakes. I'm hoping that I'll be able to learn from your mistakes.

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    5 shares GOOGL or AMZN?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 05:35 PM PST

    I have been given an extremely generous opportunity where someone offered to give me 5 shares of any stock I choose (I assume within monetary reason, but they didn't state a cap.) I am extremely interested in Google specifically due to it's integration and the fact that WAYMO is a part of that umbrella as well. I believe WAYMO and self-driving tech to be an absolute in the near-future. Amazon was the other choice I was considering. I realize Amazon is slightly higher cap right now, but I intend on sitting on these for a while. I have no current portfolio, and only have a few bonds to my name as far as investments go.

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    GE to Restate Two Years of Earnings

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 12:21 PM PST

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/25/general-electric-to-restate-two-years-of-earnings.html

    "The updated accounting standard, which will take into account revenue from long-term contracts, will result in a 13 cent cut in reported earnings per share for 2016 and a cut of 16 cents per share for 2017, according to the company's 10-K filing."

    "GE is adopting the new accounting standards as the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating GE over its accounting for long-term service contracts.

    GE also is facing potential legal action by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that its GE Capital unit and now-defunct WMC Mortgage Corp. unit violated U.S. law in connection with subprime mortgages, according to the filing."

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    NFLX, APPL, AMZN, NVDA -- where would you put $2,000 (rest of portfolio is index)

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 08:03 PM PST

    Comcast Offers $31 Billion to Buy British Broadcaster Sky, Challenging 21st Century Fox and Walt Disney

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 12:01 AM PST

    Can someone help me understand what Warren Buffet said in a recent interview? "You don't know whether the stock exchange will open tomorrow morning"

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 06:04 AM PST

    It's from this article .


    Leverage Risks "It is crazy in my opinion to borrow on security. You don't know whether the stock exchange will open tomorrow morning," Buffett said. Investors have borrowed record amounts to invest in the stock market amid the selloff earlier this month, according to a front page story in The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

    Doesn't it seem... out of character for Buffet to say something like that? What is he implying? That one day the stock market could just suddenly cease to exist?

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    New Index Shows Vintage Trading Cards Have Beat The S&P 500

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 10:16 PM PST

    Apple & Amazon to enter the health records market - opinions on the impact

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 02:05 AM PST

    https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/01/apple-announces-effortless-solution-bringing-health-records-to-iPhone/

    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/26/amazon-1492-secret-health-tech-project.html

    Both Apple and Amazon predictably seem to be coming to market with solutions for health records. How do you guys see this coming to market in the sectors? Especially interested in opinions on impact in Scandinavia, and from people who have knowledge of this business. But any perspective is welcome!

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    Should W.W. Grainger and Fastenal be afraid of Amazon?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 08:24 PM PST

    Amazon sells industrial products, but have they gained a significant market share in that area?

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    Do stocks drop due to inflation fears? If so, why?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:46 PM PST

    During the recent correction there were many articles titled similarly to this: "U.S. stocks open lower as CPI underlines inflation fears"

    My question is, why would inflation cause stocks to drop? Logically, inflation should cause stock prices to nominally rise.

    Inflation (in this context) is the loss of real value of a currency, so it only makes sense one of the things that would become relatively more expensive is assets, such as stocks.

    Inflation encourages spending, which is good for businesses bottom line. In addition, the it reduces real wages, which means capital can return higher amounts. It also reduces the value of any fixed interest rate debt held by the corporation and improves their balance sheet. In most cases margins are not squeezed that much. The extra is just passed to the consumer.

    So, based on this, it seems like stocks would basically be neutral to inflation or only slightly negatively impacted. Why would anyone sell off stocks for dollars when dollars are losing value?

    None of it makes sense. Please shed some light.

    Thank you for the replies. It has led me to further understanding

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    A third of U.S. homebuyers are bidding without visiting the properties first

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 12:36 PM PST

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/housing-frenzy-sees-a-third-of-u-s-buyers-bidding-sight-unseen

    The survey, conducted in November and December, polled 1,503 people who had purchased a home in the previous year. It found that the proportion of those bidding sight unseen was almost double the 19 percent reported in June 2016, the brokerage firm said in a statement Monday. Younger buyers were more comfortable bidding without visiting, and the practice was more common out West, particularly in Los Angeles, where more than half of respondents said they'd done so.

    The competition for homes is fierce, and brokerage firms such as Redfin have taken advantage of the tumult to promote online virtual tours. In addition to ordinary home hunters scrambling for an edge, out-of-town and foreign buyers sometimes bid without visiting. While a jump from a fifth to a third of buyers in a little over a year is striking, the survey's relatively small sample size may be a factor.

    Note the last sentence. I would estimate that the margin of safety would be somewhere between 25% to 50%, and 25% is still pretty high.

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    What exactly does the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Index MCAP track?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:56 AM PST

    The description on its webpage is this: The S&P 500® VIX Short-Term Futures Index utilizes prices of the next two near-term VIX® futures contracts to replicate a position that rolls the nearest month VIX futures to the next month on a daily basis in equal fractional amounts. This results in a constant one-month rolling long position in first and second month VIX futures contracts.

    Webpage: https://us.spindices.com/indices/strategy/sp-500-vix-short-term-index-mcap

    Could anyone please explain to me what that means exactly? I.e. at this current point in time, what exactly does the index consist of?

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    What does this mean?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 03:59 AM PST

    Article linked below is about Square.

    "...cross-selling opportunities..."

    Would someone mind please explain to me what the author meant by the above quoted terms?

    Thanks.

    https://investorplace.com/2018/02/comes-square-inc-sq-stock-bull-beating-bear/

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    Difference between xetra and nasdaq?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 02:43 AM PST

    I live in Italy and i'd like to know if it's better, for those who live in Europe, to buy some stocks on xetra or on nasdaq?

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    Fidelity Rethinks Star Stock-Picker System after Repeated Sexual Misconduct

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 05:04 AM PST

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/fidelity-rethinks-star-stock-picker-system-1519641000

    Fidelity Investments, the mutual-fund giant synonymous with the star stock picker, is now considering abandoning the investment process that made its managers famous, according to people familiar with the situation.

    [...]

    Current and former employees also cited the unit's male-dominated leadership under Brian Hogan, who led equity and high-income investing and was part of a group of executives known internally as "the old boy's club."

    [...]

    Although there were some female leaders in the unit, the tight-knit executive group at the top of the unit made it hard for employees of both genders to complain about alleged misconduct, and some complaints weren't addressed, the current and former employees said.

    [...]

    The [2014 Miles Betro] incident led Fidelity executives to hold a mandatory training session at the firm that ran through a laundry list of activities Fidelity deemed improper, including the inappropriate touching of outside analysts, gambling using work email and using company smartphones to hire prostitutes, people familiar with the training session said.

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    when will corporate buybacks end?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 02:25 AM PST

    is it 2 weeks after the company's earnings or will it continue for the year?

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    Short term VIX futures have halved in price since the spike on Feb 5. Why hasn't SVXY doubled since its collapse?

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:45 AM PST

    SVXY tracks the inverse of the S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index, so understandably it lost 96% of its value when the index went up roughly 96% on Feb 5.

    But since then, the SVXY has not gained much in value, even as the short term VIX futures index has fallen back down and roughly halved in price.

    ProShares states that the SVXY should be functioning normally again (apart from the proposal for it to use -50% leverage instead of -100% from now on). So could anyone explain the lack of movement in SVXY?

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    What do you think of RITPF

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 01:13 AM PST

    Rothschild capital investments at 27 dollars. Is that something that will grow and make short money or just stay around the same level. It's hard to find info on it

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    Getting started

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 02:45 PM PST

    Hello /r/Investing , I'm trying to get started as an investor and have read quite a bit on the topic. On the theoretics I've gotten more and more knowledgable in the process; but now trying to practically get started I would really hope for some guiding opinion of people more experienced in the topic. I don't really know how to optimally get started in a practical way... I have two different main questions:

    What are the best brokers to get started in investing in German Dax stocks? What are the best brokers and differences, when looking to invest in Us, Chinese or other foreign stocks?

    I hail from Germany, thus I am also interested in investing in domestic stocks.

    Thanks for any answers. suggestions or advice in any form in advance

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    New investor

    Posted: 27 Feb 2018 12:25 AM PST

    Hello, I'm new to investing only been at it for 3 months on Robinhood. To keep things short I have a small portfolio with two stocks of Disney. My question is, for a company like Disney how much does a profitable release from a movie like Black Panther influence the companies stock?

    Thank you for any information and sorry about format. I'm on mobile.

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    Schwab ETF Allocation

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 10:45 AM PST

    What do you all think about my passive ETFs for 2018-19? I plan to use coach potato strategy each quarter.

    SCHX - 35% SCHE - 30% SCHZ - 15% SCHF - 20%

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    Real estate or stocks/ETF’s

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:50 PM PST

    Curious on your thoughts of which is a better vehicle to build wealth: stocks and securities vs real estate. I'm 22YO with a good income and a decent net worth trying to figure out which route to take to wealth and financial independence. I would love to hear some opinions from some high net worth individuals here and which vehicle to wealth they prefer.

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    Wanting to save 25% of my income. Would I be better maxing out my 401k or putting a % into an ETF?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 11:05 PM PST

    I'm 26 years old. Just got on board with investing/saving etc and signed up for a 401k. Employer only matches 2%. I'm currently putting 6% of my income into my 401k which goes into a target age retirement fund. I have been investing 15-20% into a few different stocks. About 50/50 between weed stocks and vanguards sp500 etf right now (with 100% intent to diversify better but I've only made 2 purchases so far). I'm just wondering would my money be better spent on maxing my 401k and letting them handle the investing, or investing 6-10% into my 401k and keep putting 15-20% into my own chosen stocks?

    Also I'm not sure how much I can actually put into my 401k? If it matters I make anywhere from 60-100k a year.

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    Good time to buy Adidas?

    Posted: 26 Feb 2018 01:02 PM PST

    It should get a boost in sales due to the upcoming russia world cup

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