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- It's moronic Monday, the Wednesday edition, your chance to ask any of those questions that you're embarrassed to ask in real life.
- Wells Fargo to pay $2 billion penalty for alleged misrepresentation of loan quality, report says
- Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update
- Facebook to start monetizing WhatsApp
- What I absorbed from my mistakes
- U.S. Federal Reserve Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
- Tesla shares surge as much as 11% as Elon Musk apologizes for 'bad manners'
- Apple can cross the $1 Trillion mark by hitting $207.05
- Tesla posts $717.5M 2Q loss, burns $739.5M cash
- Trump's Tariff Threats Erase $220 Billion From Asia Stock Values
- NEW 2 Fidelity index mutual funds FZROX and FZILX with a zero expense ratio
- China's Peer-to-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads
- I bought my first 5 shares yesterday
- What dividend paying stocks would you recommend?
- Stamps.com (STMP) beats on top and bottom lines, $2.75 earnings per share on revenues of $139.6 million
- Did I just hear that right? Tesla is working on GPUs?
- Which website to use to view financial statement and valuation metrics?
- Here's another reminder that everyone makes mistakes (Odd Lots podcast)
- What percentage of money in the US stock market is from individuals as opposed to investment companies?
- Why should anyone pay attention to historical stock market returns before 1990s?
- Low risk, highly liquid investment vehicles for the next 12-24 months?
- Sodastream beats on earnings and revenue, shares up 20+%
- Options vs Stocks?
- What smart investing minds do you follow on Twitter?
- Does anyone have experience with Securities Lending?
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:05 AM PDT 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
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! [link] [comments]  |
| Wells Fargo to pay $2 billion penalty for alleged misrepresentation of loan quality, report says Posted: 01 Aug 2018 10:36 AM PDT |
| Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update Posted: 01 Aug 2018 01:45 PM PDT http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ecac0ad7712
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| Facebook to start monetizing WhatsApp Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:55 AM PDT |
| What I absorbed from my mistakes Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:47 AM PDT I had been deliberating initiation of a post discussing mistakes. I've tried and recalled by mistakes, errors of judgement in my short exposure to capital markets. I'm a resident of India. Hence, some terms may seem foreign. Please bear with me. Lesson 1: I started taking a keen interest in markets in 2012. My trading and investment decisions were based on stock recommendations offered by analysts on TV channels. The returns generated were decent. I truly wondered why people thought trading/investing was difficult. I thought I had discovered the recipe for success in stock markets. It was easy. It required little effort from my end. All I had to do was imitate the analyst's stock pick. My condition was great. Until one day. The stock picks recommended for intraday started failing. It was unfathomable to me that I was losing so much money. I resorted to revenge trading. Lost even more money. Whatever profits I had generated were evaporated in a relatively short duration. I could've never imagined such an outcome. In hindsight I should've thought that there's never a free lunch. Why would anyone offer their stock picks without anything in return? Lesson: Trust no one blindly. Assess, examine trading/ investment decisions. Every action of assistance, guidance towards us in the stock market should be looked at with glasses of cynicism. It's a brutal place. Lesson 2: On a popular stock app there's a bustling interaction medium. Stock picks are often offered for free and people wax eloquent about the tremendous potential the company possesses to multiply our wealth. I came across one such message recommending investment in an investment company. It'd be inappropriate to share the stock pick. The stock was described as being at the cusp of a great transition to being a large cap company. Messages loaded with superlatives describing the management bombarded the board. It seemed like the ideal investment opportunity. I trusted them and invested 10 % of my portfolio. The stock went from X to 3X in 5 months. My happiness knew no bounds. I was ecstatic. I continued averaging at upper levels expecting even more upside. One day, the stock began its downward slide. Lower circuit after lower circuit. Surveillance measures were taken by the exchange and moved to 5% circuit. The fall was excruciating. It stopped when it reached 1.5 X. I continued to average. Since, I had purchased heavily at upper levels my average price became very high. Losses incurred were significant. The fall wasn't arrested yet. It kept falling. The stock formed 35% of my portfolio. My portfolio was painted in red. There was little chance the stock would regain its past glory. I had to book my losses. It dawned on me that the stock move was a meticulously engineered operation by bigger investors. I had invested by trusting someone else. Summary of Lesson 2: If possible avoid excessive concentration in any stock pick. Conditions can deteriorate at any point. Introduce adequate safeguards to protect profits. Booking profits will reduce cost of carry. It was my greed that destroyed my portfolio. It's difficult to tame greed but those who succeeed at doing so will likely emerge victorious in the market. Lesson 3: In 2016, I came across a petrochemical company which was showing some signs of a turnaround. Imposition of an anti dumping duty was expected which would enable an improvement in the company's financials. I invested based on this thesis. Management seemed to be decent. I invested 15% of my portfolio. It was my first turnaround investment. When the results were declared the turnaround wasn't very convincing. Instead of waiting and appreciating that turnarounds take time I exited my holdings. I had purchased at X. I exited at 1.3 X. A 30 % profit. It seemed a healthy return to me in 3-4 months. The same company, in the next 7 quarters underwent an extraordinary turnaround. From losses to double digit profit margins. And, the stock went from X to 5X. I couldn't believe my eyes. I blamed my luck and derived solace that I had some profit. But, heart of hearts I knew I had made a massive error of judgement. Lesson: Be patient. If you're convinced about a stock after enough research stay invested for some time. Investments take time to mature, to grow. In investments without conviction profit booking would be sensible. But, if enough conviction has been developed- Be patient, do nothing. Sometimes inactivity is better than activity. Here, I was a victim of fear of losing money. Hence, sold too early. Fear and greed are major causes of bad decisions. Lesson 4: An important lesson I learned is on appreciation of the role of luck and the limitations of our expertise. I have often mistaken my luck for skill. And, it has cost me a lot. Stock trading/ investing is an incredibly complicated activity. There are so many variables involved that it's difficult for linear thinkers like us to piece the information and take rational decisions. To simplify the task, we resort to substituting difficult questions for easy ones. Instead of analyzing a company based on its financials I'll check if I like the product manufactured by that company and invest based on that. I've succumbed to it often. And, needless to say, I lost money. Also, being rigid is harmful to us. Despite knowing that a strategy doesn't work, I refused to accept it. I suffered from the illusion of validity. Acceptance is crucial for success. Most factors are beyond our control. Frankly, there's hardly anything in our control. I stopped thinking of myself as a person who has everything in control and accepted the fact that I was at the mercy of variables I could do nothing about. This change in behavior, approach helped me. I started appreciating the contribution of luck in success. From where we're born, the upbringing we receive , the socioeconomic status are rarely in our control. And,these factors play an instrumental role in moulding the future behavioral patterns of a person. Summary of Lesson 4: The lesson I learned was that I should shed my delusion of being in control and acknowledge that despite my best efforts there will be consequences totally opposite to my expectations. Lesson 5: The most important lesson I learned is that I should have realistic expectations. Stock markets aren't get rich quick schemes. It's a way to participate in the growth story of a real business. For an ordinary person like me it's impossible to sustain 20% CAGR for long durations. I tempered my expectations to 10-11% over the long term. After all, what causes pain- When expectations are not met we suffer from pain, grief. Solution is to have low expectations. If the outcome is better than our expectations our joy will be indescribable. I humbly share the lessons I've learned. This forum has played an instrumental role in my growth as a person. My heartfelt thanks to each and every member here. I've realised that there's always something to learn. Yet again, my gratitude to all. My apologies if I've erred. Best wishes. [link] [comments]  |
| U.S. Federal Reserve Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:02 AM PDT |
| Tesla shares surge as much as 11% as Elon Musk apologizes for 'bad manners' Posted: 01 Aug 2018 03:21 PM PDT |
| Apple can cross the $1 Trillion mark by hitting $207.05 Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:22 PM PDT Apple released their updated outstanding share count today, pushing the $1T mark up a bit. We'll see how long it takes them to break it. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/apple-1-trillion-share-price-threshold.html [link] [comments]  |
| Tesla posts $717.5M 2Q loss, burns $739.5M cash Posted: 01 Aug 2018 01:48 PM PDT |
| Trump's Tariff Threats Erase $220 Billion From Asia Stock Values Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:14 AM PDT |
| NEW 2 Fidelity index mutual funds FZROX and FZILX with a zero expense ratio Posted: 01 Aug 2018 07:59 AM PDT NEW 2 Fidelity index mutual funds FZROX and FZILX with a zero expense ratio NEW No minimums to invest in Fidelity mutual funds $0 for Fidelity funds and hundreds of other funds with no transaction fees Introducing zero expense ratio index mutual funds, FZROX and FZILX available on August 3, 2018 How do they manage for expenses? Or where do they absorb the expenses/cost of owning/maintaining..etc? [link] [comments]  |
| China's Peer-to-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:14 AM PDT |
| I bought my first 5 shares yesterday Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:50 AM PDT Made my first trade of all time yesterday. PAYC is a local company in my area and I know they have been doing really well and are hiring more people so I expected positive growth in their Q2 Earning statement. I bought 5 shares of PAYC @ 101.7125 and today it opened at 115.51. [link] [comments]  |
| What dividend paying stocks would you recommend? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:08 PM PDT I'm looking to set aside some capital to invest for dividend gains. I'd prefer more consistently performing stock with lower dividends than risky/volatile ones with high dividends. What do you recommend and why? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 03:59 PM PDT $2.75 earnings vs $2.41 expected. Revenue and income up 20% and 47% YoY respectively. Impressive! [link] [comments]  |
| Did I just hear that right? Tesla is working on GPUs? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 03:03 PM PDT I was listening to the $TSLA earnings call and Andrej Karpathy with Elon spoke about their new chipset for the vision in autonomous cars that would do 2,000 frames per second versus $NVDA 200 frames per second? [link] [comments]  |
| Which website to use to view financial statement and valuation metrics? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 04:06 AM PDT I have used YCharts to make a table of about 50 stocks. I can then see their revenue, 3 year revenue growth, EBIT, market cap, enterprise value and other such metrics, and use them to order and filter, which is very convenient. Unfortunately my free trial has run out and I am a cheapskate. Do you know of any free alternatives or other smart cheap ways of doing this? I can do it manually by copy-pasting data from Yahoo Finance into Excel, but that is a lot of continuous manual labor... [link] [comments]  |
| Here's another reminder that everyone makes mistakes (Odd Lots podcast) Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:34 PM PDT Even The World's Greatest Investors Have Made Horrible Mistakes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2018-07-27/even-the-world-s-greatest-investors-have-made-horrible-mistakes [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 12:42 PM PDT What percentage of money in the US stock market is from individuals as opposed to investment companies? [link] [comments]  |
| Why should anyone pay attention to historical stock market returns before 1990s? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:31 AM PDT When people are trying to determine what the stock market will do tomorrow and the next 30 years going forward, many so called experts look at historical statistics. They look at what the stock market did 30-40-50 years ago to help analyze future trends and price movement. To me this seems silly. Before online brokers and low cost trading, mutual funds, ETF's and index funds, very few people were participating in the stock market. And today most trading is done by super computers that move in and out of a stock in a split second using incredible technology. How does this even compare to the investing world in the 20th Century? What are your thoughts about the practical use of analyzing how the stock market moved in the 20th Century vs today when determining stock market returns? [link] [comments]  |
| Low risk, highly liquid investment vehicles for the next 12-24 months? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:28 PM PDT Can anyone suggest a relatively low risk, highly liquid investment vehicle with a holding time-span of roughly 12-24 months? As anyone with their ear to the ground in the financial markets knows, the past six months have seen the return of volatility to the markets. Investors caught their first major whiff of correction in late February and while the market quickly moved back into the green, indices have been range bound, failing to break through the highs set in late 2017 and early 2018. The Fed has made good on its promise to raise rates and is scheduled to do so twice more before year-end. Meanwhile, the yield-curve is flattening, heading towards inversion, geopolitical risk has heightened while the white house trades blows with some of the U.S.'s largest trading partners and domestically, investors face uncertainty as midterm elections approach. All this being said, investors should remain long term bullish on the stock market. However, in the meantime, with cash reserves to spare and little value-investment opportunities (with stocks trading hundreds of times their earnings), where can an investor stash money that will still generate income at rates higher than a money market or CD, but hold less risk than equities and are still relatively liquid? My first thought: TIPS. Suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| Sodastream beats on earnings and revenue, shares up 20+% Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:40 AM PDT $SODA beat earnings by 60% and revenue by 14%. EPS of 1.14 compared to estimates of .71. I bought SODA as a speculative play after JAB purchased Keurig. They haven't been acquired (yet) but they're up a solid 25% on just plain good business since then. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Aug 2018 09:42 PM PDT As the title implies, what do you guys prefer most? Options or stocks? Do you have any strategies that you follow to stay green? Personally I'm digging Iron condors these days for the reduced risk but boy is it complicated to get a filled order on those 😒 [link] [comments]  |
| What smart investing minds do you follow on Twitter? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:18 PM PDT Just got into investing and looking to learn from those who know much more than myself. Also, how serious do I take r/wallstreetbets and how do they gain thousands every day? [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone have experience with Securities Lending? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:33 AM PDT Stash has an option for Securities Lending. This is the first time I really heard of this. Does anyone have any experience in how this is handled and if the benefits outweigh the potential risk? I consider my investment profile risk as moderate meaning the money I have in the market is there to grow but I am young and it wouldn't be the death of me if I lost some or even all of what I've invested. Here is a link to what I found: https://learn.stashinvest.com/securities-lending Looking forward to some insight, cheers! [link] [comments]  |
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