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    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here. Investing

    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here. Investing


    Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here.

    Posted: 24 May 2020 05:12 AM PDT

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    Regarding NVDA, as well as other chipmakers. Is it a good buy at it's current price?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:23 PM PDT

    Long term, NVDA could see gains that rival AMZN, MSFT, or AAPL, but I'm curious as to the arguments for both bull and bear on this stock, besides the obvious.

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    Credit Suisse Is Preparing For Layoffs As CEO Admits "Something" Needs To Change

    Posted: 25 May 2020 02:08 AM PDT

    Credit Suisse is leading the charge, revealing this week that the investment bank will need less employees on the other side of the coronavirus crisis as a result of lower growth and looming credit defaults.

    The popularity of online banking has also reduced the need for branches, CEO Thomas Gottstein said. The company's staff could work remotely for 10% to 20% of the time and the bank also anticipates needing less office space, Gottstein predicted, according to the Business Times.

    The bank is looking at streamlining "many processes," he said, likely trying to come up with a nice way to say "we're firing every single non-essential worker in the middle of a global pandemic that we can find."

    A margin loan provided to the billionaire founder of Luckin Coffee helped exacerbate the company's Q1 loan loss provisions, yet Gottstein says high net worth business in Asia remains an area for growth.

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    What are your top 5 up-and-coming stocks for the next decade?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 01:30 AM PDT

    I'm not talking about the big and established companies like Microsoft but rather the new and up-coming companies such as Crispr or Shopify (these happen to be 2 of my choices)

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    What do people think about ARK invest? They focus on future tech ETFs

    Posted: 24 May 2020 11:07 AM PDT

    This video came up on my YouTube recommended list and I thought it was intriguing. What are peoples thoughts on future tech ETFs? Things like: automation, AI transportation, robotics, 3D printing. It seems like these are all things that will inevitable in our future. Does anyone own these funds?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoy3Z00JEdk

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    Why Stocks Are Up But The Economy's Down

    Posted: 24 May 2020 09:21 AM PDT

    Compare these two indexes that track the same index. One uses market cap, the other is equally weighted.

    Summary: Composition of stocks market changed after initial market drop. Those companies that do well in pandemic are already large and move the whole (market cap weighted) index up. Many other companies stay down and can go even bankcrupt.
    (And they say that passive indexing removes infomation from the market. It's not doing it yet)


    This insight is provided to you by NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/861331371/stocks-are-up-but-the-economys-down

    … when the coronavirus pandemic started forcing the U.S. economy to shut down in late February, the stock market tanked for the next month. By late March, it was down 34%. But then, even though the economy has kept getting worse and worse, the U.S. stock market has started to recover. It rebounded in a big way so that now it is only down 13% from where it was in February before the recession started. … And meanwhile, millions of workers keep losing their jobs each week.

    … the stock market did beat the real economy to what was happening, and it reprised really quickly. And then all of a sudden, it became a battle of the composition of the stock markets.

    … the whole stock market collapsed when coronavirus started hurting the U.S. economy, but then some stocks of companies started recovering even as others continued to struggle.

    … it just so happens that the companies that are the best positioned for the environment we find ourselves in and what we will find ourselves in over the next six months to a year, the companies that are best positioned happen to already be the largest weighted components of the indices.

    … companies like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet, a.k.a. Google - are also some of the most valuable companies in the country. In fact, just those five companies make up about 20% of the entire S&P 500 … when those five stocks do well, they can help pull up the whole index.

    … First markets dropped in panic sell. Then companies who don't suffer from the pandemic recovered and the composition of index changed. Big tech companies happen to be already large part of market cap of SP500, so they bring up the SP500 as a whole.

    … aside from Amazon, which has almost a million workers, a lot of these companies don't actually employ that many people. Microsoft only has 144,000 workers. Facebook has just 48,000 workers. And this can partly explain why tens of millions of people can lose their jobs while the stock market keeps going up.

    … not all companies are the same. Some big ones are doing fine, pulling up the stock market. Others are struggling, possibly going bankrupt, laying off workers.

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    Future of Bank Stocks?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:05 PM PDT

    I have been looking into buying Bank stocks for the long term because they are really cheap right now, but I am concerned that with all the banks lending out so much money that ultimately a lot of people will default on their loans. Especially, the cruise lines, airlines, smaller oil companies etc. So where does that leave Bank stocks in a year or so? Should I wait and see till the 2nd Quarter or should I buy right now? I am looking into BAC, JPM and GS.

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    Is Walmart undervalued?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 08:45 PM PDT

    Its smaller competitors are getting rekt in coronavirus, their marketplace dominance only increases. Also, it's investing big in its online infrastructure and it could overtake amazon as the biggest online retailer

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    Thoughts on Gold & Silver

    Posted: 25 May 2020 02:00 AM PDT

    Hi everyone - I wanted to start a thread on precious metals to get the communities thoughts.

    I think central bank printing & heightened US:China tensions should bolster Gold & Silver, what do you think?

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    A question regarding trading bots/algorithms

    Posted: 24 May 2020 09:58 PM PDT

    Total beginner, please bear with me.

    So, banks or investment firms use algorithms and bots for trades right? Are the engineers behind the bots allowed to trade in the market as well? Wouldn't they know how to capitalize on the algorithms they setup?

    Do people ever reverse engineer major players bot patterns for this reason?

    Thanks for anyone who can entertain my thoughts.

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    Can I buy a fraction of a share of Berkshire Hathaway?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 04:12 AM PDT

    I have a Schwab brokerage account.

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    Investing in the time of the work-from-home movement

    Posted: 24 May 2020 09:56 PM PDT

    With the pandemic forcing many employees to work from home, many companies, including some high profile ones, have decided to give employees the option to continue working remotely even after the pandemic ends. I think this was a general, slow trend over the last decade, but with the closure of many offices suddenly, it has kicked the trend into high gear. Companies can save money by downsizing their office space, employees no longer need to commute, etc. I think it's a good bet that this is here to stay.

    What companies or sectors stand to benefit the most from this change? I'd imagine initially home improvement and at home fitness business will be booming. With more free time I'd also expect entertainment industries to see more business.

    Anyone have any thoughts?

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    International student

    Posted: 25 May 2020 03:49 AM PDT

    When studying abroad in Canada should I open a Canadian bank account or just keep my american bank account . I will be utilizing the account to make multiple transaction for my e-commerce business as well as my algo-trading online brokerage account. Thanks _

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    ROCE, ROI, ROIC

    Posted: 25 May 2020 02:42 AM PDT

    Im getting confused and cant really find a clear explanation on how do these three (ROCE, ROIC and ROI) differ from each other. Could someone ELI5 this to me. Thanks.

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    Why is is standard practice to roll futures to front month rather than back month?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 06:51 PM PDT

    Why is is standard practice to roll futures to the front month rather than back month contract?

    With most standard practices, there must be a reason I'm assuming practitioners have worked out that it's more beneficial but I would like to know why.

    If one wanted constant exposure, rolling to the back month contract would allow the least work and trading costs.

    From my little bit of reading, is it because of more liquidity and and tighter spreads with the front month contract?

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    Can you get tax back on Etoro dividends?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 02:13 AM PDT

    I have recently bought some shares with Etoro and are receiving some dividends payments but they're reduced by about 30%. As I get less than the taxable amount for dividends (£2,000 in the UK), why am I paying tax on payments? Is there a way to claim this back?

    Edit : Spelling

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    Why are iShares' Quant ETF's not performing as well?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 12:47 AM PDT

    I looked at the factors ETF's and not one of them does better than their simple World tracker. Not in bull year 2019, not now. How come? Why take the extra risk involved with quant investing if it doesn't give any better returns? Do these quant funds just suck? Are there better alternatives for retail investors?

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    Anyone have any thoughts on JAX?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 12:43 AM PDT

    JAX the restaurant stock is like half off. Is it worth a buy?

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    Bond ETFs, yes or no?

    Posted: 25 May 2020 12:41 AM PDT

    I'm reading the intelligent investor and Graham advice is to buy 50% stock 50% bonds, he suggest to buy the most big and secure companies but he wrote the book in a time where ETFs didn't exist so I think that's the evolution of his idea.

    My question is: what would be some reasons for only buying a stock ETF and no bonds?

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    Alibaba investing.

    Posted: 25 May 2020 12:38 AM PDT

    I doubt it will happen but. If Alibaba gets to $80 should I buy? Even with the way things are going on in the world and U.S , China relations?

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    What makes you decide AGAINST buying a certain stock?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 06:00 AM PDT

    So there are a lot of threads where people talk about what makes a company worth buying into (or at least looking into further), but I'm wondering, what do you look at that tells you you shouldn't buy a stock?

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    Which prices to use at periods ?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 11:56 PM PDT

    Hello, I'm creating a basic excel template to calculate some ratios. I have to use historical price datas to evaluate nota of ratios ilke PE PB. But... I'm not sure which prices should i use for each period. Price that period ends or price that financial statement published(2 months later) ?

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    What's the effect of strong inflation or deflation?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 07:16 AM PDT

    Inflation in Belgium is slowing down the last few months, due to very low demand. Because it is a rather unpredictable and volatile market time, I'm wondering what would happen if we either enter a strong deflation period, or if it somehow flips into a strong inflation period. Because many sources keep saying this crisis looks like it could become worse than the Great Depression, I tought I'ld have a look into some historical figures.

    In Belgium there is a public backlog of evolution of prices up to 1920. You can download the excel sheet here. The inflation columns is MS_CPI_INFL.

    The inflation/deflation has been very stable for many decades. Last periods it shifted sharply was:

    - in the 80's and 70's (very high inflation 7-15%: mainly because of oil crisis).

    - years surrounding world war 2, because... bombs.

    But even further back, we get to the interesting part: before, during and after the great depression. In the 1920's inflation was insane out of control with 25-48 %, but after the great crash we entered a strong deflation era with up to 11,6 % deflation.

    My question, because I have clearly never liver through times with strong inflation or deflation: what is to be expected of such periods, marketwise? Does it make sense to hoard cash to be able to invest when inflation picks up again? Does it make sense to invest when deflation is at a suspected peak? Especially if not stockpicking but investing in ETF's? Should it be something to worry about at all, because unlike the Great Depression: we didn't have an enormous inflation build up in prior years that could deflate.

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    SPY can't possibly go any higher, right?

    Posted: 24 May 2020 10:34 PM PDT

    DOW futures are in green and I am in shock right now. With the ongoing tensions between China and US, with the rising death toll across the world from the pandemic, we are close to hitting all time highs. I admit I have been holding SPY puts since SPY 280, but it is not unreasonable to think we have at least some sort of correction given the insane rally.. I am starting to think we may hit SPY 350 this year at this rate. It is insane. What is the limit to how high SPY can go? SPY can't possibly go any higher, right?

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