Help me invest!!!!!

Invest in gold. Heavily. You won't regret it.

Invest in someone who is starting a business, brah. Something that you know personally. The homework is going out and networking with entrepreneurs and West Coast is a fine spot ta be. Ya can't win investing in faceless companies where someone else has better information than you do and insiders got better information than both of yas.

Get into book publishing.

Think of real business ideas that have favorable factors. Low costs, low risks, not too much speedbumps on the way to scaling up, not too much extra moves, education, etc. required for expansion and making more efficiencies And most of all a decent if low chance of a jackpot.

Book publishing imo fits that mold.

You work in computer programming? Do something, get something done there mate. Why make investments unrelated to your skills? Someone with better knowledge is going to have their actions priced into the market and your return is gonna be sheet mate.

Sage Advice wrote:

Invest in gold. Heavily. You won't regret it.

Alan Greenspan, is that you?

Defense stocks would be a good bet with an incoming Republican president..

Also anything energy related, if they loosen restrictions, you'd probably see those stocks surge.

Wall-building supplies -- concrete, steel. Is Sakrete publicly traded?

Is this an investment you plan to sit on for many years? When do you expect to need the money?

Flagpole, any advice?

Vanguard S&p 500 index funds admiral shares

jamin wrote:

I don't know what I'm doing. I just pick companies or industries that I like, or that are stable, and are at historic lows.

Placed an order on 150 shares of VLKAY today because I drive a Volkswagen and because the company's stock is in the tank.

I'm thinking I should buy something that tracks the price of oil.

A guy at my work said telecom companies like AT&T are good because they're paying dividends of ~5% right now and are relatively stable.

What is your opinion??

Go see a shrink.

somebloke wrote:

jamin wrote:

I don't know what I'm doing. I just pick companies or industries that I like, or that are stable, and are at historic lows.

Placed an order on 150 shares of VLKAY today because I drive a Volkswagen and because the company's stock is in the tank.

I'm thinking I should buy something that tracks the price of oil.

A guy at my work said telecom companies like AT&T are good because they're paying dividends of ~5% right now and are relatively stable.

What is your opinion??

Go see a shrink.

Yawn.

US Gov't bonds...Trump will make them great again!

clintonite wrote:

US Gov't bonds...Trump will make them great again!

If Trump is to be believed, he will be generating huge debts and bond yield will rise.

It will be interesting to see if there's an effort in Congress to defeat this spending plan as they did with Obama. The Right seems to think Government spending works like a personal bank account.

dasfasdf wrote:

Is this an investment you plan to sit on for many years? When do you expect to need the money?

Flagpole, any advice?

Flagpole is a disgraced shell of himself. I think he took a sabbatical from here. He guaranteed Hilary's victory countless times with a pompous, looking-down-on-thee attitude. He made those who felt like Trump had a chance feel like downright fools. He needs to look in the mirror and make some major changes in his life.

dasfasdf wrote:

Is this an investment you plan to sit on for many years?

No, I will sell as soon as these stocks reach their previous highs, then will buy whatever other stocks are on sale at that time.

Just buy any financial stock. You voted for Trump so you should put your money where your mouth is.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

Just buy any financial stock. You voted for Trump so you should put your money where your mouth is.

What I think is that Trump will spell doom for "Hope and Change" companies like Tesla.

pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:

clintonite wrote:

US Gov't bonds...Trump will make them great again!

If Trump is to be believed, he will be generating huge debts and bond yield will rise.

Which of course is exactly why you don't want to buy treasures or bonds, which will drop in value as interest rates rise.

I've owned at&t for 4 years. Think it's only up about 15% but the 5% yield hasn't hurt too much. Trump opposes the mega merger with time Warner though so I'm not sure I'd be buying if I didn't already own.

The suggestion to buy the vanguard 500 is a good suggestion. Their total stock market is more diversified and their world index fund is even more so.

I play with individual stocks but with less than 3% of my net worth at stake I can afford to guess wrong.

jamin wrote:

I don't know what I'm doing. I just pick companies or industries that I like, or that are stable, and are at historic lows.

Placed an order on 150 shares of VLKAY today because I drive a Volkswagen and because the company's stock is in the tank.

I'm thinking I should buy something that tracks the price of oil.

A guy at my work said telecom companies like AT&T are good because they're paying dividends of ~5% right now and are relatively stable.

What is your opinion??

Big Pharma. Advent of new vaccines and genome modification ....be part of an exciting new era, make money and help people. Invest in the ingenuity of American researchers...!

Pick something you are not going to obsessively check every day. Investing is more about the habit of putting money in the bank, day in and day out, much like running. Worry less about the investment and more about the systems and habits. Read Ramit Sethi, who advocates creating automatic withdrawals from your bank account so that your willpower and emotions won't derail investment savings.

Put your money where your mouth, go with your man Schiff.