Stocks

I want to invest into stocks as soon as I turn aged 18. I also want to become a millionaire as I invest. What are the best stocks to invest into to become a millionaire?

I am glad you have high ambitions for yourself, but investing is not as easy as picking the "best" stock. What is in this moment today, may be out tomorrow without warning. Who would have thought a few years back that behemoths like Citibank ot Bank of America would have ever sold for a buck, but it happened months back. How many people realized years ago that Apple would be able to successfully take on Microsoft and win?
One never knows. All you can do is diversify, time things right, watch over everything closely, say your prayers, be a bit lucky, and hope for the best.

Do you need to already have a fat wallet to even consider stock or no?
Also, who knows of a stock investing and trade website besides E trade?

You should paper trade options before using real money… and the best site to use is thinkorswim.com

I need stock charts, and I need the computer independent. Being a computer enthusiast, I feel that this is kinda dumb, but I need them for a class.

why don’t you use websites like yahoo finance?

what charts do you find to be the best indicators of how the stock will do in short, medium or long term. Thanks.

For a quick stock chart I like to use Google Finance.
http://finance.google.com/finance

For a more in-depth chart I really enjoy Big Charts.
http://www.bigcharts.com
Big charts is great because it allows you to chart a lot of different things along with the P/E ratio. A P/E chart is very important in determining the value of a stock. This article talks about the importance of using a P/E chart
http://www.marketflavor.com/blog/2007/04/pe_chart_pe_trend.html

Browsed through Nasdaq and Dow Jones and saw hundreds of companies losing enormous amounts of money per share

have depreciated assets , have horrible prospects of future earnings , are at the end of average life of company on the market of 20-30yrs

despite market says company is worth billions ?

are stock markets rigged ?
it is not about conspiracy

any business is only worth what it makes in a year

if not making money I’m not sure what gives it value ?

maybe stupidity ?

No, you take a company like BP and at one point a few weeks ago, the total of all outstanding shares of stock was worth less than the book value of the assets of the company. That makes it a very attractive buy for investors. I personally don’t invest in companies that don’t have a P/E, i.e. are not profitable so I can’t speak for others.

What is the best stock trading website for beginners? I’m a college student and have about 500-600 dollars to invest. I know a good amount about what i am doing, but am no expert. What would be the best for me?

I here Scott Trade is pretty good, and they have a branch nearby where i live. How do they stack up against others, like scwabb or etrade?

Thanks for the help!

I like TDAmeritrade. I’ve been with them for a few years, and have never had any problems. They also offer something like 10 free trades to start you out, so you can shuffle without cost while you’re figuring out what to do.

I want to add a single stock quote on a website. All I see are links to free embed codes but they all show ads. I dont mind paying, but I want it looking professional. Anyone know who handles this service or an alternative? Preferably free, but pay-fee is not that much of an issue either.

Free services have ads, paid services don’t. What you do is get the data from a free site and screen-scape the data. Then just put the data in the div you want it to be in. (It’ll take some server-side code and a little javascript – basically AJAX. Fetch and scrape on the server, send the browser the data.)

I’m interested in writing some programs to analyze stock market data and look for trends, patterns, etc. Where can I get a list of stock prices quoted throughout the day at regular intervals (say 1 second or less)? It’d be preferable if I could find one that is updated everyday, but I’d settle for a list of prices from one day twenty years ago just for getting started.

Compustat or a Bloomberg terminal.

The stock market is supposed to be a reflection of the economy. But the US or the world economy grow at a much slower rate than that of the stock market. Will this trend continue forever, barring a few bear years?

The FED drives equities higher. It can’t fix structural problems.

I’ve seen many tables of ’stock quotes’, and I guessed they were something to evaluate an item’s worth from, comparing to others.. maybe companies.. or…
Well, I’ve never really guessed it out correctly.
Could anyone tell me what they are exactly, and what the names and numbers on the tables mean?

It is the price of various companies stock shares. The letters are usually the stock symbol, instead of the name of the company a 1-5 letter symbol is used. For instance, Apple is AAPL, AT&T is just T and so on. Stocks go up and down in price, in a typical listing you will see the closing price (or current price if it is online), how much it went up or down in dollars, and probably some helpful data like the Price/Earnings ratio and the dividend yield.