Stocks

I need 4 characteristics for Small Cap stocks, Large Cap stocks, Penny stocks, and Defensive stocks.
I need 2 Growth stock companies, 1 Defensive stock company, 1 Large Cap stock, 5 Small Cap stock companies, 5 Income stock companies, 5 Penny stock companies. If you could also put the stock tickers with them that would be great!

Use your search engine (web brouser) and type each in and you will get plenty of answers

So i am trying to pick the best stock/options broker to trade with – and though puzzling between etrade, zecco, optionsxpress (all registered with various regulators…) i found a few firms that offer stock trading on nyse and nasdaq stocks but don’t appear in sec and finra searches – is this legal?

10x!

I don’t know for sure but why would you even consider dealing with them? There are major firms with extremely low brokerage fees so it just doesn’t make sense to put your money at risk.

I am new to the investing in stocks game, but I wanted to know which if an website or ways are there to invest in stocks without a mimimum investment amount? I know most companies like ETrade and Fidelity require a minimum amount.

its according to the price of the stocks in which to invest.
huge investment gives high profit and less investment gives less profit .

I am looking for good stocks in alternative fuel. Can somebody give me a good suggestion on companies to research.

Nova Biofuels, (biodiesel)

http://top10traders.com/ViewHolding.aspx?symbol=NBF

Cosan (Ethanol), a Brazilian company

http://top10traders.com/ViewHolding.aspx?symbol=CZZ

Tower Tech (wind towers)

http://top10traders.com/ViewHolding.aspx?symbol=TWRT.OB

I added a wind energy stock, because I think that is the best alternative energy sector.
Good luck.

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.

Which stocks have high growth potential, or will likely be able to make me a good profit. (I can invest both long and short term) just please tell me which stock(s) should be a long term investment, and which stock(s) should be a short term investment. Thank you so much, I will choose a best answer.

if you want cheap and safe stock and invest on long term i suggest you should buy C, and BAC because government will never let these big bank fail and eventually it will double your money

With the volatility of the markets, and stocks getting so darn cheap, I’m eager to buy up some cheap stocks and take a relatively inexpensive risk. What are some cheap stocks now that look like they may take off in the near future?

It is not an inexpensive risk if the companies go under.

I would not buy individual stocks right now, maybe a fund though.

2 part ?…If you know a company and think it would be a good investment, how do you find out if they have stock to buy?

If they don’t have stock to buy, how do you find out if they ever will?

Sorry, hope that’s not too confusing. I tried to find a company in the stock market. I don’t have a clue about stocks, but I tried searching for this company, and couldn’t find it. They are a relative new company about 5 yrs old, and I think they are going places. I would love to be able to purchase stock from them, but they don’t seem to be listed. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

If you have done a search of Yahoo finance and come up with nothing and you have done a search of pink sheets and come up with nothing, there is a pretty good chance they are not publicly traded. To find out for sure call the company and ask them.

So im new to investing and the stock market. So if i buy a few stocks in a successful company, would i recieve money every month? Also how much money would i recieve from a stock worth around $200, Thanks, also remember im new to this!

You buy just one stock in a company whose stock offering is broken down into shares.

When you buy a company’s stock, you hope its value will rise above the amount you paid. You won’t receive money from it unless you sell it unless it happens to pay a dividend. This is something you’ll check out before making your purchase as it could influence your decision to buy it.

Regardless of what you pay for the stock, you will not receive anything until you sell it. I suspect you’re thinking that stock operates like a bank, offering interest. Alas, it doesn’t work that way. It’s more like you buy something you hope or expect will become more popular. If that should happen, buyers will be willing to pay more to own your shares annd you may be tempted to sell them for a profit.

Good question—keep on asking and learning!

Len

I’m in econ at school and we are playing a virtual stock game on the internet. Which stocks should I invest in? I’ve invested in the obvious stocks such as Google and Apple but I need to invest in more. I’m just not exactly sure what I should be investing in.

What’s your strategy?

Picking stocks isn’t a strategy and if you don’t have a strategy, you’re just putting the cart in front of the horse by picking stocks.

A very important decision is how much of your portfolio to keep as cash. Once you have your portfolio percentages decided upon, you need to keep them. For example, if you have 50% cash and the rest in one stock and the stock goes down, you buy stocks till you’re at 50/50 again, if it goes up, you sell stocks till you’re at 50/50 again. Always rebalance to the targets you decided on. That way, you can take advantage of a downturn as well as growth.

As to stocks, I’d stay away from airlines for a while, there’s the Continental United merger underway, first round of layoffs just occurred and regulations about the amount of rest the pilots need to have has just changed. I would estimate that the airlines will have to either double the number of pilots they have or cut their schedules by 30%. Continental and United will probably use the merger as an excuse to cut schedules so they’ll be the first out of the block in restructuring to the new regulations but that industry is a difficult one at the best of times.

When in doubt, you can go with ETF’s, the idea of ETF’s are that they are a blend of stocks so that it’s like buying a share in the entire S&P 500 index or some other index.

There’s a lot that may happen in the next few months, retail stores have their inventories at all time lows and are counting every dime which means they’re in survival mode and won’t be in a good position to take advantage of any increase in consumerism but online outlets like Amazon will benefit from that. Grocery stores are probably going to do well cause food is the last thing people want to skimp on. Oilfield services might be good now that the spill is over with so business can pick up again (slb is pretty good in that sector). Of course the October timeframe is usually when bad things happen so keep cash ready to take advantage of opportunities.