Socially Responsible Investing

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How about Fibonacci and Elliot Wave? Head and shoulders? Cup and handle? It seem to me a lot easier to point the out afterwards. P/E and rolling averages make more sense.
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Not familiar with those terms, but they sound like something a day trader would know.

Your average person just can’t compete against wall street algorithms and their super computers watching the market and executing trades.
 
Other interesting index numbers include Price/Book ratios and Price/Sales ratios.
 
Right, I put very little on individual stocks and what I d is only for fun.
 
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Day-trading is not investing; it is gambling. Las Vegas for New Yorkers.

If you get interested in individual stocks, take a look at Value Line Investment Survey. [They have the biggie stock edition and the mini-stock edition. Big companies and little company editions.]
 
Not interested in stock market as entertainment.
 
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Bon_Croix said:
I would avoid stocks right now like the plague. The fed will be hiking rates soon to ward off inflation from all these tax cuts. Companies are already increasing bonuses, which will cause some inflation.

In an inefficient market, it would be time to invest in metals. Also, short bonds. For quick money, one would go short on a treasury bond option contracts.
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You need your own column. I knew it I was coming but when and how much are other questions? I am just holding now.
 
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The Fed is hiking rates only BECAUSE under Obama the Fed rates were FORCED un-naturally low in order to make the stock market go UP … to make the economy look stronger than it really was.

A lot of people do not want to play the stock market because of the risks and uncertainties involved … they prefer Certificates of Deposit and those sorts of fixed return investments.

NOW, the Federal Reserve is back to fiddling with the pre-Obama financial markets. So, as interest rates go back up, some people will move their money out of stocks and into bonds.
 
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Will deregulation bring us back to another 2009?
 
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Shakuhachi said:
Will deregulation bring us back to another 2009?
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The housing bubble was fundamentally caused by over-regulation, rules that encouraged loans to people that didn’t qualify as reasonable lending risks, for the amount loaned and money down.

Did you think the 2009 recession was caused by deregulation?
 
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To some degree but mostly greed and the disbelief that the big banks could fail.
 
Shakuhachi said:
To some degree but mostly greed and the disbelief that the big banks could fail.
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Banks have ALWAYS been profit motivated.
It was Fed regulation that directed them towards a cliff.
Fed regulation is supposed to steer them away from cliffs.
 
It has been many years since I studied any of that. As I approach retirement my interest is growing. I am considering a few “GREAT COURSES” in Money & Banking, Investing, actually I just found out I can audit courses free at the local university. That would be better with discussion and access to a professor.
 
I agree with your point on 2009, but not on Obama’s effect on interest rates. The 2009 crisis brought regulation; Obama just had to be in there at the time.
 
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