Stock Trading....

[Restless22]

What companies are you buying stock in right now??? :idea: :D

[MagicMtnDan]

What companies are you buying stock in right now??? :idea: :D
Solid, strong companies that'll be around - GE, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, etc.
Also any companies making high technology stuff for identifying, locating and killing bad guys - Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and others.

[XtrmWakeborder]

Didnt google just get approved for IPO? But i have Sun micro...which tanked but is slowly recovering and oracle, which is doing the same

[Wet Dream]

Lowes (LOW) and Bank of America (BAC) are moving well. Dell (DELL) is always strong as is Wal-Mart (WMT).

[Restless22]

have you guys ever looked into xm or sirius radio stock??? sirius is pretty low compared to xm....whats the deal? :confused: :smile:

[Restless22]

Didnt google just get approved for IPO? But i have Sun micro...which tanked but is slowly recovering and oracle, which is doing the same
Yah i just heard it on the news!

[Wet Dream]

Sirius might be going out. XM is strong.

[79miller]

Sirius might be going out. XM is strong.
That's what I've heard. I bought a bunch of XM about 6 months ago. It's been floating....

[Restless22]

i was thinkn on buyn some xm.... but sirius is trying to make a comeback. (it seems) I just put it in my truck and love it. They just signed with a ton of car companies. Im really on the fence to try and make a quick buck...

[Wet Dream]

Ok, so Sirius has NFL. Thats good for 16 weeks plus a few more but XM just picked up all the college games. I think XM will continue in its popularity. Personally, I can't wait for Opie and Anthony to start their broadcast again!!! These guys are hilarious.

[79miller]

Was at 3.00 in July, closed today at 2.16...
It's cheap, wouldn't hurt to try...

[Restless22]

:cool: thanks for the tips!

[79miller]

XM has Nascar. Not that I care, but there's alot that do.
With all the FCC crap going on you'll probably see a bunch of people going to satellite (Howard Stern, Neil and Bob, Spitz and Swallows, Tango and Cash). Hopefully it will kick up the subscriptions.

[Sleek-Jet]

Sirius might be going out. XM is strong.
Where did you hear that??

[Spotondl]

Was at 3.00 in July, closed today at 2.16...
It's cheap, wouldn't hurt to try...
Cheap doesn't necessarily mean good...
SIRI is cheaper than XMSR because SIRI sold MANY more shares of stock... Something like 250 million to 75 million. Basically you are buying a much smaller piece of the whole company when you buy SIRI... Don't quote me on the exact numbers but the concept holds true.
XMSR has many more subscribers, +1 million vs. SIRI's 400,000.
SIRI has many more exclusive sports broadcast deals, NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR. XMSR has NHL...( I love a good hockey game but that is pretty limited...) I know that XMSR has some exclusive deal with NPR for all you liberal pot smoking, John luvin, tree huggers out there... :rollside: :rollside: :rollside: Again, don't quote me exactly on all of these but again the concept is true.
XMSR has 2 Boeing satellites in orbit that are failing from a design flaw... XMSR HAS to launch more satellites in the next 2 years to continue to broadcast...
SIRI has 4 satellites, 2 in use and 2 in high orbit standby should one of the primary sats fail... 24 hours after a failure the standby can be in place an operational...
Each company has its pro's and con's. I have traded in and out of both companies for the last 2 years. Not sure that either is a good bet in a rising interest rate environment... Each is hugely capital intensive and each is living on borrowed money. If SIRI dips below $2 then may be a good entry point for a swing trade...
Good luck, do your own research, and good trading....
My .02

[ROZ]

Say what ou will, but the ONLY reason Sirius seems to be doing better with new subscribers is because TERK and BLITZSAFE ( the companies that make the XM receiver and MFG adaptors for alpine, sony,, Pioneer, etc.), have been behind schedule(like 2 months so far) in getting their product out for those who'd like XM radio throught the XM radio ready headunits they have. I guess there was a misshipment of parts to Ters(semicunductors, or something) and Blitzsafe has yet to produce a working adaptor for the terk units to adapt to the stereos mentioned. The industry blames these 2 reasons for the slow in XM subscriptions and the bump in sirrus subscribers. THat and alot of Delphi units have ben sold... XM will be back up.

[TheLurker]

Research a little company called Pixlworks. (PXLW) Was way over sold until last monday 08/16/04. Not a long term investment but for a short term hold you could make a few dollars. Buy and sell the spikes or hold 'till mid Jan. 05
:)

[Dave C]

ron,
stop scheming and get back to work. :p
or clean the boat
buy high, sell low.... :rollside:

[HighRoller]

I think the one important thing I've learned from looking at investments is which questions to ask(yourself or a broker) before you start. THE most important one is why are you investing? For cash flow, or retirement? Your acceptable risk level will vary according to that criteria. That said, I can't find any reason to invest in individual stocks when mutual funds give you fantastic returns with the built-in protection of diversification. Even someone like me could go to any one of the Mutual Fund websites and find more than one fund that has averaged 12-20% over 10-30 years, and I'm hardly a pro at this. And think about it; these guys spend like 30 million a year just in research to find good investments. I might hear a good stock tip from my hairdresser or father-in-law. Which one do you think might be more solid? :idea:

[Chris Winn]

look at some of the companies in the semiconductor market, i would recommend Micron Technology (DRAM manufacturer) and Intel. they both have new products for this year and both the market and margin on these products will be robust... :wink:

[Lightning]

I think the one important thing I've learned from looking at investments is which questions to ask(yourself or a broker) before you start. THE most important one is why are you investing? For cash flow, or retirement? Your acceptable risk level will vary according to that criteria. That said, I can't find any reason to invest in individual stocks when mutual funds give you fantastic returns with the built-in protection of diversification. Even someone like me could go to any one of the Mutual Fund websites and find more than one fund that has averaged 12-20% over 10-30 years, and I'm hardly a pro at this. And think about it; these guys spend like 30 million a year just in research to find good investments. I might hear a good stock tip from my hairdresser or father-in-law. Which one do you think might be more solid? :idea:
This is pretty good advice in my opinion, but then again . . . what do I know ? :rolleyes: :D :idea:

[Lightning]

Gold and silver are at all time highs right now, do you think there is still room for upside in the next few years. Gold Sector funds have been kicking ass lately.

[datdude]

Energy is always good. TXU, CVX. Maybe some of the battered merchants that CA tried to run out of business like RRI, they are up over 100% in like a year and a half and expect another 50%. But my pick of the day for the long term investor is ACAS pays mucho on the dividend side. I will let you do your own investigating into what the companies all about, don't want to put my biased view into it.

[HighRoller]

I got a hot new tip. It's a company called "eight the hard way". I heard any casino in Vegas will take your money for this investment. :sqeyes:
Seriously though, Gold and Silver IMO are like options and futures. If you catch them during the right period you'll make a pile. But Gold has a history of high stability and low returns. That's why they call it the "Gold Standard". It pretty much stays right where it's at. Long term, over the last 50 or 100 years I think Gold has a max return of 3-5 percent if you sell high.
I hate to beat this drum again, but in the long term(retirement) you cannot beat mutual funds. Sure, if you bought Apple or Microsoft as an IPO you'd be rich. But honestly, who knew who these guys were in the early 90's? I'll back up what I say. Go to TROWEPRICE.com and search their funds. Search these categories:
Growth and Income
Growth(Mid-Cap or S&P 500)
International
Aggresive Growth
Pick one from each category that you like. Average out what they would have made you in the last 10 years. I did. found one in each list that was around at least 10 years and did 10% or better. My overall return would have been 15% yearly over 10 years. Not bad.....IMO.

[MikeF]

I've been in gold since the bottom in 00. It's been pretty good so far. I'd like to have the physical gold but I've only owned hm,pdg,abx and gg. We'll see where it goes from here. Too bad the only times it goes up is when the crap starts hitting the fan. :clover:

[Froggystyle]

So, what is the concensus?
Lightning... is this you? I did a web search and found it under your name.
http://www.aricrandall.com/

[Froggystyle]

Never mind.. definitely you. I just saw the pic in the corner.
Nice site!

[Lightning]

Yes that's me - I do need to update the photo on the page though, it's an old one.

[Lightning]

Nice site !! I like the calculators.
Thanks!, those calculators do come in handy for most people.
Also, check out the newsletters section and the articles section. There is a ton of good information in there.

[lewiville]

have you guys ever looked into xm or sirius radio stock??? sirius is pretty low compared to xm....whats the deal? :confused: :smile:
havn't bought any of that stock, but i do remember reading a great article on xm. it was in fortune magazine and talked about how xm started with nothing raised capital, launch one satelite and went to launch the second one and got scrubbed the first time because the guy that was going to push the "BUTTON" saw somthing on the computer screen that was not right. However the back-up satelite did get launched. The biggest thing in the article was the fact that sirus has a cash flow burn rate 10x's faster than xm. XM has that cabibility of operating on a shoe string budget and has 5x's more subscribers.