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I am looking for stocks that are down right now, but in 3 to 5 year offer great returns. I was thinking small cap companies in either the green sector or oil and gas, but am open to any suggestions. preferably less than 5 dollars because of my income. I am willing to buy higher risk stocks.

You better be willing to invest for more than 3-5 years if you want to be rolling in it.

2008-12-27 22:42:56 by lucius_alta

Roger Montgomery joins Richard Gonclaves to discuss the future of Australias stock market, the value of the S&P/ASX 200, investing in ...

what all to be considered to get high returns in the future for definite?

definite? there is no definite in investing, there is always what's called risk...... and it applies to every investment, no matter what people tell you. There are some investments with very very little risk and some with a lot... the expected return from each investment is in line with each amount of risk. Stocks are historically the greatest returning investment. Most important is to pick the right stocks and be in the right sector,,, you should check out www.thewallstreethunter.com they have some great articles to teach more about whats happening on wall street...

good luck

2008-01-10 00:08:12 by kerrison jayaram a

Hello,
Which is the best way/ site to check the stocks that are expected to go up in near future, or are going up right now and are expected to go up for a while. Remember I am saying "expected". Once I get the recommendations, I am going to do my homework as well (SMA, Trend Analysis etc). But I want to be able to pre qualify some stocks out of thousands, before I do my own homework on them.
Thanks a log.

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 or trip your money

2009-03-12 12:33:09 by umermariner

I'm a novice investor and I've decided to take advantage of the "buy low" times and buy some stocks. I'm having trouble deciding on which companies to buy mainly because I'm finding the research difficult. I want to know things like who the CEO is, what are their future and present projects, and are they in debt? I've found Stockwatch to be useful, but are there any other sites that can help me? How do you pick your stocks?

Picking very profitable stocks is extremely difficult, but it is much easier to pick slightly profitable stocks. I would recommend reading the classic book by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd called Security Analysis. You can pick it up for about $50 on Amazon, and it will really walk you through prudent "stock picking".

Professionals use prime brokers and have access to databases such as Bloomberg Terminals and can screen stocks to purchase based on Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and market information.

You can do your own screening at finance.google.com or finance.yahoo.com; find "Stock screener" somewhere on the page. The Graham and Dodd book should walk you through what's important to screen on.

Picking stocks really comes down to what you believe, or what school of thought you subscribe to. You may pick stocks that you suspect will grow rapidly in the future (Growth Stocks). You may pick stocks that you think are undervalued (Value Stocks). You may stick with only big companies (Large-Cap Stocks). You may stick with companies that are relatively small (Small-Cap Stocks). Most likely you'll want a portfolio of different types of stocks.

If you want to take advantage of the "buy low" times without really wanting to do any real research, then just buy an S&P500 ETF (I invest in ticker: IVV ; iShares S&P 500 ETF; ETF stands for exchange traded fund and is just like a mutual fund, but you can trade it on an exchange). This way you can just buy and sit on it, enjoy life for years and then sell it later for a profit (assuming the market will go up from this point, which is not always a good assumption)

I hope that helps.

2009-08-19 13:08:16 by Sophie920

I know past performance doesn't predict the future of a stock and all that...but I'm curious. What were a few of the stocks that did the best in the year 2008?

McDonalds and Wal mart were the only 2 DOW stocks up for the year.

2009-01-07 16:40:11 by Lizard King