Stock market?
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- Hombre_Lobo0
Do we have like, a bat symbol for hedge?
Probably be the outline of him being an arrogant twat.Blast it into the night skies!!
- Although he did offer sound financial advice. Nice of him.Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
Great thread btw, thanks everyone for the information. Risky, but calculated risks and seems a lot of dudes here have done well.
Yeah as said before I imagine apple stocks are as reliable as they come.
- Not as much as last year. Hard to see them go up as dramatically from here.monospaced
- formed0
HL - not to try to sound boring, but I'd be really, really careful about assuming "lots have done well". Much is like gambling - people talk about "making money" or the "wins", but rarely do people talk about the losses or what it took to get a win.
Just saying. If I were to say anything like that, I'd say something like 'I am up 150% with a super, super safe, diversified portfolio that is paying me very solid dividends", but that'd be very misleading in this market, not to mention unless you've sold it is all on paper. Almost everything has made a lot of money since the crash.
Just be cautious, that's all. If it were 'easy', we'd all be 'trading', getting rich and retiring, not blabbing on here.
- +1, in the long run, everybody loses somethingsilentpost
- FawnDog0
All very interesting but could someone tell me how to keep track of capital gains to pay the govt'. I sometimes feel that day trading doesn't pay off after you factor in the money you pay out to the government and the trading fees. Please educate me. I bought Apple stock about 10 years ago and was looking to dump some of them but have been told that I need to find the paperwork from the original transaction and if I try and sell 30k I will owe somewhere around 10k and that doesn't include trading fees ... sorry if i'm rambling just got home from the pub.
- Your original broker should have the records and will mail them to you. Nowadays it is all online and simple.formed
- monNom0
^ talk to an accountant. $100 well spent.
- its_only_me0
A lot more people have lost than won.
Ive been trading (mostly swing trading) for years but I only ever try for small profits.
The only advice I could give is if you like gambling (i.e. horses & sports) then stay away. Those are the type of people who cant take a loss and end up chasing trades to make up what they've lost and end up losing more.
"Trade as Spock would trade. Emotionless"
Oh, and paper trade until your taking profits before you trade for real. Most brokers have decent demo systems.
- bklyndroobeki0
Really good 101:
https://www.lynda.com/Accounting…- http://www.qbn.com/t…********
- hah, never noticed this thread! tx!bklyndroobeki
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- pinkfloyd-2
Has anyone tried lending club?