Just opened a online brokerage account, What should I buy?

[AustinInDallas]

Go ahead, make me rich!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

A financial planner.

 

[momeNt]

It doesn't matter. Buy anything that has brand recognition. Bernanke targets asset prices so you don't actually need any formal training in asset analysis to pick the right stocks.

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Sell GRPN $7 Jul puts.

 

[AustinInDallas]

Sell GRPN $7 Jul puts.

why option groupon?

 

[Rudee]

If you have to ask other people, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

My research as an organizational scholar specializing in strategy indicates that these are the organizations that are most well suited to obtaining long-term gains:

I would go DRIP wherever available.


As a general rule: buy where someone is the first mover into a niche market.

 

[desiplaya4life]

CMG

because I love eating chipotle. Hayyyyy

 

[AustinInDallas]

My research as an organizational scholar specializing in strategy indicates that these are the organizations that are most well suited to obtaining long-term gains:

I would go DRIP wherever available.


As a general rule: buy where someone is the first mover into a niche market.

My roth is for long term, this is just for fun

 

[silverpig]

Pick the most volatile penny stock you can find and dump all your cash into it!

 

[DaveSimmons]

More seriously: Stock index ETF from Vanguard.

Get rich slowly.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

My roth is for long term, this is just for fun

if that's the case, this is the right answer:

Pick the most volatile penny stock you can find and dump all your cash into it!

the more volatile the better. It will show a lower overall valuation despite its tendency to move up semi-randomly. Buy when it's below average and sell when it's enough above to justify the time/cost involved in buying/selling: just pick how much you want to make an hour playing stocks and do just that.

As a rule of thumb, if you want to play the buy/sell game, try putting in enough to buy at 1sd below and sell at 1sd above.

You'll get a feel for how many stocks you can reasonably day-trade and how much to put on the ponies.

 

[Balt]

More seriously: Stock index ETF from Vanguard.

Get rich slowly.

Probably the best advice. Most people do not outperform an index fund over the long haul.

 

[OverVolt]

Speculate of course!

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Probably the best advice. Most people do not outperform an index fund over the long haul.

Sans other costs, the totality of investments across all members of an index fund, weighted by how much is invested, is necessarily equal the performance of said index fund.

ie: an index fund spreads your risk around, it wont perform any better, or worse, on average, than a reasonably large number of random investments spread over the same course of potential stocks.

 

[drinkmorejava]

My research as an organizational scholar specializing in strategy indicates that these are the organizations that are most well suited to obtaining long-term gains:

I would go DRIP wherever available.


As a general rule: buy where someone is the first mover into a niche market.

lol, Marion Merrell Dow hasn't existed for over a decade

 

[Dr. Zaus]

lol, Marion Merrell Dow hasn't existed for over a decade

:sneaky:

 

[Mixolydian]

UPS, please!

 

[jagec]

Sans other costs, the totality of investments across all members of an index fund, weighted by how much is invested, is necessarily equal the performance of said index fund.

ie: an index fund spreads your risk around, it wont perform any better, or worse, on average, than a reasonably large number of random investments spread over the same course of potential stocks.

But very, very few people make large numbers of RANDOM investments. They try to pick winners and losers...and they usually pick recent winners and sell recent losers, which tends to be a money-losing strategy since you will (on average) be buying high and selling low.

 

[dr150]

More seriously: Stock index ETF from Vanguard.

Get rich slowly.

Put it into something like VTI or VOO.

....Ultra cheap .05% expense ratio. ~2% dividend yield. Very liquid (don't underestimate this feature).....Beats 80%+ of all hedge funds with ease.

 

[ViRGE]

This is ATOT, and no one has suggested waffles yet?

 

[atotnine]

bonds are good to buy I hear

 

[Attic]

Buy index funds and/or a solid ETF.

VTI is one to look at.

Buy on same day each month or same day each weak.

Don't time the market, just buy on routine intervals. Do this and you'll beat most money managers.

With that,...market is pretty shit right now. Might want to stay cash until early 2014.

 

[SSSnail]

This is ATOT, and no one has suggested waffles yet?

HKRS and BLW, guaranteed return.

 

[Anonemous]

Bitcoins!