Now a days it’s really hard to find any decent safe investments. The old buy and hold routine doesn’t work in these trouble times, and as for trying to day trade, you’re taking your hard earned money in your own hands.
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A safe Investment right now seems to be in CD’s, bonds and Treasury bonds, but the problem there is that the return is quite low. After having your portfolio, need it be a discretionary one or your 401K/IRA, beaten up as bad as it has in the last year. Some may not want to deal with a 3% return on their money and have it tied up for nine months or longer to get it.
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High yield safe investments like junk bonds aren’t any better. They involve alot of risk and again after what we’ve gone through, do you really need more risk?
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The only safe investment advice that I would be comfortable giving you is to do your research into strong companies (of course you won’t know they’re strong until after the research) that have been beaten up because of the market as a whole brought the price down.
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One company that has taken a beaten because of the hedge fund redemption is Quanta Services Inc. (NYSE:PWR). The company has a great balance sheet and has orders out until 2010. They are expecting great numbers in this quarter. Thursday the stock hit a new 52-week low at $12.27. A level that hasn’t been seen since February of 2006.
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I don’t consider too many stocks to be a safe investment the way the markets have been moving. Monday morning the DOW opened at 9,141.01 and the intra-day low on Thursday was 7,979.60, but then closed Thursday at 8,835.25.
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The safest investment right now might be not investing.
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No matter what good news may be out there to trade on, someone else will sell on that same message. The Markets again for the second day trades lower. The Dow closes down almost 6% with most of that lose happening in the morning hours, but at one point it was down nearly 700 points.
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In after market trading Amazon fails to beat the street with their
earnings report, while Amgen beats what was expected from them today. Amgen has actually raised guidance for next year. What are you to do with this news? Nothing. For one by the time you’re able to get into Amgen the news will be priced into the stock. As of right now in after market trading Amgen is up $3 per share and the news just came out Secondly in this volatile market that we’ve been seeing, in the next couple off days we could see another major down day and see the stock drop below it $49.73 close price of today.
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Freeport McMoran Inc (NYSE:FCX) Has taken a beating in the last few weeks or so that has the price down to a new five year low. If you have five years to wait before you need you money, this might be the stock for you. In regards to the basic material sector, these stocks have been dealt a blow that will take some time before they really come back to the level that they were at this time last year. If you’re a veteran
trader I’m sure that the UltraShort Basic Materials ProShares (AMEX:SMN) is something that you’ve been following if not trading . The stock was at $66 just two days ago and hit an intra-day high of $92.97 in the last 20 minutes of open trading today.
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If you’re going to trade in this volatile market, you need to know how to play both sides of the trading floor. You need to diversify your portfolio and understand what shorting can do for you. It something that I recommend for average traders to do until you fully look into how it’s done.
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In the last two days the Dow has lost nearly 700 point (almost 8%), but because of how I trade and hedge myself, I’ve increased my portfolio over 15% during the same period. Do your homework, double check your research and follow through with your
due diligence.
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What a week we had in the stock market. On Monday the DOW fell 733 points to start off the week and dropped another 127 points on Friday to end the week. The good news is that the the Dow is up over 4% for the week. Go figure.
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That’s right, some how the markets were up even with all that going on. This past week has shown us the intensity of volatility in the markets. I have to say that this was a great week for people who rode out this roller-coaster ride in one of two ways.
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If you were one of the many that didn’t know what you should do with all the “The Sky is falling” news and figured that you don’t need any of your investment money. You decided to just let your money sit where it was at and ride it out. If you were properly diversified you most likely did pretty good. Most of the sector and different markets came out ahead for the week (Friday to Friday). Being diversified is what it’s all about if you want to stay afloat for the rough times so you can maximize your return over the long haul. I commend those of you that are prepared.
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The other way is if you knew what you were doing throughout this period of six trading days and saw the writing on the wall each of those days and at different times of the day. You most likely made a killing. The volatility was off the scale. With days that had over 500 point swings, it was easy to be able to pick up some broken stocks (of not-broken companies) and watch as the investors got back into them after they were oversold. Waiting for those quick returns of 5-10% gains. In some cases, there were returns of 30% a better.
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Throughout the week there was a lot of news as well as action to keep one busier more than one would care to be, but I found it very educational. I do have to say that I’m glad that it’s over.
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