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For someone getting started in buying stocks, how do you determine how many shares to purchase?

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:28:19 +0000

I'm starting my Roth IRA and selected four stocks to purchase. My question is are there negative consequences in purchasing $1000.00 stock in four or five different companies every year? Or is it a better to set a goal of a certain number of shares of each company?

Four or five stocks are not nearly enough to be adequately diversified. An investor holding only four or five stocks would be exposed to a tremendous amount of risk.

Some professors of finance will tell you that you need 14 to 16 stocks spread across six to eight industries to be adequately diversified in domestic large-cap stocks, but that opinion is a bit outdated. Others say 25, and there's some pretty good evidence that 40 different stocks spread across the industries and industry sectors will provide full diversification across the domestic large-cap universe. But leaves out about 75% of the worldwide stock market, and then there are bonds, commodities and real estate, which provide additional diversification.

Mutual funds, especially index funds, provide good diversification with a relatively small initial investment.

Asset allocation should be a dollar amount based on a predetermined percent of the total portfolio, where the percent is the desired allocation to a specific asset class or industry. As stocks are purchased in round lots of 100 shares, it can be difficult to get the desired weightings in small portfolios. Mutual funds overcome this obstacle, as they are purchased in dollar amounts rather than number of shares. The only constraint is the minimum initial and subsequent purchase amounts set by the fund managers. Initial purchase amounts vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. Subsequent minimums are usually significantly less.

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Can some one provide me with some good website for learning all about shares and stocks?

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:36:17 +0000

I wanted to learn more about stocks,shares and how they affect the economy of the country – could some one guide me to a good book or good website.please..

For info about stocks, there are literally hundreds of websites that provide info. The best I have found:

finance.yahoo.com
morningstar.com

How stocks affect the economy? They don't. But they can "reflect" the condition of the economy in general. The companies behind the stocks can affect the economy by what they do or don't do. For example, are they growing and hiring people (positive affect) or are they closing plants and laying off people (negative affect).

Your question is more of an Economics 101 question for which there are hundreds of books addressing the subject and as many opinions about what factors affect the economy directly or indirectly and why. There are no definitive answers. Only opinions.

should I own stocks and shares?

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:12:19 +0000

I am 20 years old and looking for ways to get rich quick with stocks and shares. I have a couple of thousand sitting in the bank. Should I invest? What companies should I invest in? What website should I do it on?

go talk to a financial adviser and if you only have a couple of thousand then you wont be getting rich quick! but its a start and if you dont start investing now then you never will

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12 Rules of Wealthy Investors: Rule 11

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:38:12 +0000

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I want to start investing in stocks and shares. Any helpful tips?

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:54:25 +0000

I currently don't know much about how this works but i'm willing to try, my bank (TSB) offers shares.

Where should i invest.
In companies that i think will have an increase in profit?
In companies that i think not many people will buy shares for?

if i invest say £10 in a company are there any other fees that can drag me to a loss of more than i put in amount.?

If you're serious about investing, I recommend that you learn as much as you can about the process before you actually commit your money to anything. I would spend some time reading about the terms of the stock market, famous investing strategies and maybe start a portfolio of investments to watch that you don't actually own (just go to finance.yahoo.com and create a portfolio as if you owned the stocks). Once you have a good understanding of how to invest your money, you will be able to make educated decisions and eventually get higher returns on your investment.

For your other questions:

You want the companies you invest in to increase in profit (since this means that their business is making more money and becoming more valuable) this drives the stock price up.

You should invest in companies that you think people WILL buy. If more people want to buy a certain stock, the demand increases and the price goes up.

Normally, when you trade their are commissions that you pay to your broker, these vary on the size of your trade, broker, etc. On an investment, these commissions would mean that you lose money unless you get returns to compensate for the commission. Lots of times you incur a "minimum" charge, no matter how small your investment, and this switches to percentages after you increase how much money you are trading. Unfortunately, this makes certain small trades uneconomical. Ex. If you invest $100 dollars and the commission is $40, you need to earn a 40% return to break even. Obviously this is bad for you. I would check in with your brokerage firm to see their rates etc. and then factor that into any calculations that you do.

Hope this helps, check out websites like Forbes, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal to learn more about markets and investment techniques and a quick internet search will result in plenty of beginner investing tutorials.

Good Luck.

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The Australian stock market closes up by 3.7%.

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:22:19 +0000

Australian shares rose 3.7% on Tuesday (March 25), led by financial firms such as Macquarie Group, after an improved offer for Bear Sterns and upbeat U.S. housing data eased as worries about credit markets.?
[Lucinda Chan, Division?Director of MacQuarie Equities]:
“I think you will probably see a little bit of cautious buying?coming back into the market and that’s what we saw today, it will be a?short-term relief for a little while. I think the surprise numbers of the home?sales in the U.S. on Monday night also provided a bit of excitement in terms?of the risk appetite coming back into the market.”
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index rose 190.9 points to 5,318.4, based?on the latest available data, the highest closing level in nearly three weeks?and recovering from a 3.1% fall in the previous session.?
Meanwhile, at Sydney’s Exchange Square, small-time investors monitored?the market’s progress, hoping for many more days of gains.?
[David Matthew, Investor]:
“It’s good to see it up but , you know, it needs to have many days?like this because there’s probably people everywhere, my age and younger and older, that have suffered tremendously at the hands of the down-turn in the share market.”
Fellow investor Kevin Kerley couldn’t agree more. The dramatic falls on?the stock exchange have made a considerable dent in his carefully accumulated pension. ?

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The Australian stock market closes up by 3.7%.

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:22:19 +0000

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