Yeah there's a boatload. I live a few solid three-woods away from their HQ and used to work there. AMA. https://research.tdameritrade.com/grid/public/etfs/commissionfree/commissionfree.asp
That would do the trick. One alternative worth considering is using a roboadviser. Easy to setup and get started with a weekly deposit of any size. You also have the benefit of automatic rebalancing and tax harvesting. Better long-term move than MFs. If you decide to accumulate your money in ETFs and then buy into your preferred MFs at a later date, remember you'll hopefully have capital gains to deal with.
Depends on how much you value not having to deal with it. Rebalancing and TLH are easy and for me aren't worth paying a fee, however if you have no desire to do it on your own then maybe a roboadvisor is better. Capital gains accumulated on $3000 of ETF purchases will result in a capital gains tax of pennies if he transfers as soon as he has met the minimum.
Since he's already trying to go the set it and forget it route with automatic investing through MFs, I figured it was worth mentioning. Better to be aware you'll most likely receive a 1099-B than not - especially if it is a new experience. You're right it shouldn't be a huge amount.
Hypothetical... Let’s say you are very rich. You own options that are say $.50 to a buck shy of your strike price with only a day until expiration. Could you legally bid up the stock price (same company as your options) by purchasing a lot of shares to push your options into the money? Has this been tried before?
Saying if you had that much money there are way less riskier options, especially if you have enough to influence volume.
Buffett doesn’t even need to buy too many shares either. His name alone in a stock will give it a hefty boost. Additionally you don’t need to be super rich if the stock is a low price and trades on low volume usually. Obviously one person trying to move Apple is going to be more difficult than one person trying to move Boerne Aquarium Distributor.
Sold my MRK options this am at 13.70 Probably one of the best trades I’ve made Love the company and I hope it presents another opportunity soon.
Warren loaned the “Warren Buffet of Saudi Arabia” money for some of his shares of Aramco. The interest payments were tied to stock price. Someone shorted the stock enough to keep the interest payments going for months longer than they should have. The stock was rising, but the shorts kept it under. Warren lost millions on the shorts, but made three or four times his money in interest. The story was posted in this thread iirc.
Most likely illegal and would fall under stock price manipulation. Not saying it doesn’t happen, although it would be very flaunting to do that in shares of your own company. All kinds of reporting requirements etc that would have to be ignored.
Don’t exit Too early. Look for re-entry point. Really liking MRK and Genentech. I’m hearing they are making huge strides in immunotherapy. Seeing some crazy good results. Next 3-5 years you will see huge increase in survival rates for some types of cancers with personalized cancer vaccines. Stay with the leaders in the immunotherapy field in mrk and roche group.
You don’t have to sell me on Merck. I’ve been singing their praises since I purchased the options a year ago. I nearly hit a triple with these. Only sold because I was facing expiration. I hope to get back into MRK soon, just need a pull back.
Alright let’s talk stocks. I’m 60 % cash right now after a selling a ton of options last week. I own Amazon, Boeing, HCA and a small Texas Bank LTXB. Plans moving forward are to exit the bank if it makes a small run. Hold Amazon and Boeing long term. I want to get into Microsoft if they drop. Merck is down ~6% since I sold my options but I think there may be a lower entry point. I definitely would like to get back in with them if the right price comes around. Finally I’m really liking the DIS. They have a very low 13 multiple and I think their new Star Wars Land is going create tons of buzz. I’m already reading they are expecting to close the park every single day this fall before 11am because they expect to reach capacity. Finally you have the latest Star Wars film (episode IX). Just tons of buzz and good feelings for Disney this year I predict.
I'm already holding Merck and am buying more. I'm in for the long haul versus the call's at the moment. I've been playing the swings on DGAZ and have been very profitable doing so. Also looking at Microsoft. I own a ton of VTI and am considering selling 20-30% and making sure I have some powder as I have very little at the moment.
I bought 40 shares of MSFT when they were down around $101 earlier in the year Bought 3 shares of BA earlier in the week when they were down around $358, I definitely want more shares when the price is right. Both of those were new trades this year for those companies as I’ve been mostly investing into mutual funds and indices, I’d like to get into more singular stocks. lechnerd whenever you feel like Merk has a good entry point please post because I’d like to add some shares of that aside from my XLV
I've stated it several times itt before but my favorite long term play and what I have most invested in is ROKU. Cable companies are hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of subscribers every quarter to "cord cutters". People are realizing that they can drastically cut their monthly costs in cable by switching to live TV services like Sling, YouTube TV, Hulu TV, not to mention on demand services like Netflix, Vudu, HBO GO, etc... Those types of services are accessed by Roku's solutions. Roku also has partnerships with TV companies like TCL in that their software is already pre-installed on all TV's they buy. There are several other reasons why it's a great long term play but those are some of the primary ones.
I bought GE at $7.51, real tempted to unload at $9.16 before their next bombshell announcement. Then again, pretty tempting to hold since they’ve dropped their dividend to $0.01 per share.
That $5.82, before tax, really helps ease my pain. My “Pennie stock” CUEN going for a NASDAQ listing hasn’t helped my portfolio either. If not for ONCE and FLXN, last year would of been over 50% down.
I've been day trading with some of the Direxion 3X Bull and Bear leveraged ETFs. Been able to swing an average of 2-3% every day or two. TECL has been really good to me so far.
Cron (Marijuana company) and GGB (Brazilian steel company) are two I'm really interested in right now
I sold nearly all of my stock holdings about 2 years ago and put all the proceeds into mutual funds and paid off a chunk of student debt. Now I am looking to get back into the stock game. Will you gentlemen kindly provide some good companies for me to research. I am also thinking about actively trading the VXX, not just as a hedge but as a way to make some cash. Anyone here do that? BTW, the only two stocks I kept when I liquidated were my shares of CSWI and CSWC, simply because those were my first investments, bought back in 2012 (more accurately, I bought CSWC in 2012 and acquired CSWI in a of stock dividend after a spin-off in 2015). Anyway, I was just reviewing their performance this morning and saw I had a 21% annualized return in CSWC since 2012 and a 16% annualized return in CSWI since 2015. Strongly considering dropping all fundamental and technical analysis and using only my proprietary Stagger Lee Sentimental Analysis™ from here on out. Let me know if you want my hot picks of the week determined from my proprietary analysis.[1] [1] I'm not registered as a securities broker-dealer or investment advisor with the SEC or with the securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction. I'm neither licensed nor qualified to provide investment advice. I'm simply an enthusiastic young man with a sixth grade education and an abiding love for all of God's creatures. Past performance is in no way indicative of future results. The material provided using the Stagger Sentimental Analysis™ is for informational purposes only. An individual should never invest in the securities of any of the companies’ I select -- even if its the Stagger Lee Can't Miss Guaranteed 1,000% IRR Sentimental Pick of the Week™ -- solely based on the information I provide.You should always conduct your own investment research and consult with your own registered investment advisers or licensed stock broker before investing. Any individual who chooses to invest in any securities should do so with caution. Investing in securities -- even those designated as the Stagger Lee Can't Miss Guaranteed 1,000% IRR Sentimental Pick of the Week™ -- is speculative and carries a high degree of risk; you may lose some or all of the money that is invested. .
Can you both kindly fuck off trying to make this a political thread. There is an entire thread devoted to everything Trump where you guys can go circle jerk each other.