So how do you figure out what stocks are going to be a good investment?

Question

there are thousands upon thousands out there. How do you pick the good ones. What should you look for?

Answer 1

Not even the so called experts know that. Usually high dividend stocks with some history are the best bet.

Answer 2

Everyone has different ways of looking for stocks - some look at growth rates, some look at ratios like P/E and Price to Book Value, some are interested in the management or industry and some look at the price chart and quantitative indicators.

Before you follow someone's advice, make sure you know their portfolio has performed. Take a look at Xearn.com - it keeps tracks of many portfolios so you can see how people really are doing and what they are buying.

Answer 3

I´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.

If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of financial success, long term stock investing and FOREX can help you become much richer than you are today.

My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of several brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader and private hedge fund manager, I can suggest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow.

Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that.

Don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthless”

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.

I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coin… That´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the first Hour of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their

online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.

The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker ,not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points

in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open. That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the first hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

I can carry on with the advises about how to make money trading, but if you ask me:

"What is the best thing you can do for me?

I will say:

Give yourself a BIG favor and go to this "Top Secret" site and learn how to get the BEST stocks that will make the largest and fastest day trading profits you´ve ever seen, all by yourself...

www.onehourtrading.com

After you review this site you won´t need system, strategy, book, software or mentor to tell you what to do,

you will be able to profit HUGE every day.

Good luck and good trading,

John Fontaine

Answer 4

Hi there. Consider investing in Baltia Air Lines. Their annual growth rate is amazing and price is economical too:

http://www.thestreet.com/quote/BLTA.html...

On news of FAA Approval expect stock price of .50 to $1.00. Upon Inaugural Flight in Nov/Dec 08, expect $2.00 to $3.00.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/busin...

This makes Baltia an ultimate choice for investment to me Baltia's objective is to provide high quality three class passenger service, and reliable and fast cargo and mail transportation. Baltia plans to start its flight operations in the end 2008, as the only USairline connecting directly two of the world's most prominent cities - New York and St. Petersburg.

Baltia's nonstop service from New York's JFK to St. Petersburg will be approximately 8 hours, as compared to European connecting flights by foreign airlines taking up to 12 or 18 hours. Only a US airline (as well as a reciprocal Russian airline ) is entitled to fly nonstop. Third nation airlines, which are currently serving the market, can only operate connecting flights via their national airports.

They have an awesome website situated at:

http://www.baltia.com/

Answer 5

Welcome to the world of stock investing.  You should start with what are your goals and objectives.  It sounds corny but these goals and objectives will narrow the type of stocks you should be looking at.  For instance, if you want a steady stream of income - you are looking for stocks that have a good history of issuing dividends.  If what to increase capital through price appreciation then you look at growth stocks.

Investing in stocks takes a lot of research.  A good alternative may be a mutual fund until you get up to speed on the stock market.  But even with mutual funds you need to set goals and objectives.

Good luck.