Investment BS Thread - Stocks/Futures/Mutual Funds/Bonds/Commodities/Options/ETFs/401ks/Etc

You could theoretically buy and sell frequently to capture dividends from a lot of companies, but you’d spend your whole life doing it. If it was a good strategy, people would be doing it. I already thought about that.

Edit: taco-houla beat me to it, and suggested a program, so you wouldn’t have to spend your whole life doing it. I wonder if it’s possible.

 

This says that records are 2 days old so you can buy the day before ex dividend and sell the day of.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/110802.asp
I'm just reading crap I found on the internet though.

 

That’s what I found on dividend.com. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the stock will fall on the ex-dividend date so you’ll lose about the value of the dividend in the share price (in a perfect world).

 

Wow, didn't intend making things confusing. Just trying to learn Thanks for everyone's input!

 

I trust Ivestopedia. So you'd have to buy 2 days before the ex-div date. T is the transaction date then +2 days for it to be recorded. If I'm reading that correctly.

It's all good man. That's why it's always good to have different people give input. Using that link above I'd be shit out of luck if I purchased the stock on the actual ex-div date. I was wrong about the time it takes a transaction to be recorded. It's a good convo that I'm glad you started.

 

This is how we learn..

 

Does your brokerage have a “panic” button? Like if some major world event happened and I wanted to sell all my stock immediately, could I do it without selling everything one by one? That might take awhile

 

Any thoughts on TEVA?

 

I’m curious you know why you ask.

 

It is near 20 year lows. That could be a good or bad thing. Any idea if they have their hand in coronavirus treatment or a vaccine?

 

From what I researched, they are one of three main suppliers of HCQ (treatment).

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma...y-tens-millions-hydroxychloroquine-tablets-to

Edit: My neighbor sent me this article:

https://web.archive.org/web/2020040...ht-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb

 

You need to have a buyer on the other end so technically no. If you wanted to dump everything you would have to go into each position and just sell all shares at the market price, so that would take a few mins if you have a couple positions.

 

I was just thinking about the beginning of this virus panic and what you could do if you just found out they shut the borders down or something. I’m not thinking about selling now at all

 

You don't have a sell all button but you can, and should, set trailing stop loss orders.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/trailing-stop-loss.asp

 

Gotcha was just thinking of some future “what if” scenarios now that I have money in the market

 

Good read, thank you had no idea about trailing stop loss orders. I want to do that but I don’t know how to technically do it through my brokerage, will look into this tomorrow

 

You had an opportunity when they started talking about suspending flights from China in late January. I’ll be the first to admit I never could have imagined this, but I guess we could have seen it coming.

 

Thats why you diversify your portfolio, some goes down and others go up. What we are living through is a once in 100yr event. Really when the hell storm starts the best bet is to have the trailing stops in place and turn the tv off until shit storm settles down.

Unless you are a trader then you start slamming red bulls and somehow start making shitloads of money LOL

Full disclosure I dont have any stops in place on anything as 99.9% of the time I check the price once a day and maybe buy some stock if it looks cheap evreyonce in a while. I view the normal ups and downs and look super long term.

 

No one would have predicted 90% of the economy getting shut down and SIP orders. Totally insane.

 

Thankfully I didn’t have anything in the market until it hit bottom but even if I did, I too would have not seen this coming. I had been looking for a reason to motivate me to start investing and this was it lol