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

CSCO is not a monopoly, but you rarely hear about Alcatel-Lucent or any of their other competitors in the network/switch/router realm. Checkpoint, Huawei, and Juniper are also competitors. Cisco just has brand recognition and a quality product. While other products may be quality as well, there are other aspects that don't make them as desirable to implement.

 

I think he’s referring to his play money he’s investing as his “monopoly” money

 

One day I will learn how to read. My bad!

 

@Boyk1182 Where you seeing the best value to add to right now or you still just sprinkling it around evenly?

 

I am sprinkling evenly, trying to keep my contributions even. I have learned I can’t predict anything after seeing the results. I’m up so much on AAPL and TGT, down on MMM and MO. I can’t guess anything that will happen.

 

Yup...Price x100..
Yes I'm referring to the price of the option evaluated x100....So that's why I wrote "2.00"...If at market open tomorrow the option prices is $2.00 (x100) = $200 you're looking at $64 on $1.34 which is 50% return in 18hrs.

Options only trade during regular hours...

 

I try to keep it even. Sometimes lately I’ve been a little more selective in buying more of what appears to have value. But you are right, you never know. For a time in the past I had to be careful not to pull a Buffett and make AAPL most of my portfolio. Now it appears it would have been a great idea to have almost exclusively added that. Like many I was drawn in by the higher yield reit sector and some energy plays

 

Mo, nrz and sphd are my next buys with nrz being the risk leader. Although mo is no brainer as idiots pick up the habit daily.

 

MO is good, and just increased dividend a touch. And plenty still see growth potential, although at this point I’m not counting on too much beyond the div. But you can do a lot worse than the 8% yield right now.

 

yup. My td account is literally nicknamed monopoly. I know Cisco has competitors, actually they’re one of the companies I’d equally invest in and it’s competitors at the same time.

hmm. Looks like MO has some room to grow pretty fast and decent dividend too. SPHD was my recent pick. Got some of them and DIV as well. That’s the boring stuff but hey, gotta do it.

 

Boring is good when the egg is near a mil or two

 

I've been in NRZ and adding...Increased my number of shares by 30% when it was at $3...was very hesitant but to do it..Now they are at $8 and I say "You trusted it...you should have 2x up!!!"
I own at $10.8671 and DRIP it...I hope in 18 months to 2 years it can be back to $17...I'm patient. I also home the 10% dividend lasts to that level. It was really sweet to be adding 150+ shares every quarter on dividends...

Oh and NRZ is now one of the top RH stocks for buys...oh no!!!

 

One good metric is to compare the 5 year average dividend yield to the current yield. If it’s currently higher, investigate why, and if there are no major problems it might be a buy. If the current yield is lower it might be overvalued.

Edit: You can find that at yieldchart.com.

 

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Thats how I try to do it, never seen that site before though. Thanks, that’s pretty helpful.

 

I bought a bunch of Cisco calls today for 11/20 at 45. I think it will recover quick and should be an easy 20 percent over the next couple of weeks.

I have also a been day trading Roku calls for an easy 20 percent gain. Did it 3 times this week so far.

 

I built it into my Spreadsheet. I have a column for current yield, one for the average 5 year yield, then one that displays the difference. It’s just easier to see it like that for each holding.

 

Yea, I used dividend.com and stuff to look back at dividend history, and upcoming dividends and things, but then I had to do the math.

 

Pick a stock you know and work it. I think @theesotericone is the one who works Nvda. Pick a few companies and really get to know them and their patterns and it can pay off.

I instead get distracted by the latest shiny ball named on this thread.

 

AMD...before the recent MASSIVE jump for which I had alfuckingready closed my calls...You could buy the $50 or $55 when it was at $50 and pretty much cash every time...Look at the chart. Well I sold to close those $50 calls for 8/21 at NEARLY $540?? EACH....They're only worth $3200 each now...so no big difference...
I'm trying to figure out if $78 is the new buy but there's not enough sample size...

 

NRGU is closing in on the $3.20 rebuy zone...only on the bounce up...