Many big name managers are there with their best pitch for long and
short stock ideas.
Not exact matches
Swirling about him are Model 3 production issues, three investigations between two federal organizations, and a near never - ending cycle of new, grander
ideas and plans that often buoy the
stock in the
short term, while threatening to further sap the company of much - needed cash down the line.
Not every
short selling setup will be as explosive to the downside as $ CROX was on the initial drop, but the
idea is that the
stock should have clearly and convincingly sliced through both its 10 - week and 40 - week moving averages before finding support.
The
idea is to limit
stock selection to those that have higher odds of making an explosive run over a
short period of time.
So just as you should never be 100 % invested in
stocks, it's probably a good
idea to never be 100 % allocated in
short - term investments if your time horizon is greater than one year.
That said, the
idea that Palm will go to zero being pushed by some of the many people
shorting the
stock is a stretch.
My subscribers who
shorted my homebuilder
stock idea two weeks ago are now up 17.7 %.
I also typically provide at least 2 or 3
short ideas, accompanied by suggestions for using options (although I first and foremost recommend
shorting stocks outright).
Selling a
stock short means you borrow the shares from your broker to sell with the
idea that you will buy them back later.
What makes this one of the worst
stocks to get into is following
short - sellers into the
idea.
China is an economic disaster happening in slow motion, but it is not a good
idea to be
short the country's
stock market.
When I pick out
short - sell
ideas, I don't look for
stocks that will go down just in correlation with the market, I look for
stocks that will get demolished when the market moves lower.
Many of my
short sell and junior mining
stock ideas have been successful despite the lofty
stock market and sideways trending precious metals market.
The
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ideas for
shorting stocks.
I initially disagreed with Einhorn but after researching some of the points Einhorn brought up, I came around to his
idea and went
short the
stock.
In your 20s, all
stock index fund investments might seem like a fine
idea, as
short - term volatility matters less than long - term appreciation when a portfolio has decades to grow, says Phillip J. Deerwester, portfolio analyst and chief compliance officer at TGS Financial Advisors in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
I read some trading books and it became clear to me that trend trading both to the long and
short side using 52 week highs and lows as guide was the way to go so looked into that some more then began scanning
stocks every night for potential trading
ideas, it was at this point that I heard about the «turtle traders» and I incorporated some of their strategy and what they were taught into my own regarding trade size and stop loss placement and then I was ready to go.
The basic
idea is to invest enough in
stocks to generate the returns you'll need over the long term to build an adequate nest egg but also enough in bonds to provide
short - term downside protection during market routs.
It implies that investing in
stocks, in the long run, may not always be a good
idea, especially if your savings can be wiped out in the
short run.
So the
idea is, buy
stocks trading at a big discount to their intrinsic value because of a
short - term problem.
At the time, I had no
idea what a net net
stock was so I'm amazed how much I've learned in such a
short amount of time.
But it is likely more than coincidence that every five years marks one market cycle and that DALBAR research on
stock ownership patterns show people maintain
stock investments for an average of 3.27 years — just a smidgeon longer than the time needed to develop
ideas of a new regime and far
short of a full market cycle.
«The whole
idea of fundamental
short - selling is to select a portfolio of
stocks that are fundamentally overvalued, no matter what the market does.»
I would agree with the other answers about it being a bad
idea to invest in
stocks in the
short term.
E / P predicts
stock returns, consistent with the
idea that it measures risk to
short - term earnings.
If you hold
stocks that are affected by that decrease in price, it might be a good
idea to hedge their potential loss of value by buying some inverse oil ETFs such as the 1x United States
Short Oil ETF (DNO), or the 2x ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil ETF (SCO).
I've rather typically built larger positions in a relatively
short period of time — as fast as capital and other available opportunities would allow — by just buying the same
stock pretty much over and over again over the course of a few months or so, before finding myself pretty well
stocked up on that particular name and then moving on to other
ideas.
Part of me wants to
short this
stock but that's probably not the world's greatest
idea, especially as I have not done due diligence (e.g. contact the auction house, figure out what the terms are).
The
idea of
short selling has continued to make ETFs more popular than mutual funds and
stocks.
Selling
stock indices
short, either through futures contracts or ETFs, strikes us as a prudent
idea.
I think people were dissuaded from the
idea because money supply changes in the
short run did not correlate that well with the movements in
stock indexes over the next 25 years.
Their
stock ideas included
shorting the homebuilders via the iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction ETF (ITB) and going long shares of Iridium (IRDM).
Because
shorting stocks is a
short term strategy and most retail traders lose money on
short term strategies, it's rarely a good
idea to
short a
stock as a way to forecast market movement.
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Most
ideas in investing take time to work out, unless you are gambling on a
short - term event, or speculating on a move in the
stock price.
(I won't even get into the
idea of
shorting any of these
stocks..!)
Short - term, NAV's declined significantly, prospective earnings / RoE outlook is pretty poor (& could get worse), we've no
idea how idiotic competitors will be (& for how long) this time» round, trust in management's been dented, and the
stock's now trading under a cloud of negative sentiment (from both brokers & investors).
But I did want to leave you with even in this market, which everybody argues it's extremely hard to find opportunity, whether you talk to a growth investor, a value investor, a long - term investor, a
short - term investor, they all are sort of struggling to find
ideas, here is a megacap under your note that, again, fits this notion of contrarian value investing, and that
stock is GlaxoSmithKline.
The patina of science — and a
short track record of success on the farm — lent credibility to the
idea of a closed registry of «pure»
stock.
Those are the two most common mistakes people make in retirement planning — having everything in either
stocks or
short - term savings is a bad
idea, he says.
But in case you were
short of an
idea or two, here are a few ways to spruce up your
stocking and give it a modern make over...