So what's a good stock to invest in right now? (for all you brave DUers)

[protect our future]

Gold, of course, but how about silver?

Oil, but I would never buy an oil stock.

Nationwide retirement home chains?

Whatever has dipped to below $15, that's what I'm interested in. 'Cuz it's all I can afford!

(I love to take risks. Makes life more interesting. Betcha it's a good time to invest up until election day.)

[mudesi]

1. Cash

No, seriously. Right now cash is the best thing to hold.

[kirby]

2. Kleenex n/t

[KathieG]

21. LOL

[Xipe Totec]

3. Cows n/t

[KansDem]

4. This one...

For all the neo-con Repubs who got us in this mess...

[protect our future]

46. Excellent stock.

[Xipe Totec]

70. Monsieur Gillotine begs to differ.

[Barack_America]

50. Obama on Intrade, baby!

That's one stock that's going to skyrocket!

[protect our future]

59. Probably way out of my price range.

[bemildred]

5. I was thinking about some goats and chickens. nt

[AllieB]

6. Gold.

[ben_meyers]

7. Powerball!

136 mil

[protect our future]

8. Yeah, you guys are cute, but how about some real answers?

Anyone like Level 3? Couple of days ago the price was just above $3.

[Snotcicles]

10. AZK it traded around $2.80 today. But do your own research on it. nt

[protect our future]

15. What's AZK? I like that price.

[Snotcicles]

23. It's a gold mining co. in Canada. Still do your own research. Investing my own money is one thing

Telling others is something else.

[protect our future]

28. That's the kind of stock I'm looking for. I could have invested in

Bema Gold when it was around $3 but decided not to and regretted it. I let Wheaton Silver go by as well when it was dirt cheap. I bought ... can't even remember the correct name ... Wheaton River Mining?... when it was 3 bucks, then the company was sold (or merged?) and absorbed by Goldcorp I think it was ... or one of the big gold companies, and the stock soared. I sold it much much too soon.

I'm with Scottrade and invest no more than a few hundred in a stock. A few hundred is all I have to play with ....... sigh .........

[Snotcicles]

35. I have bought and sold it a couple of times, and have made a few bucks on it. nt

[protect our future]

40. Cool! I've done the same thing with Level 3.

[Schema Thing]

36. You sound like you may not understand how stocks are priced?

the actual price of one stock means almost nothing, except relative to what it's been in the past and may be in the future.


Are you really only going to buy one 15 dollar stock? If not, why would you say that is what you can afford?

[protect our future]

42. I guess I didn't make myself clear. No, I am not going to buy one

$15 stock .... unless it looks like a bargain. I prefer stocks under $10. See, I don't have thousands to invest. So I make money by investing hundreds only. Sometimes I lose, but I learn from that experience. Sometimes my stocks will double or triple, which means I sell.

[Rage for Order]

9. Don't know what the share prices are right now, but...

Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Gilette, Unilever, and other consumer products companies. People will always have to eat, shave, wash their dishes, and do laundry. As a bonus, most consumer products companies pay dividends

[protect our future]

13. Yes, consumer staples! Yum yum where is a good stock that has dipped

drastically?

How about cyclicals? Some company that will make lots of money selling Xmas gifts, but it's also very cheap right now?

[DemoTex]

11. Funeral homes and Gyn practices.

Dyin' and fuckin'. Always good investments!

[Wiley50]

12. Stock? a few laying chickens, a cow and a pig or two

Really not being all that flippant

People gotta eat and that kind of stock is a sure bet

[protect our future]

55. You're right, and I never thought of that. Is there such a thing as chicken futures?????

[taught_me_patience]

14. SLB

Slumberger. This is one of the world's most respected companies and has gotten unfairly hammered recently. My 12 month price target is $120.

[protect our future]

19. Oops I could never afford that!

The cheaper the stock, the quicker it could double or triple. That's what I've found out in years of mentally playing the market.

[taught_me_patience]

24. The stock is currently at $82

a move to 120 would mean a nice 50% gain. That isn't good enough?

[protect our future]

47. Well, yes, but I could only afford 5 shares and that's embarrassing.

The one and only expensive stock I've ever bought is State Street when it was $52. I bought 6 shares. Then I sold it (too soon) and cleared $40. I'll take that after a $300+ investment.

[BlooInBloo]

16. Other insurance companies...

Remember - I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun YOU.

[protect our future]

25. Cool philosophy.

[flvegan]

17. Smith & Wesson, baby! YEAH!

Sorry. I wanted to get the sky-is-falling gun-nut answer out there first.

Honestly, though, we're coming into a buyers market on the big board.

[protect our future]

22. I think that's a Bingo!

[GirlieQ]

18. Just stay in money market accounts for now.

Unless you have a lot of information about a company, which if you're not a banker or in an investment firm you don't, that's really the only safe thing now.

/says my investment banker brother

[protect our future]

20. But remember, I love risks. Safety is no fun.

[mudesi]

27. Preserve your capital

There's no point in risk when there's no reward. Right now it's all risk, almost no reward. Unless you are trader in the extremely short term, (and even then, you can't predict the bottom. Don't even try).

Keep cash on the side and ride the storm. When things bottom out, you'll have it ready to snatch up some great deals. You can't buy low when you have no money to buy with.

[RichardRay]

30. Then start buying mortgages in whatever form you can get them

There's some pretty good deals on shares in several investment banks right now :-). That's a bit facetious, but only a bit. Mortgages represent the portion of the value of homes that doesn't actually 'belong' to the purchaser of the home. Unless you believe we're looking down the Big Toilet Bowl then that property will still have value once the smoke clears. The trick, of course, is trying to figure out who actually 'owns' the value that doesn't reside with the homeowner. The financial instruments that are going down in flames right now are mostly based on the future cash flow from the mortgage, not the value of the underlying asset.

If I were pursuing a graduate degree in finance right now it would be an interesting piece of research to try to figure out just where all that value really resides from day to day through this whole thing. If you can figure that out, buy it.

[protect our future]

39. Yes! I think so, and I bought one (a bank) a couple of months ago, so cheap.

Once things settle down, I think it's going to be a good stock. $6 a share.

[protect our future]

60. Trying to figure out where the value resides sounds fascinating.

First you have to wipe your mind free of everything most of the so-called "experts" have said.

[RichardRay]

63. Where it finally resides is easy...

in the property provided as collateral for the mortgage. Assuming the concept of ownership survives and I can't obtain 'ownership' by force sovereign then that will hold true. But, where it is located during its journey from some collateralized debt obligation stripped of its cash flow and traded into a new currency on the basis of credit support from some third party that then sold the risk off in some other synthesized form to someone or something that holds in someplace is going to take a lot of rows and columns.

Never fear, though, someone will figure it out, and the one who does will come out wealthy. But, he'll be a pig, not a hog, if he has any sense at all. (Note what's happening to the hogs, as predicted.)

[RagAss]

26. Johnson & Johnson.....

for real....med equipment not going away... and population aging....

[Tallison]

51. Any durable or disposable medical equipment company

'DMEs' for short. They're less regulated than the pharms, and don't rack up the R&D costs on their balance sheets. I think they constitute among the safest investment bets.

[protect our future]

58. Good idea, and I never would have thought of it. Thanks.

[Selatius]

29. You should've already gotten into defense/aerospace stocks and oil stocks.

War and oil stocks are fucking hot right now. Get in on some Exxon-Mobil and BP-Shell. Halliburton is a good one too. Of course, if you had gotten in earlier, say about the time GWB entered the White House, you'd be in a lot better position today than you are right now, all at the minor cost of 4100 dead American soldiers and about over 1,000,000 dead Iraqis, but you have to admit: War is pretty fucking profitable.

[protect our future]

31. I'd never invest in Halliburton or any oil stocks. Besides, they're too expensive for me.

Everything else you've mentioned costs too much for me.

[grasswire]

32. treasury bills, according to Cramer

When he was asked that question by a caller, he said that to be absolutely safe, a person would have to put their money in treasury bills. He did note that stocks such as Kellogg were the only and lonely positive transactions today.

[BlooInBloo]

33. In other words, therefore: NOT treasury bills...

:rofl:

[protect our future]

38. Yep.

[bagrman]

34. Canned beans.

[protect our future]

37. Actually, that's a good idea! BUT one case of food poisoning,

or "thingies" found inside a can, and you're are completely screwn if the story hits the media. So, no food stocks for me.

[Mari3333]

41. long term?

well i look at things like demographics..for instance, the baby boomers are about to retire...what will that huge large vast population need ? what will they be requiring? health care items? i know that the one field a lot of young people should enter for jobs is in health care because so many of us old fartes will be going out to pasture soon..why not apply it to what stocks to buy? I wouldnt know what, but perhaps medical supplies or pharmaceuticals for the informed infirmed. :)

[protect our future]

44. You betcha. So maybe I want a stock that has a product that

is new, but that product may prove invaluable to our older population. Hmmm. I need to know more about the Russell. Small cap stocks.

Short term is what I like best however. One year, two years, more if the stock doesn't budge but I think it might.

[Hugabear]

43. Halliburton

Why not. You know damned well that the rethugs will NEVER let their pet corporations go belly up.

[protect our future]

45. No. I consider it a moral and ethical decision.

[Zorro]

48. Utilities

Duke and ConEd look interesting to me.

[protect our future]

52. How expensive are they right now? What and when was the 52-week high?

And what's the PE? (PE can be extremely misleading.) When do they report earnings, and what were the earnings last time they reported? Any rumors of being sold or merging? That's the kind of thing I look at; how about you?

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. Do some research and find a bell weather company

that has been around for a while (coke for example) that is undervalued

And plan to hold to whatever you buy for YEARS, in fact, maybe decades.

The last tine the stock exchange did this... it took decades to recover, as in 1929-1955 decades

Government securities are usually also a good bet, but at this point I don't know about those

FIND a good and chiefly honest advisor and have a long talk.

Gold is good for the short to medium term. Me... I know I NOW have to set an exit point

[protect our future]

54. Betcha gold will continue to rise ..... I gotta find time to take a look.

[nadinbrzezinski]

56. Well, we bought some in 2004... so I know it has gone up

thanks bush but I still need to find the exit point

Will be talking to advisor soon

[protect our future]

57. I will check out gold stocks too.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

53. Tattoo removal parlors and manufacturers of suicide booths n/t

[Tutonic]

61. chicken.

[protect our future]

62. I think so, too. Is there such a thing as "chicken futures"?

[protect our future]

64. I forgot all about ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. Stupid me.

[Lance_Boyle]

65. Nvidia and Intel are both bargain priced at the moment.

But for purely speculative fun, look into Valcent and Global Green Solutions. Vertigro is going to be big, and with both stocks now trading under $0.50, it's a fine time to buy in. Maybe one of these is the next Exxon-Mobil. ;-)

[protect our future]

68. Great! You've named three companies I want to research. Thanks.

[cobalt1999]

66. Look at what types of companies did well in the last depression

Hollywood made a fortune during the Great Depression. The worse things get for the general public the more they want to find an escape.

Companies producing movies, entertainment, distractions may do better in bad times than in good times.

Equipment for medical, gardening, and auto repair will do well in bad times.

Bad times are known to drive the divorce rate way up. You can go get that law degree and make a good living.

[protect our future]

67. Gardening equipment? Oooooo, I will check into that. Thanks!

Auto repair. I'll check that too.

Distractions...computer games? Electronic Arts?

[Geek_Girl]

69. If I had the money I'd invest in recession safe stocks

Booze, and entertainment. Folks need to escape during hard times and traditional tobacco and alchol as well as movie companies do well during recession