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Well... this market is fun! Worst week since the crisis followed by the biggest single day price gain in history... Question I have here, is the bounce back driven by: a) A waning of the fears over the Coronavirus? b) A bounce back because the market was oversold last week? c) Biden's win in South...

02 Mar 2020

hello primates. recently, i've been weighing up whether i should start investing some my spare shekels into some stocks. one aspect that i have been thinking about a lot is how to know when to cut your losses - more specifically, i'm curious to know whether there is a systematic approach that one...

11 Feb 2020

For many, institutional sales offers the best of all worlds: great pay, fewer hours than in corporate finance or research, less stress than in trading, and a nice blend of travel and office work. Like traders, the hours typically follow the market, with a few tacked on at the end of the day after...

13 Mar 2018

Hi All, I'm looking to begin investing in stocks for the first time. Due to having no specific experience doing so, I was wondering what the best brokerages are. I don't plan to invest high amounts and would love a platform that's easy to use. I keep hearing a lot about Robinhood as an option....

01 Feb 2018

Let's say a company wants to do a recapitalization in which it issues debt to buy back equity. This will effectively reduce the market capitalization by the value of the repurchased shares and increase it by the NPV of the recap (due to the tax shield). However, in an efficient market, wouldn't the...

07 Apr 2022

I'm intrigued by the differences in opinion among so many investors, as there is really no right or wrong way to invest your assets. So it got me thinking: How do you invest your personal portfolio and what is your strategy? Are some of you still stock-pickers? Do some of you just make sector bets...

20 Jun 2017

Enterprise software multiples are at historically high-levels averaging forward price/sales high-teen's & low twenties, some are even trading in the 30's, The trend appears to be one of slowing growth rates and multiple expansion, this makes little sense to me. If you look at any enterprise cloud...

30 May 2020

Monkeys, If you had to choose a company that you can potentially invest in using some sort of activist strategy (active management via board seats, strategy shift, margin improvement etc.), which would it be and why? What type of activism would you implement to help the business?

01 Oct 2020

Going into IB starting next summer but already have a pretty large sum of my earnings (from past internships) into a Robinhood account. When I join as an intern, will I be required to sell all my stocks? Want to know so I can plan accordingly since I was originally intending to hold these for a 3-5...

10 Aug 2020

I often get asked the question "what are your thoughts on diversification?" Someone asked me recently and I thought that newer readers might appreciate my thoughts on it as well. I wrote about this a year and a half ago, the post generated some lively comments, and I expect this one will as well....

27 Mar 2014

The following is an interview with tt1254, an analyst who quit and started his own fund. He is also available to answer your questions, ask away. Are you a professional and want to do an interview? View our interview template here and then email me your responses to [email protected] Tell us...

03 Jun 2013

Investor psychology is obviously a huge factor in markets, but I feel like many retail traders / people outside of the industry don't think about how these biases and influences to decision making can be used when investing. Having done a fair bit of research into behavioural econ, I wanted to share...

28 May 2022

This is a philosophical post, not for myself, but for you. This question was inspired by something I read on a blog where the author stated they hoped to get rich through investing. This quip isn't an isolated case, I've heard this from others as well, they invest to get rich, that's their goal. If...

26 Aug 2013

Last year about this time I suggested 13 stocks for 2013. The stocks I picked were a subset of my overall portfolio, stocks that I felt at the time were still attractively priced. The stocks typified the types of companies I like to invest in, somewhat dull, but often attractive on an asset basis....

06 Jan 2014

The Blackberry maker's (NASDAQ:RIMM) troubles are well-documented already, but even so they continue to bear further discussion on the competitive landscape as well as the industry as a whole. This week's announcement that they were laying off about 10% of the workforce continued that trend. With...

27 Jul 2011

In this week's issue of "Are You Smarter Than Your Local Billionaire?" we examine a few words from a Mr. David Tepper. Tepper, for those who've been stuck in an Excel template for the last 5 years, is the founder of Appaloosa Management and the guy who the New York Times named in March of this year...

04 Oct 2010

The problem with getting a job in "trading" at an institution is that the majority of jobs no longer exist. Unless you're talking about pursuing a career as an engineer for an HFT firm/big bank, the days of imagining your life as a young Bud Fox is dim. However, if you want to pursue a path as a...

22 Sep 2018

After reading some replies to iBankedUp's recent post, I'm curious... What do you think the future of Twitter is? Strategic buyout? (and who?) Sponsor buyout? Management turns it around? Bankruptcy? Festers at a low price until the end of time? I have always seen Facebook as a good strategic buyer...

07 Jan 2017

I've been asking a lot of questions on here lately hope no one minds. This is a great resource for me So I have been trading stocks for a while and have always been more interested in the concept of futures and foreign exchange. I like to focus on the world economy and the bigger picture. I like the...

30 Jul 2012

Well someone should say something... market not doing so well lately. Is it much ado about nothing (e.g. just a short term correction / false alarm) or is this the start of something big? Questions: a) What are the driving factors of this? China? Low interest rates? Fear? b) What's the bottom? When...

24 Aug 2015

I do not personally know Marty Lipton, nor have I met him. Based on what I have read about him and by him (he is a prolific writer), he strikes me as an extremely competent lawyer and he is certainly a good friend and champion of New York University (the institution that I teach at), chairing the...

12 Mar 2013

The U.S. Dollar collapsed sharply today after Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said the United States wanted a weaker currency. This statement comes after the U.S. Dollar has already fallen sharply since President Trump took office. While a weaker Dollar inflates asset prices which is likely...

24 Jan 2018

Last week after the Chinese central bank (PBOC) announced a 25 basis point rate cut, I gained enough conviction to take a long position on Baidu which has sold off greatly along with most other Chinese equity flotations this year. The PBOC move made me believe that Chinese policy makers may engineer...

13 Jun 2012

from Motley Fool 5 Busted Tech IPOs That Will Bounce Back There was a time not too long ago when it was actually a good thing to get in on technology IPOs....Let me go over five busted IPOs -- tech companies that can now be had for less than their original IPO prices -- that I think have better days...

11 Oct 2011

In a move that went largely unnoticed with all of the other market news going on, Microsoft hiked its dividend last week by 25% (from $.16 to $.20 per share) in an effort to boost its stock. If ever there was a major stock that fit Gordon Gekko's "dog with fleas" description, MSFT would be it. It's...

05 Oct 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204… President Obama's 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving-to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets. Mr. Obama is proposing...

22 Feb 2012

Anyone here actually saves up his money builds either a portfolio for public markets, Real estate or buys a small business 500k-5 million$ as a side hustle to make money? I don't really understand how some people who work in finance do something like personal branding as a side hustle and not use...

15 Sep 2018

A great deal has been written about the "fiscal cliff" that US taxpayers, investors and companies are faced with at the end of this year. Put simply, all of the tax changes made in 2002 and 2003 expire at that time, and the tax code will, in large part, revert to what it was prior to those changes....

01 Oct 2012

Mod Note: This was originally posted on 1/2/15 on his blog "Musings on Markets" At the beginning of 2014, the expectation was that government bond rates that had been kept low, at least according to the market mythology, by central banks and quantitative easing, would rise and that this would put...

20 Jan 2015

Hey wso didn't know what forum to post this In but stocks and markets seems the most closely related and appropriate, basically I really want to be a billionaire, I want to make and be worth a billion dollars or two within my lifetime preferably sometime soon like say 10 years. I've been interested...

22 Jan 2016

From Quora, the OP asked the following question: What are the best stocks of all time? Some of the top answers were: MSFT and AAPL. MSFT grew 50,000% during the 1990s. Although Apple has substantially grown in the past 7 years, it is yet to catch up with Microsoft when you take the returns from...

29 Oct 2013

This is a big week for markets in terms of economic data. Yesterday we had a data dump of mammoth proportions and the data wasn't very promising. A glance, we saw Australian, Korean, Spanish, Italian, French, German, UK, and Brazilian Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) all print sub-50 (contractionary)...

03 Jul 2012

hey wso, I want to be a banker or some kind of businessman or investor or trader. I think I finally found my lifelong passion in business and I've been interested in business and economics since I was like 13. I've followed a little bit the stocks and the markets and business atmosphere since like...

10 Feb 2016

This is syndication from jir-inc.com Stock Market Analysis Conclusions: The market hit a headwind last week as the S&P 500 index had its first weekly loss in 2013. The index fell 0.22%. The smaller stocks in the Russell 2000 index fared worse, slipping 0.74%. The basic materials and consumer...

26 Feb 2013

Hey guys, lately i've been doing a lot of trading in my own account with TD ameritrades thinkorswim. I usually use Yahoo finance for news but i've had problems with most of the articles not having helpful information in actually making a trading decision and I want to be more efficient and find...

29 Jul 2012

Hi everyone, Since working for this small-cap equity research shop, I've been fascinated with thrift/community banks, particularly ones that have gone through conversions. The value proposition behind them seems so obvious (many trade below tangible BV) and they're often underfollowed. Does anyone...

23 Dec 2015

I enjoy running, maybe something inside me is mis-wired, but I truly enjoy running outside, even in the cold. I'm competitive and enjoy pushing myself and will occasionally entering a race. It's fun to compete in a race and try to set a personal best. I've had races where my times were abnormally...

21 Jan 2015

As the market is getting completely clobbered today (and all last week) this feels exactly like fall 2008 to me. I made a killing then, and am looking at new buying opportunities. Are people buying right now? I am looking at FAS currently and interested in hearing about technical trading strategies...

08 Aug 2011

Ok guys so I'm attempting my first investment and so far I came across this spin-off by BHP. I read Joel's book on special sits and it all sounded too persuasive so I decided to give it a go. Now...here's the problem. BHP submited a 1500 page IM describing their spin-off. I just don't really know...

23 Mar 2015

For much of the market's history there was a stigma attached with buying an odd lot, that is less than 100 shares of a given stock. In some markets like Japan investors still cannot trade in anything smaller than a round lot. Round lot limitations create high hurdles for investors. If an investor is...

23 May 2015

Hi Monkeys - I am wondering if it is possible for a SPAC to merge with a company that is already public. The purpose of such a transaction could be a couple of things: existing public company doesn't want to go through the process of a share issuance to raise new cash foreign public company wants to...

22 Jun 2021

I've noticed a lot of opportunity from investment material on recent posts. With all the valuable spam posts like "JuStIN(TV) Giresunspor - Gaziantep maçı canlı izle" we see that certain countries are obviously smart enough to leverage online media advertising to the best and brightest. For...

02 Mar 2018

Hey guys, Recently I've realized that I seem to have an affinity for trading stocks. I've been recording buy/sell prices for the past 3 months now with good results. Unfortunately, recording is all I can do as I do not have a substantial amount of money to speculate.

12 Jun 2014

Hi, I need to finalize my list for Spring 2011 Transfer. I currently have a 3.65 cumulative at a cc. Copresident of Finance & Investment Society. Up 23% from 2010, even in this volatile market of course with low capital=2k. BTW shorted the April top =] Phi Theta Kappa, working full time while going...

13 Aug 2010

Hey everyone I am trying to come up with a topic that I will really want to dig deep in.....that is relevant to what I want to do-Trading The class is for Business Law and the assignment is: The project will be research of a legal topic of personal interest to the student and relevant to business...

08 Oct 2010

(DPZ) Dominos Pizza, Overvalued ($231-$279) Price Target Summary Details: Nutritional Diet- Unhealthy long term outcome 10/50 Day moving averages down Growth Rate/ Price Earnings excessive Price to Cash per share overpriced Downward earnings estimates surprise Overbought Stochastics 13D Put/Call...

25 Mar 2021

We have been tracking the most popular stocks among hedge funds for more than a year now. Hedge funds are known to be short-term oriented but when we look at the most popular stocks among hedge funds we see that they are focused on the long-term more than expected. Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT)...

01 Mar 2012

If you had $1 million of personal savings, how would you invest it? Would you use a wealth manager, split it among several mutual funds, buy individual stocks, etc... You can read a detailed thread on this topic on WSO.

17 Feb 2012

Stock Market Analysis, week of 3/2513 - 3/29/13 Conclusions: Stocks moved ahead last week, with 1,883 advancing and 1254 declining. More than 600 stocks set new highs against fewer than 55 new lows. Generally speaking, volume increased on most advancing days. Commodity indexes and especially...

02 Apr 2013

There's a trend these days in stocks selling off huge only to rebound in a matter of days if not minutes. It's the old buy the dips. Better yet, it's buy the pukes because once the stock throws up it starts to feel better very quickly. It's as if all the bad stuff gets out of their system and the...

13 Sep 2012