Category: Investment
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Hypothetical Stock Picks: Disney Earnings After Record Breaking Quarter
This one is an experiment with a different strategy, according to my research, 60% of analysts are currently bullish on Disney. Their upcoming earnings report will cover the release of several blockbusters like Star Wars and Captain America, but also the worrying performance of ESPN. A huge amount of coverage suggests that Star Wars in…
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Hypothetical Stock Picks: Starbucks Cutting Costs
Starbucks has plateaued for over a week at $56 after losing 13% on an earnings miss last month. I couldn’t find any analysts who recommended anything other than strong-buy or hold, and Nasdaq.com reports the average 12 month price target at $68, or growth of over 21% this year! As someone who used to work…
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Hypothetical Stock Picks: Tesla Reports Earnings Wednesday After Close
Tesla is announcing earnings Wednesday after the market closes. Currently, it is down a bit after its 13% jump following the announcement of their new electric vehicle. The bottom line for me is that they have sold almost a half-million of this new car since then and they have not even started production yet. Each of those people paid…
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Hypothetical Stock Picks: Shorting Valeant
On my commute to work this morning, I heard the news that Valeant’s ex CEO will be testifying before congress today. He is accused of having acquired exclusive rights to several cardiac drugs and manipulating corporate transactions in order to cause the prices of the drugs to go up. NPR elaborated that recently, numerous cases like…
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Formulating A Strategy For Speculative Investment
For several months now, I have been learning as much as possible about investment as a precursor to getting into trading; before doing any actual trading, I decided to formulate clear goals and strategies. I posted before about the broad strategy I have decided on; splitting all the money I invest evenly between the two apps Robinhood…
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Getting Started: Learning About Investing
Testing The Waters I have decided to get into investment. Most of my knowledge of investment has been fairly anecdotal, so I decided to immerse myself for the last few weeks before making any decisions about my goals or investment strategies. My first step was to build a list of news sources to draw on.…
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Stock Picks: Tesla Model 3 Unveil
Tesla is announcing their Model 3 today. I believe the stock will see a dramatic bump because this car is going to change the world. It is affordable, excellent and a real alternative to gasoline cars. Elon Musk believes in what he is doing, and he will not stop until it is done. This is…