Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
03-21-2007, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 84
Quick Roth IRA Question
Ok so I want to open a Roth IRA but my only income is from poker. I know that you can only contribute earned income to a Roth and it has to be after tax income. So let's say I get a job and earn...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
03-05-2007, 06:18 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 73
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-28-2007, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 366
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-24-2007, 01:35 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 83
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-21-2007, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 147
Views: 558
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-21-2007, 11:13 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 60
Re: Buying call options
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-To simplify say you have call prem. of $5 per share & strike price of $50.
-Your stock is sitting @ $45. At prices of $50 and above you will exercise the call....
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-13-2007, 10:53 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 233
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-13-2007, 09:21 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 233
Re: ETFs Bad
So in a traditional index fund I give money to the index fund provider, like Vanguard. And they increase their stake in the index fund by the proportion of their total holdings that I represent. ...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-13-2007, 01:52 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 233
Re: ETFs Bad
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If the big difference between ETFs and traditional index funds is that the former is traded on an exchange, then where can you trade traditional index funds. I know they're not...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-11-2007, 04:02 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 98
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-11-2007, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 233
Re: ETFs Bad
If the big difference between ETFs and traditional index funds is that the former is traded on an exchange, then where can you trade traditional index funds. I know they're not traded as often but...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-09-2007, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 90
Re: Subprime Lender Looks Cheap!!!
Where would I get the kind of information you are suggested I need to look at? The company itself? Or is there a website or something that organizes a company's financial information and puts it...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-09-2007, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 90
Re: Subprime Lender Looks Cheap!!!
Ok, let me take a crack at an analysis of this stock, I would appreciate it if someone could highlight what is good and what is not good about my analysis. Also, if I left out any important...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-05-2007, 06:15 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
meditate - The first book I ever "read" on the stock market was "The Intelligent Investor". I put read in quotation marks because I got about halfway through and realized that the majority of the...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-05-2007, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
Meditate, yes it would be a very good investment on your part to invest in BRK if their earnings grew while their share price stayed the same. The reason this would be a good investment is because...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-05-2007, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
Thremp, your explanation is very helpful and makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for the help. At anyone that disagrees with Thremp, I don't really understand your claim that stocks appreciate in...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-04-2007, 11:03 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
But that still doesn't answer my basic question. If a company does not pay dividends out to its shareholders then why would anyone want to hold stock in the company, besides subscribing to some...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-04-2007, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
Ok, so the valuation of a stock goes up as the company grows because it will have the ability to pay larger dividends in the future?
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-04-2007, 03:40 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Re: Stocks without dividends?
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It's nice to own assets and cash flow but it doesn't seem that the ownership actually gets you anything, the...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-04-2007, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 279
Stocks without dividends?
I've been trying to grasp why exactly stocks are worth money and its turning out to be a harder concept than I had expected, maybe someone here could shed some light on the topic for me.
I...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-04-2007, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 64
Re: question about ipo\'s
I'm a beginner myself but I think it is common for companies to retain some of the shares of itself on an ipo. Presumedly a second offering would allow investors to purchase some of these shares...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-03-2007, 04:00 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 302
Re: Please help my son...very basic question
A cursory google search turned up the following chart which seem to be in direct conflict with the assertion that higher beta equals higher returns. The image is a chart of the 600 largest stocks in...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
02-03-2007, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 302
Re: Please help my son...very basic question
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If the top decile beta stocks outperform the bottom decile stocks consistently (do you dispute this?), then that right there suggests it's not worthless.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
01-30-2007, 10:52 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 90
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
01-29-2007, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 176
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