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>>1024757
Thanks iHaz! :D

Data analyst?

>>1024693
Walgreens cashier

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Either go with a consulting company or a corporation that has a BI group (i.e. pretty much every large corporation)

>>1024555
>Tfw 1 of 2 finance major cucks

feels good being the only Aerospace Enginigger SJSU represent

20% neets

No wonder the interesting threads always die and there are at least 10 threads about how to invest a very small amount of money and make billions or how to be an investment banker.

all business expenses

>>1024519
>covered calls
>cuz merca
>Stocks with good fundamentals, pays a dividend, and has a liquid options market for it.
>Planning to open an interactive brokers account next week since covered call trading is way to pricey with my current broker.

>>1024520
What do you look for in regards to fundamentals specifically? What makes you tick and feel good about your investment? Also, exactly what do you mean by a liquid options market?

And for me
>Bull Put Spreads
>Not too much reward, but consistently high rate of payoff
>Stocks that I'm bullish on because of their technicals, mainly stochastics and bollinger bands, because I'm doing weeklies.
>haven't in a bit but considering doing some weeklies on either AAPL of GOOG. Usually good spreads for the latter and AAPL should be coming back pretty soon i think

>>1024533
>What do you look for in regards to fundamentals specifically
low debt to equity, low p/e, pays a dividend. The kind of stock that value investors normally like to buy and hold (in case the stocks dont get called)

> a liquid options market?
that is, the options being bought and sold for the underlying security are actively traded enough so that there is a low ask bid spread

Covered calls are the most vanilla option strategy, so I am staying on this for now. However I am interested in Nassim Taleb's favored strategy of investing most funds into money market and bonds, and investing 5-10 percent of portfolio into straddles (long puts and calls). The idea here is to profit from any volatility that is bound to happen, while being relatively safe with the rest of your portfolio

<==3 dumbass

If you are just getting started with investing two weeks ago I would highly caution you against "learning" about financial instruments too complex to understand at a glance. I don't say this to be condescending, but to save you money. Investing is complex enough that working with simple concepts like what stocks and bonds to pick up can be difficult enough on a good day. Learn to pick out good businesses that are undervalued and buy into them.

>>1024480
The futures contracts for the S&P500 got so expensive that hardly any regular joes could trade them. Someone said "what if someone made an electronic miniature futures contract for one fifth the value?"

The e-mini was born. Lower cost per contract and more liquidity as a result

>>1024473
>Having a kid at 20 with no educational plans while working in retail.

You better have family connections or a good inheritance on the way. You'll never make money in your life at this rate; the child and divorce will take any net gains you would have until you hit 45, and the built up debt won't be paid off by the time you reach retirement age.

Sell the car and spend the cash on a fucking education OP. "Working hard" will never do anything but put money in someone else's pocket. Start school now that way by the time your kid is coherent you can live in a nice school district and not work retail in niggertown.

>>1024473
>How do I multiply money?

Trade your money to me, I'll double it.

>>1024464

The O&G related industries are apparently really complicated. I read this: http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/upload/FINAL_Lifting_Crude_Oil_Export_Ban.pdf and gained a lot of insight into the variety of factors at work.

Wouldn't make a difference to me. They would still have ten-foot-poll marks all over them, just like China.

I would never invest in Mexico because I wouldn't trust my money in a country where the mob can just kill off mayors and police whenever they want.

Sorry, I had a brain fart and forgot market efficiency.

So new question:

I remember this graph from one of my classes about how fast stock market prices changed after news from cnbc is released in just a few minutes.

Would it be realistically possible to somehow write a program that instantaneously buys and sells stock at a certain stop price based on its average volatility and volume to make a quick profit? Would broker websites be able to do these transactions this fast?

>>1024311
stock upgrades/downgrades by research firms (not yahoo) do often materially affect the price of stocks, particularly if they're from reputable analysts.

>>1024331
yes, stocks react to news. what you are asking is basically not possible, there are firms that read the news with computers (look up Machine Readable News), processing the news at light-speed then executing trading strategies set by traders based on what they thought the news might contain. Anything high-speed in finance is going to take a LOT of investment capital to just get a strategy going if you want to play those games. These MRN news services alone are like 20k/year, doesn't count any exchange fees, computers, software, or co-location fees that you would need to pay.

>>1024331

I feel like what you're talking about is totally doable. All it would require is an algorithm that automatically sells/buys when a stock goes above/below its Std of risk.

Still very fallible -- it would have to be much more complicated than that.

Are you a fag or what?

>>1024286
drop how low OP ?

>>1024286
I sure hope so. I'm getting a paycheck at 3am, and I want to buy low. I sure hope it crashes before noon Central Time.

search for <exchange>:<ticker>

NYSE:MESO
ASX:MSB

For watching prices throughout the day, it's probably easiest just to use Yahoo finance with multiple stocks. For example:

http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/aa,axp,ba,bac,cat,csco,cvx,dd,dis,ge,hd,hpq,ibm,intc

Then, when you're close to buying, open up a window that shows you level 2 quotes so you can pick the best price for your limit order. For example:

http://www.aistockcharts.com/level-2-stock-quotes.html

Chasing yield.

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>>1024255
Poorhouse?...?

>>1024255
But is yield not what this is all about?

Trust me, I have spent a lot of time researching this..

There's no secret. There's no secret job you can start online, no secret formula..

You just need to find out what you are good at, and start providing that for money.

It's the only way..

>>1024265

i dont mean it as a full time job nor my main source of income

just as an extra

>>1024269

Like I said,

You need to find out for yourself. It depends on what you are good at.
Go to fiverr.com and do something you are good at for $5, go to etsy.com if you are good at making something like handcraft stuff, start a store in ebay.com if you buy low sell high you can make profit, start a website and offer some kind of service, etc..

IMO, fuck 'store credit' cards.

Get a credit card with your bank that doesn't have an annual fee. Spend as much as you want, but always pay the minimum payment every month. Never miss it, not once.

I'm 22 and I've had a credit card for 2 years. Just paying for things with it, and paying the minimums every month (and occasionally paying the whole balance off), I've now got a better credit score than my father, and they've given me 3 credit limit increases. I'd get a better card if I had more income.

>>1024063
Is it true that its better to have no credit score?

I've heard that a few times and just wondering if its a sham.

>>1024070

I don't think so. I've gotten turned down for financing for not having enough credit history.

Of course, no score is better than a bad score. So if you can't make the payments then don't even think about credit.