[Enronitis]

Seeing a lot more activity in this section in terms of stocks.
Tons of people seem to be interested in investing; something which I fully support.

So. This thread will serve as a mega Q&A for old and new investors alike, anyone can ask anything regarding stocks whether it be opinion of a certain stock, advice on getting started, whatever.
I'll do my best to answer every question, and I'm sure some other members here will help out as well.

Let's get this started!

[kbkasey]

First question:

Index funds. To my knowledge these are shares of a fund that can be bought and sold back to the fund? If I bought 1 share, then the index that it is for goes up 10% in one year, then I could sell the index share for a 10% profit? Or do I get like a dividend payment for x how many shares I have?

[Enronitis]

First question:

Index funds. To my knowledge these are shares of a fund that can be bought and sold back to the fund? If I bought 1 share, then the index that it is for goes up 10% in one year, then I could sell the index share for a 10% profit? Or do I get like a dividend payment for x how many shares I have?

That's one way to think of it, yes.
You're investing in something which essentially represents an existing index. (S&P500 fairly commonly.)
You can buy and sell Index funds as you do with stocks, but Index funds are generally referred to as a passive investing scheme. People for the most part will buy, and hold an index fund for years as a fairly inexpensive way of growing your wealth.
If your plan was to simply buy/sell them consistently you would ring up fairly exorbitant costs as depending on your brokerage, you may be charged a fairly high commission for each buy/sell action you take.

There's also ETFs, (Exchange-Traded fund) which are fairly similar to Index funds except they're traded more frequently, and are cheaper for the most part.

You may want to do a tad more research on your own into both ETFs and Index Funds so you can accurately determine if you really want to invest in this type of way.

[Shvrky]

do you know any sites that educate trading? really interested.

[Enronitis]

do you know any sites that educate trading? really interested.

https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=4298245
List of websites which may be useful to you

[Mr. Bonsai]

Second Question:

In what have you invested, and what were your most successful investments. 😁

Third Question:

Graphene is up and coming, is it wise and profitable to invest in it? 😖

Fourth Question:

Are you a broker? 😉

- Regards 🤝

[Enronitis]

Second Question:

In what have you invested, and what were your most successful investments. 😁

Third Question:

Graphene is up and coming, is it wise and profitable to invest in it? 😖

Fourth Question:

Are you a broker? 😉

- Regards 🤝

TSLA has been lovely to me.

Graphene market is something I've yet to really look into. It probably would be exceedingly profitable should you pick the appropriate company.

No, I am not a broker at this point in time. I'm a student studying economics/ business administration.

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EDIT

If you want a full list of my investments, prior and current I can provide that for you later today

[Mr. Bonsai]

TSLA has been lovely to me.

Graphene market is something I've yet to really look into. It probably would be exceedingly profitable should you pick the appropriate company.

No, I am not a broker at this point in time. I'm a student studying economics/ business administration.

Holy shit dude, you're making bank 🎉🎉🎉🎉

About Graphene.. it's the sorta new Silicon:

"Transistors: Computer chips rely on billions of transistors to control the flow of electricity in their circuits. Research has mostly focused on making chips more powerful by packing in more transistors, and graphene could certainly give rise to the thinnest transistors yet. But transistors can also be made more powerful by speeding the flow of electrons — the particles that make up electricity. As science approaches the limit for how small transistors can be, graphene could push the limit back by both moving electrons faster and reducing their size to a few atoms or less."

Source

Believe me... Graphene is going to be the new ground material for making Processor and Graphical chips 😉😉😉.

And bro, I'm sure you're going to be successful in the Economical Industry!

- Regards 🤝

[kbkasey]

That's one way to think of it, yes.
You're investing in something which essentially represents an existing index. (S&P500 fairly commonly.)
You can buy and sell Index funds as you do with stocks, but Index funds are generally referred to as a passive investing scheme. People for the most part will buy, and hold an index fund for years as a fairly inexpensive way of growing your wealth.
If your plan was to simply buy/sell them consistently you would ring up fairly exorbitant costs as depending on your brokerage, you may be charged a fairly high commission for each buy/sell action you take.

There's also ETFs, (Exchange-Traded fund) which are fairly similar to Index funds except they're traded more frequently, and are cheaper for the most part.

You may want to do a tad more research on your own into both ETFs and Index Funds so you can accurately determine if you really want to invest in this type of way.

Ahh okay and one more question sorry. Do all funds give dividends annually and if not should I only really do a fund with them or buy several so that I still 'earn' extra wealth as an insurance for my fund shares not doing well for the next 30 years and my wealth being £300,000 instead of the average return rate £1,200,000 as an example?

I'm not really interested in buying stocks and then waiting/hoping they go up and then selling a year later, mainly due to the fact that I just want a nice place to store my money that gives me a low risk chance of getting on average 10-20% increase in wealth in 20-30 years! Then my profession would of cause still give me money to live and buy luxuries if I do get the job of my dreams.

[Enronitis]

Holy shit dude, you're making bank 🎉🎉🎉🎉

About Graphene.. it's the sorta new Silicon:

"Transistors: Computer chips rely on billions of transistors to control the flow of electricity in their circuits. Research has mostly focused on making chips more powerful by packing in more transistors, and graphene could certainly give rise to the thinnest transistors yet. But transistors can also be made more powerful by speeding the flow of electrons — the particles that make up electricity. As science approaches the limit for how small transistors can be, graphene could push the limit back by both moving electrons faster and reducing their size to a few atoms or less."

Source

Believe me... Graphene is going to be the new ground material for making Processor and Graphical chips 😉😉😉.

And bro, I'm sure you're going to be successful in the Economical Industry!

- Regards 🤝

Interesting.
Definitely going to do some research and find me a winner. Cheers. 🤝

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Ahh okay and one more question sorry. Do all funds give dividends annually and if not should I only really do a fund with them or buy several so that I still 'earn' extra wealth as an insurance for my fund shares not doing well for the next 30 years and my wealth being £300,000 instead of the average return rate £1,200,000 as an example?

I'm not really interested in buying stocks and then waiting/hoping they go up and then selling a year later, mainly due to the fact that I just want a nice place to store my money that gives me a low risk chance of getting on average 10-20% increase in wealth in 20-30 years! Then my profession would of cause still give me money to live and buy luxuries if I do get the job of my dreams.

Fairly certain all if not most give dividends. Don't hold me too that though, I'll have to look a bit deeper into it.
They're definitely a great option for you to keep your wealth and help grow it.

[kbkasey]

Interesting.
Definitely going to do some research and find me a winner. Cheers. 🤝

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Fairly certain all if not most give dividends. Don't hold me too that though, I'll have to look a bit deeper into it.
They're definitely a great option for you to keep your wealth and help grow it.

Okay and the very last questions, I'm really sorry!
So lets say I put £1000 in the vanguard S&P fund and for the sake of the argument they don't pay dividends. How does compounding work? 5 years down the line it has gone up on average 10% so I now have a share that is worth £1100, but that's not my money earning more money by the money earned? Or maybe I have the whole compounding thing wrong!

[Enronitis]

Okay and the very last questions, I'm really sorry!
So lets say I put £1000 in the vanguard S&P fund and for the sake of the argument they don't pay dividends. How does compounding work? 5 years down the line it has gone up on average 10% so I now have a share that is worth £1100, but that's not my money earning more money by the money earned? Or maybe I have the whole compounding thing wrong!

Having a tad trouble understanding what you mean;
Basically, each year the money you invested will (generally) increase by (X) percent.
Then that money, say $1100, will increase by the following years (X) percent.
Each year, it gains more and more until you decide to take that money out.

[DragonBook]

I'm very impressed Eronitis... I certainly do not know how to make as much return as you can on stocks alone.

My question: how many hours a day do you devote to researching investments and companies' history?

[Enronitis]

I'm very impressed Eronitis... I certainly do not know how to make as much return as you can on stocks alone.

My question: how many hours a day do you devote to researching investments and companies' history?

A whole lot.
On average, I'd say I spend about 3-4 hours on week-days keeping updated on my current portfolio(Press releases, News of any sort, competitors who've come into play, chart changes, volume changes, etc.)
I also spend some of that time looking for new investments, industries, etc to get into. I'm always interested in getting into the next big thing as soon as I can.

On weekends, that 3-4 hours is easily 5-6 or more spread throughout the day as I spend a lot of time re-checking old stocks I've gotten out of for whatever reason, looking at charts, and determining my exit points for any of the stocks I'm in, or plan on getting in.

So in total, anywhere between ~25 hours to probably as much as 40.

[Enronitis]

Did some research regarding Graphene market, to again address an earlier question
The likes of Samsung/Intel/Etc have small portions of their companies developing/working on stuff with it, but nothing significant enough to represent a share price increase as far as I can see.
Found a few smaller companies, haven't decided whether I'm willing to pick the poison or not for this one.

For those who are interested here are some tickers large and small which might be effected by the graphene market positively/negatively

AIXG
AGTT
LMT
BASF SE (XETRA:BAS)
ENE
JCI
GTI

One or two of those I may end up springing for; still deciding. Still looking at some other tickers I didn't list as well.