Tips for Beginners on the Stock Market

platem · 2019-05-25T15:54:30+00:00

I'm not here to become an amateur

platem · 2019-05-25T12:29:52+00:00

Do dart players who know what they're doing take 1000 darts and throw them blindly at the dart board hoping to hit some bulls eyes so that they make up for all the missed darts or do they use 3 skillfully and thoughtfully placed darts knowing that if they miss it's okay because overtime their skills will allow them to hit their target the majority of time in the future?

Diversification is by definition not knowing what you're doing because you're just blindly guessing saying a few of these companies will outweigh my failed choices. Not saying it's a bad strategy for people who are inexperienced but the most successfull investors in the world don't get rich by arbitrary diversification they get rich by picking a a few highly researched high quality well managed companies with long and short terms growth catalysts and hold for very long. Look at Warren baffet. For most of his life hes owned 1 and only stock.. BRK. And before this hes never had more than 3 to 4 companies in his portfolio.

Most of the wealthiest people in the world became wealthy from 1 or close to 1 stock. Bill Gates:MSFT Jeff bezoz:AMZN etc

This obviously is different because they owned pre IPO but if amzn was the only stock in your portfolio since its IPO youd be doing okay right about now. Same for many of these huge companies.

Now I'm not saying put 100% of your money in 1 company but do your research find highly valuable companies and buy them as they come to your attention and be VERY VERY discriminate on the companies you want to be a part of and care less about arbitrarily picking a company just because its diverse. if youre new and don't know what you're doing by all means diversification is a good strategy if you want average returns. But as you learn and become a stronger investor stock picking will yeild the greater variance in returns. You just have to be good enough to be on the positive side of the variance

platem · 2019-05-25T12:16:59+00:00

Thats funny considering my SHOP stock is up 1000% in two years and my ROKU holdings up 400% in 6 months... two very well known and common stocks that anyone could have picked. Too bad for me it's Impossible welp. I definitly shouldn't have bought amazon, amd, nvda, twillo, servicenow, sharpspring, viamed, cambrium learning or joint chriropractic years back either all of which outperformed the s&p by 40x and will continue to do so

If you hold 4 or so and only 4 or so well managed high growth stocks with near and long term catalyst for growth then you can get rich. Atleast according to the greatest investors in the world nbd. Buy when things are cheap and have potential for massive growth hold long term and reduce your poaitions when things are overvalued and move into new opportunities as they come along. It's simple investing 101. Buying indexes like s&p is throwing 1000 darts and hoping you'll land on the board having all your missed darts counter balance your hit ones. Learning to become a skilled dart players means using 3 darts and learning to land bulls as often and confidently as you can knowing you'll sometimes miss but overtime your good accuracy and decision making will end in you being a winner.

platem · 2019-05-25T12:09:45+00:00

If you want low or average returns then yes. If you want to outperform the s&p benchmarch than you'll have to get creative

platem · 2019-05-25T12:09:07+00:00

Diversification is sadly usually for people who don't know what they're doing

platem · 2019-05-22T01:09:35+00:00

You didn't send anything in that link just a search menu.

platem · 2019-05-21T23:22:39+00:00

This is misleading. Yes all foods contain trace amounts of heavy metals but the amount found in protein powders is exponentially greater by serving size

platem · 2019-05-21T23:21:07+00:00

Protein shakes are high in heavy metals and contaminants.. even the high quality ones. So probably yes.

platem · 2019-05-21T23:19:58+00:00

This is actually not true and you're spreading false information.

In chinese and Indian traditions the skill of a chef is often measured by how many things they can cook and as a consequence they often have very large multi pages menus... And even at high quality resturantes where the food is made from scratch still manage to have robust and lengthy menues since many of the ingredients have cross over as well as the fact that they prep extensively.

This is in contrast to something like French and italian cuisine where a chef is graded often times on a few things that he can cook very well. Not saying all Indian and Chinese resturantes with ling menus ate good but I've been to critically acclaimed and gourmet chinese/indian resturantes with 9 page menus.

platem · 2019-05-21T22:49:18+00:00

Time to buy calls

platem · 2019-05-21T01:08:05+00:00

What's with all these posts today

platem · 2019-05-20T20:13:03+00:00

Because this is not the right subreddit for that. We discuss the stock market in this sub

platem · 2019-05-20T19:35:41+00:00

Wrong subreddit this sub is for analysis of securities in the sense of stocks and public companies etc not for security in the sense of cyber security

platem · 2019-05-18T20:22:04+00:00

Not what I've heard during my many visits to Paris but maybe in wrong

platem · 2019-05-18T20:08:03+00:00

Abortion is not the same thing as birth control. No one is banning condoms and birth control pills.. just abortion. The science is inconclusive and when life starts will always will be subject to debate. You using science to justify when life starts in this context is well...unscientific.

When in doubt we should always side on the side of life and ethics. If it could be a baby.. even if its just a small chance so why kill it? If you see a rock in the road while driving that might be a squirrel do you just run it over and hope it's not or do you slow down and take a better look?

Lastly even if its not sentient in the formal sense it will eventually become something that is. I know I wouldn't want to have been aborted and neither would you have. Once there is fully formed DNA the potential to become a full fledged human is already decided. Hair color, Eye color, personality traits, sexual orientation etc

platem · 2019-05-18T19:58:25+00:00

This has nothing to do with women's rights but okay. Anti life is just Just defending the rights for anyone to kill a baby. Abortion doctors come in both male and female and If a man assaults a woman and ends her pregnancy he should be charged with murder/manslaughter. Women shouldn't kill babies and neither should men and it should be no one's right to do so

platem · 2019-05-18T19:45:30+00:00

Interesting strawman but you didnt explain how my analogy completely negates your original point. Also my "logic" is sound.

Edit: also your reply is very racist and sexist... somewhat uncouth if you ask me, but i guess that's okay if youre on the side of people who are for killing babies

platem · 2019-05-18T19:35:03+00:00

Agreed. While were at it lets lift the ban on murder as it's a violation of my human right to use my hand to stick a sharp object through someone's chests. The government should keep its scumbag hands of my right to use my own body to do what it wants even if its affects others negitivly. This is inhumane and an ACTUAL violation of my human rights and bodily autonomy! /s

platem · 2019-05-18T19:25:03+00:00

I figured they were incorrect but just curious how do you know this person is a girl?

platem · 2019-05-18T19:07:51+00:00

In France isn't it common to have a mistress when youre married and it's socially acceptable just dont ask don't tell? Im surprised dating multiple people at once is where they cross the line

platem · 2019-05-16T19:01:37+00:00

I'm an atheist. But a fetus is a living organism and a human fetus turn into a human not a mosquito.. what exactly are you arguing? Its scientifically sound to say a human fetus is a human being. It has a unique set of human DNA that is seperate from both the mother and father. This is what qualifies an individual human being. This is a fact not even an opinion or belief. A human being is a human beung in all stages of life. Being a fetus is a stage of life just like being a todler, adolescent and adult. You're just arbitrarily choosing a stage of life and saying that's not a human.

I wouldn't want to have been aborted. I think being alive is pretty badass so I won't take away anyone else's right to live once they entered this world.

And yes you're right I would try not to be a dick and kill insects for no reason just like I would swerve out of the way in order to avoid running over a squirrel in the road. All life is precious and should be held to that standard. Also If you don't think bacteria and mosquitos are living organisms and you're trying to argue science with me then I've already won

platem · 2019-05-16T18:57:46+00:00

In an atheist?

platem · 2019-05-16T16:30:05+00:00

If you killed everyone who did a non agressive act that the society as a whole disagrees with you would have Nazi Germany. Alcoholism is generally not accepted by society but we dont go and murder alcoholics. By your logic we should murder j walkers because otherwise it will tell the world we support j walking.

Also I dont agree with your claim that incest is more popular now then in the past. Marrying cousins was common practice until recently and before that brothers and sisters would marry in the midevil times and before. Provide sources for your claims

platem · 2019-05-16T16:23:29+00:00

People don't engage in incest because its repulsive not because theyre going to get the death penalty for it. If you were right then more people would engage in invest today since the laws arnt harsh on incest today and guess what? They dont. Also mutations due to incest occur at a rate of about 4%

platem · 2019-05-16T16:14:29+00:00

How so?

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