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Seven Costanza 
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| Stock Advice (Posted on 1/25/13 at 1:59 pm)
I am doing a simulation of trading stock throughout the semester for one of my classes. I was looking for advice of companies to invest in to begin with.
TIA
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GimmieSomeGlitter 
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You could impress your professor and build a portfolio off of beer stocks
CrAzY StOcKs
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Seven Costanza
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Interesting, beer stock...
I like that idea
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GoCrazyAuburn 
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Hookers and blow. Run your report on the ROI for those 
Maybe he'll like the creativity you show.
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rmc
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I like natural gas right now. CHK, ECA, XOM, DVN, SD.
I'm not saying go all out natural gas, but it has a few things that seem to be working for it including a seemingly colder winter than most recent years, the recent insertion of CNG for fleet vehicles. I would think at some point in the future CNG may be an option for the consumer.
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jso0003
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TTWO
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foshizzle
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quote:
I am doing a simulation of trading stock throughout the semester for one of my classes.
Then pick anything, it really doesn't matter.
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GimmieSomeGlitter
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We did this a while back for a summer internship at a brokerage firm. It was through Investopedia and it had a 20 minute market delay (still does I believe).
Each group was partnered up with a stock broker and we were picking stuff he recommended etc.. Well we had live feed on the market. So we would pick a few stocks and just load up on them and within a few minutes if they didn't do well we would cancel the trades and try again.
They found out we were doing it and just stopped keeping track of the game. I think our portfolio ended up like 560% in a couple months.
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jso0003
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Uhh why wouldn't you just load up on any stock that shot up in live trading? Since your dummy acct was on a 20 minute delay this should have been pretty easy?
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GimmieSomeGlitter
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/25/13 at 6:19 pm to jso0003)
That's what we did...
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Blakely Bimbo 
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Since it is a simulation why not focus on stock related to 3D Printing. I think SSYS is one. Might be fun to explore.
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LSUTOM07
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:12 pm to Blakely Bimbo)
DDD is another 3d printing stock. Pretty cool idea but I feel the stocks are over sold. Huge run up lately
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matthew25
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/25/13 at 11:51 pm to LSUTOM07)
I'm looking at XLP (an ETF), and these mutual funds: PTTDX, VHDYX, SXFIX, PAUIX, SMVLX.
You could look at the top 2 stock holdings of each of the above and come up with a portfolio (some of the above, however may be bonds).
For instance, the ETF above has P & G and Coke as the 2 at the top, according to MSNmoney.
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Powerman
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/26/13 at 7:15 am to matthew25)
I've made some money with TQQQ
It's a pretty aggressive Nasdaq based ETF
If AAPL wasn't dragging the Nasdaq I would have made a lot more money but I'm not complaining.
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southernelite 
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What kind of class are you doing that allows you to just blindly pick stock/
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dunkelman
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Halcon.
Allstate.
FCX.
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dunkelman
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:32 pm to rmc)
What gas? The gas players are all trying to get heavy into oil and gas liquids.
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Tmacelroy12
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| re: Stock Advice (Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:37 pm to dunkelman)
Pick the riskiest stocks and hope for the best
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