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sqwert
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States781 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-11 20:56:34
October 11 2008 20:50 GMT
#1
so i want to invest some money into activision blizzard (nasdaq: ATVI). is it a smart investment? although i know im gona get some biased answers from you guys. my real question is does anyone some good trading sites with low fees/commission costs?

my budgets around 100$ including fees and crap.....

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ahrara_
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Afghanistan1715 Posts
October 11 2008 21:06 GMT
#2
i don't have a lot of experience with investment but i do know that

1.) It is never a good idea to put all your eggs into one basket. Diversify.
2.) Share prices have not reached bottom yet, but they are still continuing to fall. Despite the tumbling markets, when it hits bottom is actually a terrific time to invest.
3.) $100 is probably not worth investing, especially if you need that money.
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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11577 Posts
October 11 2008 21:06 GMT
#3
wait until the stock market balances off, or your $100 is going to look like $10 real quick.
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42578 Posts
October 11 2008 21:12 GMT
#4
Fees will take such a big bite out of your $100 that it's not likely you'll make a profit any time soon. You're better off holding onto it for now.
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Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
October 11 2008 21:21 GMT
#5
On October 12 2008 06:06 CaucasianAsian wrote:
wait until the stock market balances off, or your $100 is going to look like $10 real quick.

And how do you know when that is? What if he misses the chance for a large return because he caught it on the rebound?

While it makes no sense to try to aim for the bottom, it doesn't make particularly much sense to wait for some kind of stablizing factor before investing considering how everyone thinks that way.

That said, $100 isn't worth investing, make it $1000 and you'll be better off, the returns from $100 to investing stocks is probably less than the happiness and energy to work harder after a couple of meals from that money.
Hitokiri
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Spain306 Posts
October 11 2008 21:38 GMT
#6
It might be interesting to invest on ATVI, if you had a higher budget, because once they release D3/SC2 and these games turn into big profit, the stocks will begin to soar.
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sqwert
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States781 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-11 21:58:40
October 11 2008 21:57 GMT
#7
thats why i want to invest now because theyre not far from their 52-week bottom - which was $9.xx, and price currently is $11.xx so thats not bad at all.

ok what if my budget was $500 ?
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ahrara_
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Afghanistan1715 Posts
October 11 2008 22:20 GMT
#8
dude, don't invest in a company just because you like them. this is seriously the stupidest thing you can do with your money. this is how people end up losing their life savings. earn a little more, then diversify your portfolio. you wanna ignore my advice, be my guest, but you do so at your own risk.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24671 Posts
October 11 2008 22:43 GMT
#9
What suddenly got you interested in buying stock?

On October 12 2008 07:20 ahrara_ wrote:
dude, don't invest in a company just because you like them. this is seriously the stupidest thing you can do with your money. this is how people end up losing their life savings. earn a little more, then diversify your portfolio. you wanna ignore my advice, be my guest, but you do so at your own risk.

This may be true, but doesn't sound like it applies to him at all since he has so little to invest.
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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-10-11 23:50:13
October 11 2008 23:47 GMT
#10
On October 12 2008 07:20 ahrara_ wrote:
dude, don't invest in a company just because you like them. this is seriously the stupidest thing you can do with your money. this is how people end up losing their life savings. earn a little more, then diversify your portfolio. you wanna ignore my advice, be my guest, but you do so at your own risk.

This is true. The hardest part of being in a market is knowing when to sell, not when to buy. You have to be ready to dump that stock in a heartbeat if need be. Any attachment beyond business is generally a bad thing.
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
October 11 2008 23:50 GMT
#11
On October 12 2008 07:20 ahrara_ wrote:
dude, don't invest in a company just because you like them. this is seriously the stupidest thing you can do with your money. this is how people end up losing their life savings. earn a little more, then diversify your portfolio. you wanna ignore my advice, be my guest, but you do so at your own risk.


With so little to invest, it's probably worth the amount of emotional investment that he's going to put into owning the stock, as well as learning how everything works (although it does look like he's already done a fair bit of research, so he should be okay).

That being said, since you're going more for an emotional investment instead of a money making investment, you should go ahead and do it if you want to. If you were trying to make a large amount of money, then you should probably diversify (and you should probably think about investing more money).
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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
October 11 2008 23:56 GMT
#12
btw, have you heard the term "don't try to catch a falling knife"?
Do you really want chat rooms?
ahrara_
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Afghanistan1715 Posts
October 12 2008 00:04 GMT
#13
On October 12 2008 08:50 waterdragon wrote:
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On October 12 2008 07:20 ahrara_ wrote:
dude, don't invest in a company just because you like them. this is seriously the stupidest thing you can do with your money. this is how people end up losing their life savings. earn a little more, then diversify your portfolio. you wanna ignore my advice, be my guest, but you do so at your own risk.


With so little to invest, it's probably worth the amount of emotional investment that he's going to put into owning the stock, as well as learning how everything works (although it does look like he's already done a fair bit of research, so he should be okay).

That being said, since you're going more for an emotional investment instead of a money making investment, you should go ahead and do it if you want to. If you were trying to make a large amount of money, then you should probably diversify (and you should probably think about investing more money).

Why would you advise him to throw away a hundred bucks at a whim? Like, why is it at all a good idea to get into investment for "emotional reasons"? If it's just for "practice", he could just invest pretend money in the market. Frankly, it doesn't look like he's done any research at all. Can he tell us what are the other divisions in this company and how much they're making, and what their prospects are?
in Afghanistan we have 20% literacy rate
EmeraldSparks
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States1451 Posts
October 12 2008 05:39 GMT
#14
He's probably not going to lose the whole $100. If he does, we'll all be sad.
But why?
Kickstart
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1941 Posts
October 12 2008 08:29 GMT
#15
There are many different sites you can use and all of them offer different things and such. The ones with high fees will generally offer you investing advice, assign someone to you, have offices you can go into, and numbers you can call to get trades done when you cant access a computer. That being said, it doesn't look like your interested in that at all. There are plenty of brokerages that have fairly low fees and they offer some basic tools to you (I personally used e-trade).

Btw, more than likely things are going to get worse before they get better, you may want to wait to invest anything and as others have said, if your going to invest seriously your going to need to invest much more than $100 and diversifying is generally a good idea (unless you want to be a day-trader, which is fairly risky if you aren't careful). Anyways if you have any questions feel free to PM me and I'll help you out or give you my input if you like .
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