How come every stock i pick good or bad sinks right after i buy it?

It realy all depends on the time you give it. Right now technology isn't doing so great, so if you purchased a technology stock on friday, it probably dipped today. It all depends on your strategy. If it's long term you're going for then pick a company that you know will do well. If you're looking for quick money, try some penny stocks.

It really all boils down to research. Long term investing is great because you get dividends. dividends are small sums of money that you recieve per share. this is great for long term investing because even if the stock dips you get money. Say you're holding a stock you bought at 35.00, it dips to 34.50. you get a dividend for .76 cents, that stock is now baiscally worth 35.26, you're doing okay, over time the dividends add up, and you aren't doing as bad as you may think.

Kristofer,
Owner of KrisPhelps.com

how about this...call me before you buy anything so I can short the hell out of it.

sounds like you need to do more research to me. If you are chasing hot trends this will happen. Other times it is actually when you invest today was a sell off day because of inflation worries again and while Oil inventories are increasing gasoline is dropping (because of refinery problems). Other times it could be a bad sector (Airlines) golbal politics are playing a role in this too.

But what you really need to do is put in Limit Orders instead of buying it market price. That way you can buy it at teh price you want not what they tell you.

So your the one that makes that happen

The reason is because you listen to people on TV telling you what to do. For the most part these people that say buy buy buy .... are saying so because they want to keep the price up while they are selling or telling their clients to sell. Next time you listen to one of these people "reccomending" a stock ask yourself..... why is it thats their best advice for the TV but when asked if they own it ...the answer is 99% of the time NO. If it's so great for everyone else to buy why dont they own it? Set up 2 portfolios on yahoo 1 to do the opposite of what you hear and 1 to do what you hear and see what happens. If you invest in aug or oct and jan as a habit instead of "when it feels right" you will reduce that problem. In short people tend to invest at the top because it gets a lot of news coverage and they dont want to miss out, the problem is by the time it's getting a lot of news coverage it's a little to late. Virtually every person on cnbc or bloomberg is saying being fully invested is the way to go right now. It's not because it makes any sence with a 3-5 year tremendous worldwide bull market, record high prices in all sorts of materials and commoditys, a slowing housing market, slowing groth in the usa, the dollar at record lows, rising rates in china and japan possibly usa, ect ect ect .... It's because these people cant simply sell out a gizzillion shares without crashing their own stocks like you and I could... so they pertend buying at the all time highs makes sence while slowly selling out hopeing the news media and the new investors keep the prices up long enough to get out before the obvious downturn. these would be the same people who were supposedly suprised at internet companys with negetive earnings into the next century that turned out not to be worth billions of dollars. They might convience the rest of the world it was some honest mistake but they aint fooling me. Watch and see what happens over the next 6 months.... They will say what they always say .... Well even though I was wrong it looks good into the future and this is a good buying opportunity ...... the problem is it's ALWAYS a good time to buy if you can wait long enough but they never recognise when it's a good time not to buy or sell. Because the average investor CAN sell but they can't without really taking down there own stocks.

Haha sounds like bad luck! Are you doing your homework?

Probably because you hear about the stock's news after the price has gone up. You on the *** end of the news and the smart people bought before the news hit and sold to you.

Are you looking for true value businesses (the Warren Buffett way), or are you chasing the latest hot tip (the pump and dumpers way)?

If you're a trader, you should rethink your strategy because you're picking the wrong stocks. Most traders give their money back to the market anyway - they're like gamblers in a casino.

But if you're a buy and hold investor, then just buy and hang on for a few years. If your analysis is right, the stock will go up and make money. It may take a while, and if the stock goes down you should buy more because now its a better value (assuming that nothing's changed).

You may want to consider index investing - it's much less volatile and gets very good returns. Stock picking requires a lot of analysis and the academic evidence shows that most active stockpickers don't beat the market.

In that case just SELL SHORT every stock pick and you will make billions.

Share your picks with the rest of us, mere mortals.
Perhaps you are the luckiest person in the World.

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