The value of stocks fluctuate in the short term - they can go up and they can go down. In the longer term, there's a stronger chance that they will go up but no guarantee. Which stock is best for you depends on your time horizon and the amount of cash you have to invest and the amount of risk you want to take. DIS (Disney) is probably a good stock but it's $80+ a share so 100 shares will cost $8000.00. It pays a dividend (1%) but you can't expect the stock to double in a year. How about - Boeing (BA) - the world's leading producer of civil aircraft with a vast backlog of orders? Dividend is about 2%. How about Ford (F) at $15 a share. It pays a higher dividend than the last two 3%.
If you want someone to recommend a stock that will double in the next six months - then I can't give you any advice since it involves way more risk than I think is justified in the current market.
Your question shows that you know little about the stock market. Don't feel bad about that. Most Americans think investing in the stock market consists only of buying and selling stocks. There is a lot more to it! Buying, holding for a long time and selling is probably the safest way to invest, and the most likely to get a profit but it takes a lot of time. There is also buying and holding stocks indefinitely that pay dividends. This strategy is for those who intend to make their living by collecting dividends only. There is also short selling stocks and inverse ETF's. Both these strategies are designed to make money when the stock market is going down. Then there is a whole other world called stock options. Stock options can be used alone, paired with other stock options or paired with stocks for a dizzying variety of strategies. Strategies involving stock options are usually designed to get a return on your investment faster than the buy, hold and sell method, but they also have more risk.
Investors who are successful are those who have experimented with several strategies to learn what they are good at before they invest real money. They have experienced many market conditions and have an investing plan that is successful in all of them, or at least most of them, and they avoid trading in the market conditions in which they are not successful.
Some investors are good at reading charts and predicting when the market will move. Some are good at knowing when a stock is under valued and likely to go up in price. Some are good at High Probability Trading. That is a strategy where you sell time. More precisely, you sell options that will expire with no value and wait for time to pass. There are too many strategies to list here.
Only about 10% of investors are successful. When you invest you actually have very little chance of making money, especially if you don't have a very good idea of what you are doing. You need to get a well rounded education that will introduce you to a variety of strategies so you can experiment with as many as possible to figure out which you are good at. You need to paper trade them at least 50 times before you trade that strategy with real money so you have a good idea what the outcome will be. Then you need to start slowly so you can establish you risk tolerance. Most people can not invest more than 3% of their investing funds per trade because it is just too painful to lose that much money. There are probably other factors about yourself you will need to figure out too.
I hope you can see there is more to this than just throwing your money out there and hoping to get lucky. Nearly every investor on the other side of your transaction (the one you are buying or selling stocks or options from) will have done all the things I suggested you do. They WILL BE trying to take your money. That is their only goal. That is the only reason they are there. It is a cut throat world in the stock market. Get the education you need before you invest. If you invest 8 hours per week, in about 3 or 4 years you will be there. Good luck!
Do you want advice or a "stock tip"?
Advice: subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine. Read every article and every page for 6 months. Use the internet to follow up on what you learn. You will know more than 95% of us.
Stock tip: Facebook (FB) is poised to make a ton off the "mobile" market. (I bought some!) The "experts" think it may appreciate 50 to 300% in the next couple of years.
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The best advice is to invest in what YOU know. A product you understand completely and have total faith in it's growing prospects. I'm not a broker or a professional by any means, so you need to make your own decisions. But know this - there's really no way to "get rich quick" in the stock market unless you are freakishly lucky.
That said, probably the safest stock to start with would be a S&P 500 index fund like SPY. It is like instant diversification with a sampling of hundreds of stocks from the S&P in one trade.
Remember, a lot of people compare the stock market to a legal form of gambling - and they're not always wrong. Just be very careful, start slowly, diversify and keep a very high end view over the industries you invest in and where they are headed.
Good Luck!
Watch Jim Cramer's "Mad Money". He seems to know what he is talking about and has a lot of advice for first time investors.
One that only goes up.
Just looking to get into stocks and would like to know the best way to learn about them and what is a good stock that you think I could make a little money on!
