Investing megathread extravaganza

[DaFace]

A place to talk about investing stuff.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

On the other hand if I invest enough to own 51% of the company then I get to start calling the shots , right . I could force them into the boar semen business and make them place orders for 1000's of doses a week. Then I could hire more help at my farm and sit back on my boat while everyone else is jerking off the livestock.

See what a small investment can do.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

On the other hand if I invest enough to own 51% of the company then I get to start calling the shots , right . I could force them into the boar semen business and make them place orders for 1000's of doses a week. Then I could hire more help at my farm and sit back on my boat while everyone else is jerking off the livestock.

See what a small investment can do.

Man, then you'd have to do disclosures when you bought or sold stock and a bunch of ****ing rules. You get 6 guys to buy 10% and then get them to put a director on the board that will force the semen industry entry.

THAT'S how you hostile takeover, son.

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Anybody ever get into NVDA a while back when I brought it up ? I bought it at ,I don't remember exactly, around $42 and sold it at $65 . Well now it's ****ing $110

I got in for 200 shares at 30 bucks. Sold half when it doubled, so I am in strictly with my gains on the remaining 100 shares.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Today I bought 1,250,000 shares of PNOW. I take that back , actually I put in a buy order for the open tomorrow. This company has started kicking ass and is looking at monthly 100% growth for at least the next year.

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Research PNOW and let me know what you think. I'm hanging on to this one and NOT jumping out early. Gonna be rich dammit !

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

I believe it's to open at .0007 throwing $880 at it

If it goes to 10 cent I'll have $125,000

HooRah !

If it goes to $1 I'll have $1,250,000

And a large boat.

So it looks like it hasn't been more than $0.03 per share since 2008, which is nearly a decade ago. What makes you think it's ready to explode? I mean, it's great that it's apparently now producing revenues (which apparently it wasn't for a while), but...?

And yeah, CP could go a GoFundMe and probably buy the whole company. LOL.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Nightfyre

I got in for 200 shares at 30 bucks. Sold half when it doubled, so I am in strictly with my gains on the remaining 100 shares.

I like that strategy. I do something similar when I get a good gain.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

So it looks like it hasn't been more than $0.03 per share since 2008, which is nearly a decade ago. What makes you think it's ready to explode? I mean, it's great that it's apparently now producing revenues (which apparently it wasn't for a while), but...?

And yeah, CP could go a GoFundMe and probably buy the whole company. LOL.

It was $0.03 in 2008? So if you bought in 2008, you lost 98% of your investment? Hog Farmer is a brave dude buying low.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Did you get any. Makes me sick I took my profit early.

I did the same thing with ESSI. bought at around 20 cents and it went to 35 cents so I sold. I said hell yeah, take that bitches. Now it's at god damn $4.30

That's one that could have made a poor man rich.

Let the winners ride and cut your losses quick. That is the advice of most top-notch money managers yet us amateurs do the OPPOSITE! We think a stock can't go any lower so we ride it into the ground and lose all our money. On the other side, we panic when a stock gets so high and think it's done rising and it goes up another 20-30%, giving up huge profits.

[scho63]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Ok so I am getting the basics here but still not understanding what a stock would have to do for me to say, double my money. How do I realistically set expectations? Let's take the $30 strike, a year from now, at $4.36 for 100 shares. What would the stock have to do for me to double my money on that?

If you paid $4.36 for a single CALL option contract, which equals $436 for controlling 100 shares and the stock is roughly $18.20 today, if the stock goes to $23-$24 within the next 6 months, you will double your money.

Why? Because the option would be around $8-$8.50 as you would be much closer to the $30 strike with plenty of time left.

Make sense?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

It was $0.03 in 2008? So if you bought in 2008, you lost 98% of your investment? Hog Farmer is a brave dude buying low.

I got balls of steel !

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

I got balls of steel !

I hope it goes back to $0.03 for you. You'll be lighting cigars with $100 bills.

[Discuss Thrower]

Good God.

You people aren't seriously putting money on PNOW, are you?

[ChiliConCarnage]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

On the other hand if I invest enough to own 51% of the company then I get to start calling the shots , right .

You want 51% of the votes. All shares aren't created equal! They probably have a poison pill and they'd just dilute your shares if you got over x% anyway.

I looked at pnow. It seems they have some revenue growth recently and are issuing preferred shares to long term investors. It seems their core business of booking hotel rooms sucked but they bought some coin company that is doing better? I'm not real familiar with the (rare?) coin business or why it's profitable.

I learned what the word numismatics means.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Market cap is not an indicator of the value of a company . Some people think it is but its not.

errr...actually it is. Price per share times number of shares outstanding is market cap, as I'm sure you know, and is what the market thinks the company is worth. Typically when someone wants to buy the company -- in a going private transaction or otherwise -- then they offer to pay some premium to the market cap to entice a high enough percentage of the stockholders to sell and then they can clean up the rest.

So yeah, it's not a PRECISE indicator of value, but it's the BEST indicator of value on any given day.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Good God.

You people aren't seriously putting money on PNOW, are you?

I saw a statement where they'd made revenues four months in a row. That's serious progress. (Note that it's not a particular amount of revenue, just revenue.)

And check out this statement:

http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/PNOW/news?id=148975

To bring Pure's numismatic market's value into perspective, just this past week, Heritage Auctions -- a platform where Pure's subsidiary, Meso Numismatics, will soon offer its collections -- exceeded sales of over $65M for the week, simply selling numismatic material.

I can do them even better. My company purchases our office supplies on amazon.com, which has revenues of over $107 BILLION. What does that say for the market prospects of my company?

[Discuss Thrower]

-$2.5 million in net income.

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