Out of Pod Experience

With EVE as economically focused as it is, I'm sure there are others who like playing in the stock market. I'm just getting started myself, but I've been pretty solid so far.

What are you guys investing in these days? Any advice? Stocks you're watching?

I keep all I have outside the stock market. But arms and child labor are usually big winners in the stock market.

I work for Under Armour and we are some bad mother *******.

Buy our stock because we are going up steady, and more importantly it has a floor. Even if UA passes over as a fad, it didn't start as some random clothing company we build products that do things for athletes. Even if some other brand comes along or makes a come back and UA isn't one of the most popular, people will always come back to it because of the materials that really do keep people cooler/warmer as advertised. We wouldn't die out over night like Tommy whatshisname and we could always make a comeback since pro Athletes will want to wear our stuff anyway.

I heard about a lady at my building who has been with us since the beginning who signed up for the thing to buy a stock with every other pay check and she didn't realize it. Originally it was like sixteen bucks. I heard she went to HR to complain about this mysterious deduction that had gotten out of hand and reached almost a hundred dollars and found out she had an account full of stocks that had been splitting and going up in value that she had no knowledge of, haha.

I'm interested in the stock market, but know almost next to nothing about it :(

Obviously I'm no expert, but:

You are buying/selling partial ownership of a company, measured in shares. There's no actual set price. It's more or less an average of how much investors are buying and selling the stock at the time.

But that's the tricky part. The value of a stock isn't based on how well a company is doing. It's based on how well investors think it's doing.

If you want to try it out in EVE, consider this: With Inferno coming we're going to see new missile effects. It won't change the functionality of the missiles at all, but it will increase in value for the players (investors) regardless, because it's all about perceived value. If I were able to log in, I might be buying Drake and Raven BPOs, as well as the primary minerals used to make said ships. Maybe some launchers too.

Thus I would be buying "shares" of those items based on the belief that those shares will increase in value, that I can then sell.

Try this then:

Facebook is about to go public. Now, their insiders have been trading shares for a few months now. Wait for a year, and then see what they're worth. See if they're at a price you consider low for Facebook, then get in.

Anybody know how I get to be one of those "insiders" that the game is rigged for?

If I'm going to gamble I prefer Craps.

Invest in gold, none of the experts says its a big speculative bubble.

But make sure you don't physically hold the gold, get a piece of paper that says you own it.

The demand for jewelry and high end electronics is keeping the price high, the recession is a lie.

I was so close to investing heavily in gold when it was at 800, then i talked myself out of it. I now grimace every time i see it continue to rise.

Hard assets are the most secure, by far, but i don't think gold is going to double again.

Brokerage services aren't too bad. You have to shop around to find what suits you best.

Right now I go through USAA for the retirement account, and ChoiceTrade for the general stuff. Flat $5 commission per trade, and they don't screw you over on the penny stocks.

As for what you hold, how did you receive them? Do you have actual paper, or was this digital?