So as some of you may know I am selling my stock holdings in GE and Pepsico in order to provide the downpayment for my townhouse. ASAP I want to begin reinvesting 400 a month or so. Should I just repurchase what I had or would you recommend something else? I'm 23 and in it for the long haul, but I also have an IRA that I fund regulary so thats out of the question. I want something I can get my hands on if I absolutely must.

LUV, SIGA, KG, MNKD, XMOA, QQQQ, and CC if you are feeling adventerous.

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I'd say a safe bet is investing in oil companies.

Chevron. Around $90 a share. I have been making about $25 a day on a meger 100 share purchase. One day, I made $75 last week. CVX FTW!

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LUV, SIGA, KG, MNKD, XMOA, QQQQ, and CC if you are feeling adventerous.

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Southwest is a good company, but any airline stock is pretty risky. One plane goes down and you can pretty much forget about it. There's actually a saying about airline investments: how do you get20 million dollars? Start with 40 million and buy an airline. [8D]

Eh, I am a little biased because my dad is a Captain down at Southwest.

I look not at what might happen, but what is. Southwest is one of the few airlines still making money, the union doesn't have a problem with the current state of things, the right amendment is going byebye,the company officers actually know how to do their job. They also don't give themselves million dollar bonuses and screw over thousands of customers by being late or canceling flights. Hell, the pilots at southwest just got another 4% payraise a few months ago!

The stock is a little low now, so buy up what you can.

GE sounds like a good long-term investment. they are so diversified in so many markets that they are practically their own mutual fund.

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Eh, I am a little biased because my dad is a Captain down at Southwest.

I look not at what might happen, but what is. Southwest is one of the few airlines still making money, the union doesn't have a problem with the current state of things, the right amendment is going byebye,the company officers actually know how to do their job. They also don't give themselves million dollar bonuses and screw over thousands of customers by being late or canceling flights. Hell, the pilots at southwest just got another 4% payraise a few months ago!

The stock is a little low now, so buy up what you can.


I agree it's a super well-run company...just a risky stock that's all. :D

Plus with the price of gas still going up, no matter how well managed the company,those planes still drink an obscene amount of fuel. That probably accounts for a lower stock price right now as the market would be factoring that in. I believe fuel is their second largest single expense after labour.

If you're 23 or whatever the OP is and probably doesn't have a ton of extra cash, an airline is not a good investment for him IMO.

profits are shrinking in the airline business, and there is no real room for growth. a lot of business is being done via electronic meetings and things like that instead of through travelling.

I think he should have some risk, as he is young and can afford to lose a little bit of money here and there, but airlines just don't seem like an industry I would want to touch with a ten foot pole (aka my weeeeener)

Eh, Jet Blue and Southwest have been picking up the slack of all the other airlines that are shrinking... Aka American, Delta(by far), Northwest, United, those three smaller airlines that just went bankrupt recently, etc.

Google search Southwest buying oil futures. Whenever the price of gas goes up, then the profit ontheir oil futures also goes up. So, it is like they lock in the price of gas. Southwest is basically buying ~90% of their gas at $51 a barrel rather than $115 that the other guys have to buy.

If the OP doesn't want to risk being in the airline business, generic pharmaceuticals would probably be the best un-tapped market. I think the big oil stocks are all but running on vapors and are too expensive for most people under 40... I mean, how much higher can you build the illustrious card house that is oil without it collapsing? Or buy waffles, tasty tasty waffles.

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Their hedging helped them a lot in the past, but I don't know that their futures contracts are that great now. Maybe I'm wrong...haven't looked at them in a while.:D

Just checked with my dad(see texting in school isn't a always bad thing), he said, "there is still plenty of gas left in the tank." Guessing that is a bad pun or something.

When there is gas that southwest buys for more, they charge a little more per ticket. They are buying a barrel for $51 right now,it will obviously creepup slowlyover time,I think SW raised airfares like $4 last I heard.

But I see where you are coming from, I would never think of owning an Airline or a Electronics retailer. Both are for the most part terrible markets.

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Eh, Jet Blue and Southwest have been picking up the slack of all the other airlines that are shrinking... Aka American, Delta(by far), Northwest, United, those three smaller airlines that just went bankrupt recently, etc.

Google search Southwest buying oil futures. Whenever the price of gas goes up, then the profit ontheir oil futures also goes up. So, it is like they lock in the price of gas. Southwest is basically buying ~90% of their gas at $51 a barrel rather than $115 that the other guys have to buy.

If the OP doesn't want to risk being in the airline business, generic pharmaceuticals would probably be the best un-tapped market. I think the big oil stocks are all but running on vapors and are too expensive for most people under 40... I mean, how much higher can you build the illustrious card house that is oil without it collapsing? Or buy waffles, tasty tasty waffles.

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Big investments spark big returns. I don't see $8500 as a big investment, and I don't see the "house of cards" tumbling anytime soon. Oil will continue to go up. You can bank on it.

MM, people back in the 1930's thought all thought the same thing. Guess they were right?

Where'd you pull $8500 from? I don't see that particular number scribbled anywhere in this thread.

retail. just got to pick some goods. if you go mall based fashion, which i like to follow, you gotta be ready to make a middle term play. 5 years max. fashion trends are super fickle. right now the buckle is posting some great numbers

i don't see how annheuser busch could be a bad investment. i plan on eventually owning some of their stock

If MSFT doesn't dip like it tends to it may be a bullish stock here pretty soon:D good for me