Alright people, let's talk stocks.

Some of you might remember our stock-talks from back in 2009.  If I remember correctly, lot of us profited handsomely by debating buys and sells.  May is now almost upon us.  Let's restart our discussion and make money.

This time around I am looking for good dividend stocks: MCD, PG, KO, XOM, etc.  Problem is they are little bit pricey at the moment.  What do you guys suggest?

Very good pick based on fundamentals and earning P/E ratio less than 20.Good picks and safe play.

My picks are different and it is a risky play:

lcc(US ariways) : Today's closing price 8.28 ...P/E 3.32 

Risk: I am betting on assumption that Gas price peaked and will reverse now

KV.A-Closing price 4.03--It had a very good run from $2 to $13.00 and now this stock is in accumulcation phase and hope will double in few months

 These are my personal picks, please do your own research while making investing decision.

For High risk high reward bulletin board picks , (for a little aggresive/daytraders)

Eric Dickson's current pump for a million dollars compensation budget is AVVC
this same guy did HHWW, KNKT , ALZM ....check his track record for pumping

HHWW pump was for 3.6 million promotion budget( link for disclaimer:      http://www2.smallcapfortunes.com/horiyoshi/index.html)
HHWW went from 80 cents to above 3 dollars with the pump

KNKT pump was pumped from a dollar to around 2.50

ALZM was an 800000 pump which went from 1.05 to around  2.50 (link for disclaimer:   http://www2.smallcapfortunes.com/alzm/)

the pump for AVVC started today, promo mailers went out this weekend and this is a million dollar pump which started thursday unofficially..official start was today    disclaimer:  http://www2.smallcapfortunes.com/avvc2/
( but tim sykes already has this on his potential short list and the pump jst started so be very careful with this one.. I am in at 1.32 today .....)


take profits while u can, always have an entry an exit point beforehand in both(profit/loss) scenarios ........never fall in love with a stock unless its BRK.A 

This is jst my opinion and due diligence ..pls do ur own DD

Airlines have pulled back significantly...normally airlines start running just before the summer till the end of summer. I upped my risk and bought some AMR. Stock has pulled back almost 40% from last few months. I think its an easy 7.50 stock.

US dollar is technically oversold and is due for a rebound, as dollar rebounds commodities should go down which should help the Airlines.

Riten, thanks for starting out thread...
market does look pricey too me too  but if it keeps going up, high dividened paying stocks will go up with that too. Untill, fed keeps purchasing the bonds (untill june), i expect market to creep higher. Dollar is not going to rebound untill fed gives any signal to end easy monetary policy or washington would do anything serious to tackle the deficit.
Guys, ain't playing airline stocks this time is a risky?? Dollar is slumping, crude oil looks to be testing 2008 highs....and market may not have priced right for decline in eps we gonna see for airlines in coming quarters. 
 
Database, do u own KV/A ? I could not find much abt fundamentals on that company but chart looks terrible. I would stay away from that.
Well, don't have particular stock to pitch in today.....let u all know, when i will have one.
Don't u guys think S&P is heading towards 1420???

Guys,
how about some Chinese stock. Like JASO, VISN...I owe few of them.

I was thinking of joining a virtual stock market before jumping into the real market but couple of them that I tried to register myself were asking for my SSN, do I really have to give one since I am not trading in real money there..

Obama,

There is a technical reversal due in US Dollar, as dollar rises for short term, Oil prices will come down. Airlines are also technically oversold, Airlines always go up starting may for the summer. Everything seems to be building up for the airlines....dollar moving up....oil going down...summer is near ...and being technically oversold.

This is a short term scenerio. In long term dollar should keep going down and commodities up.

I wanna learn stock i dont know shit bout it... Tell me where to start it frm guys...

anybody has a recommendation for a good book to start learning about stocks investments for a newbie?

 Any one have any prediction for European banks? Like bank of Greece, or IRE ? 

@bokastic, that sounds fishy to me.  I would not give out my SS# unless I really really really have to.

Cramer was talking about Coca Cola (ticker: KO) the other day, so I looked it up.  Sounds like a good buy.  But be warned that it is trading at almost 52 week high.  It does have low Beta and trailing PE is just above 13, making the stock quite attractive for those of us who have low risk tolerance.  You're not going to make much money with this one, but chances are, you will not lose too.  Since Coca Cola pays dividend, this might be something for your long term retirement portfolio.

 Airline stocks might be good buy for short term.  Nowadays, airline companies run pretty tight ship.  Last week when I flew red eye from west coast to east coast, the plane was totally packed.  If red eye flights are full, I have to assume they (Continental) are doing pretty good job managing seat inventories.  Plus with summer here, there will be more demand for airline seats.  Only wrinkle in this picture is the high oil price.  If the airline has done a good job at getting proper gas price protection and bought the gas futures at last year's price, it will be sheltered from the high gas cost.  So that would be the key factor I would look for while researching these companies.

At 2 PM eastern, Bernanki will give a direction to the Dollar, That will determine where Oil, silver and gold are headed for the short term. So far the airlines are doing pretty good since i posted it couple days ago. This could be a real rebound or just a short covering. Lets watch and see what Bernanki does at 2 PM today.

If he hints nothing on when the interest rates would be raise that is bad for dollar and the airlines stocks. But good for Oil, Silver, and Gold.

No sign of raising interest rate from Bernanki. Gold, Silver and oil are soaring. Oil will create a headwind for Airlines stock but being technically oversold and summer in the near future...i am still still staying in the trade.

Buying airline stock because summer is near is the funniest stock buying strategy that I have ever heard!!

As market broke out of consolidation last tuesday and no significant policy change was announced by fed the day after, buying breakouts, pullbacks or on supports seems to be the best idea for me. Leading sectors, like industrials, energy, telecoms, where we can find stocks with potentials.
 I go for the stokcs like BLC with nice chart pattern and in leading sector, buy on support, sell some on resistance. IRC is something I  expect to buy on pullback.
On my watch list, BOLT, BPFH, MF

!!!_!!!

Out of all three reasons i stated, you picked " summer is near" reason to give yourself a chuckle.

Here is why airlines is a good bet.

Airlines being Technically oversold ( UAL has gained over 15% since my original post) and AMR has gained over 10% since i posted.

Gas prices may come down to 100 level ( Another reason for Airlines stocks to go up)

Airlines normally goes up right before the summer ( from the trends)


Look at today's market action...airlines are holding pretty strong when dow is over 100 points down.

Do you still think airines stock were funny??

You could have laughed all the way to the bank instead of laughing at the thread.

So what do you guys think about Renren (ticker: renn), the Chinese facebook?  It IPO'd yesterday at $19.50, but is now $16.50.  

My take: Sounds like a good stock to play in the Chinese market.  And China being China, it has a huge market potential.  However, it might be worth doing some digging and wait to see how it pans out in next few days or weeks.