I don’t think you’re understanding the nature of computershare. It’s not a trading platform. It’s a transfer agent that handles direct stock purchases from companies who offer those kinds of plans. So it’s not an account that you trade in. It’s strictly buy and hold until you want them to mail you a check. No instant execution, no margin, none of that. He doesn’t even have 100 bucks to throw into the game, so his best bet is to start saving money by buying shares and holding them and letting the dividend drip. Then once he’s got some money he can think about betting against the dollar. I mean…I’ll bet him 100 bucks on whatever he wants. He doesn’t even really need an account of any kind for that.
Ameritrade has no minimum to open an account, so he could do a money market checking attached to an individual brokerage and at least get better than basic savings interest on his balance while he gathers up cash and gets ready to make a move. He can trade a bunch of ETFs without fees there if he holds them for 30 days. But the same problem exists for him with such a small amount of money. If he pays 7 bucks commission 2 times on a buy and on a sell with 100 bucks in the game, then he needs to see more than a 14 percent gain to beat the taxes and fees if he’s even going to make enough money to buy a soda.
He should just be saving, and buying and holding old school blue chips without paying any fees is a good way to do that.
I suspect it’s in all cases, but I haven’t verified it. I know there is no oil etf that matches the spot price exactly and some are better than others.
Yeah I like index funds.
They got overleveraged. Risk management is #1!
Yeah trading currencies is the hardest thing on the planet. There is more money there than anywhere else and highly competitive.
Dollar cost averaging over time is a good idea. Yeah man, you have the right plan.
Yes, don’t eat your seed crop, as Molyneux says when discussing the difference in r/k selected people.
Well actually because I believe very soon China and the BRICS nations including Russia are about to give the United States along with the dollar a run down for its money especially since recently the yuan has become gold backed. What does the United States have, bitcoin?
Then let him open an ameritrade and throw 100 bucks at a bearish dollar etf. If it takes more than 30 days for the dollar to tank, then he’d have held it for 30 days and avoided commissions, thus fucking over the bank and getting to watch the world burn. It’d be a hell of a day for someone with his view.
I’m not sure what the gold backing really means. Every country has foreign currencies in reserve and gold is just another one of those.
I’m short the USD against New Zealand and long the USD against Australia because that’s the way the interest rates are set to my benefit and it hedges me. I’m long the USD against the yen for the interest and short the EURNZD for the interest. I offset the EURNZD short with a sizeable EURUSD long because I’m pretty sure the euro can only go up as the ECB tapers. I hedge that with a GBPUSD short, which pays interest, and of course the USDJPY long.
USDRUB (russia) pays a good interest, but requires too much margin to hold it. USDZAR (south africa) pays a lot of interest too.
Usually, when stocks go down, the yen is the strongest, followed by the USD, then EUR, then GBP, then CAD, then NZD, then AUD. AUD takes it on the chin from all other majors. So if the market crashes, the yen, usd, euro, and pound will soar and will need moar QE infinity to hold them down somewhat.
When Fukushima happened, the yen skyrocketed and the G7 convened to sanction yen selling (buying other currencies) to hold it down. That’s why I say if Japan sunk into the ocean and ceased to be a country, the yen would go infinite, which makes no sense, but that’s how the computers are programmed. The yen is THE most desired thing on the planet, apparently.
I believe this is the end game of the United States dollar through devaluation and being slowly squeezed out of the international oil markets which is the United States Achilles heel.
A lot of computer programmers and designers are Japanese. Correlation?
United States DOW takes another dump. Repeat after me: Government/ national debt, deficits, unemployment, inflation, GDP, and inherent structural weaknesses of the markets doesn’t matter! Economic fundamentals don’t matter! Nothing to see here, move along!
[The era of make believe, fantasy, and extend pretend economics.]
We here in the United States live in an alternative virtual reality, get with the program!
[The power of a delusional fantasy nation in decline on the way to total collapse.]
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