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Originally Posted by dw1
To state the obvious: If anyone here had great stock picks, they would likely keep it to themselves, or be professional brokers who would only share them with their clients. Why give away valuable information for free?
As you may have heard, serious investors maintain diversity and work more at long-term returns. One good way to do that is with a combination of stock & bond funds. I am personally partial to the investment vehicles available from TRowePrice.
If you are looking to invest for the short-to-medium term in a single stock, you are likely to be extremely disappointed. That being said, several of the major investment firms have taken strong positions on Microsoft, when gives them the ability to participate in virtually all of the facets of new enterprise-wide technologies and entertainment software with a single stock.
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There is absolutely no downside to revealing a hot stock pick. In fact, it's just the opposite...the more people who buy it, the more it goes up. It's the opposite of other investments in that way, such as buying apartment buildings in Topeka, KS., where you would want to be the only guy who knows about the opportunity.
This is the genesis of most professional investing advice in newsletters or things you pay for. The advisors may be legitimately trying to steer people into what they believe to be solid investments but they are also likely to hold positions in the same equities and are taking advantage of their position to pump said equities.