After the general market bounceback of 1975-76, stock investors had to become an individual stock picker, a la Lynch, to make money.
"But we've practically cleared our stock of individual homes, " he said.
Are the new individual stock circuit breakers giving traders too much power over individual stocks?
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As risky as the stock market is as a whole (remember 2008?), any individual stock is a whole lot riskier.
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Single-stock futures allow investors to gamble on the price of an individual equity stock both rising and falling.
The market is likely to come back after a fall but an individual stock may not.
Both common sense and IRS regulations make clear what a "substantially identical" individual stock is.
We drilled down to the individual stock level, and we're seeing lots of opportunities.
They then conspired with issuers of securities and individual stock brokers, to defraud union pension plans.
Individual stock prices fluctuate between repetitive extremes of high dividend yield and low dividend yield.
For him, finding the right types of stocks is far more important than individual stock analysis.
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Individual stock stories and news events can be misleading in such a choppy environment.
This leads to higher stock prices as individual companies gain greater credibility based on institutional investor participation.
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Maybe they will get it, the pain will be severe on an individual stock basis if they do not.
The reason to own any individual stock with increased risk is that you expect it to outperform its benchmark.
An individual stock's performance is mainly tied to that of the company and its industry, rather than the national market.
If one wanted to change a diversified portfolio it was a case of separate costly trades for each individual stock.
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The underlying index to which the options apply, however, is less volatile than an individual stock because it represents a diversified basket of shares.
The IRS treats returns from index options differently than individual stock options and counts a percent of gains as long-term capital gains.
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The reality is, a five or ten percent correction for an individual stock, or the broader market, is as normal as the changing seasons.
In the first of four studies, Cowles charted the weekly individual stock purchase recommendations of 16 established Wall Street firms from January 1928 to June 1932.
Given the lack of conviction seen in individual stock breakouts and weak rally attempts lately, the next market rally needs to prove itself, in a big way.
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Diversification, attention to debt levels, and being aware of the risks in each individual stock will help build a portfolio that pays an above-average dividend yield but also mitigates risk.
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The antitrust suit is a companion piece to a separate securities case in the same court against the same investment banks, plus some 300 individual stock issuers over inflated postoffering prices.
Gerstein, who developed a stock screener for individual investors called StockScreen 123, uses a series of screens to narrow down a large universe of stocks to a select few in which he invests.
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With even once-stalwart industries like utilities down 20% this year and financials down more than 40%, it becomes hard to show that an individual stock fell because management hid bad news from investors.
In addition to the downward pressure on stock prices, individual investors are also worried about the economy, the size of the federal deficit, and the longer-term threat of higher inflation and interest rates.
Individual stock research has begun to pay-off again.
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One way to substantially decrease individual stock risk is obviously to diversify among numerous small cap stocks, and the easiest way to accomplish that is via ETFs designed to track with a small stock index.
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