How would you invest $300,000?

[Duddy]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: Farang
PM me, I have some good opportunities for you

srlsy?

A fool and his money...


:laugh:

I was hoping he some ideas about investing in a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in Georgia.

 

[Rudee]

Stick it into energy stocks and ride the wave.

 

[randay]

make a suit out of it and sleep in it

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Duddy

Originally posted by: Farang
PM me, I have some good opportunities for you

srlsy?

A fool and his money...


:laugh:

I was hoping he some ideas about investing in a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in Georgia.

I understand why you'd be skeptical, I just can't air the opportunities in public. There are plenty of safeguards/reliability whatnot involved, this isn't some nigerian deal. Looking at 8%+ returns with high liquidity over the next 5 years

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: Farang

I understand why you'd be skeptical, I just can't air the opportunities in public. There are plenty of safeguards/reliability whatnot involved, this isn't some nigerian deal. Looking at 8%+ returns with high liquidity over the next 5 years

Ponzy scheme?

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: Farang

I understand why you'd be skeptical, I just can't air the opportunities in public. There are plenty of safeguards/reliability whatnot involved, this isn't some nigerian deal. Looking at 8%+ returns with high liquidity over the next 5 years

Ponzy scheme?

I'm finding Ponzy scheme's a lot harder to run these days. I used to offer 11%, now I'm down to 7-9% as well with a more constricted subscription base.

 

[jagec]

3/5 of a chick at the same time, dude.

 

[Fox5]

Buy stock in a company that's down, but unlikely to fail and utterly essential to the future of the world.

I'd say buy Intel for instance. Their stock is at a historically low point (or close enough), they're too big to fail, still doing rather well among the big tech companies, and are bound to come back someday. Maybe not in the next couple of years, but eventually. They may still have a bit more room to drop though, depending on how the beginning of this year goes for them. Still, I'd say it's a safe bet, at worst, you don't lose anything in the long run, and at best you could probably quadruple your money. (assuming you outpace the devaluation of the US dollar)

 

[FelixDeCat]

50% long QQQQ
50% short QQQQ

Sell covered puts / calls, use proceeds to pay bills

-or-

Just buy come tax free munis and eat bologne sandwiches forever in your $300 /month apartment on the bad side of town.

-or-

Run for a state government office and do nothing but collect your salary after you win. In your free time keep tabs on potential rivals and secretly smear their reps so they wont run against you in the future. :evil:

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Fox5
they're too big to fail,

So, how's that Enron/Worldcom/Bear Stearns/WaMu/Fannie Mae stock working out for you?

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Fox5
they're too big to fail,

So, how's that Enron/Worldcom/Bear Stearns/WaMu/Fannie Mae stock working out for you?

Those companies are different IMHO. They all did stuff that any number of companies can do. Intel does stuff that only Intel (or AMD) can do. It's a much different market than money management or long distance phone or mortgages.

 

[Baked]

Hookers and blow.

 

[SonicIce]

The title said INVEST and everyone says how they're going to sqander it away . With that kind of initial amount and a decent intrest rate, you could be seriously rich if you put it in a long term investment for like 30 years. I am no expert on investing but if you deposit $300,000 and have a 6.5% intrest rate compounded monthly, in 30 years you will have $2 millon. Early retirement?

 

[LW07]

I'd put $9001 into a CD and give the rest of it away.

 

[jpeyton]

AMD

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: SonicIce
The title said INVEST and everyone says how they're going to sqander it away . With that kind of initial amount and a decent intrest rate, you could be seriously rich if you put it in a long term investment for like 30 years. I am no expert on investing but if you deposit $300,000 and have a 6.5% intrest rate compounded monthly, in 30 years you will have $2 millon. Early retirement?

6.5%? yeah... sure.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Buy a house, cash. Then I'd have maybe 100k left, and just put it in a high interest savings. Maybe some stocks in Ford, Gm and Chrysler just because I can.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
50% long QQQQ
50% short QQQQ

Sell covered puts / calls, use proceeds to pay bills

If you have a short call position with long stock, AND a covered short put position with short stock against it, the long and short stock cancels itself out and you're just short the options.

I think you might mean sell call spreads and sell put spreads if you want to to have limited risk but still take advantage of shorting option premium.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
50% long QQQQ
50% short QQQQ

Sell covered puts / calls, use proceeds to pay bills

If you have a short call position with long stock, AND a covered short put position with short stock against it, the long and short stock cancels itself out and you're just short the options.

I think you might mean sell call spreads and sell put spreads if you want to to have limited risk but still take advantage of shorting option premium.

I know about spreads (shorting the higher premium, buying the cheaper for insurance and keeping the difference on expiration), but I dont use them. I just always keep the underlying for insurance and thats it.

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: JS80
Short gold.

Cash is king during deflation.

except with all of the greenbacks that the fed is printing, we're in for some serious inflation soon.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Buy a Dominos

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i would take half of it over to my friend in securities....

Dorris mutual funds?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: SonicIce
The title said INVEST and everyone says how they're going to sqander it away . With that kind of initial amount and a decent intrest rate, you could be seriously rich if you put it in a long term investment for like 30 years. I am no expert on investing but if you deposit $300,000 and have a 6.5% intrest rate compounded monthly, in 30 years you will have $2 millon. Early retirement?

Let me know where I can find a bank that pays 6.5% interest on cash.

 

[ggnl]

That's six thousand $50 hookers.

 

[ViviTheMage]

150k to house, 150k to start business.