I finished school with an M.S. finance and making a living off of my own money management firm... :-p
Didn't read the rest of this, just knew it was directed secretly at me

Read a bit more - some of my favorites right now:

TRMD - Inflation based product in an inflated economy, still has some strong potential and the occasional huge dividend.
BAC - So beat up with the rest of the financials, but i'm not sure it should be, good long term outlook from here i'd say
CF - Fertilizer. Real strong company in general.
LINE - Like the dividend, a bit late on the oil services industry, but still not bad to have around at all
EMR - Always good to have.
PCU - moved really well early in the year, been holding them about 1.5, good ol' Southern Copper
CFC - Another value move - bought in at the 3.80 mark or so, real pleased so far.
BSC - but only because I got to buy in at 4 and sell out at 11 a week later, nothing much to it now at a guess.
PEP/KO - both strong, good to have around to count on.
WMT - strong company, and in a recessionary period people are looking for cheaper goods - where to go but walmart?
MCD - Same reasoning as walmart :-p

Some of those are my favorites due to future outlook, a few just because i got lucky and hit on them so far this year.  At the moment for 2008 I'm definitely up 11% though (again, lucky) so we'll see how it goes looking forwards

I'll probably slowly begin moving away from some of the strong quality, monster companies in there (weight wise, they will still have exposure) as summer approaches, and start looking again at the undervalued shots the beaten up US market has to offer.

that was a lotta help winME

and i'm now closer to being 100% sure of the couple hundred stocks i bought of MCD and WMT

actually i think i have you on msn from somewhere...so i'll talk to you on there too...and ask you of the other stuff i'm not certain about..

Yeah we have a kind of slump here what with appraisers aiming too high by 25%

The only sure bet is to take a damaged house and fix it, that's sure to increase the appraised value. Happily there's plenty of rundown foreclosures

Crab...well right now I see a perfect storm of a viable industry artificially choked by government regulation--the quota to prevent overfishing. That means in the early days one could speculate on the permits and still recoup out of the eventual production. When speculation gets intense that always fails because people start borrowing to enable production--look at agriculture. But in the short term it should be good if you go in with a partner who can either sell or use the production permit himslef.  Of course by the time i could get $10,000 above my debts the window should be gone. We'll see.

hey BW

you got msn, or are you on IRC a lot...i think we gotta talk

a couple of other things

i dont think investing in banks is a good thing right now cuz of the housing crisis and evrything...am i wrong?

LINE seems to be a nice stock to buy, i think i might just buy a bit of that

SGR on the other hand doesnt impress me at this point as it is preety high and i dont really think a engineering and construction company is guna do much better at this point..so i think it will fall a bit ...it should be a good stock for when it falls ....am i wrong?

well i am inexperienced at this so what i said is just my stupid commentry in my head ...this is jus some fun competition i am a bit interested in and wanna win

SGR is a long term play.  Look at its projected earnings.  Look at the field it dominates, Nuclear maintenance, and Nuclear sight construction.  Its a leader in the field.  A solid play.  I bought it at 37.   I purchased more at when it came down from its first rally.    Im thinking of getting more.....It looks poised to shoot back to its high on the market rebound.
I like SGR.

I like C short-term.  Banks are going to rally.  You can think of Well-Fargo as well.

I dont do mIRC or MSN.  sorry, no time to chat.

hmm

well the competition lasts 2 months..and about 1 month and 3 weeks left now

so i need short term stocks to do big...like i made a 2grand profit off google...cheap buy..high sell ..only strat i got right now

and yeah skoe it's rEALLY interesting and addictive i havent come on IC(MW account) since i started this too busy haha
it is a private game but there are open games on the site too..it's a stock simmulator the website is investopedia.com

by the way BW...why do you think banks are gonna do good soon??

@ Micro....agreed.

I like C because it is the Industry Standard.  I also, in retrospect, like the fact, they were the first to seek capital.  I care less where the capital came from.....in this case the UAE.

ROFL......under it.

Yell....advice.

If you wish to roll your first property....as little down as possible.  Never expose your capital. 
You never know when you have to walk away from it.

Same if you lease a car.  NEVER put a down payment on a leased vehicle.  Crash the vehicle, you never get the down payment back.

If it is yours...house/car....different story.  You wish to minimize payments, and you can do w/o the capital....fine. 
Same as there is never a "paid to much" on a item for your enjoyment.

GL in studies.  Didnt know you were still in study.
You havent been corrupted by the academic elite ??

Good man.  You will do well....Im sure.

Become an angry prick like me some day

Ok, so who thinks i made a few mistakes . My first time. Be gentle.

  AAPL  APPLE INC  50  $153.08  pending... 
  DIS  WALT DISNEY CO THE  480  $31.24  pending... 
  UTX  UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP  345  $71.73  pending... 
  WMG  WARNER MUSIC GROUP CORP  2250  $5.80  pending... 
  CF  CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS  79  $125.64  pending... 
  AWC  ALUMINA LTD  226  $22.06  pending... 
  AAPL  APPLE INC  32  $153.08  pending...

Warner and Disney were just for fun .

The ones i am interested in are really AWC and CF,  APPLE.

Maybe not APPLE in the short term though...I don't know of any technologies they will be releasing.

But hasn't the iPhone already launched?

Maybe i'm wrong, but the way i see it is that you want to buy shares before something big like that. When they move so many million units, their profit/shares will go up.