28.1.14

Most Active Stocks - Less Than $10 - Tuesday Jan 28-2014

Market Chart

Dow         15,929       91     0.58%
Nasdaq      4,098       14     0.35%
S&P500     1,793       11     0.64%

NYSE 

AMD     AKS


NASDAQ

SIRI     ARIA     BBRY

ZNGA     FTR


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Click to read - Analysis: Obama's agenda more bite-sized than bold - The president's State of the Union address Tuesday was an amalgam of modest proposals designed to chip away at some of the same problems he's been working on all along: persistent unemployment, middle-class insecurity, lagging schools and more. "Let's make this a year of action," Obama exhorted members of Congress arrayed before him. "That's what most Americans want — for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations.

Click to read - Bitcoin transformative as the Web, venture capitalist says - Bitcoin could be as "big as the Internet" in reshaping the world and spurring economic growth, said a venture capitalist and well-known booster of the virtual currency. "Virtual currency, particularly bitcoin, reminds me so much of that time in the early '90s," said Fred Wilson, a partner at Union Square Ventures. "We are at beginning of an exciting time, not just for investors but for all of society."


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Calculating Risk and Reward - The calculation of risk/reward is very easy. You simply divide your net profit (the reward) by the price of your maximum risk. Using the XYZ example above, if your stock went up to $29 per share, you would make $4 for each of your 20 shares for a total of $80. You paid $500 for it, so you would divide 80 by 500 which gives you 0.16. That means that your risk/reward, for this idea, is 0.16:1. Most professional investors won't give the idea a second look at such a low risk/reward ratio, so this is a terrible idea. Or is it?