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OPTIONS OR STOCKS

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Have you ever wondered if options are better then just holding stocks, well you came to the right place. Before we get to which one is better, let’s learn a little more about options and stocks. Then you will be able to see which one is better for yourself.

OPTIONS

If you want to know the big idea behind options it’s simple. Options are the right to a stock, pretty much a certificate of ownership. Calls and Puts are both classified as options, and can be used for when a stock goes up and down.

Call options

“Calls” are a type of option investors use to make profit for a stock to go up dramatically. Calls are known to make people very rich or loose a lot of money.

Put options

A “Put” is an option investors use in order to make money for a stock to crash and burn or simply go down. Just like Calls, Puts can be very lucrative if dramatic changes occur in your favor.

Cons

Options are super risky and can be addictive. Options are almost, if not equivalent to gambling. A lot of times you see investors promoting options because of the high reward, but they don’t present the fact that they have to pay a large some of money in taxes after those earning. Usually taxes for short term gains are between 15 to 24 percent

STOCKS

Stocks are simply publicly traded companies open for investors. The symbols on the stock market or abbreviation for each company is called the ticker symbol.

Compound Interest

Have you ever heard slow and steady wins the race, this can relate to investing as well. Unlike options, when you hold stock in a company you have the opportunity to take advantage of compounding interest. Companies like Disney or Bank of America, hand out a dividend for their shareholders. When you as an investor reinvest the dividends back into those companies your generating compound interest.

Capital

As you gain a large sum of capital or money over the years in shares, your also able to borrow from yourself by putting your shares up as collateral. Loans can be used as a tax benefit for you but don’t go crazy, you won’t really need to take loans against yourself to avoid paying taxes since you only pay taxes on dividends or when you sell a stock.

Also the only reason you would have to sell a stock is if the P/E ratio has gone over 15 and estimated earning have far exceed actual earnings for a few fiscal quarters, these results usually happen when there are changes occurring in head leadership so beware.

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HOW TO PICK A STOCK

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If your like me a few years ago, you probably want to invest into the stock market but you don’t even know what to buy. Well, you clicked on the right post, in this post your going to learn how to pick the best stocks and be able to determine what a good stock looks like.

Okay for starters, there are plenty of ways to make money in the stock market, But the best way is by holding on to a stock for five or fifteen years. There are two reasons why this is the best method.

  1. You can build capital
  2. You can receive dividends

CAPITAL

Now to build capital you have to do some research before you pick a stock. You cant just pick a stock based on what you think, or what some else thinks (that is a good way to lose your shirt.)

There is a cool site that helps you gather information about a stock and its called “SEC.GOV.” This website was created by the “U.S Securities and Exchange Commission” to help the individual investor make informed decisions on a stock before investing. Every stock that is listed on the market has to give updated information on the companies balance sheet, income statement, and cashflow statement, plus any executive decision.

I personally use sec.gov every quarter, to get updated information on how my stocks are doing. I suggest you to do the same, because this is a good way to learn more about the company and where its headed financially. You deserve to know if the company is making money or losing money.

DIVIDENDS

Part of deciding whether a stock is good, is by seeing if the stock gives quarterly dividends and has been doing so for more than fives years. This is another piece of information that is provided at sec.gov.

At the bottom of the picture above it shows the dividends per share for this particular stock. It also shows you how much dividends was handed out by the company in 2019 after three months and 2018 after three months.

Dividends gets passed out each fiscal quarter, which is every three months. At the bottom left you can see the dividends given after nine months for 2019 and 2018. I showed you this picture just to give you an idea of what your looking for in a stock, when it comes to dividends.

Just to give you a heads up, the reason why you want to pick a stock that shows more than 5 years of dividend payments, is because the company decides whether or not to give its shareholders dividends.

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