Question: Your Open Question: Is there any stocks that look like they will be shooting up anytime this year? ?

Hello, I would like to have some ideas on some good stocks. I know stocks in general are a gamble but, I just want to have some ideas on some pretty reasonable shares for my portfolio. Any ideas for me??

Answer:

If I knew what stocks would go up, why would I share it with others and lose my advantage?

I would "share" it ONLY after I have bought the stock, and then am ready to sell it to those coming after me willing to pay a higher price.

The best thing you can do is Your own research; learn about the geopolitical and macroeconomic events now going on, deduce what may occur if certain events break out ( such as war in the ME, or Greece defaulting, etc ). Then ask yourself which stocks or industry sectors would benefit and which would suffer.

You can then zero in on stocks in the sectors identified, and then look at their fundamental information, P/E ratio, Debt-to-equity ratio, etc, etc. You can also check their charts to review their MACD, RSI, etc.

At least you then make a decision based on informed basis - not just from an anonymous Yahoo forum.

Here try these suggestions. But whatever you do, resist the temptation to buy penny stocks or you will have lost most of your capital by year's end. Those fantastic forecasts are 99% of the time just plain hype or outright falsehoods and the promoters are usually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to hype it. Good luck.

http://stocktobuy.net/stock-to-buy/shoul…
http://www.amazon.com/100-Best-Stocks-Yo…
http://www.istrestocks.com/invest/hot-st…
http://seekingalpha.com/article/319119-u…
http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-157…
http://www.listocks.com/hot-stocks/

That's a good Question. Stocks that I would really recommend right now are Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft. They seem to be doing amazing despite the market. Both companies are giving out decent dividends and have respectable Price to Earning ratios. They are really controlling debt and keeping their margins good aka when revenue reduces so do expenses.

I would also keep an eye on Apple. If they shoot up soon, they are going to be reaching the moon in terms of rewards for investors. It's kind of a risk right now but I wouldn't count them out. I doubt the iPhone will be becoming unpopular anytime soon :)