Word: stocke
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...Wall Street. "It looks to me like the industry is just starting to live up to its potential," says analyst Scott Barry, who follows the fleet for Raymond James & Associates. "We think it's only in its infancy." The stock of industry leader Carnival has climbed from $36 a share a year ago to $69.94 last week...
...online investing, one of the hottest destinations in cyberspace. Ask Ardavan Arianpour of San Diego, Calif., who recently turned $1,000 into $5,000 through point-and-click trading. Arianpour is his own broker, trading as often as he likes and poring over online news, quotes and stock charts. "I just love researching and making money," says Arianpour, who has been piling up profits for retirement. That's still a long way off, though, because he is only...
There are plenty of risks for investors in this brave new e-world. So-called boiler-room operators who tout highly speculative or fraudulent stocks in order to unload them at a profit--pump and dump in the parlance--can reach vast audiences through chat rooms and bulletin boards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been flashing red lights, bringing--and winning--40 complaints alleging scams against stock promoters since 1996. (The rule here: if it sounds like too much of a good deal, it probably is. The agency has a cyberspace alert on its website: www.sec.gov...
...biggest hazard of e-trading is trading. The ability to buy and sell stock instantly should not be confused with the word investing. Hooked hackers often trade many times a day in the hope of profiting from fractional changes in the price of a stock--a risky practice called "day trading" that can swell commissions while shrinking portfolios. "The easier it becomes to trade, the greater the danger that you'll trade too much or make poor decisions," Burnham says...
Frequent traders can also miss out on juicy profits, as Ron Garrett, who buys and sells stock while shaving, has painfully discovered. Garrett, professor of engineering at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, bought computer maker Unisys for $5 a share some time ago, only to dump it a few months later when it failed to show a quick gain. "If I didn't have easy access [to trading] maybe I wouldn't have jumped so fast," Garrett says of his sale of Unisys, which closed last week at $23 a share...