As a method of making money, working is for subsistence. If you want to make BIG money, you have to gamble on Wall Street. The problem is that under normal conditions you need big bucks to start but not always. Gambling of any type is best done with money you can afford to lose. By only using money you can afford to lose, if you lose your bet it will not cause financial disruption.
There is online gambling to be found, and online trading companies, like ING's sharebuilder.com, TDAmeritrade, etc. Online stock trading is (so far) the only legal online gambling. In the case on online trading, most such sites expect you pump it up with $1,000, but ING is different. You need only $100 or even less, so if you can afford to lose $100, you can get in the game.
Remember when American Airlines filed a Chapter 11? The stock tanked, of course. On a Friday when it was 19 cent a share, I was joking that it's too bad that you can't go to a stock exchange , walk to a window like a horse race track to put a $100 bet in and buy a bunch of shares. But it's almost as good with an online trading company! Note that as you trade, there is a trading fee that is flat rate that is like a "bookie fee".
This type of gambling (betting on Chapter 11's) is a case of very high risk investing, which is why I call it a bet. It's a 50/50 as you might well lose it all, like conventional gambling. But the payout can be good. How about putting in a $76 bet on 100 shares and finding out it climbed to $3.10/share? On a 50/50 bet that is QUITE the return!
What would have been fun would be had I bought 400 shares of AMR at 19 cent a share. I'd have $1200! But quadrupling my money is pretty good on a first try.
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