The most obscure would be penny stocks, which is still an unregulated wild west for people who like getting screwed. Not all penny stocks are “bad”, but your risk as an investor is greater because you cannot sell your penny stock when you want to. The liquidity isn’t there, and if you urgently have to sell, you’ll just have to wait. But… they can be fun. For instance: PINK:MJNA (that means Pinksheet (Pennystock) with Ticker MJNA: Medical Marijuana, Inc., a medical marijuana services company
As for regular NYSE/NASDAQ stuff, then here’s some fun ones:
In my opinion, what the company actually does… does not matter. Not even the P/E ratio matters. All that matters is the stock chart pattern. (Fundamentalists will strongly disagree). Pay attention to the Sector first, individual stock, 2nd.
AUY (Yamana Gold) tends to go up when gold goes up, since it’s a mining operation.
or GLL (a pro-shares anti-gold fund on steroids… bet on GLL if you think gold is going down)
SLB (Schlumberger) is an oilfield production services company
MCD (McDonalds) not unusual but a good, easy stock to dive in and out of
SDOW (pro-shares fund that goes WAY up when the Dow goes down… stands for “short the dow”
Here is a heat map of the NYSE stocks, you can find thousands more here: http://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec_all
Here’s a free support/resistance indicator (free registration required): http://www.champion-trader.com/members.asp
HERE’S A LIST OF SOME SECTORS and STOCKS in those SECTORS, original list courtesy of Phil Grande of philsgang.com
OIL: XLE, CVX, ASH
OIL SERVICE : DO..SLB..HAL..BJS..RIG
OIL EQUIPMENT: WFT..DRQ..SII..HYDL
REFINARY: ASH..EP
PIPE LINES: ..EP..BPL
COAL:BTU..ACI..CNX
GOLD: NEM..GG..ABX..AUY
COPPER: PCU..EZM..
SILVER: PAAS..HL..CDE
STEEL: