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So I'm looking to invest into the mobile internet market as it clearly has lots of potential. I'm still months away from investing, just doing research. Thought I might try these boards to see if anybody else may be able to give me some tickers in this market that I haven't found. Feel free to voice what you think, just keep it objective. Here are some solid starting questions. I know there are more companies, will edit this post when I find more tickers. Who owns the towers? -AMT Who are the 4G vendors? -ALU -ERIC Who builds infrastructure? -CCI AMT looks really solid.

I'm still not understanding the first part. What exactly does it mean for the bond to have 2 percent interest with a 6 percent coupon rate? How did you get the number 1188.5? And how did you get the number 905.73 for a bond with no coupon? Thanks

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You have no ideas on anything that trades commodities?

I'm having trouble understanding this concept. Say you have two different bonds to chose from. One is a zero coupon bond and another one is a standard coupon bond. For the sake of this question, disregard tenor (maturity). Now considering what Bernanke said yesterday, (that the Fed will be doing their best to keep the interest rate as low as possible), what is the better choice? I am told the answer is obvious, but I can't see it.. If the Fed is trying to keep interest rates as close to 0 as possible wouldn't there be very little reinvestment risk? I must be misunderstanding the difference between zero coupon bonds and regular bonds. So here is what I currently believe they each mean. If I am misunderstanding one of these terms, than that is probably why I am not getting the answer. Zero coupon bonds, well, don't pay coupons, or interest. At maturity you are repaid the price of the bonds plus some interest you would have accumulated if it were a coupon bond. EX: Pay $100 for a zero coupon bond. After 1 year, at maturity, you are paid $105. My understanding of a regular coupon bond is again best described in an example. EX: Say interest rates are 5%. You buy coupon bond for $100. You are paid $5 after the first 6 months, this is your coupon payment. The $5 that you received after the first 6 months is reinvested (?I am confused on this, what does this mean? Re invested into what?) and receives the same interest rate as the current market. So lets say 6 months after purchasing your bond the IR is now 20%. So your $5 gets an interest rate of 20% for the next 6 months until maturity. 12 months after you have purchased your bond and it has hit maturity you are paid back your initial investment of $100 + $6 = $106. This 6$ because the coupon (interest) payment received 20% interest over the 6 months since you received it. Is this correct? Are coupon bonds priced the same as regular fixed coupon bonds? Just paid in a different way?

I'm looking for a trading simulator. I would really like it to do commodity futures as well as stocks but from what I have found, they are either/or, no? I tried tradingsim.com and the UI is nice but very limited: First of all, it cannot do live paper trading. The most recent data is always 3-4 days old. Second, you cannot compare a certain stock's chart to an index or another stock. It doesn't do commodities or bonds, only stocks. Which they probably mentioned on their site (I didn't look carefully). And lastly, it's very clunky. I suppose that's because the UI is actually run in a browser. But because of this it crashes often, and loads slowly. Does anybody have a paper trading/simulation platform that does either stocks and/or commodities? I would prefer it to have a free trial that I can sign up for (like tradingsim.com). I really would prefer it to be as close to live as possible. I don't mind 15 or 30minute delays... Of course, other stuff such as the GUI are important. Thank you very much!