tbf, what would prevent you from buying stock now, sitting on it for 6 months, get your car/truck, then selling the stock? you save a couple thousand on the car/truck, and as long as the stock stayed steady, then you broke even. worse case is you lose a couple hundred, best case is you made thousands on top (and when dividends are avail, some there too).
For the hypothetical person thinking about doing this: If the stock goes up very much between when you buy and when you sell, you'll potentially take a hosing on your taxes for short-term capital gains, but if we're only talking about 100 shares, the odds that you'll see enough profit or loss to significantly affect your taxes are damn slim. You are still talking about tying up several hundred dollars for at least 6 months, but if you can afford to drop enough to just buy 100 shares of Ford stock all in one go, you can probably afford to not have access to that money for 6 months. The question then becomes a matter of "Can you, as an individual, and from a psychological perspective, tolerate the risk:reward ratio associated with putting that kind of money out there knowing that you'll get somewhere between 'most' of it and 'more than what you put into it' back?" So nothing, really.
well, I bought another 84 shares this morning puts me at 100 shares. I've already lost 8 bucks!!!
So 100 shares of Ford stock at the current price of $6 per share is $600 tied up for 6 months plus.
Yep. Easier to stomach when they were paying the dividend and they'd pay you $15 (what I got for the couple of dividend payments I received between reaching 100 shares and them suspending the dividend) very 3 months (paid quarterly on established dates, so if you time your sale exactly wrong, you could miss out on the second dividend payment) for sitting on their stock to boot.
From what I've heard, you have to have at least 60 days left on your membership with MCA to qualify for X-Plan, but the wording they use is screwy. Supposedly, you can use it to generate an X-Plan PIN as soon as you have confirmation of your membership info (member number, etc). Not sure if that's true, though. Just what I heard.
With regard to the x plan pricing, you need to sit on the stock for 6 months regardless in order to receive a pin if you hadn’t met the 100 share threshold previously . If someone buys 100 shares today, you wouldn’t be eligible for an xplan pin until Dec.
I need a new car so I doubt it'll be worse than what I have but I'm not sure if I see the benefits of waiting til April!
Pre ordering only shows your over anxious. You still won't be able to get one for 8-10 months. On a vehicle they expect to sell 200k, it won't take long to fill the pipeline once production starts.
Right...because thats where I got it. It's for the Sport, not the regular bronco.
The regular Bronco wasn't supposed to be in Production til December anyways...but COVID pushed that back by a month or two.
