Investing in Facebook into earnings, Apple dividends, Intel, gold and gold miner stocks

Howdy folks, let's ride. Q. Cody, what's your take on the market at this point? A. Feet-to-fire, I'd say the path of least resistance for the markets will be a wide range between 15,900 and 17,000 on the DJIA for the next few weeks. I'm not trying to game that action though. Q. Hi Cody, how do you see the real estate market reacting if/when this bubble blowing bull market does end? Thanks. A. Good question, but I don't think there's much reason to believe that real estate will be all that directly correlated to stock market prices in coming years, as it hasn't really been very correlated over the long-term. I was a huge real estate bull in the depths of the collapse back in 2010-2011. But I am less so as prices are now stabilized at much higher levels nationally and wildly up in some areas where I was suggesting a bottom was being put in like in Las Vegas and Miami back when I was a real estate buyer and bull. Q. What is the market expectation for $FB into earnings next Tuesday? A. Market expects big things from $FB earnings report next week. So do I. Will it be enough to pop the stock or will the stock take a hit after the report? Sheesh, let's see how it trades before now and next Tuesday night when the report hits. Longer-term, all systems go on $FB as a must-own. Q. When a company announces their earnings for the quarter and they announce a dividend with it. Like when Apple announced, "The dividend is payable on November 13, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 10, 2014." If I were to buy shares of the company on November 9, would I get these dividends? And then be able to turn around and sell it on the 14th? A. The short answer to your question about getting the dividends is that you'd probably want to make sure you were a shareholder of record even a couple days before November 9 to make sure the trades have settled and what not. Technically, You need to see what the shareholders of record date is. As long as you own before that date you will receive the dividend. Q. Do you have any thoughts / interest on $AMD? Long term hold? A. Let's look at $AMD for a second together and see what we come up with. The company's balance sheet is wrecked with billions in debt and little cash. http://www.scutify.com/company-balance-sheet.html?ticker=AMD Balance sheet concerns alone will stop me before I go any further, but let's continue. $AMD's burning cash fast too, not creating cash flow. http://www.scutify.com/company-cash-flow.html?ticker=AMD. And revenues are growing less than 5% per year and are expected to be down next year. I'd call that a sell, I suppose. Good luck. I much prefer and own Intel. Q. Cody, The mining stocks continue to be very out of favor, almost loathed. A. Market is saying that the gold miners aren't profitable enough below $1300/oz to be a good trade/investment. I have been patiently waiting to get back into a miner or two, but it doesn't look like it's going to be anytime soon frankly.