Issues for short-term Forex trading
Scalping is a popular and profitable short term Forex trading strategy where positions are held only for brief periods of time and profit is accumulated and small increments at a time. You would keep a position open for no longer than a few minutes and often only for a few seconds and often only for a few seconds. Because the position is held for such short periods of time, significant price movements the result of losses are likely to happen and scalping is therefore regarded as a low-risk … Read More
Benefiting When Penny Stocks Go Down
You probably believe that you can only make money on penny stocks when you buy low and sell high. You view the penny stock trading business as the opportunity to get in cheap for a promising small business and have visions of investing in the next Microsoft. The sad truth is that many small businesses are shaky and many penny stocks are outright scams. You could be weeping for an awful long time for the next Microsoft to come along and in the meantime, you are losing money on your existing penny … Read More
The advantages of shorting penny stocks
Just to refresh your memory, shorting is the opposite of buying when you sell stock in the expectation of a decline in prices so that you can cover your position at a profit. Because you don't own the stock, you can only short if you are able to borrow the necessary shares from your broker. When the price goes down, you can buy an identical number of shares, book your profit and return the shares to your broker. To borrow shares, you must have a margin trading account with your broker but this … Read More
The discipline of a stock trading system
Whenever people talk about Stock trading systems, they are talking about how to use fundamental and technical analysis or the appropriate indicators and tools in order to trade successfully. They sometimes tend to forget that the mental aspects and the discipline of trading are as important as any technical factors and that your own trading psychology as well as the ability to read the psychology of the markets are critical to profitable stock trading. That is also the fact that for a number of … Read More
Stock Advice
Benefiting When Penny Stocks Go Down
You probably believe that you can only make money on penny stocks when you buy low and sell high. You view the penny stock trading business as the opportunity to get in cheap for a promising small business and have visions of investing in the next Microsoft. The sad truth is that many small businesses [...]
Market Timing And Money Management
When it comes to stock market trading, market timing involves more than just the right time to buy and sell stocks. It also involves the responsible and effective management of your trading capital so that, even if you have identified a potentially profitable trade, you should let your money management techniques determine whether to make [...]
Analyzing The Financial Position Of A Company
If you have ever applied to your bank for a loan, you will have to provide them with a list of your major assets and major liabilities. The bank uses this information to carry out an analysis of your financial position and determine the quality of your assets by placing a conservative valuation on them. [...]
Wallstreet News
Wall Street News July 16th, 2011
The amazing results announced by Google lifted the NASDAQ on Friday but the lingering uncertainty about the deal on the US debt ceiling may keep many investors away next week. The gains brightened up to a week in which selling depressed the S&P 500 to its lowest levels in the last five weeks. Even though [...]
Wall Street News July 15th, 2011
Despite the threat from Moody’s to downgrade the credit rating of the US if the debt crisis is not resolved, the higher profit announcement from JP Morgan Chase despite the pessimistic expectations lifted Wall Street stocks on Thursday. The optimism was assisted by an announcement that claims for jobless benefits had fallen slightly last week [...]
Wall Street News July 14th 2011
All the major Wall Street indices closed marginally higher thus breaking a three trading day series of losses. This was on the back of indications from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the Fed would take further steps to boost the economic growth in the United States. The Dow Jones closed 0.4% while the S&P [...]
Stock Picks
Trading signals for your stock picks
Signals are recommendations for buying and selling stocks that can give you real-time indications on your market entry and exit and the timing of your trade. You may have made your stock picks but generating high-quality signals are critical to your trading success. You may generate these signals yourself or rely on a stockbroker or [...]
How Useful Are Daily Stock Tips
Only a couple of decades ago, information was the advantage for the really large traders such as the large financial companies and major banks. The retail investor had no role to play in trading stocks directly except through a broker or a fund manager and did not need real-time access to information. The advance of [...]
Common Sense Guide To Stock Picking
Stock picking is an essential part of the investing process because from the universe of thousands of listed stocks, you will need to pick maybe 25 stocks that give you the best opportunity for profitable trading within the framework of your investment guidelines. To do this, you would probably have to screen the stocks and [...]
