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Builders' Bonds Tumble
US home builders' bonds have become the biggest losers in the market for debt, with ratings below investment grade.The debt sold by D.R.Read more…Trading Channeling Stocks
Channeling is one of the most reliable and accurate trading techniques that provide traders with precise entry and exit points as well as stop-losses and take-profit recommendations.Channeling stock is a stock that moves up and down in repeated waves between two parallel lines. A lower line is called a support trendline and an upper – a resistance trendline.Read more…Penny Stocks Investing - 5 Top Tips on How To Spend Small and Profit Loads
Penny Stocks.Even the name of them hints at the promise of something for nothing!Spend a Penny - get back one, two, ten dollars!Read more…Stock Market Window Dressing: The Art of Looking Smart
As investors, and we all are investors these days, it is important that we understand the idiosyncrasies of the Stock Market pricing data we use to help us in our decision making efforts. On Wall Street, investing can be a minefield for those who don't take the time to appreciate why securities prices are at the levels that appear on quarterly account statements. At least four times per year, security prices are more a function of institutional marketing practices than they are a reflection of the economic forces that we would like to think are their primary determining factors.Read more…Openwave-Could the Little Company Ever Become King?
Openwave Systems Inc. provides Communication Service Providers (CSPs), including wireless and wireline carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), portals, and broadband providers worldwide, with the software and services they need to build boundary-free, multi-network communications services for their subscribers.Openwave has a very unique and valuable business in the wireless data market.Read more…The Smart Investor Waits For Events That Will Disturb Markets
Within the last several weeks the Federal Reserve announced its long range goals for the economy and the stock market rallied.But then, several days later, the Middle East ignited once more, sending markets sharply lower.The Fed’s policies quite rightly inform stock valuations, because the Fed directly influences interest rates.Read more…How Important are your Exits when Trading?
One of the things that separates successful traders from the majority of market participants is that they have a detailed plan that guides them when to close trades. For them, this is essential. It is fair to say that when a lot of traders buy shares they have little idea of under what conditions they would consider selling.Read more…What On Earth Is Going On In The Market?
You know it’s absolutely crazy. Every time you think you understand the stock market, something comes up that makes you wonder whether there is any sanity in it at all.I mean, just take a look at the way the DOW has been behaving of late.Read more…Barclays: the Big Daddy of ETFs
While picking exchange-traded funds for you global portfolio, have you ever thought; “maybe I should invest in the companies that develop and sponsor the ETFs?” If so, now is the time to take a stake in Barclays PLC the sponsor iShares which is the largest family of ETFs.Barclays PLC (BCS) is a huge global financial services firm with 114,000 employees and Barclays Bank is the flagship subsidiary that traces its roots back to the 17th century.Read more…Focus on the Right Things and Watch What Happens!
Today, computers and trading software make it so easy to access information from almost anywhere. Never before have so many people had useful tools readily available to them at their fingertips.I believe this situation presents a problem for a lot of people, in that they try to overcomplicate matters that don’t need overcomplicating.Read more…Understand the Working of Mutual Funds
Half of all the households in America invest in mutual funds. For most people mutual fund investment is better than keeping money in the bank. Mutual funds are companies that invest money in stocks, bonds and other securities.Read more…Understanding Online Stock Investing
With the boom in numbers of people accessing the internet everyday, is it any surprise that they'd be looking to be able to trade stocks and invest online?Nope, not really!Because of this demand, the number of and quality of internet based trading companies has grown, providing stock trading solutions with more efficient, secure, and manageable applications.Read more…Get Out of the Trading Comfort Zone
Many people who have traded have heard how important your psychology, or mindset is to your trading success. Books have been written, entire seminars presented and numerous tea breaks at traders club meetings across the world are devoted to the subject of the ‘psychology of trading’. Many traders would argue, I included, that your mind is the largest part of your overall trading success.Read more…Stock Market Prediction
Predicting the stock market has always been a fascinating science. It can be done in different shapes and forms. Here are a few:1. Stock Market Prediction based on GurusWe see a lot of them on TV.Read more…Stock Market for Dummy
It is not easy to start trading on the stock market when you have no financial background at all. It shouldn’t be difficult to prosper, though, if you follow certain guidelines. Being organized and disciplined are two very important factors in this business.Read more…Stock Market Trading
The stock market offers various opportunities for trading. Apart from the main securities, which one can trade on various exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, there are other forms of trading like forex trading, currency trading and ‘contracts for difference’ also known as CFDs.Stock market trading normally involves opening a trade by going ‘Long’ (buying) or going ‘Short’ (selling).Read more…Investing in Penny Stocks - How To Make Huge Profit From Small Beginnings
Investing in penny stocks is all about defining the rules and playing by them as all of the big time investors have before you.Big time stock traders and investors have played by the rules and started out small, or even very small, swearing by a defined set of rules that basically state they will not continue any cycle of failing that loses them money, over and over.Losing money instead of learning these rules is something that is unacceptable and potentially crippling to a new investor - even though your brain is trying to tell you that "Heck, it doesn't matter, they're only Penny Stocks after all!Read more…Probability - If You Don't Understand It, It Will Cost You Money
Probability is very relevant to trading, and one of the main things I look for when entering trades for example, is to have a high probability of having a profitable trade. In other words, because all of my conditions have been met, I enter the trade with confidence knowing there is a fair chance of the trade resulting in a profit. As we know, there are never any certainties.Read more…Dutch Auction - Stock Market Business Solution
Dutch auction is descending price auction where the bidding process is used to find an optimal market price at which the issuing company can sell its shares. It is in complete contrast to the traditional method of the price range set by the underwriters and people can only bid in between that range.How the process works Taking a simplified example, I will try to explain how the whole process works.Read more…When Trading, Keep Your Mouth Shut
In numerous traders clubs and forums, you will often find people who routinely disclose what positions they have and why. Often, the intentions of these people are innocent in that they want to help others to discover an approach that is going to work for them. They want to teach the recipients and empower them to learn more about trading.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Stocks Mutual Funds category
- Where to Put a Stop Loss - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Whether you use volatility-based, Fibonacci. Gann, percentage declines, pivot points, or any other method for determining where to put a stop loss, your stop loss will sometimes be triggered just before the stock resumes its climb. Learn to live with it. The alternative can be disastrous. - Select Stocks by Combining Technical and Fundamental Screens - By: Dr. Winton Felt
A stock selection strategy designed to find stocks that are likely to appreciate significantly within a relatively short time should include both fundamental and technical screening systems. The technical is useful for identifying setups and in the timing of purchases and sales. Good fundamentals are the fuel that enable sustained flight. - Be Both a Short-Term Trader and a Long-Term Investor - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Short-term traders often assume less risk than long-term investors. There is a right time and a wrong time to own the stock of every great company. The smartest investors base their decisions on the balance between risk and reward, not on a pre-determined holding period. - Short-Term Stock Trends and Risk Control - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Risk control is more important than being a long-term investor. Stock trends are becoming shorter. Risk is increasing. Riding out all dips in stock price can lead to disaster. - The Advantage of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) - By: Dr. Winton Felt
In general, ETFs are less volatile than individual stocks, have many of the benefits of sector and index mutual funds, and a relatively low expense ratio. Fraud, as has occurred with standard mutual funds, is virtually impossible. They are worth considering as alternatives to individual stocks and standard mutual funds. - Stock Market Investing: Long-Term or Short-Term? - By: Dr. Winton Felt
To buy and hold stocks for the long-term has been the preferred approach to stock market investing for many decades. However, in a volatile stock market this approach can be very expensive in terms of risk vs. return on investment. The long-term holder may not be taking the wisest course after all. - The Fundamental vs. the Technical in Stock Buy and Sell Decisions - By: Dr. Winton Felt
In a volatile market, technical signals tend to precede announcements of change in the fundamentals of a company. Understand how this works and how to use both the technical and the fundamental in your buy and sell decisions. - What does "Timing the Market" or "Market Timing" Really Mean? - By: Dr. Winton Felt
As practiced by professionals, "market timing" is about buying and selling in accordance with a predetermined set of conditions and rules. It is about following the buy signals and the sell signals. It is not about investing according to how one "feels" about the market, and it is not about the illegal activities of some mutual fund managers that the media has referred to as "market timing." - The Best Stop Loss for Long-Term Investors - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Wherever the stop loss is placed, there is the chance that the stock will reverse course after the stop loss is triggered. We wondered if there was an optimum stop loss placement that would minimize both the loss allowed by the stop loss and the probability of a reversal after the sale. - Diversification and Stop Loss Placement - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Some of the most respected names in the investment world (Granville, Weinstein, Dines, Magee, Zweig, Sperandeo, Schwager, O'Neil, Murphy, and others all agree on the necessity of using stop losses. Though they do not seem to agree on how much of a stock decline to allow selling, they are much closer in their thinking than is apparent on the surface.