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Letting your winners ride is a stock market strategy that we can all learn from. This simple way of thinking has proven its effectiveness time and time again in the stock market.
Many trading strategies out there call for you setting a profit target to meet. Once it meets that target then ... Views: 823
Covered call writing is one of the best strategies in the stock market. It allows you to make a monthly income while at the same time not having to spend too much time at the computer adjusting and planning trades.
To create a covered call you only need to do the following.
1. Find a ... Views: 752
Learn To Invest Stock
1) Avoiding Impulse Spending
Impulse spending will not only put a strain on your finances but your relationships, as well. To overcome the problem, the first thing to do is learn to separate your needs from your wants.
When you go shopping, make a list and take ... Views: 1123
It is probably one of the best times to invest for the long term. Almost every stock is undervalued and has seemed to have stopped going up. So a buy and hold strategy might not be that bad of an idea.
The reasons buying and holding could have the potential to be very profitable ... Views: 796
It is very important to learn from your past mistakes in anything you do. This way you can be continuously improving your life. The same goes with trading, it is a very wise decision to keep a trading journal and update what you have done periodically.
Anytime you start to lose money it ... Views: 716
Trend trading can be an extremely powerful way of making money in the stock market. It has simple bases behind it too, catch a stock that is trending up and ride it until it starts to go down. What can be a simpler trading approach?
Trend trading is probably the best approach for trading in ... Views: 842
One very effective strategy of getting into a strong stock is to not just go right out and buy the stock, but to sell a put on the stock instead. This does give you some advantages that you would not have had you simply entered the stock.
The advantages are.
1. Money Up Front
One of the ... Views: 809
Counter trend trading is a pretty sought after strategy. Everyone wants to buy a stock as it bottoms or short a stock as it is forming a top. It is the whole buy low sell high idea. Why not buy when a stock is at its lowest and sell right before it turns around.
The only problem with this ... Views: 1240
If I only had a small amount of money, say $2,000 to invest in the stock market what strategy would I use to make a good return while at the same time limiting risk? The answer seems pretty simple when I think about it. I would still be trend trading because it offers you such a great ... Views: 799
You've been doing Forex trading for awhile, with good results. You're thinking about going professional- what do you need?
If you've been trading in the Forex market for some time, you might be considering the possibility of going professional. Either becoming a broker, or a CPO (Commodity ... Views: 1401
Making an investment mistakes is the difference between profit and loss. The Forex trade market might seem simple, but there are typical mistakes newbies make.
If the Forex trading market were so simple to break into as a new trader, how come so many fail when they try their hand at it? ... Views: 1026
Women have always been somewhat in the background when it comes to investing. The Forex trade market is changing that.
You don't typically think of women as being investors in risk-markets. There are the stereotypes (which are fast changing) of a male-dominated market, one where women are ... Views: 972
One great strategy is selling covered calls. This strategy is pretty simple, but sometimes the simple strategy is the best.
When you sell a call on a stock that you already own, you are giving someone else the right to buy that stock from you at a given strike price. For this right you are ... Views: 923
Not many people realize that selling puts can be a very good strategy in the stock market. It can be a great source of income and help you get into stocks that you already like at a lower price.
It works like this you sell someone else the right to sell a stock at a certain strike price on ... Views: 2880
Starting to invest when you are really young has many great benefits. In fact it is one of the wisest things you can do from a financial standpoint.
So why is it so important?
1. Time
The younger you start to invest the more time you will have to make money in the stock market. If ... Views: 996
All investments carry risk. This is probably the first lesson you will learn from any good investment book, course or teacher. The whole risk-reward dynamic is a very important concept that you have to understand before you even start trading. When it comes to trading penny stocks then the ... Views: 943
Why do so many traders lose money with penny stocks? Is it because they are uneducated, reckless or is it just a bad investment? I believe it is because they get over excited more than anything else. Getting yourself carried away and being sucked in the emotion of the trade is the main cause of ... Views: 1665
Everyone has seen the statistic of what the return of an average investor is and what the return for the S&P 500 has been. So why do we continue to let our emotions drive our investment decisions? It simply because we don’t know we are doing it most of the time. Here are some of our common ... Views: 982
It is common to want to pick the bottom of a stock in order to get in before a trend starts. But that does not make it the most profitable route to go. It is a far better strategy to stick with the trend of a stock until it ends for the following reasons.
1. High probability
If a stock ... Views: 821
Working the stock market requires you to be alert. There’s not much time for dozing off, or doing anything that’ll keep you distracted. The amount of “alertness” you’ve got to have depends on the type on the investment you pooled your money into. If you’re having fund managers and other ... Views: 919
There are many ways for you to make a living – not having a job is a poor excuse for your failure to find one. With all the business organizations and establishments being put up everywhere, it’s possible for everybody to land a job regardless of educational attainment. But the question is this: ... Views: 886
With the financial crises affecting everyone, it’s no wonder people get scared to death, when it comes to making the decision of where to invest there money. Playing the stock market is considered by many to be a legal form of gambling, which in some sense is pretty much true. Investors place ... Views: 1184
This simple and profound saying by Carl Jung is a phrase every trader, investor and wannabe should have firmly programmed into their minds, for our shadows are stalking us day and night, mostly without our conscious knowledge.
And this is precicely where the big danger is lurking, because ... Views: 1333
Are you interested in forex trading? Oh Yes, I think forex is the most in-talk issue nowadays. It is a novel way to generate quick income within a short time span. Forex can be defined as an over the counter market where the sellers and the purchasers carry out the foreign exchange transactions. ... Views: 1244
Everyone today is familiar with forex and its trading systems. It is the best source to generate income, although it requires some skills and efforts to be put in. The forex market is the largest market and most liquid market in the world. It is the market where trading of the foreign currency ... Views: 1202
If you’re considering or already are in the Forex trading market, there are certain things you need to be aware of. You need to know the market, and this only comes from you doing your own research. Once you dive into the deep end of the pool without the protection of knowledge, you will find ... Views: 1133
To join a club, one thing you’ve got to have is parallel interests. It’s important that you also share the same goals, and above all, speak the language they speak. Not speaking their lingo can make you feel let out, which is no different from being left out, which would have corresponding ... Views: 879
Who knew you could put Paris Hilton and Vice President Biden on the same intellectual plain? It seems the swine flu has lots of people confused. When asked about swine flu in an online video, the ever saavy Ms. Hilton chirped, “I don’t eat that.”
Others have vowed to stop eating pork. Some, ... Views: 1440
It can be fun and exciting to be a day trader online. If it's done right, it can make it wealthy. If you're careful, you can have the lifestyle you want with relatively little work.
Typically, day traders rapidly buy and sell stocks in hopes of making money with this rapid buy/sell cycle. ... Views: 1174
If you want to be a winner at day trading, you have to avoid being a loser. While it can be difficult to give you exact tips to be profitable in this market, since it changes all the time, you will find that when you avoid certain pitfalls, you will feel like a winner and you will also be very ... Views: 1286
Stock options hold many advantages over just holding a stock. This ranges from higher leverage to managing risk. Below are all the ways options can be a better way to go.
1. Higher Return
Options offer a higher return then holding the stock. Even a small move in the stock can give you a huge ... Views: 796
Did you know there was a way to buy insurance for your stocks? It allows you to keep some of the money you have invested if your stock crashes, which could be very powerful when times are uncertain.
It works by utilizing something called a put option. When you buy a put option on a stock you ... Views: 3999
Thrill seekers are always out on the prowl for something that’ll give them the adrenalin rush their bodies need. They crave for it, like an alcoholic itching to quench his thirst with a bottle beer, or a drug addict getting worked up while waiting for the next does of dope to come. All of these ... Views: 852
Research in Motion (RIMM on the Nasdaq and RIM on the TSX) had its latest earnings announcement on Thursday, April 2, 2009 after market close. Results were good, having exceeded analysts expectations, so excitement and optimism are back in the air. The stock gained 19% on Friday. On Wednesday ... Views: 726
If you are an experienced trader or investor you will know that mastery is a mind game. In fact, trading and investing are about understanding crowd psychology and your own psychology, because when you fully understand how you react to events deemed to be outside of your control you are taking ... Views: 1900
There are a number of Web sites out there that allow the prospective stock market trader to learn about stock trading through simulated transactions. Whether through the use of such Web services or simply by a person tracking “paper” buy/sell actions, this activity is generally referred to as ... Views: 766
From March 10 to March 26 of 2009, the market indices showed a tremendous climb. The S&P 500 was up 22%. The DOW was up 21%. The NASDAQ was up 19%. The S&P/TSX was up 17%. As of the March 27 close, the indices have retreated, likely due to profit taking to lock in gains after the rise in the ... Views: 776
With the month of March largely over, I want to describe my trading progression for the month. Near the beginning of the month, I read professional analysts saying it was time to sell as the market bottom has not been reached, with plenty of signs for continued stock market downturn. From an ... Views: 875
Wall Street professionals are getting a lot of heat in the press lately for the exploits of few. Although we target Wall Street excess in this article, we believe the vast majority of financiers are honorable.
Our view is that the financial shenanigans that you see today are 10-15 years (at ... Views: 1103
With the doubling of the JAVA stock price on March 18, 2009 based on a Wall Street Journal report that IBM is bidding to buy Sun Microsystems, and with the StockTradersPlace sell action commentary on March 21, one open question is “Should the stock be shorted?”. Here is where other factors have ... Views: 770
The arena of online trading stock and option is quite an extensive one, with many options for you to choose from. Since its inception, many part time and casual investors have been borne from the ease of access of some markets due to their partnership with online companies and the resources of ... Views: 1856
With nothing at stake, you can show that you are able to succeed in paper trading because the psychological element is largely held in check. Whatever trend following method and technical analysis indicators you are using, you are able to apply that without emotion. To the best of your ... Views: 1450
Penny stocks is just another way to name the paper trade, which is the Forex market and this article will list down all the great advantages of the Forex market that you can expect when you decide to invest in its dynamic and volatile environment. Surely, it is a risky venture, with more than ... Views: 1677
Since the inception of the internet that long ago, no one actually thought of its potential to be a money making cash cow. Sure, the dot com explosion showed that online selling and affiliate marketing had the ability to make anyone from any corner of the world some money, but the money to be ... Views: 1883
The markets, prior to this past week of March 9, 2009, being stagnant or drifting down, made me think about even shorter-term trading as in day-trading. The motivation was that I wanted to see profits sooner rather than later (i.e. tired of waiting). I went back to my strategy to ... Views: 693
With the general market down 50% and financials and housing down 80% over the past year and the market indices down at 12-year lows, there is market sentiment that we must be near the bottom.
From a long-term investing perspective, this is a good time to buy in, although the entry into ... Views: 716
Sometimes, when I get tired with trading, I think about an easier way. Although I should know better that there is no magic formula for instant success (riches), I can’t help myself browsing the web for ideas. It is always good to keep an open mind and refresh it with different approaches and ... Views: 949
Do technical analysis methods work? Or perhaps more appropriately asked, how effective are technical analysis methods?
For those that simply believe that technical analysis does not work without having learned it, tried it and validated it, I submit they are missing an opportunity. For those ... Views: 722
As if the markets going down by 50% over the past year is not depressing enough, the forward looking view needs the markets to go up by 100% to get back to parity of a year ago. The leading question is, when will that happen? It's safe to say the markets won't double in the next year. Can it ... Views: 655
RIMM (Research in Motion on the Nasdaq) had a StockTradersPlace sell action on February 11, 2009. As of March 3, 2009, RIMM had a StockTradersPlace buy commentary. In the period from February 11 to March 3, according to StockTradersPlace candlestick technical analysis, there were a number of ... Views: 739