Stock Market

  • Lifestyle Investing

    Did you know that income from your employment often helps you to diversify your investment risk? Much of the value in a young private business is the anticipated contribution of the principals of the business over the years ahead. The same applies to employees who allow for the value of their future earnings potential in…

  • Placing a Trade

    You finally opened your first stock market trading account. You analyzed a long list of stocks and spotted one you want to buy. But wait. First you need to know how to place a trade in the stock market and how to effectively use the different types of market orders you can execute. Basically there…

  • Don’t Think Short Term

    It is very difficult to try and determine what company is going to do tomorrow or next week, even next month because you simply can’t account for the human condition. However, you can take a look at the future goals and aspirations of a company to determine where they’ll likely be in the next quarter…

  • Convertible Preferred Stock

    Some preferred stock issues have a convertible feature that allows holders to exchange their preferred stock for common shares. The conditions and terms of the conversion are set when the preferred stock is first issued. The terms include the conversion ratio, which is the number of common shares the preferred stockholder will get for each…

  • How to Analyze Stocks

    Are you new to investing and would like to learn how to analyze stocks? As far as researching a stock, there are many things to look for, and everyone will tell you something different. Use the following stock analysis test to identify the obvious losers you do not want to invest in. These may be…

  • How Traders Make Money

    How do stock market traders make money? Whether one trades upstairs for a banking/broking operation or downstairs on the exchange floor, every trader has the same financial goal: To make money every day. But how can this be if, in fact, the markets are random and the future is unknowable and if even the most…

  • Why Day Trading?

    “Because it’s there!” What has come to be known as day trading is new, and many are lured by it. Of course, day trading is as old as the first market, but it has generally been the preserve of professionals. Now one finds traders of all degrees of experience at innumerable trading houses hunched over…

  • Shorting News Stocks

    Stocks that make strong moves on a news item are an excellent shorting opportunity. The main fundamental theme to remember on shorts is that volume is the lifeblood of momentum and price acceleration. Always check the average daily volume and then compare it with the current volume on the day of the overblown run-up. When…

  • The Use of Stop Orders

    Any trader, no matter how good  their discipline is, should be using stop  orders.  It will definitely help you  act in your own best interest more often than not. Whenever initiating a position, always  make sure to have a stop order in to protect yourself.  All off-the-floor traders should also use stop orders to protect…

  • Bullish & Bearish Volume

    There are only two basic definitions for bullish and bearish volume: 1. Bullish volume is increasing volume on up-moves and decreasing volume on down-moves. 2. Bearish volume is increasing volume on down-moves and decreasing volume on up-moves. Knowing this is only a start and in many cases, not a great deal of help for trading.…