Blogger Party - stocks

Profits In Stock market

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:05:48 -0400

The time to hold on is when the tide is running in your favor. Never close a trade just because you have a profit. When tempted to close a trade just because you have a profit ask yourself the questions:

How to Quantify Strength and Weakness in the Stock Market

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:02:22 -0400

Contrary to the belief people have that determining the stock’s trend is easy, in real time this is very difficulty and you can not have a probability of 100 per cent, otherwise every one of us would be a successful trader. Strength or uptrend is identified by a series of crests where each crest exceeds the highest point of the previous crest. The decline, between crests, ends above the lowest point of the previous decline. Weakness or downtrend is identified by a series of troughs where each trough goes lower than the lowest point of the previous trough. The incline, between troughs, ends below the highest point of the previous incline.

Everyone is Entitled to a Piece of the Action

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:20:01 -0400

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to know the secret of making money in the stock market? They are no smarter than you. They do not work any harder and neither are they lucky than you. But, unlike you, they never seem to worry about having money. You see most people miss the big idea here. They think it takes a lot of money to make a lot of money. But that is not how it is done. The idea is to make pennies consistently and to use them to build vast personal fortunes. The stock market is a proven wealth builder and can and should benefit all participants.

Prepare for Your Perfect Retirement

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:54:24 -0400

During the Great Depression of the thirties the plight of the senior citizens, and also of a large proportion of the unemployed, became acute. Legislation was framed, introduced, and finally passed. Old Age and Survivorship Insurance had become a reality. One aspect of its operations will bear further scrutiny.

How to Buy Quality CHEAP Stocks

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:53:28 -0400

Many investors have a love affair with cheap stocks, but as Mr O'Neil (Founder of nvestor's Business Daily) puts it: "Stocks are cheap for a reason". In many (but not ALL) instances, investors try to buy stocks on the cheap without realizing that they're buying stocks of a corporation mired in problems with slowing earnings, sales growth and shrinking market share. These are bad characteristics for a stock to have, cheap or not.

Calculating Your Investment IQ

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:25:11 -0500

Calculating Your Investment IQby sanserveStocks, bonds, index funds; averages, recessions, market rallies and corrections; mutual funds, technical analysis, financial statements; commissions, taxes, and discount brokers. Just how much do you know about investing, or perhaps a better question: is there any "know" in the investment vocabulary? So many terms, ideas, and strategies; so little time and money! Here 's a list of thirty mostly-true or mostly-false comments for you to kick around with your friends and fellow investment bloggers:

STOCK CERTIFICATE

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:17:28 -0400

STOCK CERTIFICATE
A document reflecting legal ownership of a specific number of stock shares in a corporation or in company. It is also called certificate of stock. The stock certificate can also be called as preferred stock, market cap, penny stocks, sector stocks, cyclical stocks, defensive stocks and tracking stocks etc. It is one type of security. In corporate law, stock certificate denoted as a legal document.

AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:15:42 -0400

AUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

INTRODUCTION
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is the primary stock exchange in Australia. The ASX began as separate state based exchanges established as early as 1871. Now the exchange is a public company and listed on the exchange itself. The trading methodology is electronic. The initial name is AAUSTRALIAN STOCK EXCHANGE and changed its name as Australian Securities Exchange on 5th December 2006. It is known as ASX. The biggest stocks traded in terms of market capitalization on the ASX are BHP Billiton, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telstra Corporation, National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group.

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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:40:51 -0500

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The Importance of Investing and Starting Early

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:29:27 -0400

The best time to start investing is early. Even if you just turned 18, start putting your money to work for you today! Lets say you work as a waitress 6 nights a week. You make $50 in tips a night, that’s $300 a week, and $1200 a month. You could most likely afford to invest $50 a month. If you don’t think you can then it’s time to take a look at your budget. Budget Planning

The I.T bulls stomp on

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:53:31 -0400

The Indian stock market the Sensex has risen sharply by more than 5% over the last 2 trading sessions alone.

Catalysing this rise was the optimistic forecast provided by Infosys for the next fiscal year.

What has happened(as it often does) is that the entire SECTOR rises along with the market leader. This is because the leader often acts as a bellweather for the entire sector. As a result other I.T majors have also risen sharply over the last 2 days.

How to invest in India

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:47:42 -0400

So, this post is going to talk about investing in India. Make sure you read the disclaimer at the end before throwing your hard earned MOOLAH at Indian securities.

The red-hot Indian stock market is perhaps been the best reflection of India's growth story in the 21'st century. While most people hear of India's IT firms, and call centres; there are numerous big players in the chemicals, pharmateutical, energy, retail and infrastructure sectors that have the potential to offer superb returns in the coming years.

How Indian investments diversify your portfolio

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:29:59 -0400

Any investment advisor will tell you that one should diversify one's investment portfolio. But what exactly does this mean?.

An example: say you have $100 to invest and you are considering two stocks - an oil company and an airline firm. If you put all your money on the oil stock, then you will loose a lot of money if the price of crude oil falls. On the other hand, if the price of oil goes up, the airline stock will fall as it's energy costs rise. If however, you put $50 in each the paper value of your portfolio will fluctuate much lesser with variations in the price of crude oil. If you sell at the right time, you will make profits, while reducing the downside risk to your portfolio.

Raging bull or hibernating bear

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:26:48 -0400

When a Stock market rises as rapidly as the Sensex , the reporting tends to get polarized. Some business writers become unabashedly bullish - saying India's day in the Sun has finally come; others become unforgivingly bearish predicting that bears will come out of hibernation(mind you most of India, especially Mumbai does not really have a winter).

Stocks: split and shine

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:03:28 -0400

Ever wondered why a stock goes up on announcing a stock split?

This phenomenon continuously amazes me. The purported explanation is that as a stock becomes 'cheaper' it has a greater upside potential. This is pure financial chicanery!

Remember what matters is the market capitalization of a company. So for e.g. Intel has 200 shares trading at 100. Market Cap is 200*100 = 20,000. Now it announces a 2:1 stock split - so it has 400 shares. The theoretical trading price for Intel should be 100/2 or 50. This is because unless the fundamentals for the company change the market cap should stay the same, i.e. 20,000.