Stock Market Investing Articles

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ray Baker @ Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 @ 2:37 AM

Each individual share of the penny stock is less than $5 in value. The relevant point here is that it allows you to purchase larger quantities of shares due to their low price. This tends to give a greater chance of making profit rather than purchasing those shares that are highly priced. If you wish to deal in penny stocks, trading in an easy and fast manner, then you can get help from various penny stock software applications available in the market today. The purpose of the software is... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Peter Bosch @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 8:34 PM

You might have heard that 95% of traders are unsuccessful. Unfortunately it is true. But this is because most traders are making the same mistakes that the other grinning 5% have avoided. Research has shed light on certain mistakes they all seem to have in common. If you can avoid them too, you will be far closer to joining that 5% than ever before. Some of these common trading mistakes may be familiar to you. This isn't the first time they have been revealed, but that hasn't ma... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Peter Bosch @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 8:27 PM

Do you believe buy & hold is safe? Or that selling short is risky? Read below the top 4 myths that are widely believed, and keeping people from their trading potential. When you properly understand these myths, you will be leaps ahead of everyone else. Myth #1 Selling short is risky This trading myth comes from the fact that some stocks can trade down to zero while there is no limit to how high that stock can trade. So losses for long positions are limited on the downside, but shor... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Peter Bosch @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 8:27 PM

Trade the right way, and entering the stock market will doubtless be the best and most profitable investment you will ever make. Even into the millions. But trade stocks the wrong way, and you will simply be giving your hard earned cash away. Read on to see the right way to trade, top 5 must know tips for new comers, and deadly traps to watch out for. 1. Forget your gut feeling. Too many new traders are finding a stock they think will be good, invest too much with it, and wave it all good... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Terry Leslie @ Monday, 1st December 2008 @ 2:12 AM

Highly disciplined traders are generally very responsible people with a long history of being punctual, factual, and characteristically functional for every available moment of perceived responsibility. Since trading takes an enormous amount of discipline, traders such as this are likely to do very well when it comes to sticking to their trading plan, following through on their intention, and creating an environment of success. However, what about risk taking? For all that discipline buys any tr... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ray Baker @ Wednesday, 26th November 2008 @ 2:48 AM

Generally when we think of stocks & shares the names that immediately comes to our mind is names of the big stock exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange or NYSE, the American Stock Exchange or AMEX and the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations or NASDAQ. Penny stocks are low priced stocks of small companies whose market value is below $100 million and they trade in low capacity. Penny stocks deal with other exchanges such as the Pink Sheets and OTCBB. Invest... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Mark Espy @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 12:25 PM

Many traders feel that they must be in the market all of the time. Wrong! There are times when it is prudent to "Stand Aside". This happens to be one of those times. The wild swings we have had in the markets are indicative of uncertainty. Uncertain markets are prone to large moves up or down on news. Case in point; at this writing, there is news that the government is going to step in with a repository RTC type plan to save failing banks. Nobody at this time knows the details bu... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ray Baker @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008 @ 2:37 PM

Penny stocks are those stocks whose share prices are very low, generally under $5 per share. This is a small investment which can earn you a handsome profit but you need to be aware of the risks involved and before you decide to venture in this particular arena you need to know the methods that would show fruitful results in yielding profits. Penny stock investing requires a little careful planning, along with useful resources that can provide you with helpful tricks to garner a good pro... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ray Baker @ Tuesday, 18th November 2008 @ 5:14 AM

I was always interested to find the believable stories of those investors who were novices, but knew how to choose the right stocks to help their portfolios increase. And I detested those who said that they had made huge profits by buying those stocks that hiked up by twenty or thirty percent instantly. I was having a tough time trying to find ways to multiply my profits until I stumbled upon the truth, that the people who achieved success were not resorting to any hi-tech research work nor were... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ian Stone @ Monday, 17th November 2008 @ 10:13 PM

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC) Fortunately,for the savvy investor, the Internet has tipped the scales in his favor. Online trading and investing has leveled the playing field and allowed the little guy the opportunity to show up the established big boys on Wall Street. The individual investor can receive the same instantaneous real-time information and trade execution that used to be the purview of large insti... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By James Woolley @ Sunday, 16th November 2008 @ 11:50 PM

There have been lots of people speaking on the financial news channels recently about buy and hold being a redundant strategy in the current stock markets. Their argument is that short-term trading is a much better strategy, but is this really true? I personally believe the wild volatile swings we are seeing at the moment are not necessarily a trader's dream at all. You still have to call these wild moves correctly and if you're not careful you can easily see your trading capita... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By James Woolley @ Sunday, 16th November 2008 @ 6:47 PM

The RSI technical indicator is one of the most popular technical indicators. It is an oscillating indicator and is generally regarded as being quite effective at signalling overbought and oversold positions, but how effective is it in reality? Well let me first of all explain how the RSI (Relative Strength Index) indicator provides these signals first of all. You don't really need to know the mechanics of how the RSI is calculated because all you really need to know is that a stock i... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Terry Leslie @ Saturday, 15th November 2008 @ 2:14 AM

Trading is filled with stress and even a certain amount of woe. There is money at stake. Money is one of those things that you can't live without. Losing too much of it can seriously impact your life, your livelihood, and even in some cases, your entire financial future. Money is a necessity in this life that absolutely can't be ignored. So there are times when things really can get a little sticky when the stress hits a level of intolerance. However, worry on your own time. Do... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Tarun Jaswani @ Thursday, 13th November 2008 @ 2:15 PM

The National Stock Exchange of India Limited or S&P CNX NIFTY (NSE), is a Mumbai-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in India in terms of daily turnover and number of trades, for both equities and derivative trading. Though a number of other exchanges exist, NSE and the Bombay Stock Exchange are the two most significant stock exchanges in India, and between them are responsible for the vast majority of share transactions. The NSE's key index is the S&P CNX Nifty, known as... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By James Woolley @ Wednesday, 29th October 2008 @ 6:50 AM

In this current economic climate where shares are being sold off all around the world, I thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss John Keynes famous quote - 'the markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent', and what it actually means. It basically refers to the fact that in bull markets shares can race ahead of themselves and overvalue certain companies whilst in bear markets shares can fall substantially resulting in certain shares trading far below... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By James Woolley @ Monday, 27th October 2008 @ 6:32 AM

The current economic crisis has had a significant impact on share prices with the whole market being dragged down in recent months. However a lot of this sell-off could be seen as panic-selling by private investors and fund managers, and has resulted in some companies falling to bargain levels, and in fact there are entire sectors that could be seen as being potential bargains. So what sectors are these? Well no financial advice is intended, and this is no way a recommendation, but... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Amit Kheterpal @ Sunday, 26th October 2008 @ 7:07 PM

We all love it when the stock markets are rising and the bull run is there. You make money and then suddenly the markets start to fall and come in the grip of bears. It is in that falling market that you need to know ways and methods to survive and also if you can get some benefits based on the low prices as well as the low price to earnings ratio. The golden rule is to sell when the market is high and make some nice amount of cash. It is here that most people go wrong in the sen... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ian Stone @ Friday, 24th October 2008 @ 2:27 PM

"Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it." Peter Lynch CONGRATULATIONS! By reading this article you are taking the first step toward becoming a successful investor. Despite what you think, investing is fun and easy. Society leads us to believe that buying and selling stocks is difficult and arcane; we are trained to believe that we need experts to help us because successful trading is over our heads. That'... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Ian Stone @ Friday, 24th October 2008 @ 2:06 PM

Warren Buffet and other professional investors have recently urged individuals to invest in stocks. Mr. Buffet has a history of investing in strong brand names with strong balance sheets. He has been able to secure high dividend yields by providing capital to distressed blue chip companies. However, unlike Warren Buffet you probably don't have the ability to negotiate special dividend returns for your investment of capital. That is why you may find the following list of higher dividend stoc... more...

Finance » Stock Market Investing | By Patrick Omari @ Tuesday, 21st October 2008 @ 11:25 PM

The FTSE 100; it's something we've all heard mentioned with increasing frequency as news and media focus on the economy, but do people really know what it is? An abbreviation of Financial Times Stock Exchange, the FTSE (or footsie as it's pronounced) 100 is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The FTSE 100 is used as a monitor of the economy, an indicator if you will. The logic being that if these companies are los... more...