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What Does It Take To Be A Stock Trader?
It takes a total mental commitment to the task. It becomes a complete way of life. You cannot be a part timer. You cannot work at a regular job and trade stocks successfully.When you decide to make your living this way you must be willing to work365 days a year, 7 days each week, 24 hours every day with no time off. Iknow.How do I know? As an exchange member for 17 years and a floor traderI can personally tell you there is no time off. Never. Almost every wakingmoment is given to thinking about your current positions. Where should Isell? Should I move my...(related: Stocks)
What Is A Mutual Fund?
Ever wondered what is a mutual fund? A mutual fund is a pool of money run by a professional or group of professionals called the "investment adviser."A mutual fund is a company that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks, bonds, short-term money-market instruments, other securities or assets, or some combination of these investments. The combined holdings the mutual fund owns are known as its portfolio. Each share represents an investor's proportionate ownership of the fund's holdings and the income those holdings generate.Because it is sometimes hard for investors to become experts on various businesses for example, what are t...(related: Stocks)
What Is A Trading Plan ? And Why You Need One?
How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?I am glad you asked...Successful trading is similar to a successful business. You see, every successful business has a business plan so do successful traders. The astute reader knows that, successful traders have a systematic way they approach the market.The definition of a trading system is a trader's business plan; it defines your approach to trading<...(related: Stocks)
What Is Involved In Peak Performance Trading?
There is so much involved in developing peak performance, that I recommend that all traders have a business plan. We recommend that the business plan cover all of the following areas.? Your vision.? Your purpose.? Your objectives.? A thorough self-assessment of your strengths and weakness, based upon real trading logs that you collect (if you haven't done so already).? A thorough assessment of the big picture of the fundamentals.? A complete understanding of your beliefs about the market.? Procedures for getting empowering beliefs and mental states behind you.? A documentation of your research procedure for developing new systems and determini...(related: Stocks)
What Is The Most Important Indicator Of All?
Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one that they have the most confidence in. The one that, from experience, they trust the most. Or the one that they always look at first.For some it is the RSI. Others like the Stochastic or the MACD . Or one of the literally hundreds of other indicators that are available.Well, I love the MACD. And the Stochastic is also a favorite.But there is one indicator that I refer to more often than any other. However, before I tell you what it is, it is important that this discussion is placed in context.I always stress with the traders that I mentor that the most important part of your analysis is price action.By this I mean that the very first thing you should look at is the shape of the stock's ...(related: Stocks)
What Our Investment Advisor Wont Say Off The Bat
Most advisors will tell you they can beat the market. They may even point to years in which they did. But now you will learn the little known fact that is seldom mentioned outside the financial world. It is very, very, VERY DIFFICULT TO BEAT THE MARKET.The market in the United States, for the most, part is efficient. In fact the stock market is so hard to beat that most of the professionals do not do it. The only thing an investor should be looking at from an investment point if he/she uses a discount broker is the risk side. They should forget trying to beat the market with one exception.The fact is th...(related: Stocks)
What The Hell Is A Stock Option?
A 'stock option' is a contract between two parties giving the buyer (also known as the 'taker') the right, but not the obligation, to either buy or sell a specific quantity of shares at a pre-agreed price (known as the 'strike price' or 'exercise price') by a certain future 'expiry' date. There are two different types of options that can be traded, known as 'call options' and 'put options'.For an option contract to be traded the...(related: Stocks)
What The Sec Really Thinks About Mutual Funds!
Let's go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds are such a bad deal. When Arthur Levitt became the head of the Security Exchange Commission in 1993 he had to sell off all of his in...(related: Stocks)
What To Buy Now
I am sure that if you have a brokerage account with a "full service" broker you have been getting calls about what to buy and sell. If you have big losses in certain stocks you might be hit with that great Wall Street lie to buy more so you can 'Dollar Cost Average'. It doesn't work.In a recent study going back for 5 years a ...(related: Stocks)
What To Buy?
Now that you have some money burning a hole in your pocket and the stock market is going up you have decided to buy some stock or maybe a mutual fund, but you have the momentous decisions to what to buy.At this point you have three decisions to make besides which equity to buy:1. How much to buy. 2. When to buy. 3. When to sell.Which of these is the most important decision? Let me tell you this as a professional trader. What to buy and when to buy are the two least important of these decisions. Maybe only 10%. I know that comes as a shock to you because everyone is trying to find that one perfect stock that will make h...(related: Stocks)
When Should I Sell?
People are always asking me when should I sell my stock or mutual funds?There are some relatively easy answers to this. In fact, so simple that you won't believe them, but they are things I have learned over the past 30 years as a profe...(related: Stocks)
When?
When will the stock market stop going down and start up again? If we knew that we'd all be jillionaires. So what do you do now while stock...(related: Stocks)
Where Is The Beef?
Where is the beef? Or maybe it should be where is the bull? Market, that is? The chief investment strategists and analysts of the major brokerage houses have been promising us a new bull market.So far the bull hasn't come in from the distant pasture.Some of the cows have been wandering back. I see stocks and mutual funds with names like Small Cap Value, Real Estate, Leisure Group a...(related: Stocks)
Where Is The Rabbit?
We need a rabbit!This was a pretty horrible week for the market with two 100-point days and Friday closing on the lows.During these past few days Sir Alan told us things are looking up and the economy is basically strong. Mr. Market didn't hear him. It seems that jaw boning can't get people to buy. In fact there were more sellers than buyers.If you go back in history it is a truism that has become conventional wisdom that the stock market goes up during an election year. The reasoning is obvious. The president - who ever he is - in office will pull out all the stops to create the illusion that the econ...(related: Stocks)
Which Way The Market
I am hearing predictions by brokers, financial planners, talk show hosts and the talking heads on TV that the market is going back to its old highs - DOW 11,700 and NASDAQ 5000 here we come.It seems to me that in 2000 I heard these same people saying there was no top to the market and were looking into their crystal balls for DOW 30,000 or some other fantastic number. Suddenly the market turned over with the DOW dropping 3,000 points and the NASDAQ losing 80% of its value. Can it happen again? I don't predict and all I can say is the market can do anything.BUT what if it does turn down? Are you going to sit as you did before and watch your money disappear? Right now everything looks rosy and the momentum is carrying the indexes higher almost every day. Buy and hold is the right strategy.Hind sight is always 20...(related: Stocks)
Whitewater Stock Market
Ever done any whitewater rafting or canoeing? Long periods of tranquil river followed by short periods of terror. Suddenly the water grips your vessel and you are pushed and shoved by mas...(related: Stocks)
Who Knows?
The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has a firm grip on this stock market. Since the terrible break in mid-April we had a rally and then a decline. Trying to choose a suitable stock or mutual fund has been like grasping at shadows.Two great Wall Street gurus, Elaine Garzarelli who manages multimillions of investors' dollars and George Soros, king of the hedge funds, each have a different take on the future.Elaine thinks the Dow Jones In...(related: Stocks)
Whos Calling?
Its dinnertime and the phone rings. It's Joe Noname with SuchNSuch Investment Company and has he got a deal for you.Joe wants to be friendly and engage you ...(related: Stocks)
Why Buy And Hold?
Since I can remember, and that's a long time ago, the Wall Street brokerage companies, mavens and mutual fund managers have been exhorting the mantra of Buy and Hold for all your investments. There have been erudite studies published that this is the only way to go.Does it really work or has the little investor been lied to all these years. Of course, you know the answer if you have owned any stocks or funds for the past 3 years. From my analysis the latter is true. The big boys buy and sell all the time. If you look at the executives of companies it seems they all know when to sell ? right at the top before their own company stocks decline. This i...(related: Stocks)
Why Change Funds?
On November 17 I bought 7 different mutual funds and went to a 100% invested position. One of the funds I bought was Robertson Stevens Information Age (RSIFX) and it has made money as have the other six.My readers know I don't recommend buying individual issues. Instead I let ...(related: Stocks)
Why Investors Use Financial Planners
Do you have a financial planner? Does one ofyour friends have a financial planner? Maybe youtake your advice from your broker. As I havesaid countless times before a broker will makeyou broker. And a financial planner won't do anybetter. I know. You thought they would.Let's look at ...(related: Stocks)
Why Is The Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the success of a stock exchange have lately improved in the MSE. For instance, the monthly money volume has increased together wit...(related: Stocks)
Why Stock Is More Risky Than Options!
You probably have been told that options are risky. Even worse, that you can lose your shirt trading them!Well, what is the truth?Let's take a look at stock ownership. What can happen if you buy stock?The price can go up.The price can go down.The price can go sideways.In the first case, you can make money. In the second you lose money.And in the third case you don't directly win or lose but in fact it costs you money in two ways. The direct cost of brokerage and fees. And the indirect cost known as opportunity cost.This is the cost due to lost opportunities. The fact that you aren't able to be involved in other, potentially profitable trades.So if you purchase stock you can only make money if the stock price goes up.Now some of you may...(related: Stocks)
Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders whouse technical indicators and those who preferfundamental information to establish newpositions and to exit current positions.The fundamentalist believe in knowing all thefacts about a company such as price earningsratios, sales growth, product margins,management capabilities, cost of production,cash flow, etc., etc. while the technicianscould care less about the latter and want to seesector price trends and rank, the RelativeStrength Index, MACD (moving average convergencedivergence), stochastics, trend lines, chartpatterns and many more esoterically evolvedindicators.Which method is the best?There is no Holy Grail of trading and whatcritics of eithe...(related: Stocks)
Why The Majority Fail At Stock Investing
The gleam and bright lights of Wall Street lure in many new investors each year, only to send them home crying to their friends and family. Why do so many people fail when it comes to the stock market? The reason is very simple: Hard work! Most people are looking for a quick buck or a fast pat...(related: Stocks)
Why This Bear?
People are constantly asking me why is the stock market going down. What is causing this bear market? It is relatively simple so don't ask an economist. He will give you a 200-page answer that is undecipherable. Can you understand Mr. Greenspan?Let's first realize what it is that makes a stock price go up. The basic reason is ...(related: Stocks)
Will The Stock Market Be Lower In October?
The stock market often closes a week in the middle of a "perceived primary-trend range." SPX closed at about 1,234 Fri, which is between a multi-year Fibonacci level at 1,253 (i.e. 38.2% retracement level from the peak in 2000 to the trough in 2002) and the 20 day MA at 1,212 (which was general support over a recent rally).It's possible, SPX can rally to 1,253 short-term. However, longer-term (perhaps in Aug and Sep), SPX seems destined to fall sharply. A Goldilocks economy (of neither too hot nor too cold) is priced-into the stock market, and if any future economic data show either output growth has slowed more than expected or i...(related: Stocks)
You Don?t Have To Be Trading
As a novice trader, you'll often feel the need to trade.You may be bored or frustrated. Or you just want to try a certain type of trade.STOP!Realize that you don't have to be trading all the time to be successful. In fact not trading is often the very best decision you can make.The market tells you when to trade. If you feel the urge to place a trade or find yourself chasing a trade, walk away from the computer. Better still; take the opportunity to meet a friend for coffee.The trades you do when you're feeling the "need" will usually be lemons ? and leave you with a very bitter taste in your mouth!They will usually not have clear signals, but you've convinced yourself they are there. After losing your premium, or much of it, you'll look back and wonder...(related: Stocks)
You Wont Like This
Why? Because I am going to shatter your conventional wisdom as I have many times in previous columns about the lies that Wall Street continues to tell you. This time we are going to go deeper into the economy to unearth the truth about lies the politicians are telling you.Let's understand from the beginning that few politicians understand basic economics. Just ...(related: Stocks)
Your Job
There are so many kinds of work that needs to be done and you are doing one of those jobs right now ? unless you are one of those two and a half million that have been laid off during the past 3 years. The press continues to blame China and India for stealing away all these forms of employment, but they don't have it right.Many of the unemployed have been sent to train for new jobs and, unfortunately, the government in its infinite wisdom is training folks for high tech computer related work ? the kind that is being outsourced to foreign lands.Have all those jobs gone to foreign countries? No. Many of them have been replaced by more efficient machinery or faster computers. T...(related: Stocks)
Your Trading Objective: Why Is That So Important?
You've decided to try your luck at trading stocks or commodities, but so called experts tell you that you need to determine your trading ...(related: Stocks)
Zero Sum Game
Most people think the stock market is a zero sum game because there is a buyer for each seller and seller for each buyer so each cancels the other and everything is equal. Not quite.There are losers here, ...(related: Stocks)
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Some Good News For A Change
Before we get into all the good news out there, let us first take a look at what the term "news" really means. By definition, the term "news" means the exception to the norm. If it is expected to happen then it is not new...(related: Stocks)
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mutual Funds
Outlined below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds. Every investment has advantages and disadvantages. But it's important to remember that features that matter to one investor may not be important to you. Whether any particular feature is an advantage for you will depend on your unique circumstances.For some investors, mutual funds provide an attractive investment choice because they generally offer the following features:Professional Management:Professi...(related: Stocks)
Struggling Stocks, Booming Commodities
04/28/2005NASDAQ dropped -12.5% year to date in 2005. S&P500 index suffered -5.7% this year. US stock market has been terrible over past few months.Not only general market is down, oil stocks recently had a significant correction as well. It is easy to be nervous because of the short term setback. However, to succeed with long term oriented value investing, we can not be distracted by the volatile short term market movement. It is time to step back and look at the big p...(related: Stocks)
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