Stock Picking

April 13, 2010

Talk about a can of worms on this one. Stock picking is the holy grail of investing, more life-changing and mind-consuming that wife-picking, career-selection and choosing the next winner at the local track.
The goal is clear: pick winners. The rest quickly becomes must more complicated than this simple goal might imply.
Because what makes [...]

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Stock Analysis

April 13, 2010

The first thing you need to understand about stock analysis is that it comes in two flavors – fundamental and technical.
Putting the fun in fundamental.
First, fundamental analysis seeks to understand the comparative (against other companies in the same field) financial strength and outlook of a given company. This takes into consider things such [...]

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Stock Market Trading Hours

April 12, 2010

It’s a free country, for sure. But that doesn’t mean you can buy and sell stock any time you want. At least, not on a stock exchange.
And while that has changed somewhat with the advent of computer-driven after hours trading, the major stock markets continue to maintain rigid trading hours.
The Major Markets [...]

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Online Brokerage Accounts

April 11, 2010

It’s not your father’s stock market anymore. Gone are the three martini lunches with your stockbroker, or sitting in the brokerage lobby with a copy of the Wall Street Journal and a cup of Joe.
The Journal is still there, and so is the joe – it has the name “Starbucks” on the side of [...]

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Stock Charting Software

April 10, 2010

There’s nothing remotely new about software that can illustrate the price points of a stock over a given period of time. That’s as old as a computer that has double-digit memory capacity. But perhaps at no other time in trading history has this software been more necessary, and because of the evolution of [...]

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Options Trading Systems

April 8, 2010

The human mind can only handle so much within a given timeframe. Sometimes the financial markets move faster than the mind’s ability to keep up, which is why, given the available state of technology, some of those minds have been busy creating software to do the job.
The automated systems, which include stock trading systems [...]

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GE Dividend

April 8, 2010

Every game has its champion. Or at least an iconic name that, win or lose, exemplifies and even defines the niche in which it plays. When it comes to dividends paid on stock, General Electric (GE) is the most commonly referenced and closely watched player of all.
When it comes to investment return, [...]

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Day Trading Options

April 7, 2010

Before drilling down into the steps required to successfully engaging in day trading options contracts, let’s assume you know what an option even is. That you know a put from a call, and perhaps the slang terms for the various combinations of contracts on either side of the strike price that allow you hedge [...]

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Day Trader Software

April 6, 2010

There are you are, back at it, day trading again. Maybe she’s forgiven you for all that money you lost back in 2000. Or maybe she divorced you because of it. Or perhaps you’ve lost your job and this is your last shot in a job market that, well, pretty much sucks.
Whatever, [...]

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Investing in A Bear Market

April 5, 2010

Bear markets are bad. Unless you’re bigger, smarter and badder than the bear.
Which means, there are ways to take advantage of a bear market – a market heading south, with no real signs of turning around in the near term – and actually make money while all around you are losing theirs.
Or at [...]

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