Stock Market Investing

Be Quick Off The Mark With Your Investments!

I am actually feeling a bit sorry for myself at the moment as I have missed a really nice opportunity. I was speaking with a friend who invests in mining / exploritory companies who mentioned one he was thinking of investing in, "Ferrum Crescent". This companies share price tumbled due to the global recession, cuts in manufacturing production etc, but it looked a really solid investment. The company is essentially strong, has lots of assets, and once confidence resumes economically will rise again, its just a question of when. I was looking at this stock a couple of days before Christmas and decided to invest in it, but over the festive … [Continue Reading]

Getting Started in Forex Trading

Forex is about foreign currency exchange and is available to anyone. Read on to discover the basics of Forex, and some ways you can make money by trading. There is certainly no lack of good information related to Forex online. Don't keep yourself in the dark. Give yourself the knowledge you need to be successful. If you become confused at any point then join Forex forums and find out what insight you can gain from other, more experienced people. The Foreign Exchange Markets The first thing to understand is that the ForEX, Foreign Exchange, is not one central market. Thousands of trading entities including international and US based … [Continue Reading]

Stock Trading Plan

Day trading is exhilarating. No argument about that. There is nothing to compare to the thrill of a successful trade. Even making the right decision to sell a losing position is satisfying. Day trading is for adrenaline junkies. However, before you jump into day trading, your business decisions will benefit from spending time creating a trading plan. Whether you work on your own or with partners, you have to develop a plan, a code, by which to run your trading business. It's valid for part-time traders as it is of full-time online stock investors. Here are some questions to answer to help you create your online trading business plan. … [Continue Reading]

Day Trading Robots

At home day traders around the world have been anxious for the day when an affordable, fully automated day trading service arrived. An super automated, robotic style day trading program that works similar to programs used by the big investment firms has arrived. It is online and available for stay at home day traders. It’s called the "Auto Day Trade Robot". This robot, well, actually this program, removes a lot of the frailties that causes humans to make poor trades. Ostensibly day traders can set up the program in a few minutes and then leave for the day. The robot removes the emotional aspects of trading by setting the program with … [Continue Reading]

Your Online Trading Plan

This is a continuation of the exercise for developing a online stock trading plan for your day trading business. This is something that you should create and review every quarter, just as you will review your trading history. This plan will help you keep on track. You can modify the plan each year as your online trading experience matures. In the previous article we focused on the "why" you trade and how to deal with distractions. In this article I'll discuss three more areas your plan needs to address. These are: What markets will you trade? What online stock trading strategies will you use? How do I measure the quality of … [Continue Reading]

Day Trading–3 Strategies

When PCs became a reality in the average household, personal investing and day trading became a possibility for millions of people. A lot of people have done well performing their own stock investments. Fewer have experienced success with day trading. However, there are people who make an excellent living day trading. Day trading is a risky and stressful form of trading that involved … [Read More...]

Penny Stock Strategies – They Don’t Follow Tradition

After the mortgage blowout and resulting economic fallout of 2008 and subsequent years, a lot of money formerly available for trading has disappeared. This has become a great time to pick up undervalued stocks, including those that are labelled penny stocks. You can pick up many of these small cap and micro-cap companies at a very heavy discount. Penny stocks trade at less than $5 per share, … [Read More...]

Easy Entry Into Penny Stocks and Day Trading

If picking penny stocks was easy, everyone would be rich right? Well, that’s kind of a half-truth. The fact is that many people are making a good living or even just making enough to pay for their children’s college education. These days, that is like making a second income. Here are some darn good reasons to consider day trading as a reliable and affordable method of making money … [Read More...]

Penny Stock Investing

This advice is going to cost you money. The good news is that you can always make more money. What I’m proposing is something not for the faint of heart. The goal of this post is to teach you all you need to know about penny stock investing. This instruction is for people who are new to trading and have a curiosity about trading penny stocks. It is not intended for people making oodles of … [Read More...]

Day Trading

Let’s face it. Day trading isn’t for everyone. Frankly, it’s not even investing. Investing involves more than a few hours or minutes holding a stock. That doesn’t mean day trading isn’t without some form of analysis. It’s just that the analysis period is very short, say less than 12 hours. That may make you think of a day trader as a gambler. Gambler or Investor? Gambling is … [Read More...]

Stock Market: What you Need to Know

In a nutshell, the stock market works this way – companies need capital for expansion, either because they want to increase their operation or they’re looking to more lucrative prospects. Either way, they can do this in two ways, either by borrowing in the form of corporate bonds which they can sell to people or buy listing themselves in the stock market by issuing stocks. What happens when … [Read More...]

Learn the Ropes of Stock Market

In recent times, the global recession has put the stock market on shaky grounds. The substantial decline that many investors have felt during these trying times made the would-be shareholders to rethink their decision in investing in the stock market. But while this financial catastrophe has led myriads of companies to file for bankruptcy, it should not stop you from investing because the stock … [Read More...]

A Good Investment Strategy: Pick What You Know

Any publicly listed company's stocks can be traded, meaning that pretty well every possible business sector is represented in the stock market. This means there are a wide variety of different stocks available to invest in, knowing where to start can be difficult! One of the best tips I could give is to start with something you are familliar with, i.e. a sector you are familliar with or an … [Read More...]

Playing With the Stock Market: Know When to Call It Quits

Knowing when to call it quits is not as easy as you may think. There are instances when a stock may seem to stop earning a profit only to boom in the following week when you have already sold it. Thus, you should apply the same discipline that you use when you are looking for companies to invest your money in. One way that some investors say to make sure that it is the right time to sell your … [Read More...]