Some Tips For The Beginner In Mutual Fund Investing

A brief review of mutual fund investing and some tips for the beginner when considering establishing a fund. Safe and systematic savings are the hall marks of the mutual fund industry. It's a perfect plan for the beginner and provides a stable platform for investment.

Stock Market Crash of 2007 - How To Trade Stocks During The Bearish Corrective Wave

When the stock market has crashed, and a strong pullback is in progress, it is wise to wait for the market to stabilise. Statistics have shown that stocks fall around 3 times faster than they have taken to move up in price. But how do you go about selecting stocks to trade during a bearish period? Would you benefit from the next trend to come?

Trading After A Stock Market Crash - How To Find Stocks That Will Outperform In The Rebound

Is technical analysis still relevant after a stock market crash or stock market collapse? Can you use both fundamental analysis and technical analysis to select great potential stocks that will rebound after a stock market crash? Learn how a university professor in investment discovered a practical stock selection method that identified stocks that rallied well into the rebound soon after a stock market crash.

Important Questions Before Investing In The Stock Market

To invest in stock market we need to ask ourself with some question. Which money do you use?

Price and Volume (PVT) Indicator

The price and value trend (PVT) is an indicator of the volume and price change of a particular stock. Knowing how to read the PVT will help you make wise stock trading decisions. By comparing the PVT and the price of a share, an investor can better determine when to buy and sell that stock.

Penny Stocks Outshine Mega - Caps

While some Wall Street herds may be stumbling over themselves to gobble up the record setting Dow index, the numbers show that bigger is not always better.

My Experiences Trading Gold and Silver Commodity Futures Contracts and Options

Sometimes, all that glitters is gold. What a great trading market! Here's some valuable hints and kinks taken from actual trading experiences.

Stock Trading Terminology

For the uninitiated, reading the business section in a newspaper or reading business magazines can often be a bit mystifying. On one hand, everyone knows about stock trading in a very basic way and all the talk about bulls and bears can be confusing, even in light of the fact that a bullish market means share values are up while a bearish market indicates sluggishness or lower share values. The end result is that a simple and straightforward exercise of investing in the stock market appears to be complicated and full of strange notions that seem to make no sense.

Keep Your Emotions In Check While Making Trading Decisions

One of the most difficult things that every new trader has to learn while trading in the stock market is how to keep emotions out of decisions. Money is an extremely emotional aspect for everyone. Making a profit makes us happy and making a loss is cause for concern. Considering the unpredictable nature of the stock market it is never easy to tell what might happen during a trade. This makes it difficult for traders to always retain their sense of logic and not give in to emotional pulls.

How to Build Your Own Global ETF Hedge Portfolio

With the emergence of exchange-traded funds or ETFs, you have at your fingertips the ability build a global ETF hedge portfolio that is the envy of your friends - and, unlike the heavy hitters, you won’t have to give away 20% of your gains to a hedge fund manager.

Futures Day Trading - Patterns in The S&P 500 and E-mini Futures Contracts, PART 3

Identifying patterns that repeat in the futures market, then jumping on them, is what it's all about. These patterns can be rather complex, requiring an accumulated library of observations. The best way to do it is through your own intuition. There's no better computer trading program than your own trained mind.

Stock Marketing

The best chance anyone has in stocks is to play when the spirits are high. When you feel emotionally challenged, then ride out back, since the no-brainers and lows may not direct in your good.

Futures Trading - Methods to Trade The S&P 500 and E-mini Futures Contracts, PART 4

After twelve years of watching and day-trading the S&P 500 almost every day, I've come to some conclusions of what works and what doesn't. These methods can also be applied to other markets as well, for both long and short-term trading.

Who Was Jesse Livermore?

The super rock star of trading of all time! Why Hollywood never made a movie about this guy, I'll never know. I'd buy a ticket. Talk about rags-to-riches! A young kid leaves the family farm, mom secretly gives him some traveling money (God bless moms), because he believes there's got to be more to life. Nothing unusual about that, many young people leave small towns or farms for the same reason. Some make it, some don't.

Riding The Popularity Cycle

Catching a stock as it becomes more and more popular is similar to catching the right wave when surfing - but it's equally satisfying. The essence in both cases is identifying well in advance which waves are worth riding on.