Novice investors are quick to ask “Why do stocks go up?” Just as quickly veteran investors still ask “Why do stocks go down?” Many stock news reports, commentaries, blogs, penny stock alerts, etc. phrase key terms which are sometimes misunderstood, especially “oversold.” This is one of the most misleading terms used from the multiple applications used to deduce a stock’s advances and declines during a trading day that actually ...
How to avoid the “AMWI effect” on your penny stock trading……..
Penny Stock trading involves isolating noise from the current trend and capitalizing on that trend through well-timed entries and profit taking. These factors play a critical part in mastering potential profit expectations and risk. Penny Stock trading does have many challenges but by sticking to clear rules, success is much more probable. Since the market always moves ...
Continue Reading →I’ve Heard The Term Penny Stocks But What Exactly Are They?
Low-priced, small-cap stocks are known as penny stocks. Contrary to their name, penny stocks rarely cost a penny. The SEC considers a penny stock to be pretty much anything under $5. Most investors don’t think of sub $5 stocks trading on big exchanges like NYSE and NASDAQ when asked to describe a penny stock. Most individual investors look at penny stocks like Wall Street’s Wild ...
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As stock market participation has expanded from Wall Street to Main Street, investment information has exploded as well. TV financial news, business magazines, newspapers, Internet Web sites and chat rooms, corporate filings and news releases, stock analyst reports — there is a din of data for investors to sift through today. Unfortunately, quantity is no guarantee of quality: It has never been harder for small investors to assess which ...
Every day, individuals have the opportunity to invest in more than 15,000 U.S. stocks. But such a huge opportunity is also hugely confusing. Tracking the stocks whose insiders are trading; i.e buying and selling their own company’s stock freely on the open market, is one of the greatest ways to get a sense of what the management of a company thinks of their own stock.
Value Investors may start by ...
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What is the Stock Market and how does it work?
The stock market is always on the news. When it rallies (goes up).
When it crashes (goes down). Yet very few people know what it is and how it works. Let’s cover the basics first.
A stock (or share) ...
Continue Reading →Whenever you turn Bloomberg or CNBC, you usually get blown away with the amount of raw data they throw at you. Stock charts with lines coming and going, pluses and minuses, peaks and valleys. For the average investor, there simply is no way to separate what ...
When people mention the word “swing,” it brings a sense of happiness to our subconscious. Swing Dancing for those baby-boomers who love to “cut a rug.” Swing as in swinging on the playground or in the backyard as a child on a warm summer day (unless you got smacked in the head with one). Swinging the lifestyle for those adults who engage in it that are purely seeking pleasure. ...
