Stock Market Investing
Smart Investing with Dollar Cost Averaging
Dollar Cost Averaging, or DCA, is a technique where you purchase a fixed dollar amount of your favorite investment at regular intervals, such as once per month.
When prices are down, you will receive more shares. When prices are higher, you will receive fewer shares. The idea is that you will be able […]
Volatility Rocks The Investment Markets
Gets your attention, doesn’t it? The unfortunate thing though, is that most people will react negatively to this intentionally inflammatory, media-ready, title statement. Has some Wall Street virus attacked our financial experience memory chip? Bouncing around unpredictably is precisely what the markets have always done. In the last forty years, there have been no less […]
Stock Trading for Bold Brave Investors
Stock trading is one of the last true meritocracies. All that matters for your investment success are your own decisions. Stock trading is a precision-based activity and one tiny mistake in judgment could send you plummeting right to the bottom and result in a huge loss.
Likewise, the opposite could happen. You may make a […]
How To Buy And Sell Stocks Below Market Prices
Stock trading is like thousands of transactions that take place everyday in other venues just like the stock market with one common denominator, a buyer and a seller. Stock trading is not unlike the retail world, where supply and demand reflect the price of goods and services just like supply and demand determines the price […]
Stock Trading On New York Stock Exchange - How It All Happens?
Just imagine that you are a shareholder of a company XYZ and are trying to sell your shares in the company to somebody who is interested in buying them. Now if you wanted to look for buyers there a couple of options in the real world you could do that like put up a sale […]
Stock Trading On NASDAQ - How It Works
The NASDAQ though we know it as an exchange is not an exchange, and works like an automated mechanism where buyers and sellers can meet. The NYSE works on the system called double auctions where in the highest bidding buyer competes with other buyers and the lowest bidding seller bids against other sellers.NASDAQ though not […]
Get Out of That Trading Rut
Ever muttered these words? “I haven’t made enough winning trades. “What am I going to do?” ‘I’ll never be successful.” Well, if you have, you’re not alone. It’s usually followed by “But I don’t know to do differently.” To quote writer Molly Ivins, “The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, […]
Becoming a Successful Stock Day Trader
How do you become a winning stock day trader? And what is day trading anyway?
Day trading is the process of buying stocks, currencies or futures, and selling them on the same day. Out of the transaction, a skilled day trader expects to earn a profit. Notice that the word skilled is important. Stock day trading […]
Stock Market for the Starters
We all dream of the day when we can be in our house sitting on a sofa sipping nice tea along with an assortment of cookies and in the meantime you know that every minute there is money rolling into your bank account . Talk of good times and if wishes were horses then everybody […]
Emotions, Trading Systems, And The Stock Market
Do you remember your first trade? Did you get butterflies in your stomach when you were giving your broker the authority to place the trade, or if you were placing the trade online did you get a buzz when you were about to press the confirm button?
If you are like most people than you probably […]
