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Stock Trading Personality

Everyone has a different personality. So it makes sense that everyone has a different stock trading personality. Some people trade very aggressively and like to go after the short term movements. Some people are less aggressive and like to ride the longer term trends.

Stock Market For Beginners

If you don’t know about the stock market and are trying to learn about it, you are most likely to experience a severe case of information overload. Do a Google search for “stock market education” or “learn the stock market” and you’ll be literally inundated with information. The same holds true if you look an Amazon or walk into a brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Fundamental Analysis?

Fundamental Analysis is the traditional way of looking at the stock market. It consists of looking at a company’s financial statements, P/E ratios and so on.

Investing in Dividend Paying Companies

With the interest yield on treasury notes and Certificate of Deposits (CDs) at record lows, it might be worth investing in companies that are financially stable and provide great dividends. There are quite a few out there with dividend yields as high as 9 to 12%. Before you buy stocks from dividend paying companies, there is one important term you should know, and it is called Ex-date or Ex-dividend date.

Option Trading – 6 Warning Signs of a Bad Advisory Service

There are countless subscription-based option advisory services available for the individual trader. If a service enables you to significantly increase your returns, it will likely be worth the cost. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad option advisory services out there as well, services that will actually lose you money. How can you tell the difference? Here are six warning signs of a questionable option trading service.

Markets Suffer Their Worst Run For Generations

The final week of 2008 passed with many markets recording their worst annual performance for generations. Equities finished above their lows, but still finished down by at least 30%. The S&P 500 closed 2008 down 38%, while the Nikkei closed down over 40%. The ‘lost decade’ rolls on ever more for the Japanese stock market.

Penny Dreadful Stocks

Penny stocks are very appealing to both new and old investors, due to their low price and the potential of rapid growth. However there are also pitfalls in penny stocks investing that investors have to aware of.

Life Settlements Vs The Stock Market

Life settlements are a very interesting side of investment. While they are most certainly an investment, they operate in a way that allows them to remain completely non correlated to the stock market. This makes life settlements very different from most investments.

What Drives Stock Prices Up and Down?

Stock market behaves like all other market in a competitive economy. The market price of a stock is determined by the supply of stocks from the seller and the demand of the stocks from the buyer. Basically, supply and demand rules are at work here.

Technical vs Fundamental

In the mid 1990’s a massive bull market took place. Everywhere you turned people were talking about EPS, PE’s, book value, and even EBITA (earnings before interest, taxation, and ammorization) and countless other fundamental factors. Who can understand EBITA?