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The Little Known Art of Picking Stocks

Picking stocks is the golden bullet that every trader aspires to find. I have spoken to several traders groups over the last 12 months and I always comment about how strong the Australian equities market has historically been. The market has performed considerably well with many companies recording very significant price gains.

How a Trading Method Can Help You Master the Markets

You need to learn a trading method to that minimizes trade loss and lets your profits run. A ‘stop loss’ is a pre-defined level at which you will exit a position in a security based on the premise that it is not moving in the direction that you had anticipated. All experienced and successful traders will tell you that setting stop losses and then sticking to them, is absolutely essential if you are going to be profitable over the long term.

How to Understand the Stock Market Nowadays

There are many factors that have an impact on stock’s price: company’s fundamentals, industry-market conditions, global and national economies, different types of news, analysts’ and experts’ opinions, technical analysis signals, seasonal and cyclical fluctuations, and the investors’ psychology. In the times of uncertainty, as a rule, the news factor prevails. In addition, the investors become more sensitive to any news and sometimes react irrationally. When the stock market is driven mostly by investors’ sentiments, making an investing decision is not easy.

10 Most Common Stock Trading Mistakes

In today’s market, you won’t last long unless you preserve capital and minimize your mistakes. Here are ten common mistakes made by amateur investors. Avoid these, trade like a pro, and you’re on your way to trading profits.

IBM Acquisition of Sun Microsystems – Trading JAVA

This article covers the reported IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems. On the stock trading side, there are some interesting points to discuss.

Benefits of Short ETFs

Short ETFs are one of the new inventions in the stock market. They allow people to make money as the markets are falling down. But most investors don’t use them in fact most everyone seems to have an argument why you shouldn’t use them.

3 Steps to Profitable Stock Picking

Stock picking is a very complicated process and investors have different approaches. However, it should follow the general measures to minimize the risk of investments. This article describes these basic steps for picking high performance stocks.

ETFs Vs Stocks

Trading ETFs can be a very profitable thing to do. There are a few major advantages to trading ETFs that you would not have if you decided to trade stocks.

Changing Mark-to-Market Rule Could Spark Big Rally

The banking crisis threatens to push the global economy into a depression. At least that is the view of stock investors; the stock market is pricing that very scenario. But how would investors react if they knew that the financial crisis is overstated? “Toxic” assets are not uniformly toxic. Bank managers view their super senior tranches as money-good assets that will not experience any real cash losses over their life while the public questions their sanity. The banks are right.

Learn Stock Trading From Home

One thing great about the internet now is that it has become more than just an encyclopaedia of information; it has turned itself into a teacher of sorts, just by merit of the enormous amounts of information that it has. This is down also to the interactive nature of the internet and the fact that people can engage the information in a fun way and even provide feedback.