Put Your Stock to the Test Before You Invest – Part 2
In our last segment we introduced several types of stock market research. In this segment we will follow up our discussion of technical analysis and then continue on to fundamental analysis.
Alcoa: A Buy or Sell?With the big aluminum giant ready to report earnings on the 10th of October, Alcoa (AA) hopes to bring favorable numbers to a company that should indicate how the Dow Jones should be behaving and whether the recent rally is true or not. The problem concerning Alcoa however is how the futures market has been reacting over the previous month or so. Possibly, the commodity of aluminum is not affected as other future trading products such as oil or natural gas, but nonetheless aluminum over the past six months has been falling relative to its high prices a few months ago.
Why Do People Trade Options?If you’ve been looking at different ways of making money from the stock market, than at some point you’ll come across the idea of options. Many people trade options successfully, and it can be a great way to increase your returns once you have some experience in the stock market. But let’s look a little more closely at why people find trading options so profitable.
Tim Hortons: A new rival for Starbucks?Emerging as Canada’s top coffee house from the famous Toronto Maple Leaf superstar, Tim Hortons (THI) has slowly emerged to become a top competitor among not only coffee stops, but restaurants as well. Serving items ranging from top soups to salads to sandwiches among the common accessories of pastries, desserts, and of course coffee, Tim Hortons looks to gain some market share of such a booming industry.
A Stock Market Temporary Topping October 6, 2006The Stock Market reached its all time high early in October of 2006, but was it short lived? The reason I say this is because in watching the charts it appears to have topped out temporarily, which is interesting because we are deep into election season and the better the market does the better for incumbents.
Put Your Stock to the Test Before You Invest – Part 1If you don’t research the stock you are purchasing first, you are doing nothing more than gambling with your money. Stock research will help you to improve your returns on the stocks you purchase. While all the research in the world on a stock cannot guarantee its value will increase, researching your stock purchases will improve the chances of making money.
Looking at Stock Trading From a Business Perspective – Part 1The key to investing in the stock market is to become as educated as possible so that you know exactly what is taking place at all times. This helps people to make logical and sound decisions about their money, thus, reducing the stress involved with investing.
What Is The Single Most Important Reason A Stock Moves Higher?Supply and demand causes individual stocks to move higher or lower in the long haul. But daily events are dominated by overall sector and market health. Remember this and it will help you enter trades at a much nicer price!
Stock Options BasicsStock options are an excellent way to reduce risk in trading or to leverage your capital. While advanced stock option strategies are for experienced investors only, the basic option strategies can also be used by novice traders.
Online Discount Stock BrokersThe online discount stock brokers can also be divided into three groups. The first one is the classic discount broker which offers extremely cheap order execution through a simple and easy to use software platform. The second type of discount broker offers additional services upon request, for instance phone orders at extra costs or access to research information. The third type of online discount broker targets professional private or institutional traders who need advanced order execution and direct access to different markets and order routing ways.
