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Anticipating Shifts in Investor Sentiment Using the Put Call Ratio

The Put Call Ratio is a commonly used indicator by investors to help gauge market sentiment. The ratio uses trading activity of options contracts as a proxy for mass psychology.

Correlation Of Stock Markets With Moon Phases

It began from the ancient civilizations that humans have come to associate the lunar phases with some human behavior. In fact the zodiac signs were originated from these analyses and from there, extensive research has been done to prove the authentic relation between the human’s characters with the lunar phases.

Nifty Future: Basic Guide to Nifty Future

A future contract is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a certain time in future at a certain pre decided price.These future contracts are standardized and exchange traded. A future contract may be exercised or offset prior to maturing date. It’s a kind of forward contract which is a derivative type of instrument in which buyer and the seller are agreed to transact financial instrument/physical commodities for future at a particular price. Nifty Futures is a financial instrument in which futures contracts are done on the basis of S & P Nifty index which is the benchmark of NSE.

Should You Hire a Stock Broker?

If you’re planning to invest in the stock market you will need a reliable stock broker to execute your buy and sell orders. Your stock broker can be a full-service stock broker or a discount stock broker. Full-service stock brokers are regulated professionals that gives investment advice and execute client’s buy and sell orders.

6 Tips on The Stock Market – How It Began and Ways to Succeed

If you are thinking of stock market investment and want to become a successful trader, you need to have a clear conception of stocks market and its functioning. Apart from that you need to prepare yourself for stock trading.

How to Triple Your Investments Using a Stock Pick Report

Tripling your investments in today’s stock market can be done by finding a high probability cheap stock to invest in, one which behaves with far greater volatility and is likely to shoot up in price in a very short term. More investors today use one method to identify and invest in these picks themselves than any other.

Managing Volatility With Options

Last week we discussed the growing volatility in many of the best trending markets of the year. We noted that the uptick in volatility had to do with three primary sources. China’s attempt to cap inflation and put the breaks on their over heating economy, Irish bank solvency issues and the nervous anticipation surrounding Spain and Portugal and finally, money managers who were late to arrive are trying to capture year end performance and match their benchmarks.

Women Are More Successful Than Men When Trading In The Stock Market – Why?

The majority of trading markets are made up of men. This is easily understandable since market most times are thought like an emotion provider for all these men that are not used to live in a regulated society. But, it is the women who have a better chance at the stocks markets and numbers prove that.

Trader’s Psychology Might Be The Missing Factor For You To Become A Successful Trader

Many traders don’t realize that the trader’s psychology is a key factor in differentiating a successful from an unsuccessful trader. This is most times taken lightly, but you should not.

Alexander Elder Is A Psychologist And Also A Profitable Trader – Coincidence?

At the beginning of Alexander Elder’s best-selling book “Trading for a living”, he mentions the fact that many people ask him whether being a psychiatrist himself has helped him becoming a successful trader. While at the first moment the two professions look like they are world-apart, he carefully explains it how one is directly connected to each other and that if you lack either a good psychology foundation or skills, you won’t succeed as a trader in the stock market.