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Trading Strategies
Picking the right stock is only half the battle. You need to know
when to buy, and more importantly, when to sell. We've put together
a couple of tips and suggestions on how you can become a better
investor and trader.
Basic Trading Tips
Strategic Plan For Investing - What's Your Personal Investment
Plan?
Its so easy today to invest in the stock market. Place your
order, press submit and you instantly can become a shareholder.
Ask any officer of a publicly traded company, and they will tell
you, they love when shareholders buy and hold. This helps the
price of the stock retain its value (instead of selling their
shares like everyone else, they hold, avoiding an even larger
drop in share price). While you probably wouldn't consider
driving downhill without brakes, why would you buy and hold onto
a company that is losing you money? This is where an investment
plan comes in.
Stocks & Technical
Analysis
Yes you can trade better by recognizing chart patterns. We've
put together some basic chart patterns and provide some examples
to help you become a better trader.
Mutual Funds
Its tough getting financial advice from someone who isn't making money based
on their suggestions. We're different! We've put together some suggestions
on what you should know before you decide to invest in mutual funds. Are
they the best investment vehicle for you? Perhaps there is still too
much risk, or perhaps there isn't enough.
Intermediate Trading Tips
ETF's - Exchange Traded Funds
Exchange Traded Funds ,
also known as ETFs, are index funds traded on the major stock
exchanges just like stocks. An index fund involves a collection
of securities, much like mutual funds, except that ETFs differ
from mutual funds in some distinctive ways. They are traded like
stocks but investors get the benefit of diversification in their
investments bundled into one security. However, where mutual
funds have a net asset value, or NAV, that is calculated daily,
ETFs experience fluctuations in price throughout the course of
the day. You also have the opportunity to purchase just one
share and the expense ratios tend to me lower than with a mutual
fund.
Advanced Trading Tips
Trading In Futures
Investing in futures
markets have been described as continuous auction markets and as clearing houses
for the latest information about supply and demand. They are the meeting places
of buyers and sellers of an ever-expanding list of commodities that today
includes agricultural products, metals, petroleum, financial instruments,
foreign currencies and stock indexes. Trading has also been initiated in options
on futures contracts, enabling option buyers to participate in futures markets
with known risks.
Stock Options Markets
Like using margin
to buy stocks, options contracts can provide amazing leverage. Like forex, for a
small amount of money, an options trader can secure for themselves a very large
position.