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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Earning More Money by Stock Trading

By Bob Jones

Very few people are successful at stock trading. There are various factors that can influence the success or failure of a stock market investor. If you want to keep on making big money, there are a few things that you can do. What are they? Firstly, you need to know more about how to handle money. You will be making an investment of a certain amount for stock market trading, so you will must learn how to manage it properly.

Your trading money must be managed effectively. All traders must have sound ways to guarantee success in stock trading. Without them, all your trading will be just fair to middling guesswork and you will more than likely endure large loses. For successful trading, you have to fix the account size and answer questions like: Is your trading system profitable? By how much? What is the risk for every share deal?

In order to make money, you will need to know your exit strategy? Your investment choice decides how long you can stay in the stock market to join in stock trading. Skilful investors don't really need huge investments because they already have enough knowledge about how to trade wisely. It is possible to enter the stock market with only a relatively small amount of investment capital, but you will need to control the risks involved in each deal.

You have to make sure that the risk is always lower than 3% for every trade you make. For example, if your account is $10,000, your loss per trade must lower than $300. Even if the account grows, you still should keep the risk at 3%. By following this strategy, you can minimize your loses per trade. The system you're using has to be profitable, so you can not afford to lose much money per trade. You must be able to estimate the 'edge' or your system's profit potential and if you achieve the estimated sum over a certain amount of time, then your system is a successful one.

Your system should have a target profit, so that you always know when you will enter and when you will exit the market. Precise ordering is vital, so that you can earn more profits. The trading system is indeed very important. Whenever you buy a certain stock, the risk should be low. Your account will continue to grow if you know when to enter and exit the market for a certain stock. You must follow a trading plan with a strict set of trading strategies.

You have to make sure that you follow your rules quite strictly. It is vital for you to try to uncover which stocks will move in your favour. Every stockmarket investor has a favourite trading pattern and you should have one too. When you're just beginning at stock trading, you ought not be a hasty investor. Take your time and study the current state of the market. You need to study everything, even the slightest details.

Get yourself a good broker and you will have a guide on how to go about the trading process. If you want to earn more profits in stocks trading, you should know how to manage money effectively. You must have a decent trading system and you should make use of the different kinds of orders. Stock trading is not that difficult to understand but you must be willing to learn all the basics and some of the advanced methods, so that you can ensure continued success. Take your time and analyze how the stock market is moving. Learn from the experts and their previous mistakes. That way, you can better guarantee your success. - 23305

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Discovering Trustworthy Companies In Google With Wonderful Opportunities To Invest In Trading And Currencies

By Jarvis Parsons

At some point during your introduction in the forex market, you will learn about forex trading signals. At first, they may seem a bit confusing. However, once you understand the basic principles in using signals, the benefits will become clearly known. Signals are nothing more than alerts that keep you informed.

A forex signal is an alert that indicates the price of buying and selling forex currencies. There are two types of signals. The first can be defined as the entry and exit signal and second signal which characterized as a general purpose signal and is issued to all interested traders.

Entry and exit signals are generally used for internal accounts and reserved for the clients of brokers. They are real time alerts that indicate that a market is ripe for changes. The value of these changes could mean the difference in how much money you make on a trade or how much you loose.

It takes a basic understanding of these signal work to make money trading currencies. Many people want to have a successful trading business, but until they learn the significance of using alert signals, their success will unfortunately be delayed. This is the truth and is how other invest in the forex market profitably.

Teaching others how to use signals within themselves have become a profitable opportunity for many brokers because they often are framed based on successful trading strategies and patterns. This only develops through years of experience as you trade across multiple currencies.

As an option to learning and developing your own profitable strategy, you can buy signals from experienced brokers and other traders. This is the best way for you to start making money from the values of fluctuating currencies while you gain personal insight into how the currency market works.

Once you subscribe to a service, the forex signals are usually sent by or SMS based on how you set up the account. These signals will have a unique identification number and will either alert you to a new opening trade on the market or alert you to a pending order combines with other useful data.

Why are currency exchange signals important? If you are unsure of how to interpret changes in the forex market and make the right decisions, most likely you will make the wrong decision. When one nation's currency is about to take a nose dive and another nation's currency is about to explode, knowing this information ahead of time can make you a lot of money. - 23305

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Savings is One Source of Funds for Your Investments

By Sara Ferguson

Saving and investing are different, although savings are often the source of funds for investing. Savings are a percentage of your income that you put aside regularly, usually at a low interest rate. Normally saving accounts have a very low interest rate under 2%. You can easily access savings, and often theyre insured by a financial institution. Some saving plans do have penalties, so read your account rules before withdrawing funds.

Investment funds are the funds that you dont have earmarked for the rent, groceries, taxes, and so on. They may earn interest or dividends, but you have no guarantee of increased value or future income. (Investment funds should be free of any obligations. First rule in investing is never invest money you cannot afford to lose.)

The beginning of personal wealth is the accumulation of capital that you can use for investing. This capital often begins with savings and expands into other types of more profitable investments. Savings are the beginning of your capital accumulation. Families need a regular savings program thats between 5 and 10 percent of net pay per month. Some people even manage to put away 15 percent. Saving money monthly should be a habit and regularly expected monthly.

Additionally, individuals and families need emergency funds. Folks with fluctuating income, few job benefits, and little job security may need to have a larger emergency fund. Families with two wage earners may need a smaller emergency fund. Always have some type of backup planned for future problems. While having money in investments can be great, pulling money out of an investment can take time or may not be possible for months.

A general rule is to have three to six months of take-home pay in a savings account (or a near-cash account similar to a market fund with check-writing privileges) for emergencies. If you dont have an emergency fund, you need to increase your savings. Payroll deduction plans that divert funds into a savings account or money market fund are often the most painless way to achieve the best results. On the other hand, if youve been saving a surplus, you may want to consider using these funds for investing.

Learning how to invest and finding funds for your investments is a challenge everyone struggles with daily. As always keep in mind that building up your investment empire takes time and knowledge. All investments involve some kind of risk, keep that in mind and know what the risks are before you invest. - 23305

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Seasonal Effect In The Markets

By Ahmad Hassam

Markets tend to react to the outside events. Markets react to the seasons. Markets react to holidays. Markets react to political crisis. Markets are what the people are thinking. The day before the Presidents day is the worst day and the day after the Easter is the worst day after. However, you should keep in mind that a lot of other factors also come into play and you have a lot of room for error. The next best holiday bets are the Labor Day and the Memorial Day because they fall before the first day of trading in September and June respectively.

Children love Santa Claus. Do the markets love Santa Claus? You must have heard about the Santa Claus Rally? Most of the folks usually feel fairly good about themselves around this time of the year. The best time of the year to own stocks is the Santa Claus rally which for all practical purposes is the 17 day stretch from December 21 to January 7. This is the best time of the year. People are happy and the markets are happy.

FED always wants the consumer confidence high during this part of the year. The more shopping the consumers are going to do, the more companies are going to sell and earn. The more companies earn, the more their stock prices go up.FED tends to lower interest rates during holidays in order to go into the New Year with less of a worry if the economy is slowing down. There is a low trading volume which tends to exaggerate the trend if the economy is not doing well and is slowing down. However, when you are dealing with seasonality, you should keep these facts in your mind:

1) More and more people have real time access to information and larger amounts of capital than at any time in the past. The market is not longer static. The seasonal effect may get interrupted by other events.

2) End of the year is special. Companies want to show good performance at the end of the year. At the end of the year, institutional investors want to make their results look as good as possible to their shareholders and tend to buy the stocks and so on. Institutional investors like mutual funds, hedge funds and insurance companies have become important players in the markets. So in case of an event free environment, seasonal tendencies may hold up fairly well.

3) People want quick profits. Many people make a living from investing and trading. These are the times for day traders and swing traders. With fewer people willing to hold stocks for longer periods, it is very difficult to predict seasonality. The days of long term investing or what you call buy and hold are dead! Frequent market crashes have taught the investing public that investing for the long term is fairly risky. So there is more short term trading going on. Value investing is gone and speculation is in.

4) A lot will be written about the recent stock market crash. What were the actual causes of the recent stock market crash? Why so many big banks went belly up in matter of days. What was so special that made this liquidity problem contagious with banks all over the world? The recent market crash was the result of CMO and Default Swaps bringing down the banks and Insurance companies in ways that had not been anticipated or foreseen by the analysts. Many had assumed that derivate securities are safe. Infact they have highly unpredictable tendencies. Derivates and outside the market trading activities can result in highly unpredictable patterns.

Then there is a change in demographics also taking place. With the aging of the population, the overall trend will be towards more income producing investments. So with everyone talking about the seasonal tendencies in the market, it reliability becomes less diminished. - 23305

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Point and Figure Trading (Part II)

By Ahmad Hassam

A new column is only added when a reversal in an existing column exceeds the reversal threshold. The most common amount of reversal threshold is three boxes or three points.

The reversal amount in pips is 30 pips if the box size is set at 10 pips and the reversal amount is set at three boxes. So in case of a rising X column, price would need to turn back by at least 30 pips before a new O column would be added.

By only focusing on the pure price action, a point and figure chart reduces the unrelated noise in the price action. These two variables the box size and the reversal threshold make the point and figure chart so effective at representing only the most major market moves disregarding all minor fluctuations known as noise. The significance of these two variables, the box size and the reversal threshold should be clearly understood.

Since point and figure charts outline support and resistance so well, one of the best trading strategies in most common use with the point and figure charts is breakout trading. The point and figure charts are excellent indicators of both trend and support/resistance.

Now there is a notable distinction between the bar and candlestick charts and the point and figure charts in the interpretation of double and triple tops and bottoms. In bar and candlestick charts, a double top is a potential bearish reversal signal.

Are you familiar with the chart patterns like the double and triple tops and bottoms? They are taken as important reversal signals in the trend. However, a double top is a resistance point where traders should be looking for a bullish break to the upside on the point and figure charts. The same difference holds for the double bottoms as well as triple tops and bottoms.

Charts patterns like triangles are prevalent as well. Like the horizontal support and resistances levels on these charts, the main method of trading trendlines and pattern on the point and figure charts is through breakouts. Point and figure charts also have their own versions of diagonal trend lines which are drawn at 45 degrees.

The point and figure charts focus exclusively on the price action. Price action is the most important aspect of technical trading. Point and figure charts give a very clear view of the market movements.

It is because of this clarity in viewing and interpreting the price movements that the point and figure charts have withstood the test of time and are still popular with traders today as an increasingly relevant analytical tool for forex traders. Point and figure charts had originated in the'th century.

Point and figure trading depends on the trendlines, support/resistance and breakouts. Point and figure charts excel at representing clear evidence of such important technical characteristics as trend, support/resistance and breakout without the extraneous elements to clutter the picture.

Some may characterize point and figure trading as based upon pure price action. Other data that is readily available on the bar and candlestick charts like time, period opens/closes are generally excluded on the point and figure charts. This leaves only the uncluttered purity of price action. - 23305

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