Creating a Successful Stock Market Trading System
Success in the stock market can come from a variety of methods. There are short sellers, buy and hold folks, short-term investors, trend followers, contrarian investors, and a plethora of other methods of investing. You can get into the market with a lot of money, or a little money. You can trade daily, invest consistently, [...]
Financial Stocks Close to a Bottom
Yesterday’s market gyrations were painful.? After seeing the global markets sell off on Monday (a holiday for the US markets), the Dow Jones Industrial Average followed suit on Tuesday.? We closed the day just under 12,000 after hitting an intra-day trading low of 11,508.? We haven’t seen these levels since September 2006. Not to be [...]
I Don't Like Penny Stocks
I don’t know what all the fuss is about penny stocks. They take your money go to zero and everyone seems to think that is a great deal. Not me, there are 3 reasons why I will never trade penny stocks. 1. They are Penny Stocks For A Reason A company doesn’t go from $10 [...]
Investing in Technology Stocks
Investing In Technology Stocks has been considered high risk since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Too few companies back then had a solid business model and were, frankly unaware of how to properly monetize their on-line presence. Following the global credit crunch and financial bailouts is it now time to look at [...]
Stock Trading As a Game
You know a lot of people go about trading in stocks the wrong way in my opinion. People often think of it as a way to make money, or sometimes a way to support a cause you believe in. Technically I suppose stock trading is about using excess wealth in a way that it is [...]
Stock Trading Psychology – Share Price Psychology
I am always baffled how share price psychology works. People would rather buy a $3.00 stock versus an .80 stock on it’s way to $3.00 Remembering that the $3.00 was itself an .80 stock at one time. Over my many decades of investing and researching junior mining companies I can’t tell you how many times [...]
Selling Shares – Tips on Getting the Best Price Possible
When selling shares, the investor should always look to obtain the best price possible. This appears self-evident, but it is surprising how many investors allow other considerations to affect their judgement, and end up selling for a worse price than they could have obtained, or even worse hang on to their shares long after the [...]
Time to Revisit Portfolio Risk Management
In 2007, I wrote about the importance of managing risk within your investment portfolio. When considering what investors have gone through over the past 18 months it seems appropriate to revisit risk management as a component of a sound portfolio. While I have always been a student of “what can go wrong with an investment,’ [...]
Online Share Dealing – How Can You Use it to Improve Your Investment Strategy?
With the financial deregulation of the eighties and nineties, stock ownership was opened to the wider public. Whereas before this buying shares had been the preserve of financial institutions and wealthy individuals, after these reforms it was much easier for small-scale private investors to buy and sell stocks and shares. One problem that still persisted, [...]