Wall Street Showed Resilience

January 1, 2008

Wall Street ended in mixed and showed resilience in a year of economic turmoil.

After a year of high up and down swings, the Wall Street managed to finish 2007 with a modest gain regardless of crises in credit and housing market and concerns about an economy possibly headed for recession. Probably it was a mixed year of bull and bear and many analyses predict that the same will continue in year 2008 also.

The US stock market started 2007 with a short-lived rally and plunged in late February, with the Dow cracking almost 416 points in one day as concerns about subprime mortgages swept through the market, but within weeks, the stock investor were optimism about a strong global economy and solid domestic employment began pushing the stock price higher and on May 30, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high, surpassing its record reached at the end of the tech bubble seven years earlier, but all that distorted almost overnight in mid-summer with the subprime concern morphing into a credit freeze..

Financial stocks took a hard hit as their earnings outlook fogged up as well as shares of automakers, consumer goods that produce household goods, textiles, etc were also beaten down as stock market investors doubted the aptitude of consumers, who fuel two-thirds of the economy, to keep spending.

Even though the stock market gain was skimpy at best. Most of the analysts and stock traders noted that initial public offering activity was high, share buybacks were at record highs and investors in certain sectors were handsomely rewarded.

At the end of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 13,264.82, up 6.4% for the year. The broader Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed at 1468.36, up 3.5 % for the year.

According to me for stock investing I will look for sectors such as energy and healthcare and specific stock pick from power sector, internet companies and might take some risk in financial related stocks also, however for stock trading there are lot of stocks hanging around which could be good bet on a short term basis.

Worse than expected sales of new homes

December 30

The housing market had been showing signs of slowdown since last 12 months but it has been significantly plunged deeper into last month, with sales of new homes plunging to their lowest level.

The slowdown in housing market has worsened in November even more than most analysts expected, intensifying uncertainties that the US economy may be propel into a recession.

Housing market had been a worse performer in year 2006-2007 following a significant five years rally of record-breaking movement from 2001 through 2005. The boom-to-bust situation has increased dangers to the economy as a whole and has been especially hard on some homeowners. New-home sales tumbled 9% in the month of November from October to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 647,000 as per the Commerce Department reported Friday. That was the worst sales pace since April 1995.

According to many economists the worse performance of housing market will still continue in the coming year of 2008 and probably will keep rising. The crises in housing and mortgage market meltdown have lifted the probability that the country will fall into a recession.

Wall Street ended with an unpredictable week hardly mixed Friday after a government report of a sharp decline in new home sales stimulated fear that weakness in housing will keep on to afflict the economy. The major indexes lost ground for the week. The Dow Jones industrials, following an unpredictable session, managed to grasp out a small gain even as the bleak home sales report fueled to some stock market investors' angst. The Dow closed marginally up 6.26 points at 13,365.87.

Regardless of months of volatile stock trading sessions that has seen stocks surge and then relapse, the major indexes are going into the final trading session of 2007 with decent gains: The Dow is up 902.72, or 7.24%, while the S&P 500 is up 60.19, or 4.24 % and the Nasdaq is up 259.17, or 10.73%.

Worst development of housing and credit market had increase the concern of stock market investor as many believes 2008 will be tough year for stock market.

Online stock trading do’s and don’t do

Stock trading is generally complicated process and there are various factors which one has to learn before trading stock. There are lot of Do’s and Don’t do that needs to be aggressively methodized to make consistent profit from stock trading.

Do’s

• If you have good knowledge of stock market, stock behaviors, stock monitoring, technical analysis skills, fundamental analysis skills then only you go for online stock trading.
• If you are high risk taker person and if losing some money in stock trading does not affect your money management then only you elect to do online stock trading
• If you are a person who believes in patience with tremendous cool mind and does not gets frustrated at any unsuitable situation
• You should be able to gather the skill of studying other peoples mind… means what other stock traders or stock investor will do if certain stock is showing significant activities.
• You should be able to immediately develop to change your stock trading strategy accordingly if any unfavorable situation arises at any point.
• If you are person who can easily detect to ignore stock which will not give you profit.
• You should need to have sharp thinking and able to immediately detect the mistake you have done and keep remembering those mistakes whenever the same situation arise again and keep on studying various strategies which will work good for you.


Don’t do
• If you are novice to stocktrading, then don’t start online stock trading immediately but invest your time in gathering information and paperwork experience and then starting with very little budget.
• If you are person who don’t have cool mind and gets upset suddenly and also has characteristic of sudden fear in mind then this stock market trading business is not for you.
• The peoples who are not able to learn from their mistake and keep loosing their money and does not change their trading strategy accordingly the need arise.
• Don’t have sharp mind and does not takes immediate decision if any unsuitable condition appears.
• If you are not hard working person and does not keep updating with new strategy

Penny stock trader

Penny stock trader are traders who basically looks for trading stock which stock prices level are below $5. Owing to extremely low prices, these penny stocks become a point of attraction for maximum of the small, novice as well as retail individual online stock trader.

It is having said that penny stocks are highly risky for online stock trading but still maximum of the peoples tries to do it or falls in love or avoid without trading it and suffers heavy losses, but on the contrary it is also having said that expert penny stock trader who are really extraordinary makes lot of bucks through it, because they are different from losers, they acquire extraordinary talent, knowledge and skill which helps them to be winner in penny stock trading.

The some of the quality that penny stock traders have are listed below but not limited to following

• Trading penny stock has not more to do with fundamental analysis but needs to do lot with technical analysis so successful online penny stock traders attentively look after charts and protect some hours for market analysis. They identify the strongest sectors of the market and then the strongest stocks in those sectors. They identify the level through chart that they are going to enter at and approximate targets for the predictable move.

• Successful penny stock trader does not overtrade but only waits and watch for exact and accurate entry point and predetermines their target for exit.

• They know if the overall market is in trending zone or in trading zone and depending upon this they determines their timeframe for stock trading, whether they need to exit taking small profit or need to wait for large move. They know if the stock is in trending zone then they keeps their stock position long and as soon as they find the stock is loosing their support level they exist the stock. They also know if the stock is in trading zone then they buys such stocks at every weakness and sells stocks at strength.

• While trading penny stock they knows the risk they are taking and predetermines their trading losses and keeps strict stop losses to avoid big losses.

• Penny stock trader know penny stocks are not for stock investing and so they does not remain invested in such stock for long period but they exist as soon as they find their profit margin has achieved.

Wall Street Sink after Fed’s Meeting

December 12, 2007

On Tuesday Wall Street sink more than 300 points after the Fed decide to cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, unsatisfied some stock investors who expect the central bank would take more belligerent actions.

After the flat opening on Dow Jones and remained quite for most of the trading session before the Fed interest rate cut decision, fell 300 points. Most of the stock market investors were anticipating at least there could be 0.50% basis cut in interest but with the 0.25% interest cut by the Fed leads the stock investors for profit booking and this made the Dow Jones to plunge more than 300 points, although Fed as expected also cut the discount rate, the rate it charges to lend directly to banks, by a quarter-point to 4.75 percent.

It is also having said that Fed signaled that further cuts are quite possible if a severe downturn in housing and crisis in mortgage lending worsen. Before the Fed decision the market was in descent mode and made and strong bounce-back after strongly tumbling below to 13K mark on Dow Jones.

The Dow fell 294.26, or 2.14 %, to 13,432.77 after dropping as much as 313.29. Strong fall was also seen on broader indexes. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 38.31, or 2.53%, to 1,477.65, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 66.60, or 2.45%, to 2,652.35.

Rise on Wall Street ahead of Fed’s meeting

December 11, 2007

Strong rally was seen on Dow Jones and NASDAQ on Monday with an expectation of interest rate cut by Federal Reserve in coming meeting.

Investors hang about ahead of the Federal Reserve decision on interest rate cut on Tuesday, but majority of policymakers are still split over whether there will be a 0.25 basis or 0.50 basis cut. The National Association of Realtors bestows stock investors about their forward-looking index of U.S. home sales rose in October for the second month in a line, but still investors expect the housing market to remain weak well into 2008, the association is forecasting sales and prices to start recovering modestly next year.

According to UBS the financial stocks have already discounted the worst case scenario and may be a good stock investing opportunity on a longer term.

As compared to last month which was worse volatile month for Wall Street, this month the Wall Street has showed excellent performance as investors gained more confident in the Fed's directness to loosening its policy again. The Dow Jones has rose more than 740 points over the last two weeks, a rally that has brought the blue-chip index to about 3% below the record close it reached Oct 9.

On Monday The Dow Jones closed at 101.45 points higher, or 0.74% to 13,727.03. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.30, or 0.75% to 1,515.96. The Nasdaq composite index rose 12.79, or 0.47%, to 2,718.95.

Myths of Stock Market

Many peoples who are unknown to stock market believe that stock market is a gambling place and there is always a high risk of losing money, and real fact is “yes” and also “no”. “Yes” because investing in stock or stock investing is like putting your hard money in a mysterious thing where returns are not known, and “no” because if you have stock market knowledge and knows the basic thing how to detect perfect stock then chance of never ending up in losing money is very much possible infact it will take you towards the wealth and end up you in high returns.

There are lots of people who have lost considerable amount of their hard earned money in stock market and also there are lots of peoples who have created wealth through stock market, so it definitely gives you a difference! Why some people are loosing money and how some people are making money?

The above picture clearly tells you that there is considerable amount of risk of losing money and also there is considerable amount of winning money in stock market, and to be on winner side you definitely need to put efforts and hard work and to gain stock market knowledge.

It is having said that since the invention of internet and its advance technology, the average person's interest in online stock trading has grown substantially. What was once a model of only rich people has now turned into the favorite destination of an ordinary individual for growing wealth. The advance technology of internet has now opened a door for ordinary individual to do online stock trading and so that nowadays nearly anybody can own stocks.

Online stock trading practice

Online stock trading practice is a must for a novice stock trader. “Practice makes the man perfect.” Stock trading is very tricky and complicated task and to execute this task successfully you need to practice yourself before trading in stock market.

Putting all your money in stock market is not vice at initial stage without acquiring considerable amount of knowledge and knowledge does not come only with theory but it comes with lot of practice, and for practice you need to have a platform which will help you to understand real aspect of stock market. Online stock trading consists of complicated process and to get aware with these complicated processes you need to practice.

Wall Street Survivor has launched a product where novice as well as trained stock trader and stock investor can participate in stock market without investing a dime. Wall Street Survivor will provide $100,000 virtual money (not real money) to novice as well as trained stock trader who want to participate in stock market. With the help of this platform novice as well as trained stock trader can learn and can practice more as much as they want to become skilled and knowledgeable with live stock market and can also compete with other stock trader for daily, weekly and monthly prizes worth of nearly $25,000.

Vivendi in plan to acquire major Activision Inc. stake

Vivendi the Game Makers is in plans to obtain a controlling stake in Activision Inc. and unite the company with Vivendi Games in a contract that would form a competitor to Electronic Arts Inc. as the world's largest video game publisher.

After the acquisition of Activision Ind the Vivendi Games will hold 52% stake in a new company to be called Activision Blizzard. On that basis, Activision and Vivendi valued the combined company at $18.9 billion.

After the transaction closes, expected in the first half of 2008, Activision Blizzard will launch a $4 billion all-cash tender offer to purchase up to 146.5 million Activision Blizzard common shares at $27.50 each. Vivendi also has agreed to acquire an additional $700 million of newly issued Activision shares, giving Vivendi about a 68 percent stake in Activision Blizzard if the tender offer is fully subscribed.

The combined company is targeting pro forma operating income of $1.1 billion and pro forma earnings per share of more than $1.20 in calendar year 2009. The acquisition will make available Activision Blizzard with the most consolidate and broadest collection of interactive entertainment assets in the industry.

Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker ATVI.

The offer price is a 24 percent premium to Activision's closing price Friday of $22.15 per share.

According to me from mid term to long term stock investing point of view Activision Blizzard is great stock pick and one can lookup for substantial returns from this stock going forward.

Donating stock can be better than giving cash

Charities are happy to accept it, and you can save a substantial amount in taxes.

By Kathy M. Kristof, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Americans make about $200 billion in tax-deductible gifts to charity each year, and most of them are in cash.

But if you have stock in your investment portfolio that has risen significantly in value since you bought it, you might be better off donating the stock instead of cash.

Doing so can boost your tax savings, allowing you to give more to charity or simply enjoy the fact that the contribution costs you less money.

Charitable groups are happy to receive stock, said Gail Berlant, director for distinguished giving at the American Cancer Society's Los Angeles office.

"This is a wonderful way to donate to charity," she said. "Any nonprofit would really appreciate stock donations."


By giving away stock, you avoid selling the shares and realizing a capital gain that you would have to pay tax on. But the government still lets you deduct the current market value of the donated stock from your taxable income. The more the shares have gone up in price, the greater the advantage in giving them compared with writing a check.

"The added tax savings from donating appreciated securities over cash can be significant," said Steve Feinschreiber, senior vice president of research for Fidelity Investments in Boston

Let's say you want to give $10,000 to charity. If you make that gift in cash, you can take a $10,000 deduction on your federal and state returns. If your top combined tax rate is 35%, that saves you $3,500 in federal and state income tax.


But let's say you happen to have 1,000 shares of XYZ stock that you bought in 1985 for $1 a share and is now worth $10 a share, or $10,000.

If you sell those shares, you'll have to pay a 15% tax on your $9,000 capital gain, setting yourself back $1,350.

If instead you give those shares to charity, you get the same $10,000 deduction for the full market value of the stock -- and the same $3,500 in tax savings that results.

But you also don't pay any capital gains tax, saving $1,350. The total tax benefit of your gift: $4,850.

And you don't have to worry about increasing the charity's tax liability, because charities are exempt from income tax.


There are some tricks to getting the best bang for your donated shares, said Philip J. Holthouse, partner at accounting firm Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt in Santa Monica.

First, you need to donate stock that you've owned for at least a year. If you've owned the stock less than a year, you can deduct only the amount you paid for the shares, not their current market value.

In the example above, that would mean you'd get only a $1,000 deduction, making the donation of such a short-term holding a much worse deal than giving cash.

Also, in deciding which stock in your portfolio to donate, you should choose the one that has gained the most in percentage terms since you bought it.

But what if you still want that stock in your portfolio? Simply buy shares of the same stock to replace the ones you're donating, Holthouse suggested.

With charitable donations of securities, Holthouse said, there are no "wash sale" rules requiring you to wait a certain amount of time before buying the same stock that you gave away. And the brokerage commission you would pay to acquire the shares would be small compared with your tax savings.

Your portfolio will hold the same stock as before, but you'll start off with no unrealized gain on the shares.

Replacing the stock in your investment account allows you to accomplish three goals: to provide a charity with a needed gift, to reduce the capital gains accumulating in your portfolio and to continue to own a stock that you believe has the ability to appreciate further.

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kathy.kristof@latimes.com

Investment

Investments or investing is an efficient and stronger tool mostly used for prosperous future financial by an entity or a retail individual, in broader term it can be differentiated in many different ways but the end result should be to increase your asset in longer term.

For an individual the investment should be more important because this is the only credible way where an individual can make their future financial situation protected. There are many different ways where one can look to invest their money to have consistent, sustainable and convincing returns in their future life. Some of the favorite and stronger investment classes could be insurance, real estate, stocks or shares, mutual funds, gold, etc.

Investing in stock or share is said to be quite risky as compared to other investing portfolio but it is also having said that returns on stock can be many more stronger than other investment classes, however just making an stock investing could not be the answer for it but executing it wisely and intelligently only could be worth otherwise chances of investment crisis is also possible.

Real estate is also a very good destination to invest money but this class also includes risk. 2007 year was worst performer year for US real estate investor due to slowdown in housing market as well as due to credit market crisis. The mortgage and credit crisis was caused by a large number of home owners unable to pay the mortgage as their home values declined.

Maximum of the peoples choose insurance as their most favorite class to invest their money as risk appetite in this class is extremely low or negligible and returns are also clearly visible depending upon the insurance plan they choose, however return on investment in this class could not be as worth as in other classes.

Gold is also said to be the best place to invest money but maximum of the individual does not buy gold as an investment but they buy gold for showing their wealth enhancement, for prosperity and it also shows a great sign of richness.

Some Stock Investing Tips

Stock investing strategy and specific guidelines if established and maintained properly can provide you high returns in mid to long term basis. Below you will find some of the useful stock investing tips.

1. Avoid investing in low market capitalization or low price stock probably stocks price which are lower than $5. The reason behind avoiding investing in these stocks is that maximum of these stock does not have good financial earning background. As it is know than earning is one of the main factors that drive the stock price up, if any company is not making any earning then it is always good to avoid making any investment in such stocks, no matter the price of these stocks are low.

2. Make investment in stocks (companies) which you know very well and has huge customer base with good financial history and great prosperity ahead for that company. Look around and you will find great investing idea.

3. Avoid making investment in only one stock; diversification is strong mantra in stock investing. Diversify your investment in few stocks maybe at least 2 to 3 stocks rather than only in one stock depending upon your investment budget.

4. Averaging stock is good stock investing strategy; you can also call it as systemic investment plan.

5. Invest only part of your money in stock at initial stage and increase them gradually once you are comfortable and become knowledgeable how stock market works.

6. Become value investor and invest your money in stock when there is massacre going on in stock market. Many stock market investors become panic and sells their stock at any price when there is massacre going on in stock market and this is stage where value investor emerge and find out highly appreciable stocks at low price and picks up them. Buying stocks when there is massacre going on in stock market require huge guts and deep understanding of stock which you are going to hold.

7. Know the difference between stock trading and stock investing and plan out your strategy according to it.

Online stock trading tips

Here are some of the online stock trading tips that online stock trader can use in their stock trading strategy. There are certain parameters that need to be taken into account by the stock trader while doing stock trading. These parameters help significantly for stock trader to make a successful stock trade.

Momentum – Stock momentum illustrates you the velocity at which stock prices move happens over a certain period of time. High momentum stocks are highly preferable for trading stock on short term basis.

Volume – Volume is another parameter where one can easily make out to select stock for trading. Significant increase in volume against average volume in stock over the last 7 days can give you clear picture that there is more number of stock traders as well as stock investor’s interest in this stock and with the knowing of direction one can easily buy or can short that stock.

Direction – Direction is one of the most important things for trading stock. Stock volume, trend and direction moves hand in hand. Increase in volume and change in direction tells you to buy or to sell the stock.

Trends – Trend illustrates the pushiness of prices to move in a particular direction over a certain period of time.

Stock strength – Stock strength tells you the intensity of interest in a stock. High volumes specify more participants and therefore more strength.

Volatility – Volatility describes the degree of day-to-day stock price fluctuations. More volatility arise nervousness to stock investors but there is some community in stock trader who likes to do stock trading in highly volatile stock. Volatility increases the risk but also gives high returns.

Support and Resistance – Support and Resistance represent the occurrence of stock prices repeatedly rising and falling between certain prices levels. When stock prices breakout support or resistance levels, they tend to create new support and resistance levels.

Stock chart patterns – Chart patterns provides you hits of identifiable shapes on a stock chart. Certain stock chart patterns preempt changes in stock direction and price.

Cycles – Many a time some stock sectors show a propensity to move in cycle patterns. For example after a good participation in technology sector, the stock investor turns their attention towards any other stock sector say energy sector and after the momentum in finished in energy section their tends to move their attention in steel sectors and so on and this gives an opportunity for stock investors as well as stock investor to monitor closely the sectors which are presently performing well and tries to do stock trading or stock investing in such sectors as these sectors are in momentum chances of making money is good enough that sectors which are not showing any strength or momentum.

The above following online stock trading tips can be highly useful for online stock traders as well as stock investor to make vice decision to conduct any stock trading or stock investing.

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Growing fad of online stock trading in Europe

Online stock trading has now been in crazy stage now in Europe. After the worst carnage of dotcom bubble in 2001, many European individual stock investor’s money were completely washed out, while many of the brokerages lost out their multimillion dollar gamble that Europeans would embrace online trading, but recent survey done by to market researcher IDC (Internal Data Corporation) only about 14% of the 318 million people in Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden owing stock/share. In the U.S., by comparison, nearly 55% of the population of 300 million owns stock, but this trend is changing now. Europe's online brokerage sector, which is now adding customer accounts at a 7% annual growth rate vs. 4% in the U.S.

With the recent development of increase in number of personal computer use along with internet and use of employee-directed pension plans and a shift in responsibility for retirement from governments to individuals, Europeans are paying more attention to stock investing and to online stock trading. It clearly seems like European are gradually becoming aware of the benefits of electronic trading and changing their attitude toward their financial responsibilities.

According to the survey made by IDC there were about 17.5 million online stock trading accounts in Western Europe as of the end of last year and that could jump to 23.5 million accounts, and online trading will represent nearly a quarter of all retail transactions.

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Late stock trade burst the Wall Street

November 27, 2007

Fresh credit concerns, banking made the Wall Street to sell off sharply on Monday’s stock trading session. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 240 points giving a rise to new lows. The Dow's fell its mid-October closing high is now 10.03%. The collapse to Wall Street comes as stock investors were nervy by more incoming statements that pointed to enduring problems in the credit, home loan debt going bad under the weight of a vacillating housing market; however Fed said it would inject $8 billion into the banking system on Wednesday to handle the credit market situation.

The present fact looking at the Wall Street clearly demonstrates stock investors are becoming too sentimental and caution and trying to pull out their cash at every rise. I will be waiting for Dow Jones to hold 12,500 marks but this possibility is also very less for me. At this point I would like to stay on a sideline and will wait for few days how the market pans out from stock investor as well as from stock trader points of view, however I would be monitoring my favorite internet as well as energy related stocks and if I find any good opportunity I would like to do stock trading but will avoid to do any kind of stock investing.

Free stock trading game

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Stock trading software

What is stock trading software?
Stock trading software is definitely a new generation tool which has helped many stock traders to execute their option trading, day trading as well as short term stock trading positions.

Who can use this software?
This software can be use by a person who has basic knowledge of stock trading and one who knows every aspect involved in it. By using this software it does not mean that you will be able to make money very easily without any efforts, but instead this software will ease your work quite considerably and will assist you to take the stock trading decision more precisely making your trade successful.

Many of these stock trading software are fully automatic and also semiautomatic and just by defining your requirements the software will scan and will find out perfect stock pick that are based on your requirements. The automatic software also has a capability to automatically execute your buy and sell signal stocks which need to be programmed by you depending upon your requirements.

It having said that maximum of the active stock trader uses this software more often to buy/sell their stock position.

Benefit of using stock trading software
• The software will help to quickly find out the perfect stock pick which best fitted your requirements in terms of price level, volume, liquidity, etc
• The software will help you to manage your stock portfolio.
• It will help you in assisting which stock to buy and which stock to sell at their specific price.
• • It also helps how many quantities of stocks to buy and how many quantities stocks to sell with stop loss order price for avoiding any further loss.
• It will help you to avoid entering in bad trade
• It will constantly help you to find the trend of the stock either in downward direction or upward direction to take precise decision.

Wall Street- Tough stock trading session ahead

November 22, 2007

The present situation clearly seems like Wall Street is in heavy pain and going forward it seems like to continue due to growing uncertainty in US economy, sub prime issue and wilting mortgage market bringing the stock market investor sentiment down.

Looking from the technical analysis perspective after the breakdown strong support of 13k in Dow Jones, the market is now clearly headed towards the very important and main support level at 12,500, if unfortunately the Dow Jones breakdown the 12.500 level then this market clearly seems to be intermittent bear market and the next level will be hard to judge.

At this point, I will wind my long position and will sell all the highly vulnerable stocks which are picked for stock investing and will look for fresh stock trading position at level of 12,500 in only selected stock.

The Dow Jones fell 211.10, or 1.62% to 12,799.04, S&P 500 index dropped 22.93, or 1.59% to 1,416.77 and Nasdaq composite index tumbled 34.66, or 1.33% to 2,562.15.

Taking clue from Wall Street all the major stock market indices of the world mainly from Asian and European stock market suffered a great loss on Tuesday and also were in red territory on today’s trading session.

Support – An excellent buying opportunity tool

Many of the technical analysis gurus recommend buying stock at support level and they believe that this as a very effective stock trading strategy or this can also be treated as excellent tip.

Support level is believed to be a stock trader tool. Stock trader who mostly believes in technical analysis looks at the stock chart pattern and discovers the support level of the stock and decides this support level as buying opportunity. It is having said that support level is a best point where one needs to take a buying decision as downward risk is less, while upside is quite significant.

Buying and selling is a part of stock trading as well as stock investing and finding out exact buying point of stock is definitely a very difficult and complex task; however with the help of stock chart the task is quite easy, as the stock chart gives clear picture where the support level of the stock lies.

Typically support level arises from resistance level. If XYZ stock break out its resistance level with significant volume, then that resistance level act as a support level for that stock in future. For examples

XYZ stock is in trading zone of $52 to $55 for quite sometime and suddenly the stock breaks $55 with significant volume and makes it’s upward tread say to $60 and if from $60 the stock gets corrected or move downward then that stock probably finds its support level at $55 and if that stock bounce back from $55 then $55 becomes its support level and $60 as its resistance level.

Tips - Buying at support level and selling at resistance level

While doing stock trading the one of the tips or strategy could be to buy stocks at support level and sell stock at resistance level. Normally any stock tends to trade in a narrow range with very limited liquidity and volume. At such situation maximum of the stock investors avoid entering in these stocks but stock trader thinks this as good stock trading opportunity as long as these stock are trading in their specific price zone range. Stock traders always keep monitoring these stocks and enter in such stock pick at their support level and normally exit at their resistance level.

Say for example XZY Company stock is roughly trading in a very narrow range of $52 to $55. Stock trader immediately enters in such stock at $52 and exist their position near to $55.

Now you might be thinking of how stock trader makes out to enter in this stock at $52? Looking to the previous chart history of this stock the stock traders immediately make out $52 as strong support zone. In many previous sessions this XYZ stock had came near to $52 and had bounce back and not made a downward breakout of $52. Whenever this XYZ stock had touch $52 or is very near to it a significant buying had emerged and stock has bounce back from $52 and this gives a clear indication that at $52 the XYZ stock has strong support which could be a buy signal at anytime if this stock touches or is near to $52.

Precautions to take
Stock trading has always been risky as no person in world would give you 100% prediction. Now in above example XYZ stock shows strong support at $20 but unfortunately if the stock breaks $52 and moved further down with significant increase in average volume clearly gives a signal that this stock had break its support level of $52 and at such point making a stop loss near to $50 to $51 could be a very good sensible strategy for avoiding any significant money loss.

Late trade on Friday surge the Wall Street market

November 17, 2007

After a significant volatile week the Wall Street end-up in positive territory! thanks to surge in late day trade on Friday giving a sense of relief to stock investors as well as stock trader, however it will be too early to say from stock investing point of view, is this a perfect buy opportunity in stocks from long term investment perspective but according to me there are few stocks which are showing strong momentum and which could be a strong buy signal from medium as well as long term stock investing as well as stock trading perspective such as

Agilent Technologies Inc. as company is going to buyback $2 billion in stock which shows a strong faith of management in the stock, which is very good for value investor from stock investing point of view.

Salesforce.com Inc. which showed a higher subscription and support revenue growth and there is strong possibility at least this growth will continue in next coming quarters.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.51% or 66.74 to 13,176.79. Broader stock indicators also recovered. The Nasdaq composite index rose 18.73, or 0.72% to 2,637.24. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 7.59, or 0.52% to 1,458.74.

Looking from the short term to mid term Wall Street market perspective, it shows that market is trading in zone of 13k to 14k not giving a clear breakout either in downward direction or in upward direction. As long as 13k strong support to Dow Jones is intact there is not too much of worry. At this point I will not be having any fear entering in the market for stock trading with short term and mid term intention.

Stock trading

Stock trading is said to be one of the highly respected and highly skilled business opportunity. With the recent development in the technology of internet maximum of the peoples or stock trader prefers to do online stock trading. Unlike any other business online stock trading should be deserve to have high skill requirement to execute it.

Online trading stock is basically a deal done in stock market by buying and selling or selling and buying of stocks. I am not highly delighted to say that this is very easy and quickly understandable job as it requires definitely a very hard work, deep understanding, thorough knowledge and a very cool mentality to accept losses also.

Trading stock is basically done with the help of some of fundamental as well as lot of technical analysis. If you want to be the master in this business opportunity you should be ready to study all aspect of technical analysis and much of fundamental analysis, without which it is quite less possible for you to be a successful stock trader in online stock trading.

Stock Trading is quite different from stock investing as stock investing is basically done on a long term basis and having basic knowledge of stock or stock market can also be workable in stock investing but it is not the same case with stock trading. Stocktrading need very deep study, excellent knowledge and a creative idea to develop strategies which will work and which will facilitate you consistently with high profit margin.

Now you might be thinking of how one can gather enough knowledge and expertise in this wide based great money making business of online stock trading! As I have mentioned above it is definitely not an easy job but instead it requires high skill and this can only be developed by following the list as mentioned below but not limited to following. It is having said that developing skills in trading stock has no end, a highly developed and skilled stock trader also keep updating his strategy and finds out new and new method to make consistent profit from this business.

• Gaining proficiency through reading high quality stocktrading books written by highly professional and stock market gurus.
• Become proficient in technical analysis and should be able to read and understand charts, graphs, etc.
• Should be able to identify the support level and resistant level of stock.
• Should be able to implement strict stop loss strategy.
• Should be able to pick up high momentum stock at right price.
• Should be able to pinpoint the exact entry point and exact exist point.
• Updating daily with stock market news.
• Keep daily track of your favorite stock portfolio by personally monitoring the stock movements during market hours.
• Start stock trading at initial stage only on paperwork and not with real money
• Refer views and statement made by highly professional stock market gurus that are telecasted through CNBC news channel and other financial related TV channels.
• Try to give maximum of your initial time in studying strategies related to trading stock by referring different book written by stock market gurus.



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Bear market

In a financial market the bear market is said to be a condition in which maximum of the stocks as well as overall stock indices are making lower lows. Bear market is said to be an inappropriate period for making any stock investing but with strict discipline and proper strategy one can still easily make money through stock trading.

Bear market is much played with the sentiment of economy. Any recession or possibility of slowdown in economy gives rise to bear market and this period is worthless for making any short term or mid term stock investing, however one can take long term view for stock investing by finding out excellent stock which can show strong growth potential even if the economy is in recession stage.

In bull market there could be a significant correction which only could be called as short term “stock correction” but it can’t be called as bear market because the tendency of stock which are corrected bounce back immediately at the same pace and again resumes their bull trend.

Unlike the bull market bear market is very harmful for stock investors as it becomes a very difficult task to make out perfect stock for stock investing which will give high returns.

Bull Market

What is bull market?
Bull market is a condition in stock market where maximum of stocks make all time highs along with the index and this phenomenon continues for many days, weeks, months and even years. As long as the overall main index of stock market is making new highs one can easily call it as bull market. Maximum of the stock investors rush in for stock investing in bull market.

It is having said that no one can make out or predict exactly how far the market remains in “bull” stage but as long as overall indexes and maximum of stocks are making new highs it gives out a clear indication that market is in bull stage. It also does not mean that bull market has no correction and no stock can make news lows but companies (stock) which are showing bad performance in terms of their year-on-year or quarter-on-quarter profit margin performance are beaten down significantly and companies which are showing high growth potential are preferentially given thumbs up.

In a secular long term Bull market there can be many small bear market which can last only for few days or few weeks or few months and this may be mainly due to some external factor affecting the stock market but overall the bull market resumes its upward move again and makes its new high.

Maximum of the stock traders as well as stock investors make significant money in bull market through stock trading and stock investing.

Stock trading strategy

Stock trading is a quite a different job as compared to other job categories. In-fact it is not a job but it is a business which involves millions and billion of money executed in buying and selling of stock. Daily billions of dollar money is coming in and going out of the stock market and you need to have best stock trading strategy in place which will help you to pull out the money from this stock market for yourself.

The task to pull out the money through stock trading is definitely not an easy job but instead it consumes lot of deep knowledge, perfect strategy and very accurate and immediate decisions. Stock trading strategy is something which needs to be implemented in more creative way and which should be perfected accordingly the situation arise.

It is having said that one has to go through many different situations which arise while conducting stock trading at every time interval and you need to know which strategy will be useful for each of such situation. The final goal should be to make consistent money by implementing perfect strategy.

Stock trading only consists of risk and more the potential risk more will be the returns.

Skills required for mastering the stock trading

Stock trading is very complicated and stressful job but with lot of hard work and gathering of deep knowledge and understanding the details of stock can make one successful in mastering the stock trading. There are various factors that need to understand for a person who want to develop the skill and master the stocktrading to make consistent profit.

Stocktrading is not a clerical or simple job which requires same repetitive thing to repeat again and again to execute it but it needs things such as

• A will to study the stock trading thoroughly
• Strong discipline, patience and very cool mind which are strong points of very good stock trader.
• To adjust the stocktrading strategy accordingly the need arise
• Strong money management skills
• Strong stock market knowledge along with knowledge of stock behaviors
• Strong technical analysis skills
• Strong ability to learn and keep updated with stock market news, resources, etc
• Creative mindset and ability to think properly and exactly to take immediate decision accordingly the need arise.
• Ability to detect and avoid getting in bad stock which will make you loser
• A newbie should devote maximum of his time to master trading of stock by studying, executing initial stock trading through paperwork and devoting several months to this until he collect enough experience and expertise to start stock trading through his real money.
• Ability to understand the mindset of other stock trader as well as stock investor is a great plus. Knowing the strategy of other will gives you enough room to adjust your strategy.

Stock trading versus stock investing

In my previous post I have detailed about stock trading and stock investing, but still once again I would like to summarize it in brief.

Stock trading is basically and usually done from short interval of time. Stock traders who usually prefers to do stock trading buys the stock for very small interval of time and exist immediately once their target price is achieved or their predetermined profit get triggered while stock investing is done keeping in view the long term returns which is basically performed by stock investors.

The is a huge difference between trading in stock and investing in stock

• Trading in stock is basically a business done on day to day basis to make profit while investing in stock is an investment done in stock only for long term returns.
• Trading in stock involves lot of risk while investing in stock has low risk if the stock pick is just right.
• Trading in stock done by stock trader does not make use of Fundamental Analysis of stock but they usually like to use Technically Analysis to predetermine their entry and exist point, while stock investor who usually invest in stock make use of Fundamental Analysis and very less of Technical Analysis.
• Trading in stock requires very high technical skill, experience, patience and mentality to accept losses if the stock triggers against their way, while stock investing requires basic fundamental knowledge and person from any category can do it very easily.
• % of success in trading stock is less while % of success in investing stock is very high.
• Stocktrading needs continues monitoring and needs to keep in touch with their stock portfolio on day to day basis while Stockinvesting does not require that much of monitoring or does needs to be in continuous touch with their stock portfolio.

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Stock trader

The person who performs stock trading is basically known as stock trader or stock market trader. The stock market trader is one of the vital and most essential elements in stock market. Stock traders are the peoples whose intention is mostly to perform stock trading and very less or some of stock investing. Stock trading is normally buying and selling of stock done for short period of time may be for days or for few weeks while stock investing is generally done for long period of time means after buying the stock it is hold for few months to many years and then it is sold or kept in hold as long as that stock is performing exceptionally well.

Stock market traders are basically high risk taker individual who actively participate in stock market on almost daily basis. The maximum of the stock market trader treats the stock market as their regular business work and considers this as their only mainstream income source.

The stock market trader buys the stock and usually holds them for very short period of time may be for a day, or a week or mostly for couple of months, beyond that then they could be recognized as stock investor. There is a category in stock market trader mainly called as “day trader” who usually executes the stock trading in only one day. They have the authority to short the stock means they can sell the stock which they are not holding and can cover their position by buying those stock again in the same day…..means taking the profit or loss to their home in the same day itself.

Previously in the old days the stock market trader were very less in number and the process to execute the stock trading was a very complicated process but with the discovery of superb electronic technology and internet the number of stock trader have increased significantly. With the recent development of technology now peoples from all categories are taking use of internet and are becoming regular online stock traders. Online stock trader are now able to execute the stock trading through their home with the help of internet and with the help of same technology they are able to get any information related to stock market or of any stock at their fingertip facilitating them to execute the stocktrading process in efficient way.

Stock investor

Stock investor is a character (individual or firm) who buys and sell stocks in stock market. The stock investor is differentiated in many different terms according to the activities they perform in stock market.

Some of the stock investor are recognized as follows... such as retail stock investors, high net individual stock investor, foreign institutional stock investor, domestic mutual fund stock investors, etc. These stock investors can be differentiated in other terms also as short term stock investor, mid term stock investor or long term stock investor depending upon the horizon they have kept in their mind while making any activities in stock market.

Depending upon the functionality the stock investors plays an important role in keeping the stock market workable. With the absence of stock investor the stock market will stop to function and it will bring a big financial crisis in the economy of the country. As it is evident that stock market is a heart of each countries economy and if it stopped to function then it will make an adverse effect on economy and so the stock investors are very valuable.

Quarterly result

What is Quarterly result?
Quarterly result is an announcement made by the company after every 4 months about the company’s overall performance to shareholder.

Quarterly result is most importance aspect of fundamental analysis. It has been mandatory for all the companies listed on stock exchange to make the public announcement of their company's quarterly results so that the company shareholder comes to know how the company is performing. At the time of declaration of quarterly result the company gives its overall performance of past quarter and at the same times gives future guidance by which the shareholder can clearly get a company’s overview how the present performance of company has been and can predict future performance from the company’s guidance.

While announcing the quarterly result the company has to provide all important information to shareholder such as quarter-on-quarter overall profit, net profit, expenditure, quarterly sales, annual sales, information about clients, % of market holding, expansions, organic growth of company, inorganic growth of company and many other things which gives a clear picture about companies performance.

Long term investor usually waits for quarterly result of company and for future guidance and then decides to make any stock investment in that company or not.

Stock investing basics

stock investing basic is more important for a newbie who is thinking or in an intention to make an investment in stock market.

The first basic thing for a newbie is to know more about what is stock or share?

Stock or share is a portion of ownership of a company allotted to you when you make any investment in that particular company. The portion of ownership depends upon the number of stock you have bought of that company. Making investment in any company means you are participating in the growth of that particular company. Any profit made by the company is divided among the stock investors in the form of dividend or bonus, along with the benefit of increase in price of the stock. As long as company is making consistent profit and shows quarter-on-quarter or year-on-year growth potential the chances of substantial rise in stock price is more and so are the benefit also in the form of dividend and bonus.

Once you are familiar with what the stock is then you need to be familiar with the other aspect of stock investing basics such as fundamental analysis as well as technical analysis of stock for making perfect stock investment which will give you consistent returns.

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Rewards from stock investing

In my previous piece of writing I have given the concept of stock investing. On this page I would like to tell you about the reward you will get by making a stock investing.

From long term perspective the rewards from stock investing are pretty good if you are only in just right stock at right time and that you can achieve with the help of fundamental and technical knowledge.

Assets history has proved that there is no other asset class where investors had made pretty descent earnings other than stock market in long term, but for that the only thing is that you just need to be in right stock. I would once again like to emphasize on just right stock. There are tons of stocks traded on stock market but not all stocks can give you descent returns on long term basis so your choice for stock investing on long term basis should just needs to be perfect.

Once you are in perfect stock your long team earning will grow substantially, the more than you have expected. The rewards you will get in long teams are
• Dividend: Dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company's earnings allotted to the shareholders. The board of direction decides the amount of dividend to be given to shareholder i.e. dividends per share. If the company is making a consistent profit chance of getting dividend once in two years, annually or biannually is high. The dividend can be in cash, bonus shares/stocks, or property.
• Substantial price increase in your stock holding
• Allotment of subsidy shares if any merger or de-merger of another section from the one main company happens.

The person who had made stock investing in the very early days of stock like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, or in any other Fortune 500 companies had achieved significant growth in their asset. In the future there will be new companies replacing the place of Wal-Mart or Microsoft or any Fortune 500 companies and you have to hunt such companies for your asset growth and to get steady return on long term basis.

Worldwide stock market rally on Fed’s meeting ahead

Monday October 29, 2007


The Asian market were on rollercoaster movement today which was mostly impacted by Friday’s strong ending on Wall Street and ahead of Fed’s meeting this week. All the major indices amongst the Asian pack made a significant positive ending lead by Hang-Seng 1000+ points gain and Sensex gained almost 600+ point and end at its all time high. European markets were also open on strong positive note, rising for the third session in a row.

Australian market ASX 100 end 1.35% at 5495, Japanese market Nikkei end 1.17% higher at 16,698, Hang-Seng end 3.89% at 31586 and Indian market Sensex end 3.82% at 19977.67.

The Indian markets seen another milestone after Sensex touching all time high at 20,000 marks. The Reliance pack leaded this rally followed by L&T and ONGC. Today gain was third biggest single day absolute point for the Sensex. All the major indices showed solid performance.