Stock Pick – Tiffany And Co

TIFFANY AND CO

On Monday Tiffany & Co posted higher than expected quarterly result. The company has reported increased sales overseas and at the same the newly opened stores has helped to counterbalance the effects of a slowing US economy as that has put a strain on consumer spending.

The company reported that its net sales increased 15% in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 and rose 10% in the fourth quarter. Net earnings per diluted share from continuing operations excluding non-recurring items increased 22% to $2.33 in the year and increased 19% to $1.27 in the fourth quarter.

The company’s net sales in the fiscal year increased 15% to $2,938,771,000. On a constant-exchange-rate basis, which excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, net sales increased 13% and worldwide comparable store sales increased 7%.

The company’s sales rose 10% to $1.05 billion. The company is expecting, for the current year, the net earnings per share to rise by 11% to 15% to a range of $2.75 to $2.85.

The Company repurchased and retired 9,299,491 shares of its Common Stock in the fourth quarter at a total cost of $418,374,000, or an average cost of $44.99 per share. In the year, the Company spent $574,608,000 to repurchase 12,374,000 shares of its Common Stock at an average cost of $46.44 per share. In January 2008, the Board of Directors increased by $500 million the amount authorized for future repurchases through January 2011. At January 31, 2008, the Company had $621 million available for future repurchases.

About Tiffany And Co

Tiffany & Co. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiary companies. The Company's principal subsidiary, Tiffany and Company, is a jeweler and specialty retailer, whose merchandise offerings include an extensive selection of jewelry (83% of net sales in fiscal 2006), as well as timepieces, sterling silverware, china, crystal, stationery, fragrances and accessories.

Through Tiffany and Company and other subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in product design, manufacturing and retailing activities.

Company’s performance on stock market

After touching the January’s low, this stock had performed quite well on Wall Street. At current situation, after the quarterly result, it is expected the stock will resume its upward movement.

Technically the stock seems to have resistant at $45. Once the stock takes out $45 resistant successfully with huge volume, the immediate target seems at $50 and from mid to long term, the stock has potential to touch $60.

From long term investor’s point of view, I think systemic small-small accumulation of Tiffany stock will be a very good strategy at current market scenario. Even though the Wall Street has gained quite considerably after the two month’s turmoil, it certainly cannot be granted that Wall Street is now completely out of woods. There is lot of uncertainties out there, and any slight negative news from economy front can drag the market southward.

If the Dow Jones and NASDAQ tends to move southward then this stock will also follow their same direction, but at lower level of $35, this stock will be a very good buy with huge upward potential and very low downside risk.

Mid Term Target: $50
Long Term Target: $60

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Omnicell Ind - Fundamentally Looks Good

Omnicell, Inc. is a leading provider of various medication control and patient safety solutions for acute care health facilities.

The company's healthcare automation solutions enable healthcare facilities to acquire, manage, dispense, and administer medications and medical-surgical supplies. It offers medication-use product line for use in acute care nursing departments, central pharmacy automation, physician order management, and nursing workflow automation at the bedside.

The company had very recently announced on Feb 25th, repurchase of an aggregate of up to $40 million of its common stock over the next 12 months. The Company’s Board of Directors decided to pursue this course of action after a review of the Company’s financial position and investment alternatives. The Company expects the stock repurchase program to be accretive to earnings.

This move had leaded the Omnicell stock to remain isolated with ongoing carnage and turmoil in stock market. The stock show strong buy signal and downside risk also looks quite less.

Omnicell also announced that it expects 2008 earnings from operating income will be higher than previously estimated and expects the estimated return on cash investments to be reduced to an average of 3% as a result of recent Federal Reserve rate reductions, which will offset the increases in operating income. After these adjusted estimates, Omnicell reaffirms its previous 2008 earnings forecast of $0.85 to $0.88 per share, excluding stock compensation charges.

Technically the stock looks quite good. The stock is certainly giving buy signal and has very good potential to touch $30 on mid term basis.

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Stock pick - Universal Health Services Inc

Universal Health Services Inc (UHS) posted a descent quarterly result on Thursday 28 Feb, 2008. The USH Inc Posted 17% increase in 4th quarter profit on back of higher revenue from its acute care and behavioral health facilities.

Universal health earned $40 million, or 75% per share, compared with $34.2 million, or 63 cents per share, for the same quarter in 2006.

Revenue for the quarter rose 12% to $1.19 billion as expected with Wall Street estimates of $1.20 billion.

Universal forecast 2008 earnings from continuing operations of $3.37 to $3.42 per share on revenue of $5.13 billion. Wall Street analysts' are estimating earnings of $3.37 per share.

The main revenue source from acute care hospitals rose 7.6 %, while revenue at behavioral health facilities rose 9.5 %.

With ongoing bloodbath on Wall Street, it becomes evident to stay in more profitable and defensive stock which will help you to keep your stock investment safe. According to me USH stock comes in that defensive stock category. This stock has unique presence in healthcare sector. The healthcare sector is said to be more defensive and less impacted with any financial crisis.

Looking at technical chart of this stock, it looks like the stock has strong resistant at $54. According to me the stock should cross $54 irrespective of what is happening in overall stock market. Still I would remain cautions and will avoid doing any stock trading in this stock until the stock crosses $54 with high volume. Once the $54 is taken out successfully with high volume and stock remains above $54 for couple of days then I would like to take long position with price target of $62 and then $67.

Median target: $62
High target: $67

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Stock Pick - Zebra Technologies Corp

Zebra Technologies Corp (ZBRA) posted a higher than street expected fourth-quarter profit on Monday.

The company’s net profit rose to $30.8 million or 45 cents a share from $21.4 million, or 30 cents a share, a year earlier. Company’s revenue increased 11.3% to $233.6 million from $209.9 million. Wall Street analysts had expected earnings of 43 cents a share on revenue of $226 million.

The company said it expected first-quarter earnings of 36 cents to 44 cents a share on sales of $238 million to $255 million. The forecast includes special items that will reduce profit by about 9 cents a share.

The company, with international headquarters in Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA, has an installed base of nearly five million printers worldwide. Zebra Technologies delivers innovative and reliable on-demand printing solutions for business improvement and security applications in 100 countries around the world. More than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Zebra-brand printers. A broad range of applications benefit from Zebra-brand bar code, "smart" label, receipt, and card printers, resulting in enhanced security, increased productivity, improved quality, lower costs, and better customer service. The company has sold nearly five million printers, including RFID printer/encoders and wireless mobile solutions, and also offers software, connectivity solutions, and printing supplies.

The fundamental story of the stock looks bright, but technically the stock movement is not that encouraging. The stock has strong resistance at level of $34, but if stock crosses $34 resistance level successfully with huge volume then the stock can easily head to $42 and then $49. The stock seems to have strong support level at $27.50. The stock can be bought from median to long term perspective with price target of $42. From stock trading perspective once the stock takes out $34 resistance successfully the traders can go long with strict stoploss at $27.50. Any sharp fall in this stock should be taken as good opportunity to enter in this stock.

Median target: $42
High target: $49
Stoploss: $27.50

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Stock Pick - Williams Companies Inc.

Williams Companies Inc. (WMB)

Williams Companies Inc through its subsidiaries engages in the production, gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas.

The ongoing rise in energy prices has significantly boosted the company’s revenue. The company announced its quarterly result on Thursday. The company reported healthy 53% jump in its fourth-quarter profit.

Many of the research firm has upgraded this stock to outperform. Fundamentally as well as technically, the stock is positioned well. At present situation the overall Wall Street is going through significant volatile session, William Companies is showing strong uptrend. From stock trading perspective the stock is giving buy signal with a stoploss around $33.50. The median target for this stock can be around $42 to $45.

For fourth-quarter 2007, recurring income from continuing operations after mark-to-market adjustments was $358 million, or 59 cents per share, compared with $173 million, or 28 cents per share, for the same period in 2006.

Recurring income from continuing operations after mark-to-market adjustments was $1.05 billion, or $1.73 per share, for 2007, compared with $648 million, or $1.07 per share, for 2006.

For 2007, Williams' businesses reported consolidated segment profit of $2.16 billion, compared with $1.49 billion for 2006. In fourth-quarter 2007, the company reported consolidated segment profit of $539 million, compared with $375 million in the fourth quarter of 2006.

The profit was mainly driven by higher natural-gas liquid margins remaining at historically high levels, strong growth in domestic natural gas production volumes, and the positive effect of new rates on two pipeline systems. Moreover the company is expecting this trend to remain through the year.

Current price: $35.57
Target price: $42 to $45
Stoploss: $33.50

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Wall Street Finished Higher After Early Losses

Wall Street saw a dramatic stock trading day on Wednesday, just the opposite that happened Tuesday. Strong recovery was seen in major indices in later session of market after a sharp fall in the stock market opening session.

A good pullback in hard-hit stocks of financial companies helped fuel the session's turnaround, while an upbeat forecast from Hewlett Packard Co. pulled technology issues higher and record prices for oil gave a boost to energy stocks.

It is quite hard for analysis to believe the worst is over for Wall Street, but looking at present scenarios it seems like Wall Street is going through consolidation phase. Consolidation phase is normally a narrow range where market tries to make a base. It happens normally after steep fall or sharp rise in the stock market.

At this point of time I feel the market will remain in narrow range. I don’t see sharp fall or sharp rise in near term. However good buy opportunity is seen in many stocks.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 90.04, or 0.73%, to 12,427.26 after at one point being down nearly 110 points. Broader stock indicators also moved higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 11.25, or 0.83%, to 1,360.03, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 20.90, or 0.91%, to 2,327.10.

Wall Street end Mixed Amid Inflation Fears

February 20, 2008

The major indices on Wall Street opened sharply higher on Tuesday and gave up a big early advance and closed mixed with modest losses due to weakness in financials and tech. Stock investors were concerned after the oil prices closed above $100 for the first time and put fuel on fears that inflation will baffle on already troubled economy. The rising inflation fear might make the Fed think again its preconception in the direction of lowering interest rates to help the troubled economy.

The market mood seems more cautious at this point of time. Investors are positioning themselves ahead of important economic reports that could give the stock market further direction. The most important economic data will be Wednesday's Labor Department report on consumer prices for January.

The hardly hit sector on Tuesday was Financial. As it is know that banks are facing more financial problems this year that dragged the sector sharply lower. There are reports that Lehman Brothers may face its rockiest quarter since the mortgage crisis began, noting it may face $1.3 billion in additional write-downs. Additional to this, the selling pressure came from the news that Credit Suisse had overvalued assets by about $2.85 billion, with the company blaming a small number of traders for the write-down.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 10.99, or 0.09%, to 12,337.22 after being up more than 150 points earlier in the day stock trading session. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 1.21, or 0.09%, to 1,348.78; and the Nasdaq composite fell 15.60, or 0.67% to 2,306.20.

Stock pick - Credicorp

February 09, 2008

The technical as well as fundamental story of Credicrop (NYSE: BAP) looks quite strong. Credicrop seems to outperform the overall stock market, and can be a good stock pick at present situation from stock trading as well as stock investing perspective.

Since the starting of year 2008, the Dow Jones and NASDAQ are showing poor performance. Maximum of the index stocks are beaten down sharply, however Peru’s Credicrop has been showing strong defense and has been performing quite well as compared to other peer stocks.

Credicorp reported 4.1% increase in 4Q07 earnings reaching US$ 94 million, consolidating its outstanding performance with total earnings for the year 2007 of US$ 350.7 million.
• Loan growth of its banking business exceeded expectations again this quarter with total net loans up 10.5% QoQ and consolidating an astounding annual growth of 40.7%.
• Interest income followed this trend with a robust 20.6% QoQ growth, contributing to annual growth of 36.3% despite the persistent competition and pressure on rates.
• NII however, increased a more modest 27.2% during 2007.
• Strong non financial income growth of 8.1% QoQ and annual growth of 21% reveals further increases in bank transactional activity and the fee expansion at the pension fund business.
• Despite the competitive pressures and increased funding costs, the impact on Net Interest Margin could be contained given the better earnings structure resulting from the continuing change in loan mix showing NIM of 5.11% in 4Q07 vs. 5.16% in 3Q07. However, NIM for 2007 was better at 5.21% improving from 2006’s NIM at 5.06%.

Company’s information

Credicorp is listed in the New York Stock Exchange and fully complies with the Sarbanes Oxley Act in force in the United States since July 2002. The Sarbanes Oxley Act has become the international standard against which Corporate Governance practices are rated.

Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) is the leading financial services holding company in Peru. It primarily operates via its four principal subsidiaries:
• Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP)
• Atlantic Security Holding Corporation (ASHC)
• El Pacífico-Peruano Suiza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros (PPS)
• Grupo Credito
Credicorp is engaged principally in commercial banking (including trade finance, corporate finance and leasing services), insurance (including commercial property, transportation and marine hull, automobile, life, health and pension fund underwriting insurance) and investment banking (including brokerage services, asset management, trust, custody and securitization services, trading and investment). BCP is the Company's primary subsidiary; as of the period ended December 31, 2005, it contributed 97.0% of Credicorp's total revenues.

Stock Idea - Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc

Stock trading as well as stock investing point of view I think Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc looks quite promising. The fundamental story of this stock looks quite good. At current situation when heavy carnage is going on Wall Street, this stock seems more a like of defensive stock and holding this stock is quite profitable. It looks like there is very low downward risk and upward move looks quite bright. From long term stock investing perspective this stock can give high returns. At current situation this stock seems to be in trading zone of $46 to $54 but any descent rally on Wall Street can easily break its 52-weeks high level.

Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient as of 1-Feb-08 is better than 54.3% of S&P 500 companies and 86.3% of Food Beverage & Tobacco companies.

The company reported fourth quarter 2007 net sales increased 7.9 percent and diluted earnings per share increased 16 percent. For the full year 2007, net sales increased 6.2 percent and diluted earnings per share (excluding normalization items in both years) improved 10.3 percent.

Business Summary of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and distribution of beer. The company operates in four segments: Domestic Beer, International Beer, Packaging, and Entertainment. The Domestic Beer segment offers beer under the Budweiser, Michelob, Busch, and Natural brand names.

The segment also offers specialty beers, non-alcohol brews, malt liquors, specialty malt beverages, energy drinks, ale, and malt-based products, such as caffeine, gingseng, and guarana. The International Beer segment markets and sells Budweiser and various brands outside the United States; and operates breweries in the United Kingdom and China. This segment also negotiates and administers license and contract brewing agreements with various foreign brewers; and negotiates and manages equity investments in foreign brewing partners. In addition, this segment owns and sells beer under the Harbin and various brand names.

The Packaging segment manufactures beverage cans and beverage can lids; pressure sensitive, metalized, plastic, and paper labels; crown and closure liner materials; and glass bottles. This segment also engages in buying, recycling, and selling aluminum and plastic beverage containers.

The Entertainment segment owns and operates theme parks in Tampa and Orlando, Florida; Williamsburg, Virginia; San Antonio, Texas; Langhorne, Pennsylvania; and San Diego, California. In addition, the company, through its subsidiaries, engages in real estate development; and owns and operates The Kingsmill Resort and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia. The company also owns and operates transportation service businesses. Anheuser-Busch Companies was founded in 1852 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ascending Tops and Ascending Bottoms

Ascending tops and ascending bottoms plays a very important role as a technical analysis in selling and buying of stock for stock investing as well as for stock trading.

Ascending tops and ascending bottoms are technical indicators shown in stock chart pattern. They clearly demonstrate the performance of a given stock over a period of time.

Ascending tops is applied to gauge the development of the price of a stock over a given period of time. This style of technical analysis is more concentrated on the high price of the stock, taking note of the highest point in the complete performance of the stock. The stock chart pattern comes into view when a stock frequently tries to make new highs. This frequent new high clearly identifies that the stock is in bull market condition.

In contrary, ascending bottoms takes a different view of the technical analysis. This style of technical analysis is more concentrated on the low price of the stock, taking note of lowest point of the stock. The stock chart pattern comes into view when lows of the stock trading range get progressively higher over a given time frame, and it is considered as a bullish indicator.

Both ascending tops and ascending bottoms are useful in evaluating the performance of any type of stock. The use of ascending tops and ascending bottoms permits the stock trader as well as stock investor to have a clear picture of any trends that seem to be occurring with the stock. Therefore, monitoring both ascending tops and ascending bottoms of a stock helps the stock trader and stock investor to understand whether it is a time to sell a stock, or to buy a stock or to hold on.

Wall Street Crash by Worse Credit Fears

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Friday was again a worse day for stock trading session on Wall Street, in the midst of fears that the financial sector's trouble with worse credit won't soon end. It is having said that some consumers are collapsing under the influence of a slowdown in economy.

Stock investors are worried about how banks and brokerages will turn out in this quarter after suffering losses in the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Stock Investors are also anxious after American Express Corp. warned that slowdown in spending and more negligence on credit card payments will impede profit throughout 2008.

Stock traders seemed to grow more distrustful in advance of quarterly result reports due next week from the nation's biggest financial institutions. Merrill Lynch & Co., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are slated to weigh in next week.

With the beginning of New Year, the stocks have slipped lower. Dow Jones repeatedly falling by whopping triple digits in many single sessions.

The major indexes each lost more than 1 %, including the Dow Jones industrials, which finished down nearly 250 points. The Dow is down 4.96 % for the year. The S&P is down 4.59 %, and the Nasdaq has lost 8.01 %.

Stock Chart - Technical Analysis Tool

A stock chart is a string plotted on a graph for stock prices versus specific time frame. Once you are familiar with technical analysis, a concept used in identifying stock movements, then you could find the technical stock chart a more useful tool used in technical analysis, in-fact chart formation is most important aspect of technical analysis.

If you want to make stock investing, or to do day trading or online stock trading you definitely need to thinks about stock price chart formation technical pattern for your above help in making a vice decision. There is a big community in stock market who strongly believes in stock chart pattern in-fact maximum of them use it on day-to-day basis.

Stock price chart helps in many way giving you a perfect view of price movement on per hour, per day, per week, per month, and so on basis to make a exact decision.



The above chart represents the Dow Jones index chart for the period of six months. The vertical line i.e. y-axis represents the price scale and horizontal line i.e. x-axis represents the time scale. One can find an easy method to detect the support level for Dow Jones index just by viewing the previous supported price at which point the Dow Jones was bounce back.

There are also various methods by which the stock trader can get broader idea about the support level and resistance level of stock by gaining detail knowledge of stock chart pattern study, which I will put in front of you in more details in my coming postings. In short there are various stock charts which a stock trader needs to know and they are
Line chart
Bar chart
Candlestick chart
Point and figure chart
Price scaling

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.

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.

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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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

As it is known that stock trading is highly risky and difficult task and to cope with this situation every novice needs to have deep knowledge and strong experience. Experience is a thing which comes with practice and this practice can make a novice highly skilled and knowledgeable stock trader but to gain this practice and experience many a time many novice stock trader looses considerable amount of their hard earned money in stock trading and also maximum of them is forced to say good bye to this field.

But to cope with this situation every novice need to gain practice, experience and knowledge via some developed technology by which they can trade the stock and at the same not losing a penny to become a skilled stock trader and for this Wall Street Survivor™ has launched an online Fantasy Stock Market Trading Game product.

After registering with Wall Street Survivor you will be given a virtual cash money (not real money) of $100,000 to trade the stock. You can manage your own fantasy stock portfolio and execute trades in real time, while competing with other registered stock trader community.

This product is highly valuable for novice as well as who has basic knowledge of stock trading. By participating in this Fantasy stock market trading game one can easily gain knowledge, experience and also top scorer is awarded with cash prices of $25000.

Benefit of participating this online Fantasy stock market trading game
• It is free.
• You will be allotted virtual cash money of $100,000 to trade the real stock.
• You will be able to trade stocks in Real Time.
• You can practice and can learn how to trade stock.
• You will understand every aspect of stock trading and over a period of time you will get considerable amount of experience and knowledge.
• You can socialize with other stock traders and can pick up quick stock tips and strategies.
• You can experiment with different stock trading strategies
• Citizen from any country will be able to participate in this fantasy stock market trading game.

For registration click here Traders Wanted - Play $25,000 Stock Trading Game