Short-term traders tend to concentrate on technical chart patterns, and long-term investors tend to pay much more attention to the fundamentals of the company. However, both types of market participant should use a combination of the two approaches for better timing and greater returns. The technical setup pattern can give some assurance that an upward [...]
Do short-term traders assume more risk or less risk than long-term investors? Does selling quickly when an overpriced stock breaks down make a person a trader? If so, is that a bad thing? If you read between the lines in the financial press, you will find that it is the “traders” who profit from short [...]
In a volatile market, short-term stock trends can be used to control risk and enhance returns. The amplitude of short-term price swings is often greater than a stock’s appreciation for a full year. Since a person cannot know in advance whether a short-term “dip” will not become a “plunge,” it is necessary to pay careful [...]
ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) which can be traded like stock at any time during market hours, have low expense ratios, have less risk than individual stocks, do not have some of the tax disadvantages of a regular mutual fund, do not pool investor capital, and are constructed so they are far less susceptible than “standard” mutual [...]
Ask (Offer) – the price of the offer, the price you buy for. Bear – If someone has a negative view of a particular currency and believes that its price will decrease, they are said to be ‘bearish’ about that currency. Bid (Demand) -the price of the demand, the price you sell for. Bull – [...]
To have a pre-disposition to buy and hold stocks for the long-term can be an extremely expensive frame of mind. The long-term market trend is up, but in a volatile stock market, the long-term gain is often laden with risk and not nearly as great as many short-term gains. Risk vs. return has greatly increased [...]
Positive technical signals tend to precede good financial reports from a company. That is, the technical patterns precede and anticipate the fundamental reports. Stock price patterns reflect the buying and selling of all the people who have intimate knowledge about the company. The rest of the investment world creates the noise in stock behavior that [...]
“Timing the market” is considered by many to be a foolish exercise. Timing the market is indeed foolish if it is done the way many seem to think it is done. However, it is really a matter of having a good sell strategy or stop loss system coupled with a good buy strategy. Expert timers [...]
There is always a chance that the stock will reverse direction just after it has triggered the stop loss, no matter where a stop loss is placed. We wanted to know if the amount of decline allowed by the stop loss affected the probability of a reversal immediately after the stock is sold. To answer [...]
What do the “experts” say about stop-losses? Granville, Weinstein, Dines, Magee, Crane, Edwards, Zweig, O’Neil, Wycoff, Sperandeo, Bernstein, Schwager, Murphy, and many others agree that stop-losses are an important part of any investment discipline. Some investment professionals, like William O’Neil of Investors Business Daily, say that a person should sell any stock that drops 8% [...]
Options are like insurance policies because they share many same characteristics. The difference between options and insurance policies that can be seen is their purpose; option and insurance have difference purpose. Both of them are used for different purpose. We bought insurance to protect something valuable that we deem is worth to protect. Usually, this [...]
It is a fact that we can use the market’s trend as an ally in the buying and selling of our stock positions. This is possible because the market signals when it is starting a new bullish trend or a new bearish trend. You can know whether or not the market will support you if [...]
The market appears to have changed from being a declining market to being a rising market. Day after day, reporters announce that there has been another market advance. Yet, it may seem that every time you invest in a stock it breaks down and your stop loss is triggered. It is not always easy to [...]
Swing trading is a popular method of capitalizing on the short-term price variations of the stock market. It has earned a reputation of being a powerful method of maximizing profits at lower risks. The best swing trading strategy involves choosing the right stock and the right market. Swing traders usually choose the stocks that fluctuate [...]
Risk is the probability of loss. It is best to estimate it and to adjust your purchase and sell strategies to it in order to control loss before the purchase is made. Correct timing of purchases, buying near support, limiting loss potential, and stopping the decline by using volatility stop losses are all ingredients of [...]
