The forex market involves the trading of currencies and is the largest financial market in the world with an estimated daily turnover of $1.5 trillon dollars. This is 30 times larger than all the US stock markets combined. The forex market is open 24 hours a day 5 days a week. Historically, the FX market was available mainly to major…
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Stock Option Trading To Increase Returns
There has been a steady rise in the use of stock options by investors to maximize their leverage and returns over the past twelve months. Chicago Board Options Exchange confirms this observation when they recently reported that the month of March was their busiest on record with volume up 55% over the same month last year. In fact all previous…
Stock Splits And How You Can Profit From Them
Stock splitting is something that investors like. When stocks split, it means you have twice the amount of shares you did before. The value of each one does go down but the amount increases. This gives you greater leverage and the stocks have a chance of going up in value in the future. Companies sometimes like to split their stocks…
Stock Indexes The Inside Story
Most of us have heard of stock indexes, but have only a fuzzy idea of them at best. This article aims to clarify some of the basics of stock indexes — what they are and how they work. What Is A Stock Index? A stock index is simply an average price for a large group of stocks, either those on…
Should You Invest In Mutual Funds Or Stocks
With so many options out there for the individual investor, it is sometimes difficult to determine that investments are right for you. The key to having a long-term, stable and profitable portfolio is to diversify your investments. For many investors the process of diversification includes investing in both mutual funds and stocks. The best course is to learn all you…
Trading Stocks Online What Works
Imagine you are trying to do car repairs, and the only tool you have is a hammer. Sure, you’ll be able to get some jobs done, but they won’t be done properly and you’ll most likely break something else in the process. Trading stocks online is much like that. There are many ways to trade, but only some of them…
Trade Management Equals Win Or Broke
Importance of Trade Management Do you know that even though a group of traders buy the same stocks or options at the same time, some of them may become millionaires over time and some of them simply go broke? All things equal, the most important factor that determines if you would become a millionaire (or billionaire?) or a complete loser…
Make More Money Trading The Stock Market
If you are a stock trader, how often do you base your buy and sell decision on technical analysis? If you use technical indicators in your trades, Ashkon Stock Predictor can help you make closer predictions of the stock market. Thanks to the dozens of simple pre-defined trading strategies and literally hundreds of combined ones, there will be no lack…
A Few Tips For Day Trading The Stock Market
Day trading the stock market involves the rapid buying and selling of stocks on a day-to-day basis. This technique is used to secure quick profits from the constant changes in stock values, minute to minute, second to second. It is rare that a day trader will remain in a trade over the course of a night into the next day.…
Intelligent Stock Trading
If you want be a successful penny stock trader, you’ll need to be an intelligent trader. There are very few requirements to start trading in penny stocks. It can be broken down into three main things. 1. Money: The money we are talking about is not just the money that is sitting in your bank account. It is not the…