A Brief Introduction to Stock Investing Stock investing, equities investing and investing in shares are three words that are often used synonymously. Stock investing allows you to become an owner of a public company and provides...
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The Stock Market
The Stock Market – Buy, Buy errr Bye! We have all heard of the Stock Market, in fact on the news, we can’t escape it. Daily we are shown values; the FTSE falls 3%, the NYSE falls by 2% and so on. That to many probably...
Investment Strategies
You could make a mint following your intuition, but as a beginner it might be worth adopting a tried and tested strategy for stock market investment. None of the methods we’ve outlined promise riches overnight. Not all will...
Stock Market Research
Before you pick up the phone, or log on and buy shares, DO YOUR RESEARCH. Sorry to shout. But I would advise anyone buying shares to do a lot of research. In this section: The Financial Pages Annual Reports Understanding the...
Getting Serious: More on Markets (also known as Moron Markets)
The academic textbooks talk about capital markets, not share markets, not stock markets, but capital markets. London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong are huge watering holes where industry and commerce gather to gorge themselves on...
More Advanced: Why Buy Shares?
Shares – Let’s take a Closer Look Shares – you know what they are, so let’s see why people buy shares. It might sound trite, particularly when the stock market is crashing around people’s ears, but...
The Basics
Let’s start with the basics… Buying and selling shares can be likened to a trip to the supermarket. The only difference is that rather than buying off the shelf, your transaction is carried out by a broker, a...
Guaranteed Stop Losses – Market and Quote Orders
Guaranteed stop losses can prevent some nasty surprises and allow spread betters to relax a bit when they’re away from their screens. Jo. Tura (from the Finspreads Trading Academy) talks tactics and looks at the ups and...
Saucer Bottom, Cup and Handle and Spikes
These are patterns or shapes that you will see at a chart reversal, and fortunately they don’t occur very often as they are difficult to reliably identify. A saucer shape, sometimes called a rounding bottom, is just a...
Technical Indicators
Charles Dow is credited with the rationale behind all modern technical analysis theories. As discussed previously, the market price of a stock / commodity / forex reflects all the current available information about it. How many...
