Individual Investing and Trading

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Below you’ll find the posts at Financial Advice Zone from the investing category.We highly recommend you read each of them if you’re serious about making money in learning more about investing

Reverse Splits, a Good Idea, or Desperate Act of a Dying Company

When a stock performs well, an announcement of a coming stock split can make investors even more optimistic. The announcement of a reverse stock split, more often than not, is a desperate act from a dying company. An announcement that a company is going to do a reverse split leaves investors wondering if their shares [...]

Stock Trading – The Best Six Month Theory

Most everyone has heard the expression “Sell in May and Go Away” but I’ll bet many investors do not know why. Statistically May signals a period of time in the stock market when returns are minimal at best, if not negative. This period of time runs May to November. This is a timing strategy, where [...]

Trading Stocks On Price And Volume

What does volume tell the stock trader ? The main thing it tells us is how much interest is in a stock. When volume spikes it gives us an idea of the emotional excitement, or “irrational exuberance” to quote Alan Greenspan, there is for a certain stock. Stock chart volume is simply the number of [...]

Stock Trading – Golden Cross – A Buy Signal

Ever heard that a rising tide lifts all boats, it works that way in the stock market as well. After a tumultuous 2011 and ending the year just about unchanged, the stock market is rising. What has changed to cause the market to climb, not much. Trading volume is still on the low side. There [...]

A Day In The Life Of A Day Trader

I am a day trader, I love the thrill of the trade, every day presents a new opportunity. I don’t believe that there is any better teacher than experience, so much of what I know is learned from my trading successes and failures. I stick with what works for me and that is shorting. For [...]

Stock Analysts – Does Anyone Really Care

If you’re an investor, you probably know that Wall Street is full of analysts who study and report on what they believe is the health and stability of stocks as well as commodities and other investment products. Their primary duty is to give investors unbiased, tradable advice based on careful study of industry analytics as [...]

Stock Market Decisions – Forget the Noise

The more information we can get our hands on, the better, right? Not necessarily and here’s why. Speaking personally, I have to admit that I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. A stomach ache might be cancer, a small pain in my chest could be a heart attack and a common cold could be the beginning [...]

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