Trading Stocks – Day Trading, Swing Trading, Trading Strategies

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 [...]

Long Term Bonds and S&P Divergence – What Does it Mean

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If at the beginning of 2011, anyone had forecast long term bonds returning more than 20% by year end you might expect that stocks got pummeled. Oh contrar, the S&P closed at 1,267.50 on December 30th down .04 points or 0.0%, the Dow was up a few percent and the Nasdaq was down a few [...]

Day Trading and Stock Market Volatility

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What is market volatility? Market volatility is when the market goes up 175 points one day, down 250 points the next day, then back up 300 the following day. Heck, the markets can do this all in one day. I’ve mentioned before that news is what moves the markets and that the markets hate uncertainty. [...]