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Ten Share Trading Tips.

Posted by strudy on Feb 6th, 2009

1. OPPORTUNITIES. There are dozens of these every day, unfortunately you can’t buy them all, so only pick the top 10 and then narrow them down to 2 to 3.
This is done by using your buying criteria which is part of your trading plan which you already have written down. (Hopefully you have one?)
2. BUYING [...]

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Some Factors To Look At When You Are Trading Shares.

Posted by strudy on Feb 6th, 2009

Some Factors To Look At When You Are Trading Shares.
1. Assessing the risk: - The longer you are in the trade, (you own the stock) the more the chance increases of a reversal in the share price. If you are in for the Long Term than this is not so an important factor.
2. Time [...]

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Trading Secrets of a Successful Share Trader

Posted by strudy on Jan 11th, 2009

The first and most important thing a trader must have is a “TRADING PLAN”

This is a “Written PLAN” which you can refer to from time to time. The reason for this is that it will keep you on track and on the right path to becoming a “Successful Share Trader. It should comprise of [...]

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Do You Have The Disciplines Required To Become a Successful Share Trader?

Posted by strudy on Dec 2nd, 2008

Do You Have The Disciplines Required To Become a Successful Share Trader?

The average person who begins trading in the share market often has little idea or knowledge as to what is required to become a profitable successful share trader.Due to this lack of knowledge they have unreal expectations of how much money can be [...]

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Stock Market Volatility - Now is NOT the Time to Sell

Posted by andyfvp on Nov 21st, 2008

Today’s bad economic news coupled with investor fear over the fate of Citibank (see why I think this bank may collapse) and other financial stocks, sent the stock market spiralling to a 5 year low. A sense of panic and fear seems to have entered the hearts of many investors, including myself, and the urge [...]

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Short Seller Taken to Court

Posted by Debbie on Nov 9th, 2008

We have no idea who Giovanni Spagnolo is. We don’t know whether he is a professional trader, a small investor, a fund manager or anything else.
But what we do know is the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has taken him to court for short selling. To be more precise, for naked short selling. You [...]

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Traders and Timing..

Posted by strudy on Oct 14th, 2008

I have been taking a closer look at timing particularly when entering the stock market and also on leaving, but more on that later.

Timing very much depends on what sort of trader you are .For a day trader timing is crucial as there are only the hours available that the market is open today. They [...]

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Don’t get rich quick

Posted by strudy on Oct 6th, 2008

A good example of long term astute trading is Warren Buffet who is now 78 years young. He is currently worth an estimated cool $52 billion give or take a million.

And he has achieved that by essentially looking for quality, well-managed companies that are undervalued by the market. And he is prepared to wait [...]

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Psychological Share Trading

Posted by strudy on Sep 2nd, 2008

The above title sounds very outlandish and somewhat unnerving. But in reality it is about one of the most common and basic traits in our nature that in reality make us what we are, and only too often this will dictate how and why we trade the way we do, Often to our own detriment [...]

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What Is The Hardest Thing Any Trader Will Face?

Posted by DeanWh on Sep 1st, 2008

Visit forums, join memberships, purchase tuition with member areas for support, read books, talk to fellow traders etc and you can be guaranteed you will come across many who will be struggling with a whole host of reasons why. Some will even appear as experts but beneath the surface are struggling with some aspect of [...]

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