Stock Trading Tutorial
Did you know that you can buy and sell stocks without sitting in front of a computer? You can set an pre- order to trade a company at any price. For example: Apple’s stock is $176. You set an order to buy a 1 share of Apple if the price increases to $180. While you’reContinue reading “Auto Trading: Making money while you sleep”
Investing is for everyone. Trading is not for everyone. In order to be a good investor, you only need a little bit of knowledge. In order to be a good trader, you need a lot of knowledge AND a considerable amount of practice to develop a certain skill set. Wise investors invest in companies whoseContinue reading “Investing vs Trading”
A lot of people think that you can only make money in the stock market if the stock prices are rising. This is not true. In fact, you can make just as much money when the market is falling. In some cases you make more money and at a faster pace when the market isContinue reading “Making Money While the Market Falls”
From time to time the market goes down for a certain period of time. We call these time periods pullbacks ( less than 10% decline), corrections(10-20% decline), and recessions (more than 20% decline). Many people panic during these times but a few smart people take advantage of good prices and increase their overall wealth duringContinue reading “Understanding pullbacks and corrections”
We’ll, it’s not because the value of everything is going up. Its not because everything is scarce either. It’s because of inflation! The bread that we eat today is of no better quality than the bread we ate 20 years ago. In fact in many ways the quality of today’s food has decreased in manyContinue reading “Why is the price of everything going up ?”
Spotting Divergence
To untrained eyes this may look like chaos but to a trained eye, this looks like opportunity. We saw this pullback happening before it took place and made money off of the correction using “short trades”. When you learn how to read charts, you can spot a change in the direction of the market beforeContinue reading “Reading Charts to Spot Trends”
One simple approach to investing is to invest in the same companies that you pay money to every month. Whether getting paid from their app stores , phones sales, ad revenue, or middle man services (Apple Pay & Google pay), these technology giants are in everyone’s pockets. Everyday you utilize these phones to buy productsContinue reading “Money Hidden in your Hand”
Some new traders get frustrated around Christmas because the markets seems so erratic. Around December the 15th, all of the major market movers receive their Christmas bonuses and unplug for the year. With the major players temporarily out of the market, the market flow is left over to retail traders to influence the market. RetailContinue reading “Holiday Trading”