Investing 101
Paper Trading Portfolio No. 3 — An Explanation of the Stock Market Basics Approach to Short-term Trading
Trading with very limited working capital The Paper Trading Portfolio No. 3 is now established and in process as we follow the steps described below to populate the 3 proposed versions that are focused on trading with very limited working capital — as might be the case with someone wishing to learn the stock market [...]
Continue reading...What Yield Can Be Reasonably Expected by Following a Short Term Trading Approach?
23 April 2011 – 11:14 am PDT
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The long term approach In today’s economic climate, I would imagine the long term investor, as opposed to the short-term speculator, would consider a 4% or 5% dividend yield on individual assets as being satisfactory when coupled with an additional overall gain in the growth and value of their underlying stock issues. S&P 500: + [...]
Continue reading...Where to Find Stocks to Trade, the Watchlist, Selecting the Trade and Setting Objectives
21 April 2011 – 9:09 pm PDT
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Online sources Print publications Paid for “Tip†sources, paid subscriptions Television Online sources There are plenty of sources from which to obtain the names of companies that can be screened to see whether they fit the desired profile for buying stocks. In my case, that profile requires them to exhibit a stock chart pattern that [...]
Continue reading...Where to Find Stocks to Trade, the Watchlist, and Selecting the Trade
21 April 2011 – 4:34 pm PDT
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Online sources Print publications Paid for “Tip†sources, paid subscriptions Television Online sources There are plenty of sources from which to obtain the names of companies that can be screened to see whether they fit the desired profile for buying stocks. In my case, that profile requires them to exhibit a stock chart pattern that [...]
Continue reading...It Takes More Than Just Being Able to Pick Good Stocks
19 April 2011 – 5:52 pm PDT
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The objective of trading is to make a profit. Success is measured by whether or not gains are achieved consistently over time. But early on, when explaining the stock market basics, the objective of this website, it must be pointed out that losing trades will occur. This article and the illustration below of a specific [...]
Continue reading...Weekend Reviews for S&P 500 as of the Friday Close April 15, 2011
17 April 2011 – 11:14 pm PDT
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Let’s start with a quick review of the chart of the S&P 500, shown below The chart will not tell us much that is new from the previous Friday charts that we customarily look at but doing so always gives us a “base” from which to contemplate possible actions and the direction that the market [...]
Continue reading...About Stock Market Basics Paper Trading Portfolio 3
14 April 2011 – 1:42 pm PDT
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There are 3 versions for Portfolio 3, each devised to find out whether it is possible to successfully trade with small amounts of start-up working capital — small amounts of $1000, $5000, and $10,000. Our previous introductory versions of stock market basics paper trading portfolios, initiated in September and November of 2010, were limited to [...]
Continue reading...Earnings Season Starts Now! — What is Earnings Season?
12 April 2011 – 1:19 pm PDT
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For those visiting this website who wish to learn about the stock market basics, general information such as this presented here now, and elsewhere, on the “lore†of the stock market, are useful as basic information to help understand how the market works, although quite separate from the more specific information on guidelines and trading [...]
Continue reading...Setting Up Watch List for Paper Trade Portfolio No. 3
11 April 2011 – 8:48 pm PDT
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It is not essential to build a watch list for the purposes of following the articles on the new Stock Market Basics “Limited Capital” paper trading portfolio. Although for actual trading I believe it is beneficial to have one — it saves time, making it unnecessary to repeatedly enter the same stock symbols when monitoring [...]
Continue reading...Stock Market Basics Paper Trading Portfolio No. 3
10 April 2011 – 9:59 pm PDT
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The first stock choice The initial contemplated stock purchase for this portfolio is given at the end of this article together with its stock chart. Starting with little working capital, $1,000; $5,000; $10,000 The purpose of building a speculative stock portfolio and paper-trading in real time in the way that a beginner, new to trading, [...]
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23 April 2011 – 11:58 am PDT
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