 I am 23. Considering the economic crisis... should I take advantage of the lowered stocks? |
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 My employer made a mistake and let me invest in a 401k plan although I was underage.? |
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 Buying precious metal futures? |
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 Isa which is the best one ? |
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 Investment Forex Online? |
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 How much money would I have to save every month to reach 1 million by age 65? |
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 Do I have to use margin for stocks? |
I plan to open an account with about 4k, but I really would rather not use margin if I can. Do I have use margin to trade?
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 What is the average savings of a 30 year old in UK? |
What is the average savings balance of a 30 year old in UK?
A source from official statistics would be good.
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 My employer recently quit matching in my 401k.Should i continue investing in it or what? |
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 Why are all the stocks going down like crazy? |
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 Why would any one Buy Reliance Power IPO at Rs. 450, when it could bought now around Rs. 300? |
how do you feel about this?
has anil ambani cheated indians by over-rated this IPO? compared to NTPC & Tata Power?... |
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mahesh vasta | How to Stop Blood-Shed in my Stock Market Portfolio? |
I am a new trader, I usually try to buy a share when its down and after 4-5 days time, I sell it for 2% to 5% profit
but since few days, all my amount got stucked in a terribly down stocks, i booked Loss in some, again i am getting stuck in downfall stocks... now my portfolio is all red, like blood-shed
whats the trick? |
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Vicky
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I presume you are playing in BSE/NSE and you have taken Small Cap and Mid Cap companies. From past few days small cap and mid cap are dipping because of various reasons like Reliance Power IPO etc. People are profit booking therefore more selling thus more price fall. It is a temporary phase and fundamentally good scrips will come over.
There is no trick in stock market.. its just the opportunity and destiny.... depends who is able to grab it. |
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t Preston
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You must be a short time trader,it might be better if you were a longer time trader.
You might want to take a look at gold.
Don't forget about the huge impact falling real estate prices will have on state and municipal tax revenues. They all grew fat with the ballooning revenues from construction and property taxes. Federal government is faced with falling employment and reduced corporate profits.
I don't know where all the money will come from?
1. Government deficits
2. Trade deficits
3. Social Security going red
4. Medicare and Medicaid solvency issues
5. Bailing out the banks - mortgages and credit cards going in the toilet |
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dylan astro sailor
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When you buy a stock, you not only have to know how high it can go before you sell, you also have to know how low it can go before you sell in order to cut your losses. It doesn't sound like you are the type of trader who wants to buy a stock and hold it for a long time to ride out drops.
For example, you may choose to sell when a stock is either down 3% or up 5%. If you are generally making good stock picks then you should end up with more 'ups' than 'downs'. |
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Spock (rhp)
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you need to look into proper money management and trade sizing, along with your stops.
usually, traders [all the ones I know anyway] set their stops where the market tells them to ... a gap, under old support level, under the last downturn, some volatility driven amount below their buy price, etc.
but then you have to figure out how many shares to buy.
that comes from statistics and back figuring.
from statistics, you have to figure that there will be streaks of losing trades. what you want to do is be able to withstand any "normal" streak of losing ... which could be 20 or more trades in a row ... and still have enough capital left that when the streak ends, you're still playing and able to win it back.
you also have to have some level of losses which tells you that your method isn't working atm and you should simply stop using it. this can be set using a combination of statistics and quality control theory. you can't let yourself lose so much before this is hit and you exit that you can't win it back later.
it is unlikely that you'll want to risk more than 2% of your capital on a single trade. 1.5% is safer.
[at 2% max loss and 20 consecutive losses, if you reduce your exposure each time, you'll still have 2/3rds of your capital left. -- then you'll need a 50% net gain to get back to where you started.]
position size is then the size of the loss to the stop, plus slippage [per share or unit], all divided into 2% [or 1.5%] of your capital [account size], rounded down to what your broker allows you to buy/sell.
does this make any sense?
note: correlation of investments [portfolio effects] have been ignored. in the stock markets, they are not small and thus using 1.5% of your capital is much safer. |
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firstname l
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maybe youll do better shorting. either that or just stop trading and just put your money on a cd to prevent you from buying. youre not making money at 2 - 5% profit. with inflation alone youre screwd. then theres the commission. then taxes. selling at a loss is the finishing touch! if you still want to buy stocks buy and hold a good blue chip stock that pays dividends. try to learn something about the company before you buy its stock. make it rain! |
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ppe
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riding it out |
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MDX 0601
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yeah i am in the same boat as u..i started this on the 24th of dec..and whenever i make a small profit i sell...but lately my portfolio is been in the red as well and i cant do anything cuz all my funds are tied up...
so just ride it out...but take profits whnever u can even if its small ones as long as it covers ur commission so that way you can buy something else since htere are ALOT of opportunities out there...
and as long as u have good stocks like apple mastercard procter gamble, church & dwight, etc...u will be ok...
so dont panic sell just hold on to them....and just look for opportunities to sell so u can open up for more opportunities!!
this is a bad time but again it will bounce up |
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MM
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Read "The Trading Rule that can make you rich" by Ed Dobson, available from Traders Press.
Look at 10 year charts of the stocks you are buying.
Use stop losses.
Realize that strategies which work in some cases, such as 4-5 day turnaround, are guaranteed to quit working.
A stock that is "down" in your view, may have a long ways to go further before it is truly "down."
Understand the concept of "catastrophic" event. Black Monday 1987 the stock market fell 24% and took a very long time to recover. This can happen at any time. What kind of protection do you have in place to prevent catastrophic losses to your account? |
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