Daily Market Analysis: Week 47 Recap / Week 48 Preview
Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite Week 47 Recap There was a lot of talk about stock market bubbles entering the week, and while there may have still been a lot of...
View ArticleDaily Market Analysis: Week 49 Recap / Week 50 Preview
Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite Week 49 Recap Like Maxwell Smart used to say, “Missed it by that much.” Less than a point separated the S&P 500 from its...
View ArticleDaily Market Analysis: Week 51 Recap / Week 52 Preview
Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite Week 51 Recap On Monday, the S&P 500 settled higher by 0.5%, registering its third consecutive gain. The benchmark index...
View ArticleDaily Market Analysis: Week 52/01 Recap / Week 02 Preview
Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite Week 52/01 Recap Monday’s session did not generate much excitement as the S&P 500 ended flat after spending the entire...
View ArticleWeekly Market Analysis: Week 03 Recap / Week 04 Preview
Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite Week 03 Recap On Monday, bond and equity markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tuesday saw the major averages begin...
View ArticleDaily Market Analysis – 13th Feb 2013 (Thursday) – BMO
Market Recap 16:15 ET Dow -30.83 at 15963.94, Nasdaq +10.24 at 4201.29, S&P -0.49 at 1819.26 Equity indices took a bit of a breather on Wednesday after the S&P 500 surged nearly 4.5% in the six...
View ArticleWeekly Market Analysis: Week 06 Recap / Week 07 Preview
Weekly Recap Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite The stock market began the week on a subdued note. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 posted...
View ArticleTraders’ Challenge – The Need to Be Right
Have you ever thought about the educational process in most developed countries? Is the education system in place here for the purpose of educating the next generation or here to develop good workers...
View ArticleWeekly Market Analysis: Week 39 Recap / Week 40 Preview
Weekly Recap Dow Jones Industrial Average Standard & Poor’s 500 Nasdaq Composite The stock market began the new week on a cautious note. The S&P 500 lost 0.3%, but managed to erase more than...
View ArticleTraders’ Development: Observation
Observation is the fundamental building block of learning. It’s almost impossible to work on your performance without having an eye to distinguish good mechanics from the poor ones. Much like before...
View ArticleSPX – A Week In Review
While the market takes a tumble the past week, breaking SPX out of the mid-term channel, the major uptrend is still intact. With that said, lets look at the few levels that would invoke a response and...
View ArticleTrading For A Living
Investing vs Trading These 2 terms stand to be the most commonly misunderstood in the world of finance. Some people think they are both an investor and trader; and there are some who think that they...
View ArticleHow to Get Started in the Stock Market?
I started out 7 years back, wandering around for information on trading. I was totally clueless. With so much information on the Internet and not knowing where to start, I was left overwhelmed. You...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Fear and Greed? (Part 1)
Fear and greed are a nuisance. They are one of the biggest enemies of trading. They wreak havoc when you are either complacent or naive. Why is it scammers always succeed? Here are a handful of ways...
View ArticleWeekly Market Analysis – Week 41 – 7th To 11th October
After a lackluster ISM Manufacturing PMI last Mon & a disappointing NFP on Fri, is the bullish close to the week a dead cat bounce or a real reversal? Market Performance Summary The S&P 500...
View ArticleSuccessful Trading Starts with Selecting the Right Broker
Singapore is a financial hub. Access to financial investments and trading is easily available to those above the legal age. With so many brokers, how can we select the right broker? Before I list out...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Fear and Greed (Part 2)
Ding, ding, ding! The stock market opens. You monitor the stocks that you are interested to buy. You see green candles appearing everywhere. Boy, you’re excited! Before you know it, prices have gone...
View ArticleIs A Stock With Strong Fundamentals A Good Buy?
In my previous article, I shared about the things to look out for in a good broker. Now that you have found a suitable broker, the next step is to discover which stock to buy. There are 2 broad...
View ArticleIs Having A Stop Loss Really Necessary?
Before we are able to determine if a stop loss is truly necessary, we need to know what a stop loss is. There are a handful of stop loss types which we will leave to another day. All stop loss types...
View ArticleTechnical Analysis – Support and Resistance
Bought a stock only to watch it drop for a week? Your heart sinks each time you check on the performance of your stock. You have done your due diligence (company’s earnings has been increasing and the...
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