Archive for Equity

  • Investing vs. Speculation

    There was a time when investing meant buying a company in your backyard (or hometown) and holding on to it for you children and your children's children. What happened to the "good old days?" Well the investing public as a whole have been filled with advertising and "propaganda" for that matter for...

  • How to Evaluate Stocks Picks for Better Prospects?

    Internet is filled with stock picks web sites. They are powerful investing tools. They can help you improve your investments results if you know how to use them. If you are well informed and want to add some stock picks to your investments portfolio, here are a few suggestions: First, analyse a...

  • Stock Charts for Stock Market Beginners

    Whoever is interested in investing in the stock market should learn early that the most important tool needed to analyze a prospective investment is a company's stock chart. A stock chart is a sequence of prices, plotted over a specific time frame, that are used to analyze a security's performance o...

  • Buying Stocks Yourself - The Basics of Dividends

    Although not every companies stock you buy will pay a dividend, they are something to consider when buying stocks. Having a percentage of dividend paying stocks in your investment portfolio has some advantages.First and foremost what is a dividend? Simply put it is a portion of profit that a company...

  • An Investor’s Guide To Understanding the Balance Sheet

    The balance sheet is one of the major financial documents that a public company is required to publish. It provides a snapshot of a company's current financial position. Analyzing it can help investors determine if a company is adept at managing its finances. In a difficult economic environment, kno...

  • Money Management Explained

    One of the most important and often overlooked aspects of trading the stock market is money management. If you are correct with your forecasts, your overall profits will not be great unless you implement a proper money management plan. The amount of money you invest on each trade and how you manage...

  • Why You Need a Trading Plan

    In this interview the importance of a trading plan is discussed.Tom: 'Well when many traders and get into trading they concentrate on the strategy how they're going to decide when they're going to buy and sell, what kind of profit they are going to make and they focus on that. The higher percentages...

  • Equity Investment for Wealth Creation

    Investing in company stocks by and large includes profits and losses of capital, based on the sensex, which is a collective index of the major stock exchanges. There is a large population of individuals who would prefer not to invest in equity stocks and would go for Public Sector Unit such as banks...

  • Strategies for Equity Trading

    Knowing market trading strategies is a requirement for any person who wishes to invest in equity shares. This is primarily because one needs to adopt a particular strategy in order to focus on the type and amount of involvement levels he can offer. One’s understanding of business is highly necessa...

  • Fundamentals vs Technicals

    Trading in the stock market has been known to cause extreme reactions in people. When it’s going well, there’s a sense of euphoria and elation. Everyone’s making money and all is well with the world. However, if its going the other way there is despair and dread at every possible outcome or ev...

  • Basics of Equity Trading

    Equity trading is the buying and selling of company stocks. All public market stocks - option stocks and preferred stock come under equity trading. It involves trade through one of the major stock exchanges. It is very similar to stock trading except that equity trading firms offer in-depth market r...

  • Tips for Trading In Equities

    When it comes to equity trading, the word ‘tip’ is more often that not a ticking bomb. How often have you heard someone say, “Take it from me…? XYZ stock is definitely a pick. It’s running really hot right now”. Or someone who knows someone whose uncle works in a major brokerage firm and...

  • Stock Market Learning For Beginners

    Stock Market Learning For Beginners For first time investors, it is very essential to know investing basics. Apart from a few basic directions, one must know how to invest on their own, to plan their financial future. Eventually, long-term wealth strategies can be planned with increased knowledge o...

  • The Importance of Stop Loss in Equity Trading

    Equity trading refers to the process of buying and selling a company’s stock. This stock is divided into units known as shares. Shares of various companies are traded in the local and international stock exchanges of the world. Some of the major stock exchanges in the world are the New York Stock ...

  • Identifying Potential Trades

    In the world of finance, equity trading means buying and selling stock shares of different companies. The buying and selling of these publicly traded stocks and shares involves major stock exchanges, like the New York Stock exchange. These stock exchanges are like auction markets for stock trades. T...

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