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Breakaway, Continuation, and Exhaustion Gaps
Ok guys. Today I am going to discuss the 3 major types of gaps when reading a stock chart. Just to give you an overview, a gap in a chart is when a stock opens significantly higher or lower than the...
My Golden Rules Of Investing
As most of you know, I am an IBD enthusiast. Here are the IBD 20 rules of investing which can be found here. They should be kept somewhere safe and memorized! If all of IBD’s 20 rules are carefu...
Stock Review: Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc (POT)
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Inc. (PotashCorp) engages in the production and sale of fertilizers, and related industrial and feed products in North America. As you might have guessed, this is a...
Stock Strategies: Invest in the US!
This is a strategy I have both read and experienced. My rule is that if you don’t live in that country, don’t buy stock from there. I went long on Banco Bradesco (BBD), which is a Brazilia...
Stock Pick: RIM (RIMM)
Research In Motion Limited engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of wireless solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide. It provides platforms and solutions for access to ema...
Stock Strategies: Up and Down, It’s What the Market Does!
Along with worrying about your buy and sell price, watching your stock all day as it goes up and down is another vice to the new investor. This one I still struggle with. Whenever I am holding a stock...
Stocks: Long Updates
My current longs are (with links to when I picked them here): Apple (AAPL) - bought 4-21-08 Excel Maritime Carriers (EXM) - bought 4-21-08 Nvidia (NVDA) - bought 5-5-08 I bought as close to $1000 as...
Book Review: How Charts Can Help You In The Stock Market
The book I will review today is “How Charts Can Help You In The Stock Market” by William Jiler. I actually got the 1962 version off ebay for less than $10. Basically this book was one of t...
Stock Pick: Nvidia (NVDA)
NVIDIA Corporation makes graphics cards for computers domestically and internationally. I have been a fan of NVDA for a couple of years now. They have become the leader in graphics cards amongst gamer...
6 Steps to Start Investing in Stocks
If you are brand new or looking for a good starting point before jumping into the stock market here are the things you need to know: First off, investing takes time. If you expect to be able to jump ...
Book Review: You Can Be A Stock Market Genius
“You Can Be A Stock Market Genius” is definitely a must read for all serious investors. It is written by Joel Greenblatt who founded the New York-based Gotham Capital which achieved return...
Stock Pick - Gulf Island Fabrication Inc | GIFI
Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a fabricator of offshore drilling and production platforms, and various specialized structures used in the development and producti...
Stock Strategy: Don’t worry about the details!
One thing that I focused on when I first started investing was trying to buy and sell at the best possible prices. By this I mean that I sat there and tried to get my trade down to the cent. This is n...
Stock Pick: Excel Maritime Carriers | EXM
Excel Maritime Carriers, Ltd. engages in the ownership and operation of dry bulk carriers, and in the provision of seaborne transportation services for dry bulk cargoes, such as iron ore, coal and gra...
Market Analysis: 4-18-08 and a little Treat!
I’m going to do things a little differently today. We won’t start off with a graph of the Dow. Instead I have a treat for everyone. Before we get to that let’s recap the day and figu...
Market Analysis: 4-17-08
Not a very exciting day, but how about after hours? GOOG baby. If you haven’t heard yet, we went through a day of mediocre earnings and economic data and then were greatly surprised by Google be...
Stock Strategy: Investing Journal
Welcome! Today I am going to make the first post in a series on successful investment strategies/habits. Start an investing journal. To me, this is the most beneficial thing you can do without a lot o...
Stock Pick: COH
Coach, Inc. engages in design and marketing of accessories and gifts for men and women in the United States and internationally. I’m not going to speak for everyone on this, but I see these purs...
Technical Analysis: Support and Resistance
Ok, so support and resistance. I would say that these are definitely among the top things an investor should know and understand when considering a stock technically. We can define support as a price ...
Technical Analysis: Parabolic SAR
Parabolic SAR is a time/price system first introduced by J.Welles Wilder in his acclaimed book “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems” (1978). SAR stands for ’stop and reverse...
Technical Analysis: Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool invented by John Bollinger in the 1980s. Having evolved from the concept of trading bands, Bollinger Bands can be used to measure the highness or lowness ...
Stock Basics: Establishing Trend Lines
Trend Lines could be defined as a line that is drawn that shows the overall direction of the stock. These are useful to help predict where a stock might go as well as see when a stock makes a change i...
What is a stock?
To start off, a stock is technically an actual piece of a company. When you are buying a stock you are buying stake in a company and legally own a % of the company based on the % of the company’...