Choosing A Stock Trading Strategy

If you want to be successful with investing or stock trading it is important to choose a stock trading strategy that fits your goals, your personality, your available time and your investing budget. Choosing the right strategy will help you enjoy this endeavor more and achieve greater success at it.

To help you choose the right stretegy for you there are a few questions you may want to ask yourself. These questions will help you find direction. After answering these questions look over the strategies listed in this post to see which approach fits your answers to these questions and to find the one that feels like the best fit for your investing needs. There is no single best approach; this is a very personal process that needs to be individualized. Continue reading

You Need Information On Penny Stocks To Succeed

These days most people rely on search engines and the internet to do research. While this is a decent place to get some information, it doesn’t always provide the most complete or the most accurate information for everything — it really depends on your source and the subject matter. If you’re searching for accurate and detailed information about penny stock companies so you can make wise investments, it’s better to broaden your search beyond the internet, where there are too many sources of fraud and scams anyway. There are a few specific places you might want to reference before you put your money on the line.

One good place to check is with the SEC. If the company files with the SEC they are making an attempt to look legitimate. Along the same lines you may also want to check with your state regulator as well as the state regulator for the state in which the company is located. This is often the first place complaints about a company or stock are registered; some complaints never leave this state level, so you may find out more by going directly to the state office. Continue reading

Will Higher Interest Rates Impact Stocks?

Interest rates have hit record lows and remained low for several years in an effort to help boost the economy, but increasing interest rates are likely at some point this year. As an investor you may wonder how this will affect stock prices and what types of stocks might look more promising in this scenario. Here are some things you should consider. Continue reading

Channeling Stocks – A Brief Overview

There are a lot of different stock trading strategies meant to help you find greater success; one of them is stock channeling. Channeling can be a valuable tool that will help you make the most of market trends by helping you set specific points where you will both buy and sell shares. It can also help you set a stop-loss to help prevent you from losing too much on a certain stock.

Not all stocks or equity use this technique. To use this you need to look for stocks that have a channel in their chart. There are a couple of ways to do this. You can go through charts to find this channel pattern, you can use software that finds the patterns or you can subscribe to a service that will give you a list of stocks on which you can use this technique.

Finding channeling stocks is the first step, but you also need to know how to read the channel. Continue reading