Monday, 18 June 2012

Stock Market Timing Is For Day Dreamers Only

By Keith Ronnie McCoy


If you are a beginner and an amateur in the world of mutual fund trading, it is advised for you to start with small amounts of money.

While this might be true, starry dreams to learn millions in the span of a few hours often bite the dust. The advice given to most people who are starting on the stock market is to buy low and sell high. Easy advice to give, but how does one determine, how low is low and how high is the high. Anticipation is the key to this question.

While making a mistake can often be a disaster, it is possible to avert it as much as possible by going in for smaller investments. In this way even if you cannot completely avoid loss, you can at least minimize to the smaller extent possible. In the greed to make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time, most people end up going broke. Strategy and planning are a very important part of stock broking and it is the most looked over part as well.

In the process of building your career as a stock market investor, one of the first things you need to look for is a proven stock market system. This is one of the first things you need to do in order to determine stock market timing. This system will be your guide in the initial days and help you decide where you should be putting your money. As a beginner having the help of a market resource which will help you or provide you with stock tracking can also be very useful.

The key behind this strategy is reviewing the price and volume action of the major market indexes each day. The indexes you need to follow are the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange Composite index. What you are looking for is whether or not the index increased in price or decreased in price from the prior session.

Trading in stocks on the stock market is typically driven by speculation, based on company news and performance factors. There are two ways to try and find the market value of a stock. Stock value is determined using some type of cash flow, sales or earnings analysis. This form of stock valuation is based on historic ratios and statistics and aims to assign market value to a stock based on measurable attributes.

After a while you won't even have to think about whether you should be long or short. You will know, without question, exactly what you should be doing NOW. You will either be focusing on long positions, short positions, or you will stay safely in cash - just by glancing at a chart!




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