Archive for September, 2007

It isn’t as rare as you think and if you believe that you won’t ever become a victim then you’re setting yourself up. What am I talking about? I’m talking about scams–down, dirty, no-good, two-timing, money-filtering scams. It’s what no one would wish to learn the hard way simply because it involves your hard-earned money. No one would actually want to be able to say, "I...

If you are already an investor in the stock market, you know pretty well that the market is often in a state of flux. The stock market goes up and down due to a number of factors. For one, the changes in the market is due partly to the value of the company that owns the stock. The better the standing of the company, the higher people consider its value, thus people are more likely to buy their stocks. Another fact...

Going into online stock trading is no laughing matter. It will require a significant amount of time learning the ins and outs of the business and you will always have something new to learn. In this type of business, everything else will rely on your technical know-how of stocks. Add to that the complexity albeit real-time mechanism of the Internet and you have a formula for enough confusion to last you a lifetime...

From the word itself, lockups occur when the shares of company insiders are "locked up." Lockup agreements prohibit employees, venture capitalists, and family and friends from selling their shares for a given time period. Typically, the company and its underwriter enter into a lockup agreement before the company goes public. This is to ensure that the insiders’ shares would not enter the market too ...

Most people are not as quick to pick up the terms that are common to online trading. Of course, no one expects you to simply just get all of the terminologies from the very first day. However, as you work your way up the ladder, you will be surprised to see and know that there are opportunities for you to fast-track your growth as an online trader. One of the things that you can do is to consider training and gett...

In the trading world, there is such a thing that’s called a penny stock. In the trading world, it is also called a "micro-cap stock" but for the purposes of this discussion, let us limit ourselves to the term "penny stock". Quite literally, it is a stock that normally sells outside for less than $1 per share. However, the prices of these so-called penny stocks may consequently rise due to...