Archive for August, 2011

Investors usually try to find stocks that they may be able to buy at low value and with the promise of selling high in the future. After all, that is the basic principle of success in the stock market. But hunting for stocks with values lower than their expected worth is not always that easy. There are also those so-called value traps that investors may have to consider as well. Here are just some of them: Stocks W...

It may seem that the strategies that investors use to realize gains is different from that of traders, even if they belong in the same market. But they both have one thing in common- they always look for ways to buy low and sell high. Aside from this fact, it may be also keen to point out that there are also some things that traders can actually learn from the strategies that investors use for success. Here are som...

Trying to get early data on how a market reacts or responds to certain indicators is important for traders and investors. It might help gauge what the the market may be heading. Getting it as early as possible may help traders and investors decide well on what their next move will be. What can be earlier than analyzing market action during its opening? A market opening can help provide the trader with the informati...

The US came disastrously close to a debt default if it were not for the US Congress agreeing to increase the country’s debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. But even then, the country may not yet be out of trouble. But for the meantime, increasing the debt ceiling may have averted what could have been a very painful blow to an already struggling US economy that has not yet risen from the beating it took several yea...