Can I get some tips on watching the stock markets?
Duke S asked:
Lately I’ve gotten interested in watching stocks. But I’m not quite sure what’s going on. For example a particular stock will go up for a few days in a row, then go down, then go up. What does this mean, and how do I analyze it?
Lately I’ve gotten interested in watching stocks. But I’m not quite sure what’s going on. For example a particular stock will go up for a few days in a row, then go down, then go up. What does this mean, and how do I analyze it?
Tags: Few Days, Stock Markets, Stocks
March 16th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
One good place to start would be to pick a large company you are interested in — for example GM or Wal-Mart (WMT) — and track them for a few days or weeks. Examine not just the price changes for the stock, but compare that to news items, analyst reports, and company PR releases. You can do all of this at a site like Yahoo Finance or MoneyCentral, etc.
Enter your stock name or ticker in the Quote box
And go from there.
March 19th, 2010 at 3:34 am
The stock market isn’t very complicated to learn about. It’s certainly not easy to learn about either. You’ll probably need to invest some ~ time into learning how the markets work. Key terms are important as well.
I suggest you watch Bloomberg TV and CNN because they are quite useful into getting an insight into how the markets work for new comers, but they aren’t the best way to learn foremost. You will need to educate yourself with a variety of tools. Reading Trading for Dummies might help. You quite obviously need to have patients when learning and analyzing the markets and stocks.
The main key into buying stocks and shares is predicting what everyone else will do. That’s what drives companies up and down consistently. But why do people buy certain stocks over others? Well they do technical and fundamental analysis. For example, Barclays dropped to £70? Then they released news that they have earned exceptional profits and now their shares have jumped to £110. If you were an experienced trader you may have been able to pick up on that through analysis and made a lump of cash.
News is the main key in the markets. I can’t explain everything here because i’ll need to write a 1,000 page book about it! but use these sources if your really interested in the markets
- Bloomberg TV
- CNN
- Trading for dummies
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March 21st, 2010 at 7:22 pm
there are a lot of things involved with reading a stock and reading the stock market… earnings, news, whether it’s good news or bad. Watching CNBC or Bloomberg is a good way to learn the “language” of the stock market…
I am an options trader.. what helped me was to learn how read stock pricing was candlestick patterns. It’s long and tedious, but if you want to learn you should try learning candlesticks.
March 24th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
its depend upon various factor in that scenario that stock in buzz so is going up and is traders favorite and after some day its loose its charm and give away some gain that it gained.