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Online Broker Vs Traditional Broker

The online trading has revolutionized the whole process of trading and is responsible for the popularity of trading today. So it would be worth to look upon a comparison between an online broker and traditional brokers. Read More

What are Single Stock Futures or SSF?

Single stock futures or SSF are the futures contracts for a single company stock. They are standardized futures contracts usually for 100 stocks, with basic specifications like contract size, expiration cycle, tick size, market trading hours, last trading day, and margin requirement. The valuation of single stock futures are simpler than that of stock options, this make SSF a good option to all types of traders. Read More

Passive Investing Vs Active Investing

Passive investing and active investing are considered as the two forms of investing with respect to the approach of the investor. Both investing strategies have advantages and disadvantages. One have to choose a form of investing based on many things like the time and money he/she have, his investing experience, self discipline, decision making ability and tolerance for risk. Read More

Advantages of Online Options Trading

Like all of you may know options trading is itself an advantage over the direct trading of the underlying products, that’s why its existence. This blog will cover the advantages you get by trading options online compared to direct floor trading of options. Read More

What are Moving Averages?

Moving average is a common technical analysis tool which provides a somewhat smooth graph about the price trend of a stock. They are average value for a specified time period, commonly for 50 days. In a classical 50 day moving average the opening or closing price of a stock for 50 days are added and then divided by 50. Then after/on on each trading day the days value are inserted to the average and the oldest ones are deleted, making the graph lengthier with days. Read More

Weekly Stock Market Information

The Week Ahead: A strong batch of earnings reports has investors feeling good again as the major indexes resumed there move to new highs for the year. Whether this rally has legs or not could depend on how much the weak housing sector has spread in the economy. To that end, watch Tuesday's March Existing home sales and Wednesday's new home sales figures for further evidence. Also crude oil and gasoline inventories will provide clues to energy prices near term. The jobless claims numbers on Thursday will shed light on unemployment. Read More

What are Pivot Points?

Pivot points are technical indicators used to calculate support and resistance levels for that trading day. The major application of them is in forex market, but also available for stocks and derivatives. They are pretty easy to derive and follow, and can be used as a resistance or support level simultaneously according to market trends. Read More

Stock Charts for Day Traders

Day trading is the most sophisticated trading method demanding advanced trading systems and intraday charts. An intraday stock chart provides graphical representation (as bars, lines or candlesticks) of market conditions like stock price, trade volume, number of trades etc. There are a number of kinds of stock charts available of which the three, time charts, tick charts and volume charts are very popular. Read More

What is Income Investing?

Income investing is just one another stock investing strategy. If practiced properly, it can be considered as a low risk investment strategy. Income investors are like bond investors, invest in stocks of companies which provide consistent good dividends. Usually these companies are old well established companies with limited need to invest large sums for their growth. They are well managed and are usually the leaders of their fields. Read More

Gold and Siler Futures – an Overview

Over the decades precious metals like gold and silver has been remained as a good alternative investment product. People still believes that investing in gold, silver and platinum are good way to secure ones futures. In countries like India, because of the traditional important, these precious metals and stones have remained as the primary investment option for most families. Read More

Weekly Investment Newsletter, April 16

The Week Ahead: Takeovers on Wall Street continue to spark rallies in the market with the latest buyout of Double Click by Google Inc. Consumer sentiment and expectations on the other hand continue to slide. Watch March retail sales and February business inventories on Monday. The CPI, housing starts, and industrial production numbers will be closely watched on Tuesday. Crude oil and gasoline inventories are delivered on Wednesday while the jobless claims figures and March leading economic indicators are due out on Thursday. Read More

Popular Causes for Loss in Forex Trading

As you all may know forex market is the largest financial market in the world with highest volatility. Thus a small mistake in executing your trades may cost you great money. Below are some popular reasons for loss in forex trading, especially for novice traders. Read More

Vanilla and Exotic Options

Vanilla and exotic options are the two major classes of options. They are available for all types of options products such as stock options, futures options and forex options. Plain vanilla and exotic options differs greatly from one another very widely. Read More

Stock Quotes – Types and Applications

Stock quotes provides details about the price and price changes of a stock at a time. They are recognized as the primary tool for any stock traders and valuable for technical analysis and stock picking.Stock quotes from different portals/sources can be displayed differently. Read More

Order Entry and Its Effects

Order entry is regarded as the practice of brokerage firms to direct orders from their traders to other brokers or market makers. This is practiced by small brokers, usually deep discount brokers, who get less than some thousands of orders a day. Today, all the order routing process is done through computer networks, reducing manual intervention. Read More

Stock Trading Newsletter 09 April

The Week Ahead: The stock market will have a delayed reaction to the stronger than expected employment report which was released on Friday when the markets were closed. With unemployment now at 4.4%, indications are now that the fed will hold interest rates at least steady if not one more increase going forward. Therefore, future economic reports will bear increasing sensitivity to stock prices. Watch for wholesale trade numbers and the trade deficit for February later this week as well as retail sales and business inventories. Read More

What is Overnight Trading?

Simply, overnight trading can be defined as the trading in night hours. The trades take place local time between 9pm and 8am. In an another way overnight trading is the trades which are not liquidated in the same trading session. Overnight trading can be considered as the offspring of direct access trading. Read More

What is Gap Trading?

Gap trading is one another trading strategy, in which the trader trades stocks (or other product) according to the gap. A gap defined as the difference between the closing price of the previous day and the opening price of the day. The gaps can be of 4 types, each have a long and short strategy making the total number of strategies 8. Read More

Popular Stock Market Indicators

There are a number and types of technical indicators used by stock market traders to find suitable stocks. Of them, some very popular stock market indicators are given below.... Read More

More Tips for Stock Traders

In previous posts, we have discussed many popular stock trading strategies and tips for being a successful trader. Today we will discuss some more tips.Look for and watch low priced stocks, which are occasionally/rarely traded in massive quantities. Read More

Day Trading Vs Swing Trading

Day trading and swing trading are the two popular short-trading methods. So which one is beneficial for you? It depends on your style of trading, number of trading and amount & leverage with which you trade. Below is a general comparative study between day trading and swing trading. Read More

Forex Options – Definition and Types

Forex options are options in which the underlying product is a currency pair. They are traded over-the-counter and are call/put type. That is call 1currency/put 2currency. There are mainly two types of forex options available for traders to trade as traditional forex options and SPOT options. Read More

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