Question about the stock market?
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it is surprisingly easy to learn the tricks of the trade market. i had a class in high school where we learned all about it and had a website we signed up for to play with fake money in the real stock market and we all became pretty good at it.
313724
Hi kid,\n\nI presume you are a kid. Listen the topic of Stock Exchange can be described in a small paragraph, and also elaborated in many pages. I recommend you read a couple of good books on the subject. Do some research on the Internet, I have enclosed a couple of websites for your perusal.\n\nBasically it is a centralized place where companies list themselves. To get a listing on the Stock Exchange companies have to fulfill certain criteria and rules set by the concerned government.\n\nOnce the company is listed the stocks and shares of that company can be bought and sold in the open or free market. Depending on the lucrative nature of the company the stocks of that company go up in the Stock Exchange as obviously the demand also go up. Conversely the stock will take a plunge or nose dive if people lose confidence in the company.\n\nIn addition to this there are other external factors. For example the share price of say TAMI FLU is going up  because of the fear of a bird flu pandemic. This is an external factor. Although there is no real demand now, the fear of an impending disease is driving up the price of this product because it might one day be a life saver and hence it is a good company to invest in.\n\nAre u getting the drift.\n\nIf you are still having problems, ask again or send me an email.
43965
The "whole market" may not because it is so diverse (e.g. some hedge strategies may even gain) but its probable that tech. in general is going to take a hit because its a Co. that leads in big way and huge investor base.  Its a good research question cause you'll have to separate the day's effects of the Fed rate increase, change of the Fed Chair, and volatile oil mkt.
1130837
From my research, half of the brokers recommend buying, the other half recommend holding it.  Chances are it will go up, but probably not immediately.\n\nGood luck!
72200
EVERYTHING. THE DOW PULLS OTHER COMPANIES UP WITH IT. LIKE BOEING (BA) FOR EXAMPLE. BA IS AT A HIGH BECAUSE OF THE BOOMING WORLD ECONOMY. AND SO, FIND OUT WHAT IS WORKING IN THE S AND P 500 AS WELL AS THE DOW 30, THEN DO RESEARCH TO FIND WHERE THE DERIVED DEMAND IS. EXAMPLE, ATI , ALLEGANY TECH., THEY ARE BIG INTO TITANIUM WHICH CORRELATES TO THE BOEING ORDERS, ALL METAlS WILL BE BOOMING AS LONG IS BA IS DOING GOOD. CAT IS ALSO PERFORMING WELL. HPQ IS DOING GOOD AND IT IS NO SUPRISE THAT SEAGATE IS DERIVED FROM HPQ OR COMP MANUFACTURERS IN GENERAL. YOU WILL PROBABLY MAKE MORE MONEY OFF THE SMALLER DERIVED COMPANIES LIKE ATI AND SEAGATE, BUT YOU GOT TO KNOW WHY. SEC.GOV IS THE BEST PLACE TO GET REASEARCH ON THE DOW, HENCE, ALL THE PRESS RELEASES GO THERE FIRST. WHEN YOU SEE BA HAS A LESS THAN EXPECTED QUARTER, YOU SELL THE ATI ETC.\n\nALSO, IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD TECHNICAL INDICATOR THAT THE MAJOR INDEXES ARE AT NEW HIGHS AFTER A FIVE YEAR SPELL. I DON'T SAY ALWAYS W/O PARALLEL. IF YOU LOOK AT HISTORY. THERE HAS RARELY BEEN A TEN YEAR SPAN OF TIME WHERE THE S AND P HASN'T APPRECIATED AN AVERAGE OF TEN PERCENT A YEAR. THE 70'S WERE FAR WORSE THAN 2000 TO NOW IN TERMS OF GEOPOLITICS, OIL, INTEREST RATES, DOOM AND GLOOM, ETC. AND THE INEDEX STILL PULLED OUT A 10% GAIN (AVERAGE FROM 1970 TO 1980). THIS MATTERS, THUS, WE ARE VIRTUALLY FLAT FROM 2000 TO 2006. AND SO, MY THESIS (BASED ON HISTORY) IS THAT 2006 TO 2010 WILL APPRECIATE ENOUGH TO GIVE US A 10% AVERAGE GAIN FROM 2000 TO 2010.
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Frankly, I was very interested in giving you my honest technical view of GOOG until I took a second look at your first question... "What is the current position of Google's Stocks"? If you do not even know how much or where Google's stock is now, then you really have no rights to ask anybody where it will go.\n\nIt is like asking if the light bulb is bright enough when you are blind to begin with.\n\nYour question reveals the fact that you are a complete newbie with very weak basic, fundamental knowledge in the stock markets and is about to do something you might regret for a very long time.\n\nListening to free, off the street advice is an expressway to disaster. Read more good books and articles on investments to expand your vision and horizon before you decide to go deeper into the subject. For some of the best investment books that I have ever read, please visit http://www.bestoptiontradingbooks.com\n\nInvesting or trading the stock markets never start from asking how to buy a certain stock ... it starts from adequate investment and trading knowledge. There are quite a number of things you need to learn before you can even start thinking of the stock markets ...\n\n1. You need to understand how the stock market works and what it is exactly about.\n\n2. You need to know what are the different styles of trading in stocks and shares. \n\n3. You need to read about why so many people lose their shirts in the stock markets so that you can avoid their mistakes and also decide if this is a risk you want to take.\n\nFor all these issues and more, you can read about them from some of the articles that I wrote at http://www.mastersoequity.com/articles.htm\n\nAfter you are adequately armed with the basic concepts and ideas, you need to know how to find profitable stocks to trade or invest in. You can do that the easy way by subscribing to stock pick services (example http://www.stockpickmaster.com ) or you can learn to use charting tools and softwares to find stocks with parameters that you can pre-define. (example http://www.worden.com ) \n\nAll in all, investment and trading is a lifelong education and non stop learning. No one is ever done learning and catching up with changes in the markets. \n\nIf you care to read about how I went from completely broke to retired millionaire trading stocks and options by 28 years old, you can go to http://www.mastersoequity.com/\n\nRemember, the slogan "Just Do It", Just won't do for the stock markets. If profiting in the stock markets is as simple as buying a single stock , then why are so many people still poor?\n\nAfter you have all the above mentioned knowledge, you need to ask the following golden questions before you can decide whether a stock is worth buying or not :\n\n1. Why are you of the opinion that this stock will rise?\n\n2. Is your opinion valid in the first place?\n\n3. When are you expecting it to rise? Can you hold on for that period of time or longer?\n\n4. What is your expected entry price? After what price would your expected profit margin be too thin to enter upon?\n\n5. Where is your expected stop loss point? What is your stop loss point based on? Where will you tell yourself that it is time to take a loss and get out?\n\n6. Where is your expected profit taking point? What is your profit taking point based on? \n\n7. Does the way you are buying the stock allow you to hold on until your expected profit taking point?\n\n8. How much of your money should you dedicate to this one trade?\n\n9. What is the level of primary, secondary and idiosyncratic risk you are undertaking when deciding how much of your fund to use?\n\n10. What is your cashflow need? Does your cashflow needs allow you to hold the full lifetime of the stock?\n\nAfter you are able to answer all these questions confidently, THEN you are ready to... PAPER TRADE your stock strategy. Yes, even at this point, you are NOT READY to trade for real. You should trade on PAPER for at least 6
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991307
Analysts are saying that the market will say strong.  Since it has been on a steady rise a large amount of people are hoping the market will fall.  However, it will probably remain stable for the next 5-10 years while steadily going up and leveling off and then hopefully dropping.
909554
Companies offer stocks and people buy them, its basically partial ownership of the company. The company does good you make money if the company loses money so do you. To answer your question its a market place where stocks and bonds are traded
314765
There are electronic trading companies for crazy people like me who can't wait for the market to open the next day.  The prices can fluctuate wildly for some stocks because the price is determined by a handful of people that are selling and a handful that are buying.  It's open for around 3 hours after the closing bell in NY and for a few hours before the opening bell.
510147
No worry! Look at the charts for the past 50 years. The market will go up again! (If you are not financed by debt :)
589685
Yes absoultyly gold ahs never been at this price except for in the 1980- you should have invested a year ago. This is a market trend that reflects fear of "soft money" or currency. Because the value of the dollar has fallen so much. You can invest now but it will be expensive to do so, and the price may go down. But such is the nature of stock.
111108
No but it would be better to sell now. It usually goes down during the end of January. Buy it back up in November.
135166
depends on how well the market is doing. If the total niumber of people buy more then they sell, the sensex raises. IF the opposite occurs, the market goes down.
314980
Ah, yes.  Here's a good investing question!
663403
try going to forbes.com and play around on the site.or you can do your hour of homework like the rest of us traders.\n\nyou can also go to msn.money and click on investing and stocks and look around there.
609648
There are indexes representing big companies (top 500, etc) but nothing representing all stock market equity in the world.  As it happens the US is approx 25% of world capitalisation.