when do you sell rising stock?
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When your goal or exit conditions have already been achieved.  Don't get greedy.\n\nAnd don't wait until investor sentiment turns negative on a stock, that's how people ride investments into the ground.  Come to the table with a plan when you buy ... that you'll sell if it drops 5% or if it gains 10%, or if a year goes by with neither ...
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The MasterCard IPO is going to be quite popular which means the price should go up on the first few days of trading.  The question is whether you can actually get into the IPO.
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Not sure I understand the question.  If you want to change your shares owned, then buy more or sell some depending on the current price.
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Here is my day trading tip.  Don't do it.  It is a good way to loose money.  Try investing instead.  Select solid companies with good prospects.
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Here's the tip of the year . . . you ready? \n\nBuy low, sell high.\n\nYou're welcome.
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Sell when your in need of money. Coca Cola is a good stock. It also pays dividends.
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buying a put is fine however if stock stays flat, put will lose what is known as time value.  Put expires, which isn't to your advantage when you are thinking stock is going down.  You can hold short for a while, especially if it is not moving :).\nHowever if stock is moving up, you are protected :).  \nWhat you can do is buy call, buy put..that's known as a stradle.  So you can benefit from upside or downside movement.  The key is to find a stock that likes to move a lot (GOOG =D )\n\nAleks
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Two ways. One is buy low and sell high. Second is by a sound stock that pays dividends and hold it for a long time.
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Share prices rise when there is an increased demand for the shares.  That is people are willing to pay more money for them. If a comany reports that their earnings have increased more than was expected, that generally increases the demand for the shares and prices rise.  \n\nSometimes the price movement is due to technical factors.  If the price of a stock has fallen a significant amount, people might think it is now a bargain and begin wanting to buy it, driving the price higher, even though there is no other apparent reason for the price increase. The opposit is also true.  \n\nThe best way to consistantly make money, is to buy stocks with solid fundamental value that are not overpriced and then to hold on to them and not sell them after the price has risen a few points and not to panic and sell them if the price drops a few points. \n\n The markets tend to run in cycles. And many people tend to buy stocks at the top of the cycle when they are expensive and then to panic and sell them at the bottom of the cycle when they are cheap.  Others tend to buy speculative stocks hoping to make a fast buck, but usually wind up loosing a buck real fast.
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The last six months the stock bumped repeatedly against a resistance around 3.2$. Wait for a breakout with volume to invest. The next resistance is 4.5$ the 52 day high.
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Ah, yes, the age old "but if I sell, the prices could go higher".  Sure, they can, and they can also go down.  If you sell and lock in your profits, prices could go higher.  But if you hold and and prices go down, you could find your profits quickly dwindling.  Can you see the future?  Do you have a crystal ball?\n\nThere are two emotions in the market that will kill you every time - fear and greed.  Fear keeps you out when you should be in and greed keeps you in longer than you should be.\n\nI'm not telling you to sell and lock in profits, but what do you think you should do?  In general, when prices take off that quickly, the down move is just a quick.  There is what is called "regression to the mean".  If you've locked in profit, be happy with it.  Believe me, I've learned from experience.  There were times when I should have sold to lock in my profits, but I got greedy and ended up losing a bunch when the prices turned.  If greed is keeping you holding on, that should be telling you something.  Could prices go higher?  Sure.  But there is an old saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".\n\nIf you believe you should absolutely hold for higher prices, then sell some of your options to lock in profits and let the others ride.  If prices continue higher, then you made more, but if they reverse, you haven't lost as much.
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I'm buying carefully chosen stocks that appear to be very undervalued with big moats.  \n\nI sold out a lot of positions just before the fall so have plenty of cash - planning on putting about half of it back in the market between now and mid July.
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If you are buying it is the highest you will buy for and if you are selling it's the lowest you will sell for.  \n\nA market order is just "buy or sell it at whatever the going price is at the time my order hits the market."  you do NOT want to do this.
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No not form some time.\nAs a seller you need to figures out what you can sell for and God help you if you just got the house in the last three years or have a equity line of credit, you will be up side down.\n\nIf you have some equity do be greedy the longer you wait the less you will make. \n \nThe reason for this is that the bubble is breaking checl out this web site and see why has happen and why you may get screwed.\n\nBest of luck.\nhttp://www.breakingbubble.com/index.htm
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Nobody knows what the price of gold will do in the future.  If someone claims to know, they are fooling themselves or trying to fool you.\n\nYou could sell a portion of your gold (1 coin at a time, or whatever) at regular intervals, say each week or each month.  That way if it keeps going down, you're getting some money out at today's relatively higher price.  If it goes back up, you'll still have some left to sell at the higher price.  Good luck.
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Buy a call when you are expecting a stock to go up.  A call is an option to buy.\n\nBuy a put when you expect the stock to go down.  A put is an option to sell.\n\nThe strike price determines the 'sales price'\n\nIf you expect goog to bounce, you would by a call for Dec, Jan, Feb, whenever for a strike price of 500.  Dec call would cost you $8 per share (you need to buy in contracts consisting of 100 shares to trade options).  If goog goes past $508 in a true options trade, you profit every cent after that.  You could essentially trade the option when it got close to 500 if there was enough time for the option to have value.\n\nIf you are expecting goog to continue the downward trend, you would buy a put.  The $480 strike for goog Dec option is trading at $7.40.  You essentially have the option to sell goog at $480, so if goog goes down past 472.60 you make money for every cent after that.  Also with the call option, you could just sell your option with more value if the stock starts going down and you still have the intrinsic (time sensitive) value left on the option.\n\nGood luck.
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It is tough to hold on to a stock when you really should, isn't it?  Here are the fundamentals, which you probably already know.  Largest cell phone company in the world in the country with the largest population in the world with the largest growth rate in the world.  Here are the technicals which you probably already know.  Just hit a new high today.  \n\nHere is a suggestion.  But an initial position of 1/10 to 1/4 of the number of shares you would like to own.  If the stock drops 5 points add another 1/10.  If the stock goes up 1 point add another 1/10.  Then continue adding to your position as the stock increases a point at a time.  That way you will be adding to a winning position.  \n\nThis time do not sell the stock for a minimum of 5 to 10 years.  I expect at the end of that time you will not want to sell the stock because the capital gain will be too great for the tax liability.