How to take advantage of the commodity boom
There’s little doubt that commodities – at least some of them – will continue their price boom this year, despite concerns about slowing Chinese growth and the fragile recoveries occurring in the US and Europe. But getting on board to take advantage of the trend as an ordinary investor takes some thinking through, and as…
Top Down Strategy – Stocks To Gain From Flood Recovery
Think of top down investing as a “big picture” strategy. The big picture is the global market and all it encompasses. If you think of the global market as a forest, if it looks green and healthy, you enter the forest looking for the healthiest trees. When you find a grove of healthy trees, you…
Setting Up A Watchlist
What progress have watchlists made! From the yellow pad and end-of-day newspaper quotes to instantaneous online watchlists that transverse a multitude of search criteria: sectors, market capitalization, growth, moving averages or trading volume. All this could be at your fingertips, for free, in just few seconds. For decades, stocks have been the most popular investment…
Diary Of A Forex Trader
By Karmali Abid, forex trader I started trading Forex in 2005 after stumbling across the Oanda site while looking for financial education. My uncle had recently talked me into the idea of investing, and as such, I was hunting for information. I saw the website touting foreign currencies and saw that the trader should “be…
Top 5 Tips For Boosting Profits In Forex Trading
1. Trade Using Multiple Objectives It may seem obvious; but the best thing for you to do in your trading to improve profit is to actually take profit. There are too many traders who are so happy to see their position in the green that they will sit on it as emotion crowds out rational…
Can I make a living trading forex?
“Make $20,000 per month in income trading currencies! Trade on autopilot and rake in the cash!” If you have ever received any of these colorful junk e-mail messages, you are not alone. Across the world, smooth-talking swindlers with get-rich-quick schemes bombard internet users with stories that sound entirely too good to be true. If you…
Can I make a living trading forex?
“Make $20,000 per month in income trading currencies! Trade on autopilot and rake in the cash!” If you have ever received any of these colorful junk e-mail messages, you are not alone. Across the world, smooth-talking swindlers with get-rich-quick schemes bombard internet users with stories that sound entirely too good to be true. If you…
Are You Investing Or Gambling?
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines gambling as: 1. a: to play a game for money or property b: to bet on an uncertain outcome 2. to stake something on a contingency : take a chance. When trading is looked at, gambling takes on a much more complex dynamic than what is presented in the definition. Many traders…
Protect your portfolio from market wobbles
Trading derivatives can conjure up images of overnight wealth or wealth destruction. A reason is leverage, where speculating on an asset class can quickly magnify profits and losses for a small up-front outlay. Contracts for difference, a popular financial instrument among speculators, are also an effective weapon in preserving wealth when acting as a hedge….
Why is return on equity such an important measure for a company?
Why is return on equity such an important measure for a company? How does a good ROE help prove that the company is performing well? Response: One of the most important profitability metrics is Return on Equity, or ROE for short. ROE reveals how much profit a company earned in comparison to the total amount…
