Pairs trading the No.1 strategy for CFD traders
Most stock market investors buy shares, and want the market to rise. A smaller group take short positions, and want the market to fall. Pairs traders don’t mind what the market does, as long as they choose the stronger of a pair of related securities. Pairs trading seeks to profit from relative performance. The trader…
Why volume is an important clue for traders – part 2
You can read part 1 of “Why volumer is an important clue for traders” by clicking here. By Will Kraa Volume of shares traded tends to vary in a fairly random fashion without too much significance most of the time but there are occasions when volume can be a great help in finding very good…
Professional trader reveals system that has worked for 25 years
If you’ve ever entertained the idea of being a full-time trader then you’ve probably spent time looking for the holy grail of trading – the perfect system that will guarantee making big bucks on the market. Well, professional trader Kerry Johnston has, in his own way, found it – although he doesn’t like to call…
Why volume is an important clue for traders
As you might have noticed, it’s been some time since I have contributed. I have just simply been very busy, including stints of intraday trading when the market was so volatile that I was not prepared to have positions open overnight. That sort of trading was very profitable but also very demanding. Now that I…
A simple method for finding dirt-cheap stocks
We often want to buy a stock on the cheap – and to do this we need to find how much the company’s shares should be worth. But how do you know if the current share price is too high or too low? There are many valuation methods around that attempt to calculate the ‘true’…
How to evaluate gold stocks
In my tenure as an analyst on the gold stock circuit, I’ve been blessed to have experienced some pretty neat things that have given me an inside look at the gold mining industry. And by far the most exciting of my adventures have been tours of actual gold mines. I’ve descended deep into the bowels…
Why commodities will remain the best-performing sector
Out of their dismal lows in early March, the stock markets rocketed 27% higher in a single month! After such fast gains, Wall Street remained skeptical. Was this a typical bear rally that would soon collapse? But as the last couple weeks have shown, it didn’t. Stocks not only held their rally gains, but they…
Copper bull market
Most analysts believe this deep global recession has abruptly ended the powerful secular commodities bull that was born at the turn of the 21st century. And it is certainly hard to argue this point considering the dismal panic-selling-induced performance of nearly all commodities. The volatility and fear that took hold of the markets have given…
Be careful of junior gold miners
By Scott Wright, Zeal Junior gold stocks are a contingent of the greater junior resources circuit that has simply been obliterated in the recent stock panic. Even though gold has been strong over this stretch, the risk capital that usually finds its way into these gold explorers had all but left the scene. Measured by…
A story of a home-based trader – Vimal Mehta
Commercial pilot Vimal Mehta often has hours to kill in hotel rooms during stopovers between flights. But he deliberately chooses not to spend this time trading. The 36-year old says that while this may seem like the ideal opportunity to work the market he finds that the situation puts too much pressure on him to…
