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How does the stock market really work? I have a few questions?

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:04:16 +0000

I want to know how the stock market really works in terms of:

1. Investors Buying & Selling shares; how does the trading volume, here, of individual buys & sells affect a company’s stock price?

2. How can you tell how many people/investors are buying or selling a company’s stock in order to go long or short and put the odds in your favour – is there any specific technical analysis indicator that can tell you this, or what else can?

3. How does news affect stock prices?

Trading indicators are best used along with money management and good risk control, using trading indicators alone will not enable you to be a successful trader, even if you learn everything about Technical Trading Indicators the market is just too random and unless risk is controlled, over time your account will slowly get wiped out, regardless how good a “trader” you think you are.

This question was about Technical Trading Indicators and there have been some pretty good answers that should help in your trading, and especially in relation to Technical Trading Indicators, the answer has been posted in the categories listed below:

If I start to trade CFD's (contracts for difference), what technical analysis indicators should I use for….?

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:40:06 +0000

I am an active underlying stock market swing trader and buy-and-hold investor, and my portfolio could be worth £20,000 to £30,000 sometime next year.

I already have been demo trading CFD’s (contracts for differences), also 1 trade live and scored 17.5% in a day trend following – I am looking to trade them more next year when/if I have made this money.

Anyway, what I want to know is what are the best technical analysis indicators I should be looking at as a CFD’s trader to efficiently trade them as a stock swing trader along with market news embedded into my strategy?

What technical analysis indicators DO YOU as a CFD’s trader personally use/look at to trade them and have a high winning ratio?
I know this is longer than the average question here on Y!A, so sorry about that.

Trading indicators are best used along with money management and good risk control, using trading indicators alone will not enable you to be a successful trader, even if you learn everything about trading indicators the market is just too random and unless risk is controlled, over time your account will slowly get wiped out, regardless how good a “trader” you think you are.

This question was about trading indicators and there have been some pretty good answers that should help in your trading, and especially in relation to trading indicators, the answer has been posted in the categories listed below:

what is really going on in the stock market?

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:07:23 +0000

I need to know what is the market? really…. what is the characteristics of the market alone? Not necessarily the economy… who can point me to someone who knows… really… i’d pay for it….. i need to fucking know….Ok here’s the questions… well i’ll make a statement… I need to know how to stock market works… not some bullshit regurgitated information…. who controls price movement… i know it’s a bidding process.. but how much of the money is from large scale investors,(institutional) and how might they control price? what is the most widely used indicator? for people who are sucesfull in the market… what works for you? do you use technical indicators? do you try to guage the mood of the market on a particular day? Do you look at company fundamentals? I’ve been trading etf’s such as spy, vxx, and gld…. so i’ve been watching how people place their money on their idea of overall market movement…. any ideas here… i’m stuck.

im looking for websites with stock charts with buy and sell signals?

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:54 +0000

i showed a couple of people how to trade the stock market the way i do but ive been doing this for years and have a good idea about technical indicators but most of the people i teach have limited knowledge and was wondering if there was any websites with artifical intelligence that are pretty accurate to help them with their decsions about when to buy and sell stocks

Linear Regression Indicator: Calculation in Microsoft Excel?

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:08:27 +0000

The Linear Regression Indicator (LRI) is a stock market indicator. It’s value each day is the same as a Linear Regression Trendline (LRT). The LRI is calculated using the "least squares method." I would like to know the formula to calculate the LRI in Microsoft Excel if you could assist me.

I am uncertain how my stock charting package calculates this value, but here are some clues. For the SPY, which generally tracks the value of the S&P 500 stock index, the LRI values at the end of the trading day today were LRI(1 day)=0; LRI(2 day)=128.42; LRI(3day)=128.51. The value for LRI(2 day) is simply the closing price of the SPY for today, which was 128.42. I’m really interested in how they calculate LRI(3day), and am seeking an explanation as to why LRI(1) is 0 and LRI(2) is today’s closing price.

I’m not sure whether they use the Open, High, Low and Close for each day, or just the Close or some combo. Here are those values for the last few days: (See Additional Details)
8/3: Open=127.33; High=128.55; Low=127.15; Close=128.42. 8/2: Open=127.58; High=128.46; Low=127.55; Close=128.08. 8/1: Open=127.34; High=127.38; Low=126.63; Close=127.22. 7/31: Open=127.66; High=127.96; Low=127.46; Close=127.85.

Trading indicators are best used along with money management and good risk control, using trading indicators alone will not enable you to be a successful trader, even if you learn everything about day trading indicators the market is just too random and unless risk is controlled, over time your account will slowly get wiped out, regardless how good a “trader” you think you are.

This question was about day trading indicators and there have been some pretty good answers that should help in your trading, and especially in relation to day trading indicators, the answer has been posted in the categories listed below:

Linear Regression Indicator: How do I Calculate in Microsoft Excel?

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:27:50 +0000

Trading indicators are best used along with money management and good risk control, using trading indicators alone will not enable you to be a successful trader, the market is just too random and unless risk is controlled over time your account will slowly get wiped out, regardless how good a “trader” you think you are.

How to know the number of bidders for a particular stock?

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:17:12 +0000

Hi,
I am new to stock market and have been reading lots of article to know what stock market is and how to trade there.

I was curious about the fact that how can some one know, that at a point of time, how many people out there bidding for a particular stock?
Is there any paid or free service available which can let me know that information? To my point of view, apart from all the technical indicators, if you have this information, you can make more informed decision for a particular stock.

Is the daily amount of traded stocks a good indicator of a future crash?

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:53:59 +0000

Preceding the October 29, 1929, there was an unprecedented amount of stocks trading hands (i.e. 16 million in one day). Does that amount indicate the fear of the traders, and a coming crash? Can we tell a crash coming from the point dropping too? or is the stock market not a teller of these things?

ALSO – where (online) can I find the daily amount of stocks trading hands?

Day trading SPY options: How can I do this better? (Long question)?

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:26:44 +0000

(Note: I have real money experience with options going back to 2000, first covered calls in my IRA and then long calls in my cash account though no day trading experience with real money. I have the 25K to park in an account to satisfy the pattern day trader rules and another 10K to make the actual contract purchases.)

I have a job that allows me to keep an eye on the real time stock market. Starting in January I started playing with the Virtual Trading engine at OptionXpress, daytrading options on SPY. My strategy is rather modest; I buy 5-10 ITM contracts, either put or call depending on market direction, and sell when I see the trend reverse. I chose 10 contracts because I believe that with an order size that small, if I submit a sell order at the bid it should fill immediately unless the market is moving very fast allowing me to lock in a profit if the trend reverses. I open one position at a time, I never leave my desk with an open position and I am 100% cash at market close every day. I use SPY because being a basket of 500 stocks it is buffered from sudden drastic moves in price giving me time to get out of a position with minimal loss if the price goes the wrong way on me. My immediate goal is 0 after commissions per round trip, a target that requires only a {content}.15 move in option price. I don’t always guess right on direction, 4 out of 5 is typical, and I am netting between 0 and 0 a day on 6-7 round trips. My 00 initial play money stake has grown to about ,000 since 1/19 when I started doing this seriously. I won’t get rich doing this but over the course of a year that is an extra person’s worth of income for my family. If it lets me do nothing more than pay off my house and fund future college for my 3 kids it is worth it.

Now that I have proven to myself that this seems to be a reasonable strategy I am trying to understand what I can do better and am now in the area of "I don’t know what I don’t know." I know about Level 2 quotes but if these are something that can help me I am not clear how to use them. I know that there are all sorts of indicators that technical traders use but I don’t know if these scale down to the day trading level. I know about the existence of the Greeks, and while I understand roughly what the numbers and equations mean, I don’t know if these will help me on positions lasting 15 minutes or less.

My main interest in posting this question is to find out if there are tools I can use to help me make better choices about getting in or out of a position or tell me more about what the market is doing. This strategy seems to be working okay and if I can translate this to real money I will consider myself successful. I don’t want to be greedy but I certainly would like to know if I can do what I am already doing more effectively.

I spent time on 888options and optionetics.com but it seems much of the content out there deals with strategies like spreads, butterflies and condors, things that simply don’t apply to what I am doing. I know there are options day traders, even some specializing in SPY, who read these questions, and I’d be appreciative if I even had a list of books or even just some things to go research and learn about that you have found helpful in your experience.

Thanks for reading this far and any help y’all provide.
I definitely understand the problem with fills; in fact, I asked a question about that here the other day. I had noticed that I could put in a sell at a price like 3.10 and a minute later see a bid/ask spread of 3.15/3.20 with my sell order still open. My only thought was "What the ****?!" I was told by another answerer that in reality, on an order that small an ask below the bid would never stay open on something as liquid as SPY.
Regarding filling at the mid, on SPY I could live with this. The options on SPY move enough intraday that even if every buy order filled at the ask and and sold at the bid I’d still make money because I am looking for moves of .15 on options that can move .30 or more in a short time. I’ve gotten good enough at picking the trend direction that I will buy options that are 3 or 4 points ITM. This gets me my .15 or more move with only a small move in the price of SPY.

What do they mean by fair value of futures and futures present value? How do they come to those figures?

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:18:18 +0000

I see this on CNBC every day! They seem to indicate that this could indicate that the stock market would rise on a positive number and fall on a negative number! Is this an indicator or pre market trading or overseas trading? How are they making the predictions for the day? What are they basing it on?

Trading indicators are best used along with money management and good risk control, using tesnical indicators alone will not enable you to ne a successful trader, the market is just too random

Currency Trading?

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:11:25 +0000

I currently trade on the stock market but I am interested in currency trading. I would like to know if it is similar to trading stock in which you trade using an online broker and if so what brokers are the best to use with the lowest commission fees? Related posts:Day Trading? currency trading? Do [...] Related posts:

How To Buy Top Stocks

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:16 +0000

Although it may seem obvious to most stock market swing traders there are a number of simple rules that you can follow which will ensure that you have more success when buying stocks:

In the USA stock market there are 3 major indexes which are each made up of a basket of stocks, they are the S and P 500 (also known as the S&P500), the DOW 30 and the Nadaq 100. These indexes generally only contain major blue chip stocks, as long as you buy from these 3 groups you will at least know that you are getting a well known solid stock.

For example the DOW30 contains major industrials and large multinational stocks such as Home Depot (HD) and Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) whereas the Nasdaq 100 mainly contains techical companies such as Apple (AAPL) and Miscrosoft (MSFT).

Always buy a stock that is liquid, this means that it is a highly traded stock, this will enable you to easily buy and sell at the price you want without having a delay. You will also get a lower spread, thats the difference between the BID and ASK price of the stock. For a stock to be considered very liquid it should trade at least 500,000 shares per day, ideally even more.

It is best to avoid stocks that are bellow $10 as this usually means the company is in trouble, although with the bear market of 2008 there have been a lot of good stocks at bargin prices between $5 and $10. Avoid buying a stock that is below $5 at anytime.

Another consideration is options, does the stock has options?, this will be important if you want to trade options around your stock, such as a covered call, or you may want to buy a PUT option inorder to protect your stock.

Be very cautious about buying a stock just before it’s earnings are released, stocks often drop significantly if they come out with a poor report. Earnings releases are 4 times a year with one of them being the annual report.

If you are going to trade options make sure that you learn how to trade by getting some good education. There are many swing trading strategies that work well with stocks in todays volatile markets.

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