Archive for January, 2006
Stock Exchange
Sunday, January 1st, 2006A stock Exchange, share market or bourse is a corporation or mutual organization which provides facilities for stock brokers and traders, to trade company stocks and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of securities as well as other financial instruments and capital events including the payment of income and […]
Day Trading
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Day trading refers to the practice of buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day such that all positions will usually (not necessarily always) be closed before the market close of the trading day. This is different from After-hours trading. Traders that participate in day trading are called day traders.
Some of the more […]
Valuation Methods
Sunday, January 1st, 2006The most theoretically sound stock valuation method is called income valuation or the discounted cash flow (DCF) method, involves discounting of the profits (dividends, earnings, or cash flows) the stock will bring to the stockholder in the foreseeable future, and a final value on disposition. The discounted rate normally includes a risk premium which is […]
Micro Cap Stock
Sunday, January 1st, 2006Microcap Stock: A Guide for InvestorsInformation is the investor’s best tool when it comes to investing wisely. But accurate information about “microcap stocks” — low-priced stocks issued by the smallest of companies — may be difficult to find. Many microcap companies do not file financial reports with the SEC, so it’s hard for investors to […]
Bullish/Bearish
Sunday, January 1st, 2006In investing, financial markets are commonly believed to have market trends that can be classified as primary trends, secondary trends (short-term), and secular trends (long-term). This belief is generally consistent with the practice of technical analysis and broadly inconsistent with the standard academic view of financial markets, the efficient market hypothesis.
That market prices do move […]