Stock Investing

Get Excited By Red and Depressed By Green

September 30, 2011
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Get Excited By Red and Depressed By Green

I am not talking about traffic signals – I mean the stock market and its movement upward or downward. I get excited when I have money to invest in a market and it goes into the red. I worry about my investable income when I see the market in the green for an extended period. In plain language, I am just in my mid 30′s so now, I am not bothered at all about the market being low. I don’t buy and sell frequently on every ups and downs, I don’t care by how much stock market goes up or down every day. I hate frequent stock trading. “Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.” – Warren Buffett Stock market is at two years low, in the last few months I didn’t notice my portfolio growing. It actually lost value. When you are losing your net worth it’s difficult to stand still and do nothing. My hands are itching to act and do something to improve my return. It’s hard to control a decision-making move at this point, a decision to sell that is. Damn! when your stock goes down from $50 to $30

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How Can I Time Stock Market Correctly?

August 31, 2011
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How Can I Time Stock Market Correctly?

Millions of investors ask the same question over and over again: ‘How can I time the stock market?’ You have seen a stock or fund’s 52-week high and 52-week low, and if you are like me, you’ve probably wondered why you didn’t buy at the lowest and sell at the highest. Every stock I see on Yahoo! finance makes me sigh… If only I could have bought the stock at such-and-such date and sold on such-and-such date. I could have been a multimillionaire by now had I timed the market correctly. Various fools and alphas have written tons of articles on timing the market. Experts have written papers on trading strategies for particular stocks, but have you heard any story of rags to riches in stock market trading? It’s one thing to write about stock investing, but it’s another thing to actually profit from it. Have you ever asked these so called experts why they don’t buy the stocks they recommend instead of asking everyone else to buy? They earn a moderate income writing in favor of a stock, but they could earn unlimited income by making profit in stock. Are these guys really experts in picking stocks? Go back

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