David Jose asked:


 

Stock Trading Community-Have you observed the recent growth of the effective and challenging stock trading communities ? Hope you have done so. These days various stock trading communities are making headlines in many online journals through out the world. This is a remarkable news made by the age old stock trading organizations. In the past, there were many hiccups in the minds of people regarding investments in the stock markets. Well, at present there is a transparent change in the thinking of these people. Now they are getting more advance in their trading skills and moving with the current pace of the stock trading markets.

What has made these stock trading communities to expand suddenly through out the world ? Do you have a proper reason for this in your mind ? You might be having at least a sound perception about it. The most appealing answer is that there is a massive increase in the number of people trusting such a stock trading community. Modern people are more open to accept new challenges and always stand up to get the view of the horizons of their success. They never step back without even trying their ideas into practical applications.

The advent of stock trading community should be always welcome. They are helping more people to get united and discuss the factors which are related to the stock markets. In addition, they also bring out the various opportunities where people on investing more money can have higher range of benefits. People are surely getting profits from such stock trading communities and that is why such communities are increasing day by day.

Now-a-days, it is a common characteristic that all small stock trading communities are linking up to the giant stock trading communities. Many business experts find this occurrence to be good. People having the memberships of small stock trading communities can indirectly participate in the various global projects and then they are sure to get huge benefits. If you are a member of a small stock trading community then with other members you would discuss the prospects of investing in the giant projects and after the final decision, all the members can move with the giant projects. Here majority of people take the right decision, so you are one of them and the success out of it is evident.

 



William

David Jose asked:


Do people use online stock trading tips? This is one of the many questions which many people often ask. There is nothing wrong in raising such queries. Well business experts say that many people have joined various online trading communities but very few of them have been successfully using the trading tips. Majority of online trading communities often publish effective online stock trading tips in bulk. But still people do not pay heed to these tips. Only people who are seriously working hard are making lots of money. On the other hand, people who are quite lazy in following online stock trading tips are losing their valuable money.

There are many possibilities that people who know the tactics of using online trading tips well would surely get richer day by day. Online stock trading tips are not so difficult to use them. These are all meant to provide your money with benefits. There are many online stock trading communities which guide their members with excellent tips published on their stock trading message boards. Everyday when you turn on your computer, you should go through the stock trading message boards and thus, grab the result giving online stock trading tips. 

Are online stock trading tips remain same for a long time? No, online stock trading tips never remain same for a long time. Stock experts suggest these tips by looking at a particular trend of the investment market which is stable for some period of time. You can only use these tips till the deadline given by these experts. Since the stock market is quite volatile, no can predict the stability of  market. Stock experts only tell you the right tips and timings for various investment purpose.

When it comes to following online stock trading tips, one should be very stringent as well as discipline. Any kind of mistakes can cause you a big loss. You cannot afford your hard earned money to get lost in this way. Keep yourself up to dated with the ups and downs of the stock market and as far as possible enlist yourself into a good online stock trading community.  



Frances

Larry Schade asked:


I have found that the best stocks for stock trading and day trading are the stocks that make up the S&P 500. The reason for this is that the large Mutual Funds and large Institutional Buyers concentrate on these stocks in their never ending quest to beat the S&P 500. These stocks generally have strong relative strength and absolute performance to the S&P 500 Index. Of these stocks, I like to concentrate on those that are in the Nasdaq 100 Composite Index. It is the Nasdaq stocks that I like to trade the most because of their volatility of the stocks in the Nasdaq 100, I concentrate on those stocks that I that I like to refer to as “trading where the action is” stocks. These are stocks that show tremendous volume in the number of shares being traded during the day, at least 15 million shares and preferably 20 million shares and more. My real preference is share volume of 30 million plus per day.

In addition, the stocks must have a large daily stock trading range, which is the difference between the high price and low price of that stock for the previous trading day, and a lot of volatility. I look for a trading range of at least $2.00 per share, but I really prefer those that are more volatile and have a daily travelling range of $3.00 to $6.00 and more.

The reason for this is that I trade both sides of the market, both the long side and the short side on an intra-day basis. I have no interest in whether the stock closed in positive, or negative territory the previous day, just as long as the volume and price action are there.

All I want is the price action, high volume and the volatility. If I have these three ingredients, I know that the major players are very active in that stock and they are either increasing, or decreasing their weighting in that stock. Adding to and contributing to the price and volume action are what I call the “accelerators”, which are the momentum players, the program traders and the hedge funds who are trying to jump in ahead of the mutual funds and front run the stock, either up, or down. This is when the action really heats up and you will see “climatic volume” where each stock trade is occurring in less than a second. I have seen this many times every day. It happens all of the time.

One thing that may not be apparent to you on the surface is that what I have done when I pick stocks for stock trading is that I have used the major players as my research department. The money flow is very visible because most institutions are on the same page in terms of what they are buying and selling. This shows up in the price action, the volatility, and volume for the stocks in play. It is awfully hard for a herd of elephants to hide their foot prints in the sand.

Now with a potential list of stocks to trade. I then load those stocks into my “stock trading” watch list . In addition to that watch list I have another watch list that contains every stock in the Nasdaq 100. When the market opens I spend the first 5 minutes or so, observing the volume, price action, and direction of the stocks in both watch lists.

I am looking for certain patterns to develop and if I see a pattern that I like to day trade, I will pull the trigger and take the trade, either on the long side or the short side based on what the stock (price action and volume) tell me, what I see the market makers doing on the Level II screen, and provided the stock is trading in line with the chart of the Nasdaq 100.

I always have a fairly tight protective stop in place to protect me in case I am wrong and took the trade too soon. I may attempt that trade 2 or 3 times before I get the right entry, each time taking a small lose. But when I get the right entry, there is a lot of money to be made, especially when you are in the right stock.

One of the things I like to do is to stay with the same stock, as long as it satisfies my stock trading requirements. I may trade the same stock all week as along as it is performing for me and I am making good profitable trades with it. One of the benefits in doing this is that you really get to know the stock well, and how it trades.

To recap, in my opinion the best stocks for stock trading are those stocks with very high velocity and high volume, high volatility and a good intra-day travelling range. When you have these characteristics, you know the large institutions and the “accelerators” are involved in the stock.

For stock trading, you will need a direct access day trading account from a stock trading broker that offers direct access stock trading software. This is an absolute must have for day trading. The software will have Level II, charts, technical indicators, etc. Direct access means that your buy and sell orders are sent directly to the market by you without using a middle man to place the orders for you..

The first thing you need to do before you even attempt stock trading, and this is even if you do have some experience, is to take a good day trading course so that you really understand how the business of stock trading works, what patterns to look for, how the markets work and how everything fits together. It will be the best investment you ever make. If you don’t eductae yourself – you have better than a 90% chance of failing.

* the words stock trading and day trading are interchangeable.

Good luck and good trading,

The Maverick

Larry Schade



George