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New Post! Apr 17, 2008 @ 08:26:08#1
roselmina

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There are a few things that always keep me thinking…… there are many online trading systems that demand to be profitable in all the ways as one can be .Do they really work or they are just for ones own profit . Do they make you profitable in the stock market; provide you with great tips…..I would like to use one. If you people have any know about this, then please let me know about them.

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New Post! Apr 17, 2008 @ 08:35:15#2
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I believe they can be profitable but you need to have some knowledge of the market before investing.


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New Post! May 10, 2008 @ 04:46:44#4
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Google:

Technical Analysis of the Stock Market by John Magee

Our Great Grandfather, who now spends his time gambling at Pachanga, says that he used this book back in the 1950s.

Barns and Noble has at least ten different versions of it.


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New Post! May 13, 2008 @ 12:48:00#5
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Some investors select stocks for investment by comparing price to earnings ratios. Financial news sources publish these ratios along with the information that they call a quote, which is the price of a share of stock. Different sources might have different numbers because they have different ways to calculate the earnings, but they are mostly very close to the same number for the same stock.

To select stocks based on price to earnings ratios, the first step is to find a list of competitors, for example credit card companies, such as Citibank, American Express, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase. Then buy the one with the lowest price to earnings ratio.

Then make another list of compeitors in another industry and do the same thing.


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New Post! May 15, 2008 @ 04:34:46#6
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To get lists of stocks to compare, just pick a stock and find a list of its competitors. Start with big companies like on the Dow Jones Average.

MMM 3M has competitors like:

AVY AVERY DENNISON CORP
DD DU PONT E I DE NEMOURS & CO
JNJ JOHNSON & JOHNSON

AOL calls these companies conglomerates. That means they are so friggin big that buying them is like buying a mutual fund. As simple way to decide between them is to compare the price to earnings ratio and buy the lowest one.


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New Post! May 16, 2008 @ 13:17:17#7
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roselmina said:
There are a few things that always keep me thinking…… there are many online trading systems that demand to be profitable in all the ways as one can be .Do they really work or they are just for ones own profit . Do they make you profitable in the stock market; provide you with great tips…..I would like to use one. If you people have any know about this, then please let me know about them.


NO trading website can make you rich if you do not follow the markets on a regular basis. Actually even if you do follow the markets you can still lose. Just listen to what the so called "experts" say.

They tell you that "if the market" or "when the market", they cannot predict the movements of the markets with absolute certainty. If they could they would make millions in a year. Look how many lost their shirts in the markets coz they thought one thing, and another thing happened.

Always go for what you can afford to lose.
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New Post! May 16, 2008 @ 23:12:49#8
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erikthered said:
NO trading website can make you rich if you do not follow the markets on a regular basis. Actually even if you do follow the markets you can still lose. Just listen to what the so called "experts" say.

They tell you that "if the market" or "when the market", they cannot predict the movements of the markets with absolute certainty. If they could they would make millions in a year. Look how many lost their shirts in the markets coz they thought one thing, and another thing happened.

Always go for what you can afford to lose.


If trading means buying and selling stocks in a manner intended to sell at a high point and buy at a low point, then we think that kind trading might be a bad idea. The fortune tellers, soothsayers, and financial advisers we know say that kind of trading is a bad strategy for small investors. However, they always add that never investing is an even greater guarantee of lose because inflation destroys the value of money faster than a bank will pay interest.


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New Post! May 20, 2008 @ 01:35:41#9
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Investment has a side benefit. When investors buy shares in companies, the companies have money to hire workers and create jobs. When politicians says they the want to create jobs, their words have no meaning unless they have some source of capital. A major source of capital is small investors investments in retirement accounts, so investing with a view to retirement might allow a workers to create their own job.


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New Post! Jun 28, 2008 @ 18:45:39#10
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All I can say is buy low and sell high! It sounds so simple but unfortunately many people dont follow that sound advice, this is why they got caught in the housing boom that went bust and are now left holding the bag! What they are doing is buying high and hope to sell higher! Or also known as the greater fool theory!

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