By:Peter Skotnicky
What do you want to achieve in day trading? Do you plan to use your earnings for retirement? Are you enthusiastic about paying for your children's college education? What is driving you into the middle of the stock market with an open mind and wallet for risk? The stock market is the beginning to building wealth that can help you reach all of your goals.
No one should be left behind when developing the best day trading system to harness the power of day trading. In today's article, you're going to learn how to follow the measures of icons, implement fundamentals, and buy a day trading system (or software) perfect for your trading efforts.
1. Learn from Icons
Have you ever heard of Warren Buffet? Are you familiar with Peter Lynch? Do you read top investing literature offered by your brokerage firm, an online newsletter, or personal finance blogs? The world of investing is based on solid principles that every day trader must use in order to make money. Your ideas of grasping thousands of dollars may be around the corner once you learn the ways of investing experts such as Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch.
Counter the issue that may arise from wondering into the wrong stocks; use fundamentals that are practiced by all investors then switch it up to match your style. No one is saying stay in one place; we're only encouraging personalized trades that can help you achieve your goals. So, what are you trying to do in stock trading and how are you planning to achieve those goals? You have to start from scratch; learn the fundamentals.
2. Implement Fundamentals
Too many investors stray away from developing the best trading system possible. This may include finding software, implementing fundamentals, and losing money in order to learn from mistakes. Today's best investors (including inexperienced) are using basic principles to create entry points suitable for their budget, grasping realities of losing money in the stock market, and earning money as they sleep from a stock trading software's picks available the next morning.
All of this can seem a little out of proportion when you're unfamiliar with the playing field; software programmers are turning in to an investor's cry - you can make money by finding a stock trading software that's perfect for your investing strategies.
3. Buy a Day Trading System
If you are uncomfortable developing your own day trading system, maybe you should buy one that fits your needs. Find a stock picking software with easy to use features, learning materials, and a successful background of happy investors. Choose a system that will not require too much time in learning the ropes because you will need to test its accuracy.
Many people (including inexperienced investors) have lost thousands in the midst of an hour because they used cheap, inconsistent stock trading software with fabricated data. You should be careful in making your decision if you want to build a successful trading system
Friday, July 17, 2009
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Types of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing has recently seen a tremendous surge in popularity recently. And there are several reasons for this sudden interest towards affiliate programs. The immediate benefits of affiliate marketing have become clearer to people, i.e. that this method of marketing is one of the quickest ways to make money online is becoming a common knowledge. In fact, there are many affiliate programs available on the internet, at your disposal to be chosen as you like them.
Merchants and affiliates can both benefit from affiliate program greatly. Merchants get an opportunity, through this method, to advertise their products in a very cost-efficient manner, and as for the affiliates, they promote the products to make profits. It's one of the easiest ways available for both parties to earn some real money online.
Best of all, affiliate marketing is no longer considered just another alternative means to earning money: it is very much a major source of income nowadays for both merchants and affiliates. The profits earned through affiliate marketing are bigger and better than ever, and it is no longer a secondary source of additional income. Affiliate programs and marketing is here to stay.
In order to break into this exciting world, there are a few things you need to know, and be aware of. These include knowing the various types of affiliate marketing programs, which program accomplishes what, and so on.
Different Affiliate Marketing Programs: Single, Double, Multiple Tier
In two-tier based affiliate marketing programs, the affiliates are paid based on the traffic and sales that he has managed to refer to the website of the merchant, as well as based on the traffic and the sales that various other affiliates have referred to the merchant, all of whom have been recommended by him in the first place. In a similar manner, in multi-tier affiliate programs, the affiliate gets paid in the same way, only difference being that in this case, there are several more tiers which lead to additional income. Therefore, two tier and multi tier based marketing programs are a definite improvement over one tier a program, which pays the affiliate from a single direction only. Single tier programs consist of affiliate marketing types like PPS, PPL and PPC.
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing
by Cristopher Freville
Residual income affiliate marketing, on the other hand, is different. In this case, the affiliate is paid only when the customer referred to by him returns to the website to buy another product. Sales percentage commission and a fixed fee are the two factors on which compensation depends, in this regard.
Merchants and affiliates benefit differently from these affiliate programs, as these various types of affiliate programs work in different ways for both parties.
Which affiliate program you would rather go with is entirely your decision. Keep your eyes and ears open, research on the matter before making a decision. Rest assured, affiliate marketing is here to stay. It is one of the best ways to make money on the internet, and is really coming out into the open now, thanks to greater awareness and publicity and new opportunities. It's the perfect time for you to break into affiliate marketing if you haven't already, and prosper. Give it a go, and you won't be disappointed in the least
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Options Trading
By Amit Kothial
If you are one of those who want to gain huge profits from stock options, then it is very important for you to understand the meaning of option trading. At times it can be difficult to learn the exact difference between trading in the stock market and trading in the stock options market. In fact option markets are parallel to futures markets, that give you the right as a holder to buy or sell the underlying commodity for a specific price on (European options) or before (US options) a specific date in the future (known as the expiration or exercise date). Based upon the similar fundamental instruments of futures, it also has similar contract specifications. However, the options are traded differently. Available on futures markets, on stock indexes it can be traded on their own using various strategies, or can be combined with futures contracts and used as a form of trade insurance.
Options trading actually act as a best means to earn money. It is more like giving out cash in exchange for potential profit. You buy assets or things of value, with hopes of producing income in the end. It is available as either a Call or a Put, depending upon whether they give the right to buy, or the right to sell. The Call options give you the right as a holder to buy the underlying commodity, and Put options provide you the right to sell the underlying commodity. However, be it a call or put option, it can be bought or sold on registered exchanges. You deal with buyers and sellers of options/stocks, hoping to bring in more profits.
The best part about Options Trading is that you can have a better control on both the probability of risk and the consequence of risk. In stock trading, you cannot actually control the prospect of loss because you win only if the stock goes up. But option trading reduces the probability of danger as there are options strategies that profit when the stock goes up, down and sideways all at once. Besides this, it also reduces the consequence of risk through leverage.
Today, certainly the success in options trading is determined by price movements and investor's attention to either volatile or commodity stocks. Proper control using bear market options trading strategies can certainly put extra cash in your pockets. Moreover, it can further give you the edge when the next bull market occurs.
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Going Long Vs. Going Short
by Zvi Benyamini
There’s a world of difference between uptrends and downtrends. Here’s a look at different setups and how you can use them to succeed in long and short positions.
When I first began selling short a few years back, I didn’t do very well. I was stopped out of trade after trade, and I kept missing out on the best opportunities. At first I didn’t understand what was wrong: I was using the exact same methods that I had used successfully to go long, and simply reversed the rules and setups. Why wasn’t it working?
At some point I realized this was a mistake. Why? Because if you examine the charts of uptrends and downtrends carefully, you will see a world of differences between them. Understanding these differences is crucial to successful short-selling.
I would like to demonstrate a few of the differences between common chart patterns in uptrends and downtrends. I will show how they affect my entry setups, stop placement, and profit-taking when going short, compared to going long.
#1: Downtrend pullbacks are deeper
In an uptrend, pullbacks are usually weak and shallow compared to the rallies. Pullbacks in downtrends, on the other hand, tend to be much stronger and deeper.
So if we try using the same entry rules for going short on pullbacks, we are likely to miss out on the best trades. We need two different sets of entry rules: one for buying pullbacks in an uptrend, and one for shorting pullbacks in a downtrend. The “buying rules” should avoid strong pullbacks, while the “shorting rules” should allow them.
To demonstrate this point, let’s look at a few examples of pullbacks in both uptrends and downtrends. Figure 1 shows two pullbacks in an uptrend in gold futures. In the first pullback, we can see that volume is low, and daily ranges become narrow, especially near the end of the pullback. This means that selling pressure is weak. The downward progress is slow and uneven; most days close well off the low price of the day, and the entire pullback retraces only half of the previous rally
Trading Commodities and Technical Analysis
Will this rise or fall, Should you go actually long or short. When you are trading commodities or any sort of financial instrument, you most likely will need the tools to extract this information out from the market so that you can make the best decision how to trade effectively and make some money from the market. No one person can learn very analytical method out there in the market, the sheer number of combinations and the sheer volume of information that needs to be processed is too much for one person, let alone one company to actually handle.
Markets give out a massive amount of information on a daily basis, and what you need to do is to be able to use the market and investment tools to regulate the flow of the information, segment which ones you need and analysis them This is how traders all over the world are making money, by slicing up the market into manageable parts and then using the information that they have gained to make important trading decisions. You need to have some basic carting skills if you are going to be a success in the market because things like price is a consensus of value of all market participants that have been expressed in action during the movement of the trade.
Market traders often have no real idea of what they are trying to analyse and this can range from balance sheets of companies and even pronouncements from central banks, You also need to know about the meaning of prices, the highs and lows, opening and closing prices, intraday swings and weekly ranges and how they reflect on the market psychology. This way, you can use charts and indicators to effectively read the market of where it is and where it is going to be.
By Patricia B. Smith
Technical analysis is really a wide area for you to explore, and in the whole procedure of exploration you will find your own identity as an investor. And this is perhaps the most important aspect of the whole trading process. Knowing who you are as an investor will allow you to actually build on this identity and dominate the segment of the market and the style of your trading. This is now most of the big time traders actually climb to the top and stay there; through careful self analysis of themselves and the market that they operate in.
Then and only then will they be able to make it where they want to be. If you notice, both online and offline, there are literally hundreds of books out there that can help you with the entire problem of technical analysis and how you can best pick apart the market. What you can do is speak to the brokers out there and those that have been trading for a long time for the best resources and places to find the best guides and books that can achieve the same thing for you. With this trading commodities will seem plenty easier
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
How to Use Index Option Trading to Make Risk Free Profits
By Philip Gegan
Index option trading is a subject that even those familiar with stock market jargon often know little about. But it is a way of trading options that is virtually risk free, where all you are risking is the premium you pay for the option, which is normally a small fraction of the potential profit you stand to make.
If this sounds a little technical, let me explain it in plain English.
The original method of making money on the stock market was to buy a company's shares in order to sell them later at a profit.
Then options came along. Instead of actually purchasing stock, or shares, you could simply purchase the option to purchase. You didn't become a shareholder so you couldn't attend and vote at company meetings, and weren't entitled to dividends, but as your main concern was to simply profit from an increase in the company's value, and as you were probably doing the same thing with many companies, you probably weren't concerned about this.
For example, if you consider the stock of XYZ Inc, current price $10.00, is going to increase in the near future, then you could buy an option to purchase, say, 1,000 shares at $10.00 each in, say, 3 months' time. The premium, or cost, of the option might be 10 cents a share, total $100 (1,000 x $0.10).
Cheaper than buying 1,000 shares at $10 (total cost $10,000), eh?
In addition, your risk is less, because your maximum loss, if the price does not rise, is your premium of $100. If you bought the shares your theoretical risk would be $10,000, though admittedly only if the company was to go bankrupt and the shares become worthless. In spite of this, options are an excellent alternative to shares, and you can have an interest in many more shares for your money, which brings us to the next point.
If, as you anticipated, the share price does indeed rise, then you can make a massive profit. In our example, if the share price rose just modestly to $12 from $10 within the three months, by no means an unlikely event in the life of a company, then you would be able to sell your option for $2,000, i.e. you'd in effect buy the shares for $10 each, total $10,000, and sell them for $12 each, total $12,000. The profit is therefore $2,000, less the original $100 premium, giving a net profit of $1,900.
If it's as easy as that, then why would anyone sell an option to you? For the same reason that people sell shares - because they might be of the view that the shares will probably go down in value.
So far, so good. But where does index option trading come into it? The trouble with the example I've just given is that individual stocks can be volatile and it can be very difficult to predict future price movements unless you are very familiar with what's going on in that company. But you can easily do this with an index of a number of companies in a particular category.
For example, you may be keeping close track of what is going on in the utilities sector. Find a suitable index of the companies in that sector, track it, and when you consider a move upwards in price is due then purchase the index option. Or sell it if you think the price is about to go down. This has the advantage that any individual share volatility will be ironed out and you will be thereby protected.
Of all the stock trading tools you may find, this must be one of the best. If you keep yourself well-informed in a few sectors as I've explained, something that's not too difficult to do, then you should be successful far more often than not, and given the risk/reward ratio explained above you should be able to make regular profits with minimal risk.
We made 70 per cent on gold in less than a week. You can join us in trades like this at http://www.onlinefinancialtrading.com
Monday, July 6, 2009
Affiliate Internet Marketing Tip - Successful Online Classifieds
By Jason A Osborn
How many times have you seen an affiliate internet marketing tip telling you to use online classifieds to promote your products and programs? How many of those tips actually gave you enough information to write a successful ad? Unfortunately, your answer to that last questions is likely none. This affiliate internet marketing tip will actually tell you how to be successful with online classifieds.
The first thing to remember about online classifieds is that you want to use sites that have a high page rank. This is because the higher the page rank, the more often that site is crawled for content, and the more likely it becomes that your ad will show up in the search engines. It is also a good indicator of how many people will be exposed to your ads.
Before writing or posting any ads to a site, check their posting guidelines and terms of service. Most classified sites do not allow certain types of products to be advertised on their site. Most sites also have policies regarding the number of ads you can post at one time, how similar ads can be, how often you can post, and how many categories you can post in.
When you write your online classified ad keep it short and sweet, but give enough information that people know what they are clicking on when they hit that link. Don't just give a brief sales line with a picture or website link and expect people to click on it. You should also use pictures where they are available and it makes sense to use them, as ads with pictures get more traffic than those without. Don't forget your basic internet marketing formula-introduce, sell, and call to action.
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How to Use Index Option Trading to Make Risk Free Profits
By Philip Gegan
Index option trading is a subject that even those familiar with stock market jargon often know little about. But it is a way of trading options that is virtually risk free, where all you are risking is the premium you pay for the option, which is normally a small fraction of the potential profit you stand to make.
If this sounds a little technical, let me explain it in plain English.
The original method of making money on the stock market was to buy a company's shares in order to sell them later at a profit.
Then options came along. Instead of actually purchasing stock, or shares, you could simply purchase the option to purchase. You didn't become a shareholder so you couldn't attend and vote at company meetings, and weren't entitled to dividends, but as your main concern was to simply profit from an increase in the company's value, and as you were probably doing the same thing with many companies, you probably weren't concerned about this.
For example, if you consider the stock of XYZ Inc, current price $10.00, is going to increase in the near future, then you could buy an option to purchase, say, 1,000 shares at $10.00 each in, say, 3 months' time. The premium, or cost, of the option might be 10 cents a share, total $100 (1,000 x $0.10).
Cheaper than buying 1,000 shares at $10 (total cost $10,000), eh?
In addition, your risk is less, because your maximum loss, if the price does not rise, is your premium of $100. If you bought the shares your theoretical risk would be $10,000, though admittedly only if the company was to go bankrupt and the shares become worthless. In spite of this, options are an excellent alternative to shares, and you can have an interest in many more shares for your money, which brings us to the next point.
If, as you anticipated, the share price does indeed rise, then you can make a massive profit. In our example, if the share price rose just modestly to $12 from $10 within the three months, by no means an unlikely event in the life of a company, then you would be able to sell your option for $2,000, i.e. you'd in effect buy the shares for $10 each, total $10,000, and sell them for $12 each, total $12,000. The profit is therefore $2,000, less the original $100 premium, giving a net profit of $1,900.
If it's as easy as that, then why would anyone sell an option to you? For the same reason that people sell shares - because they might be of the view that the shares will probably go down in value.
So far, so good. But where does index option trading come into it? The trouble with the example I've just given is that individual stocks can be volatile and it can be very difficult to predict future price movements unless you are very familiar with what's going on in that company. But you can easily do this with an index of a number of companies in a particular category.
For example, you may be keeping close track of what is going on in the utilities sector. Find a suitable index of the companies in that sector, track it, and when you consider a move upwards in price is due then purchase the index option. Or sell it if you think the price is about to go down. This has the advantage that any individual share volatility will be ironed out and you will be thereby protected.
Of all the stock trading tools you may find, this must be one of the best. If you keep yourself well-informed in a few sectors as I've explained, something that's not too difficult to do, then you should be successful far more often than not, and given the risk/reward ratio explained above you should be able to make regular profits with minimal risk.
We made 70 per cent on gold in less than a week. You can join us in trades like this at http://www.onlinefinancialtrading.com
How to Achieve Success in Day Trading?
By Peter Skotnicky
There are a number of ways to make money in the stock market and day trading can be considered one of the most lucrative methods. There have been many people who have become self-made millionaires due to their success at day trading. However, it is important for people to realize that there is no easy way to day trade.
This is a very complicated method of investing and it comes with great risk. But, there are a number of ways one can improve the odds of day trading success. Understanding a few of these points will work wonders for understanding how to succeed at day trading.
The first step towards day trading success and making money is to be sure day trading is for you. As the name implies, trading means you will be buying stock low and selling high in a relatively quick fashion. Often, trades are performed in the same day. That means a great deal of effort must go into researching and totality of the market in order to make important trades. If this is not something you are capable or willing to do, then day trading is definitely not for you. Instead, you would be better off sticking with traditional, long term investing for making money. However, if you have a desire for this type of trading then it would definitely be worth your effort to take advantage of the many opportunities that exist thanks to the advancement of software trading platforms.
It is also critical that you do not invest more than what you are comfortable with losing. Now, some may look at this statement and say that it is a downbeat one. After all, how can you even think about the potential for losing money? Well, the reason is because it is possible to lose your investment and that is why one should never risk more than what one can afford to lose when seeking stock trading success. Taking a financial bath early in the game will simply sour you towards investing and that will not help you overall chances for success in any way. As such, setting a limit for your losses will be a wise move.
Do not fixate on any one particular stock or market. Yes, all investors have their specialties and their areas of interest. This is a given. But, it also does not hurt to be broad based in one's approach to investing. That means you need to keep your eyes open on all fields so that you do not miss out on any potential lucrative deals if the opportunity arises. So, if you are more diversified in your knowledge base this makes for better business decisions and greater odds of day trading success and making money.
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