Short selling, a help or a hindrance? I am not talking about individual traders who enjoy the ability to short sell shares, I am referring to the existing shareholder. Whilst existing holders may not want anyone shorting their shares on a certain level, if the shares are shorted, and the shareholder has done their homework, [...]
To every investor, stock market is a challenge. One wishes to meet these, aiming high profits. Is it possible to stay on the pedestal of profits at all times? Is it possible to beat the market with your every move? The answer is clearly in the negative. Profits and losses are part of this game. [...]
Back in the summer of 2008 Mervyn King gave the startling news that the average family’s standard of living would ‘stagnate’. This is hardly news as the same thing happened (pretty much) last year and the year before. The huge rise in personal debt is evidence that many people have been financing any increase in [...]
The use of stock options in a downward moving market is an optimal time for them. In general, when equities are going downward they do so at a very quick pace This is exactly the best time to make use of the inherent properties that equity options have. The main problem of stock options is [...]
Every person reading this article will be living, working and investing in different circumstances, with mind boggling possibilities for variation.For example:
However, very few of us get to start full time investing right away – we just don’t have the capital. So, what to do? You need to develop your own long term Investment Plan [...]
Planet Wealth is an independent investment company that is run by a group of private investors who have a long history of experience and success with stock market investing. Many people are under the impression that most investment services like planet wealth are a scam, so I decided to do some homework on planet wealth [...]
The relative strength indicator is one of the most commonly used technical analysis tools available. Unfortunately it is also one of the most misused. The RSI was a tool developed by famed market technician Welles Wilder during the 1970’s as a way to determine whether a market was overbought or oversold. The formula is rather [...]
These days everybody wants to know how to make the money back that they lost in the stock market. Clearly the answer isn’t to trust a financial adviser because they are likely the person who lost your money to begin with. Seventy-percent of mutual funds under perform the S&P 500 and over the last two [...]