How To Make Money Stock Trading
I know you want to generate capital gains in the stock market. You need to use a strategy that fits the current market environment and your own personality to do that.
There are two basic investing methods that successful investors use to make money. They either use a growth or value oriented approach to investing, which looks for companies whose earnings are rapidly growing or whose stock is undervalued, or they employ technical analysis, which examines prior price and volume movements in order to forecast the future price movements of financial assets. Some investors use a combination of strategies, such as William O'Neill who combines a growth and technical approach to investing in his book How to Make Money in Stocks and in his newspaper, Investor's Business Daily.
Growth investors base their investment decisions on a study of the earnings of a company, but completely disregard valuations. They don't care if a stock is highly valued, only that earnings are growing quickly. William O'Neill is the most popular proponent of growth investing. He looks for companies whose quarterly earnings are up at least 20% from a year ago, whose annual compounded earnings per share should be between at least 15% for the past five years, and who have a new product or service that will help it capture market share. Although O'Neill then takes into consideration how strong the stock is when compared to the rest of the market and the general phase of the market, most pure growth stock investors do not worry about the position of the market or the stock itself.
Even though growth stocks tend to outperform the rest of the stock market during bull markets, growth stock investing holds special risks. Part of the reason why growth stocks do so well is that their earnings tend to surprise analysts to the upside. That catches the attention of investors and causes traders to buy the stock in hopes that the company will surprise again, causing the stock to become highly valued.
The problem with growth companies is that at some point the growth slows down. Usually this happens right as the excitement surrounding the company is at a crescendo. The stock then usually falters and goes nowhere despite the continued good news. What is happening is that company insiders know that the future is not going to be as easy as the climb up to ascendancy and start to sell out ahead of the crowd, thereby putting a lid on any future price advances.
Most growth stocks go up a lot, because people like to bet they keep going up. It is a big momentum play. But when bad news hits then the momentum can switch and go to the downside. So to play growth stocks you have to know what you are doing when it comes to trading and putting in your buy and sell orders.
The other way that is popular to invest in the stock market is called value investing. Think about Warren Buffett right here. Buffett likes to buy stocks that he thinks are at a cheap price and doesn't buy when the stocks go up. He buys when they are down, by buying stocks he thinks others are selling at a low price for a mistake.
Most value investors look for companies whose stock is trading at a very low valuation due to a temporary market condition, such as low sales, a slow economy, or an extreme bearish sentiment in regards to the company that is unwarranted.
When you buy really cheap though sometimes it can take a long time before the stock goes up since investors can stay scared for a long time. It takes times in bear markets for the stock to go up too. So you have to be patient sometimes to be a value investor.
Value investing strategies usually do not do as well as growth strategies in a bull market, because growth stocks go up more. But they are the best way to get in cheap and sell at a big gain. It can sometimes just take more time than most people can wait for. - 23217
There are two basic investing methods that successful investors use to make money. They either use a growth or value oriented approach to investing, which looks for companies whose earnings are rapidly growing or whose stock is undervalued, or they employ technical analysis, which examines prior price and volume movements in order to forecast the future price movements of financial assets. Some investors use a combination of strategies, such as William O'Neill who combines a growth and technical approach to investing in his book How to Make Money in Stocks and in his newspaper, Investor's Business Daily.
Growth investors base their investment decisions on a study of the earnings of a company, but completely disregard valuations. They don't care if a stock is highly valued, only that earnings are growing quickly. William O'Neill is the most popular proponent of growth investing. He looks for companies whose quarterly earnings are up at least 20% from a year ago, whose annual compounded earnings per share should be between at least 15% for the past five years, and who have a new product or service that will help it capture market share. Although O'Neill then takes into consideration how strong the stock is when compared to the rest of the market and the general phase of the market, most pure growth stock investors do not worry about the position of the market or the stock itself.
Even though growth stocks tend to outperform the rest of the stock market during bull markets, growth stock investing holds special risks. Part of the reason why growth stocks do so well is that their earnings tend to surprise analysts to the upside. That catches the attention of investors and causes traders to buy the stock in hopes that the company will surprise again, causing the stock to become highly valued.
The problem with growth companies is that at some point the growth slows down. Usually this happens right as the excitement surrounding the company is at a crescendo. The stock then usually falters and goes nowhere despite the continued good news. What is happening is that company insiders know that the future is not going to be as easy as the climb up to ascendancy and start to sell out ahead of the crowd, thereby putting a lid on any future price advances.
Most growth stocks go up a lot, because people like to bet they keep going up. It is a big momentum play. But when bad news hits then the momentum can switch and go to the downside. So to play growth stocks you have to know what you are doing when it comes to trading and putting in your buy and sell orders.
The other way that is popular to invest in the stock market is called value investing. Think about Warren Buffett right here. Buffett likes to buy stocks that he thinks are at a cheap price and doesn't buy when the stocks go up. He buys when they are down, by buying stocks he thinks others are selling at a low price for a mistake.
Most value investors look for companies whose stock is trading at a very low valuation due to a temporary market condition, such as low sales, a slow economy, or an extreme bearish sentiment in regards to the company that is unwarranted.
When you buy really cheap though sometimes it can take a long time before the stock goes up since investors can stay scared for a long time. It takes times in bear markets for the stock to go up too. So you have to be patient sometimes to be a value investor.
Value investing strategies usually do not do as well as growth strategies in a bull market, because growth stocks go up more. But they are the best way to get in cheap and sell at a big gain. It can sometimes just take more time than most people can wait for. - 23217
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