Monday, June 21, 2010

why are you buying and selling today?

Re-tooling today's market is something that is happening day after day. Did you know that the market is effected by numerous items, not just buying or selling of stock but why they are bought and sold? There are the small players in the game who sell off because their kids graduated from high school or college and needed a new car..... there are those who sell to pay for college instead of taking huge loads...........there are those who are just nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof because of what is going on right now. There are those selling off stock on BP because of the oil spill (we'll come back to this one), and those major players who are just ready to move their money or purchase more in those other sell offs.
Did you know that when Exxon Valdez oil spill happened in Alaska that the market sold tons of Exxon stock? Today, it's back up over 400% of what it was back then. Nothing last forever, and whatever the stock market trend is right now will last forever. Buy, sell, trade. There are reasons that you personally want to move out of or into the market you are looking at. Make sure you have all the right information and keep track of where your funds are going. http://tinyurl.com/2cbkdll

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

watching the world from the market

As I watch the market ticker scroll across my screen, I watch what happened today. Do you? do you see it scroll past and think of only what the market ended at today. The forecast for tomorrow? The lead indicators?
It used to be that was all you needed to watch. Your stocks. Your investment. See what your stuff did today. That's a bit selfish, isn't it? More so, though, it is closing off what else there is .......... tips and hints on what is in store in the future. Historically, the train shipments were the leading indicator on what was happening in the economy for the future. Is the market on an uptick. If the loads on the rails, the shipments were going up, then you could usually foresee the economy was picking up steam (no pun intended) and if it was consistently increasing, in approx. six months you could see the economy increase, barring any catastrophe. These days its the overnight carriers. Watch to see increases in Fed Ex, UPS, LoneStar Overnight. These will be the indicators that shipping is increasing and people are using those services to increase the economy.

Where is your market headed? http://tinyurl.com/2cbkdll

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

What do all these things mean?

"A “Death Cross” in the 20 and 50 day EMA
Price closing under the 200 day SMA (some use this alone to define downtrend)
Lower High, Lower Low, price breaking Lower Low (from February)

Remember, a downtrend is defined as a series of Lower Highs and Lower Lows – and a break under 1,040 locks that definition in place. " Corey Rosenbloom, CMT


Ok, I know some of you just heard the teacher from "Charlie Brown" saying "WHAWHAWAHWAHAH"....... or however it goes, but the big thing to remember here is that we all need to know what the stock market is all about. To understand what a call is, or what covering a call is, or what a margin is. Then there's the ones who understand that and just need to know if the stocks went up or down. That is important to! You need to figure out which one you are and learn from there. We can offer some helpful tips on each and give you the information you are asking for. Sweet simple and in a nice package.

Check back soon and we will begin the process to knowledge! http://tinyurl.com/2cbkdll