Tag Archives: stock

Book Review: Trading Realities by Jeff Augen

Laying out some option strategies that could be used along with or in place of holding stocks

What about the Forex Market?

Frequent emailer Rod is back with another worthwhile question. Hi John, I know you are a position …

Book Review: Buy Don’t Hold

A practical text focused on the application of asset allocation looking at the market trend status

Stock Trading is Not Zero Sum

I recently got a zero sum question in regards to the stock market. The one question I …

More New Margin Requirements

I posted before about the NFA’s new rules on maximum forex trading leverage permissible for traders with …

Looking at Volatility Across Markets

The other day I commented on a post on a personal finance blog. The article was an …

A Reader’s Story About a Stop Getting Hit

A reader named Susan left this comment recently on the Some Not-So-Great Tips for Using Stop Orders …

Individual Stocks are Bad

There’s a post on the Moolanomy site about the subject of investing in individual stocks. Which makes …

Screening Stocks for Shorting

Â With good reason, quite a few formerly long-only stock traders have been exploring the short side of …

Selecting stocks and ETFs suitable for trading

Picking the best markets and vehicles to trade is a major part of developing your overall trading …

Something to check out: StockTwits

Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund manager, has been involved in developing a new project called StockTwits. To …

Investor’s Business Daily – An Old Friend in my Stock Trading

You may or may not be aware of the fact that one of the very first books …

Misunderstanding the Bid/Ask Spread in Stock Trading

It’s been my experience that many people don’t really understand how the bid/offer spread plays a part in all markets, including the one for stocks. This post looks to remedy that.

Modeling the Stock Current Market on 1987

One of the things going around the market these days is the idea that the price action …

The value of short-interest

Short interest is an interesting statistic that’s worth understanding. It tells you how many shares of a …

Interest Rates and PE Ratios

The other day I talked about the impact of interest rates on stock prices, and how higher …

Interest Rates and Stock Prices

After last week’s run up in interest rates, it’s worth taking some time to understand the link …

The PEG

Most stock market traders are familiar with the PE ratio. That is current price divided by the …

The implications of index trading

Something came up recently in one of the forums I visit from time to time. It had …