An investing strategy that consists of buying the 10 DJIA stocks with the highest dividend yield at the beginning of the year. The strategy was formulated in 1972 and has proven to be successful. In fact, as Dog of the Dow investors readjust their portfolios each year, it places pressure on the stocks involved. The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy popularized by … [Read more...]
Fibonacci Retracement
The Fibonacci retracements pattern can be useful for swing traders to identify reversals on a stock chart.A term used in technical analysis that refers to the likelihood that a financial asset's price will retrace a large portion of an original move and find support or resistance at the key Fibonacci levels before it continues in the original direction. These levels are created … [Read more...]
“After The Bell” in Stock Market
"After the bell" is basically a financial slang used for activity occurring after the close of the stock market, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closes its trading day with the ringing of a bell including after-hours trading, illegal late trading of open-ended funds (during the mutual fund scandal of 2003), earnings announcements, acquisition plans and merger agreements. The … [Read more...]
How to Buy OTC Stock
Buying OTC (over the counter) stocks is unlike buying stock from companies traded on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) or the NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations). The difference is that most OTC securities have either been de-listed or never made the cut to begin with. As a result, OTC stocks are traded on Pink Sheets or the OTCCB … [Read more...]
Predictability and Trends in stock market
I often hear people swear that they make money using the rules of technical analysis. Do they really? The answer, , is that they do. People make money and profit indeed by using all sorts of strategies and techniques . The real question is: Do they make more money than they would investing in a blind index fund that mimics the performance of the market as a whole? Do they … [Read more...]