Thursday, May 17, 2012

Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill On Your Oil ETF

With the recent ruckus over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the price for a barrel of crude oil taking a significant dive, it’s easy to understand why an investor would be concerned about the future of any crude oil investments they might have. But if you think that [...]

Value Investing: How Is It Financially Useful?

Value investing is the strategy of trading for stocks which are available at a price lower than their intrinsic value. The value investors seek those stocks which they believe has been undervalued by the market. With the changes in the financial market, the company’s stock prices fluctuate and this results in the value investors investing [...]

Natural Gas a Growth Industry for Cleaner Energy

The best alternative to our energy crisis is natural gas.  There are many options out there for cleaner, more renewable sources of energy like wind and solar power.  However, those technologies are decades away from advancing to the point where society and our economy will be able to make regular use of it.  Wind and [...]

Forex Charting Software

Forex charting software varies slightly from from broker to broker,but most of them use the same basic platforms.  Within these platforms you’re going to find similar tools and indicators.  If you are trying to decide which charting software to work with, most brokers also allow you to open a forex demo account which includes a [...]

Day Trading Penny Stocks

Day trading penny stocks can be pretty risky.  It holds the same risk as any form of day trading, but penny stocks have the additional traits of being thinly traded, extremely volatile, and easily manipulated.  Sometimes this manipulation is easy to spot, and you can actually trade in the opposite direction of the manipulation (usually shorting [...]

Take Control of Your Investments with Stock Market Software

One of the biggest advantages of stock market software is that it enables you to remove emotion from your decision to invest. Letting your emotions control your stock buying and selling is a recipe for failure and anything that eliminates this is going to help you. Market trends are not affected by what you feel [...]