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Trading And Investing In Stocks And Shares An Introduction



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here is a lot of money to       profits in the stock market when  
be made from stocks and         compared to the overeager and     
shares but the only hitch       reckless speculator.              
is nobody knows a sure fire way                                         
of a method. Let us now see some      Stocks and shares should be       
of the basics of stocks and           bought when their prices are low  
shares. You can earn money in two     and wait for the price to rise to 
ways by investing in stocks and       earn a decent profit over a       
shares. One is trading and the        longer period of time.            
other is investing.                                                     
                                      A prudent investor should not     
Buying and selling stocks,            worry about the downs and ups and 
shares, futures and options over      look for the long-term cycles. If 
a short period of time is known       these simple principals are not   
as trading. If you buy shares,        followed, there is not going to   
stocks, futures and options and       be any profit for an investor.    
retain them for a longer period                                         
of time then it is known as           Presuming it is going to fetch    
investing.                            more money, never buy a stock or  
                                      share when the price is going up, 
Besides the above, there is no        it is wrong. If the peak price is 
get rich quick scheme which           reached at the time of buying     
works. If such schemes work then      then the investor will be holding 
almost everybody would be a           a stock or share of which its     
millionaire. Money can be made by     price will be slowly sliding down 
selling stocks and shares but it      and you will ultimately end up    
cannot be done quickly by buying      with a loss.                      
and selling without reason. The                                         
patient, careful and intelligent      There are certain golden rules to 
investors definitely make big         be followed when investing money  



in stocks. Never invest more than     of following various trading      
three percent of the total            methods. The performance of a     
portfolio in one stock. Over          stock or share is reflected in    
time, a successful investor           the volume and price it is        
should make all efforts to            traded. Never get influenced by   
protect the capital base.             the opinions expressed by         
                                      individuals.                      
When a wrong decision is made,                                          
accept it and cut down the loss       Take note of all the signals      
immediately by five to fifteen        emanating from the market which   
percent rather than wait for more     is connected with the stock or    
time thinking the situation will      share you are holding. Do not get 
improve. Follow the performance       swayed by variations in data      
of the stock and never deviate        during the trading day. Reliance  
from the “stop loss point” to         on such swings will lead to wrong 
limit the loss in case the stock      decisions. A trader who is        
does not perform up to the            stressed out will be making a lot 
expected standard.                    of wrong decisions, so take time  
                                      out periodically during the day.  
Never set price targets. Stick on     

                              
to one style of trading instead       




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