Here’s my near daily stock market investing today recap. In case you missed an earlier article I wrote called IBD market direction checklist, one of the first things I do is check the market indexes to see how it affected the overall market trend. Today’s action provided a couple of learning points about distribution days. [...]
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I’ve been writing about the stock market for about a year and four months. For fun, I thought I would make an article of 121 Stock Market Questions I get that I hope to answer on this site at some point. Because my site is so new, I don’t think that I really have any [...]
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Time to look at Today’s Stock Market Investing Recap. It appears that all the indexes, the S&P, the Dow, the NYSE and the NASDAQ all suffered distribution days. While this doesn’t change the current outlook from “market in confirmed uptrend” it does bear watching. Like I’ve been saying, checking market conditions should be one of [...]
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Today’s stock market investing recap brings good news to us today as all the market indexes closed higher on higher volume. Volume is still below the average but I think this is still good news. Apple’s earnings beat estimates and provided some good news for the market. Remember as part of your stock market investing [...]
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Sorry for the delay in getting my daily stock market investing recap in but I took the weekend to focus on some other stuff. Plus the market didn’t really have much to be excited about as all four indexes (S&P 500, the Dow, NYSE and the NASDAQ) suffered distribution days. This was the first distribution [...]
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As usual, the first thing I do when I start my stock market investing routine is check what the market did today. I do this because I need to get a feel for what the overall market trend is. Why? Because you want to follow the trend of the market. Only invest in a market [...]
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I was talking to a group of people today and noticed that there is a great deal of skepticism about the financial markets. This led me to wonder – should you even invest in stock today. A lot of people, myself included see a lot of manipulation going on and we don’t like it, nor [...]
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Time to look at how things went in the market today with Today’s Stock Market Investing Recap. Remember, each day you want to focus on the general market direction to see what the market is telling you. Is the uptrend continuing? Are sellers taking over? These are the questions you’ll start to answer for yourself [...]
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As per my usual stock market investing routine, the first step is take a look at today’s stock market investing action and see what the market indexes are telling us. We started the day with the current outlook as “market in confirmed uptrend.” What this means now is that each day I’m now looking for [...]
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As I’ve mentioned in posts on this site, the first question you need to ask during your stock market daily routine is “what did the stock market do today?” Part of the CANSLIM strategy is to only investing in an market when the general market indexes indicate an uptrend. This is why you need to [...]
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The first question I always want the answer to when I open the paper is “How did the stock market do today?” The first step is to look at each index and see if it rose or fell. All four indexes rose again on Friday. The S&P, NYSE, NASDAQ and the Dow closed higher but [...]
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In William O’Neil’s book The Successful Investor, O’Neil explains how to determine the direction of the stock market using the IBD. The IBD is the Investor’s Business Daily which he publishes. One of the major premises of his strategy is the “M” in CANSLIM which stands for market direction. He states that 3 out of [...]
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The stock market is where you want to explore if you want higher returns on your investments. With those higher returns come more risk as you could lose all of your principal so you have to be prudent and have a sound stock market investing plan. It also requires that you know more about the [...]
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So, I opened up my eIBD to see what happened to stock market today. The good news was that the stock market was up today on lower volume which means it wasn’t a distribution day. The market does remain under pressure so you want to be cautious with new buys and watch your stock portfolio [...]
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If you are a mutual fund investor, you might want a review of what happened in the stock market in 2009. As a mutual fund investor, this seems to me to be the only strategy that you would want to buy and hold with. I don’t really believe in it for individual stocks because individual [...]
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Once you’ve decided that you are going to take control of your own stock market investing, the first thing you need to do each and every day is ask yourself what happened in the stock market today. I usually do this at the end of the day after Investor’s Business Daily comes out with their [...]
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If you want to be a successful at stock market investing, the first thing you need to ask yourself is what happened in the stock market today. Now, I don’t mean that you need to turn on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money or whatever it’s called. You need to learn how to decide — on your [...]
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It dawned on me that some of my readers are beginning investors and may wonder: what is the stock market? I don’t know about an official definition, but this is how I describe it. The stock market is a place where buyers and sellers meet to trade stocks. It’s much like when you go to [...]
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When you are just starting a stock market investing program, I think it’s a good idea to master what happened in the stock market today and to watch it each and every day. You should do this before you start picking stocks because a lot of the concepts that we are going to review in [...]
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OK. If you remember from my last post I talked at length about knowing the overall market’s direction before you invest in any stock. The reason was because if the market direction is trending down, then your stock, no matter how good it might be has to fight the overall market trend to go up. [...]
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