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How To Read Stock Market

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The key to using options to increase your stock market profits is that you must be able to correctly predict both the direction that the stock will move, and the approximate time frame in which the move will take place. If you miscalculate on either of these values, you will either break even, or loose. On the other hand, if you are correct, your profits may well exceed three times the amount you would have made with just a straight investment in the stock.

An option gives the owner the right but not the obligation to purchase something. More specifically, stock options are financial instruments that come in four varieties: Long or Short positions on a Put or Call.

Long means a person purchases a Put or a Call. Short means a person sells or “writes” a Put or Call. Option writing is a more advanced topic so this course will focus on the more common long or option buying and the following descriptions assume all positions are long.

A Put is the instrument that profits when the underlying stock declines in price. When the stock goes down, the value of a Put goes up. A Call is the reverse of a Put. The value of a Call goes up when the stock increases in price.

As you can see, if you expect the stock price to go up, you buy a call. If you expect the price to go down, you buy a put. There are two more parts to an option that need to be covered. First is the expiration date.

All options have a date in which they expire or become worthless. Remember that an option gives the owner the right to purchase something. This right is for a limited amount of time. Depending on the stock, different options might be available for several consecutive months into the future, or there may be a couple of months skipped. The specific day of the month that an option expires is always the third Friday of the month, unless it is a holiday, in which case the expiration is on Thursday.

The second element is the strike price. This is the price that the option will be exercised at. Again an option is the right to buy something, and the price at which something is bought is the strike or exercised price. Depending upon the option, these prices may be incremented by $2.50 up to $10.

This all adds up to a lot of choices when it comes to buying an option. Calls or puts plus different expiration months, and multiple strike prices within each month is a lot of different decisions.

With the abundance of choices, the number of contracts traded for a specific option can be small for a stock that is not particularly popular in the news. This fact my limit your trading opportunities or may result in a large price spread between the bid and ask prices.

If you can identify certain situations that will influence the stock price within a defined time period, you may be able to use stock options to triple your returns. Many investors have found such patterns and are making excellent profits by carefully selecting the right stock options.

How To Read Stock Market

Make more money, this is the answer to most people.

If your reason is to make more money, then ask yourself these three questions:

1.Is your strategy making money?

2.Is your strategy safe?

3.How to increase the profit and minimize the risk?

RULE 2: HOW TO CREATE WEALTH IN STOCK MARKET WITH JUST $1,000

Let say we invest some lower price stocks with just $1,000 in the stock market, invest twice a year for short-to-medium term. If each time the return is double, you will make one million dollar cash within 5 years. If your starting capital is $20,000, after 3 years you will make one million dollar cash.

If you are using the same $1,000 capital, invest twice a year, but the return is only 50%, you will make one million dollar cash after 9 years.

So we can always start small. However, it is very important that we know how to select high profit and low risk stocks.

RULE 3: DON'T GET OBSESSED WITH STOCKS

Sitting and monitoring the market whole day long will not bring you profit. Instead, it increases pressure and misleads your judgment.

RULE 4: NEVER GAMBLE

95% of the people always buy at the highest price. They don't really know when to buy, just relying on news, rumors and tips. Only 5% of the people knows how to trade at the lowest price. That's why 95% are losing money, only the 5% are making money.

Investment Builds Wealth, Gambling Definitely Lose !

RULE 5: SAY GOODBYE TO NEWS

News used to be able to predict the market trend. But not anymore, it is difficult to judge which news could actually influence the market nowadays.

RULE 6: DO YOUR OWN ANALYSIS, FORGET ABOUT TIPS

Before investing, ask yourself these four questions:

1.How many people have already heard about the tips before you?

If many have heard about it before you, this news is already obsolete. The price is already high.

2.How long have the tips been spreading before it reaches you?

The next day?

3.Who told you?

Listed company director? Or friends?

4.Assuming that the tip is true, would you possibly know about it?

Normally insider news is not disclosed.

RULE 7: SELL YOUR STOCKS EVEN LOSING MONEY

It is easier to be said than done.

Sell at a loss is a difficult decision. Your heart will object, and your feeling will say "It is going to rebound, don't sell." Eventually price dropped further, causing a much tragic lost.

RULE 8: DON'T JUST FOCUS ON MAKING MONEY

How to protect your capital is much more important. Don't try to make 100% profit. It is already good enough to have a 60% profit margin.

RULE 9: HISTORY WILL NOT ALWAYS REPEAT

Everyone expects to make some money from the stock market before Christmas, New Year, annual budget announcement or election, but the stock market is not always bullish during these events. We can say history is not always repeated.

The best way is ?Let the Market Lead us?.

RULE 10: QUOTES FROM WARREN BUFFET

There are only two rules to make money in stock market:

The first rule: Never lose your money.

The second rule: Never forget the first rule.

RULE 11: TURN BAD STOCKS INTO GOOD STOCKS, DON'T JUST HOLD YOUR STOCKS

Don't hold your stock too long, there is a value when stocks are sold.

How long have you been holding your stocks until now?

Since Year 1993? 1997? Or Year 2000?

Why didn't you exercise your stocks? Long term investment strategy is not practical anymore. Even the blue chips also crash when the market collapses.

The best strategy is to sell the stocks that are not earning money, and reselect some good counters. Buy low, sell high for several times will earn you more than enough to compensate the lost.

RULE 12: WAKE UP FROM MISTAKES

Stop investing if you are not sure of when to buy or sell.

Without the knowledge of investment, you are bound to lose again. This is an age of information. Investors are using knowledge, techniques and strategies to make money. Without investment knowledge, how do you protect your money?

Building wealth through investing starts with securing your capital.

Dr. Steven Lee (Ph.D) is # 1 Best-Selling Author of Creating Wealth in Stock Market

Get your free ebook "Money Fish" from http://www.DrStevenLee.com

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