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[T1212]Trade The Stock Market

by Arkaitz Arteaga, Ark

There are many rules when it comes to the stock market. New investors should be aware of them before they start to trade. Keeping up to date with each of the stock available is absolutely necessary. This is because the market is changing by the minute, and any of these big or small changes can have an adverse effect on the stock market. By keeping up the current events of the world, well versed investors can at times pre judge when and where these events can effect the stock prices, and how. This gives them a great advantage over other investors.

Each investor approaches the stock market differently. It depends on many different issues. Such as their time constraints, experience, knowledge, wants and needs and their level of profitability. There are three different common ways investors can approach the stock market. They are position trading, swing trading and day trading. Each of these approaches are different in their own way.

Position trading refers to investors who do it as a side-job. They tend to have less time to invest into the stock market. Position trading involves the two aspects of analysis, technical and fundamental. To be able to be a position trader, they have to be well versed in both. As well as the analysis, they are up to date on current news. The combination of these three aspects adds up to what they hope is a long-term plan towards trading shares on the stock market.

Swing trading is similar to position trading. However, swing traders focus on one type of industry. They focus all their efforts on this one industry, that in the end most swing traders can calculate correctly the outcomes of the shares in that industry. Like position trading, swing traders also focus on fundamental and technical analysis. It allows them a lot of free time as well, so most swing traders do this as a second job.

Lastly, there is day trading. Day trading is extremely different than swing trading or position trading. Day traders take this as their full-time job. They focus on the stock market all day, during the trading hours. They tend to make more then one buy/sell of shares in a day, this allows them to reduce holding any shares for a long time. Day traders purely focus on the technical analysis side of the shares. Fundamental analysis is of no use to them, because they trade on a daily basis.

Position trading, swing trading and day trading have their benefits. Deciding which to pick is up to the trader and their wants and needs. In the end, which ever is chosen, the investor shall be happy they participated in the stock market. This article has explained the differences between the three trading styles and the benefits of them.

I commonly hear that it's impossible to trade stocks these days because there are billionaires with super computers calculating the best odds on every trade. What's the average trader to do? Well, you have one secret weapon that the super rich doesn't have.
You don't need to makes millions a year to be worth your while!
If you are that rich though feel free to share some of the wealth my way. Odds are though you aren't even a millionaire. How can not being super wealthy help your trading? The easiest reason is you don't have to move millions of dollars to make a decent profit on your money. When you use $1000 to trade you don't make much much of an impact in all but the tiniest of markets. For a billionaire to make a $1000 dollar trade is just not worth his effort. Even a return of 100% would only be a drop in the bucket.
Take a look at the following reasons why you probably have an edge to being profitable:

Smaller Trades Equals More Accurate Predictions- The big traders require big volume in order to not affect the pricing with their own purchasing. You won't have that problem nearly as much so when you back test using charts you'll be more likely to have your expectations met since your trades aren't affecting the pricing nearly as much.

You Get Tighter Stop Losses- When your stock
hits it's tight stop-loss you'll be much more likely to move your small lot of stocks out. Imagine trading 1000s of shares when you hit your stop loss, it would plummet the price further as you're trying to get out.

More Likely Not Everyone Is Looking For The Same Trade- Unless that's part of your strategy of course, but what I mean is the majority of the money moving around in the markets are the professionals. They are trying to trade large lots of shares without getting wiped out by another big trader. Lucky for you what will be successful for how you trade is not the crowd and therefore more likely to hold true longer and not be manipulated as often. Though do watch out for those big trades heading in the opposite direction.

Regardless of deciding to scalp nickels, find small arbitrages, or stick to a more standard momentum or swing trade all of your traits have advantages and disadvantages. Recognizing those traits is penny wise, ignoring them is pound foolish.

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