The stock market for beginners can be quite an intimidating prospect. Figuring out all the terminology and what it all means can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, you must add that once you start trading stock, you will be responsible for reporting and paying tax on your trades.Lets assume you bought and sold your first stock and where lucky enough to make a gain. Congratulations!….but you now owe taxes. You know the saying, “there are only two sure things in life……death and taxes”. Sure enough, the IRS is going to want it’s cut of that nice gain you just made. When you start stock market trading, you must be sure to keep good records of all transactions. Read the rest of this entry »

A bull market is when everyone is positive about the stock market and wants to buy stocks. A bear market is the opposite as the stock market keeps going down no matter what and people want to sell.

The stock market for beginners is a place where you need to pay attention to what is going on. During a bull market, you can probably make money from almost any stock. Everyone will want to give you their stock pick and chances are the stock will go up. All the pundits on TV will be pumping out their stock picks and you can most likely make money on any of them. Even your hair stylist may want to give you a stock tip. Read the rest of this entry »

In the stock market its always possible to watch certain stocks go up between 30% and 80% within a few hours or days. And even when you can see stock traders that make $5000 on a single trade, it is also not unusual to see beginner investors lose a great deal of money because of a series of unwise decisions.

The problem is that if you don’t know how to choose among stocks & how to properly approach them you could end up wasting good money instead of increasing your profits.

You can’t just trade stocks like if you where gambling in Vegas.

The rules and the opportunities are the same for everyone, so either you are going to make money when you pick a stock and make a trade or you are simply going to lose it in favor of the more seasoned ones. Read the rest of this entry »

Indian Stock Market including both NSE-National Stock Exchange and the BSE-Bombay Stock Exchange have certainly taken a tremendous beating in the past few weeks. We are sure most of us here knew that the correction in the trading curve was round the corner which would be healthy, and the markets would bounce back from 18k levels with the help of mutual fund investments & buying of Indian stocks again. However the anticipation went wrong, and the US recession story along with global and Indian commodity prices have added fuel to the global equity market turmoil on a whole.

Do we have to worry our Indian investments in stocks & mutual funds?
What would happen next in the stock markets of India?
Whether investors should make more investments in India?

We at would like to bring a couple of things into picture: Read the rest of this entry »

When is the next stock market crash?

Just around the corner, the stock market Doomsday could strike as early as sometime before mid April.

American housing prices had soared to nosebleed heights, homeowners lined up to get home equity credit lines. From large SUV’s, vacations to the playboy lifestyle. Americans have used their houses as ATM machines.

Living above their means had never been easier. Of course this money was borrowed, but virtually no one is paying it back! Housing prices have tanked and Banks are helpless to get the consumers to pay up. There are bond insurance companies who have insured the loans made by banks like, Wells Fargo Bank, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of America, Wachovia Corp., Citigroup Inc., and Washington Mutual Inc. But will these bond insurance companies like MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group be able to meet potentially billions of dollars worth of claims. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people like to invest in stock market with their own set of reasons. To some it is a matter of securing sort of personal finance after retirement and to some it a challenging game of easy money. However, very few people actually pay heed to the real concept of stock market and creating a portfolio according to it. And for this accomplishment, it is essential to study the economy impacts of stocks, research on stock and how to buy a stock.

In fact, there are two ways to make an investment in stock market-short or long term. And so the functionality of the entire stock depends largely on your overall approach for making cash with the stock market. It is completely on you as to which way you choose. However when it comes to beginners, it is always better to opt for short term. Those who are interested in investing huge amounts and posses a long-term outlook must deal with the big companies including RelianceInd and ONGC. Big companies often do not come up with profitable offers for short-term investors, but long-term investors can stay assured as they surely get a chance to earn profits. These are considered as stable companies where certain amount of profit is almost fixed. Read the rest of this entry »