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How investors buy dips

How investors buy dips

… on the upside.
Dips for trading not investing
For investors dips provide an interesting way to add to their bottom line. However, buying dips is not core long term investing strategy. Playing dips can be a core trading strategy but few traders use it well. It is a version of market timing.
If you snag …

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3 basic stock market strategies

3 Basic stock market strategies

… frame is critical when deciding between investing, trading, or speculation. Although all can be lucrative, investing for income yields the most reliable and consistent returns in the long run.
Each method requires different skills, knowledge, and time commitments to achieve their best outcomes. Trading has performance advantages in strong bull markets, but markets are never …

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Speculation returns for big risks!

Speculation big returns for big risks

… dormant penny stocks. They hope for a good one or few among those they picked. At times those few can handsomely pay off making their wait and long odds worthwhile.
When such sleeping stocks do wake up the returns can run to multiple hundreds of percent! Those are the happy stories; most go nowhere fast …

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Momentum Investing trading plays

Momentum investing the trading play

… an individual stock needs momentum to continue price movement up for any significant time.
The bull icon serves interchangeably to represent a rising market, an investor buying long or the rising stock play itself. At such times we can say the bulls or herd runs as prices, volumes and investors charge ahead!
At a minimum …

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Aggressive trading chases profit

Aggressive trading chases profit in rising stock markets

… covers how investors deal with stock market and business reporting.
Basic Trading
Good trading strategies in strongly trending markets work very well to produce substantial profits. When markets trend up, trades are “long“. That means the investor buys or “goes long” on a stock. They expect that the price will continue to rise or trend

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Investing factors time and knowledge

investing factors, time and knowledge,

… the risks and rewards that unlock an investment opportunity.1. Risk – What are the investment risks?2. ROI – What is the return on investment?3. Term – How long must the investment be held? 4. Liquidity – Is the investment easy to buy and sell? 5. Inflation – How does inflation affect this investment? 6. Volatility – Is either …

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Speculation failures improve investing

Speculation failures improve investing

… to work!

Psych games cost and are never good investments.

Litigation is painful, frustrating, always a gamble and risky!

Dad taught me lessons in life!
A very long time ago, when I was a boy, a running family joke developed about my Dad’s misadventures. Dad was a creative guy, receptive to new ideas, approaches …

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Investing, trading and speculating differ

3 Basic stock market strategies

… to best realize an opportunity!
There is time to manage and time to hold. How much time does is take to manage using each approach and how long do you hold onto each position when you invest, trade or speculate? Managing time varies from minutes a week to virtually full time concentration during market hours …

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Stock market trading strategies

Stock market trading strategies

Stock market trading strategies, the investing fast lane trades, sit between income and speculation plays. That large noisy space between income holders and long shot players fills with traders using an endless variety of strategies.
What you learn:
Learn how the thinking of traders differs from investors and speculators and how that affects markets and …

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Investors use many stock market strategies

Investors use many stock market strategies

… for many years. This strategy works well but never outperforms because it tracks the index thus matching that standard. As you would expect, it is another passive investing strategy.
Momentum investing – rides waves of investment popularity
Momentum investors bet on investor sentiment. They identify stocks that are going up in price and buy them, with …

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