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This is something that most people don’t even think about, but knowing what your risk tolerance and investment style are very important. This will help you choose investments that are more suited to you, and which the long run should do better as you will be less stressed about them and make fewer trading errors. 

While there are many different types of investments that one can make, there are really only three specific investment styles, and those three styles tie in with your risk tolerance, these are conservative, moderate, and aggressive.

Naturally, if you find that you have a lowish tolerance for risk, your investment style will most likely be conservative or moderate at best. If you have a high tolerance for risk, you will most likely be a moderate or aggressive investor. At the same time, your financial goals will also determine what style of investing you use.

If you are saving for retirement in your early twenties, you should use a conservative or moderate style of investing, but if you are trying to get together the funds to buy a home in the next year or two, you would want to use an aggressive style. Being an active stock market trader would be considered an aggressive style for most people.

Conservative investors want to make sure that they maintain their initial capital and make very modest gains per year, they want to sleep well at night. In other words, if they invest $4000 they want to be sure that they will get their initial $4000 back. This type of investor usually invests in blue chip common stocks and bonds and short term money market accounts. But remember trading stocks, even if they are blue chips can still be very risky as we have seen in the 2008/9 bear market.

An interest earning savings account is very common for conservative investors.
A moderate investor usually invests much like a conservative investor, but will use a small portion of their investment funds for higher risk investments. Many moderate investors invest up to 50% of their investment funds in safe or conservative investments, and invest the remainder in riskier investments.

An aggressive investor is willing to take risks that other investors won’t take. They invest higher amounts of money in riskier ventures in the hopes of achieving larger returns – either over time or in a short amount of time. Aggressive investors often have all or most of their investment monies tied up in the stock market.

Again, determining what style of investing you will use will be determined by your financial goals and your risk tolerance. No matter what type of investing you do, however, you should always carefully research the investment and never invest your cash without having all of the facts.

If you think you are an aggressive investor and intend to trade stocks activily, make sure that you learn how to trade before making your 1st stock purchase.

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Although it may seem obvious to most stock market swing traders there are a number of simple rules that you can follow which will ensure that you have more success when buying stocks:

In the USA stock market there are 3 major indexes which are each made up of a basket of stocks, they are the S and P 500 (also known as the S&P500), the DOW 30 and the Nadaq 100. These indexes generally only contain major blue chip  stocks, as long as you buy from these 3 groups you will at least know that you are getting a well known solid stock.

For example the DOW 30 contains major industrials and large multinational stocks such as Home Depot (HD) and Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) whereas the Nasdaq 100 mainly contains techical companies such as Apple (AAPL) and Miscrosoft (MSFT).

Always buy a stock that is liquid, this means that it is a highly traded stock, this will enable you to easily buy and sell at the price you want without having a delay. You will also get a lower spread, thats the difference between the BID and ASK price of the stock. For a stock to be considered very liquid it should trade at least 500,000 shares per day, ideally even more.

It is best to avoid stocks that are bellow as this usually means the company is in trouble, although with the bear market of 2008 there have been a lot of good stocks at bargin prices between and . Avoid buying a stock below at anytime.

Another consideration is options, does the stock has options?, this will be important if you want to trade options around your stock, such as a covered call, or you may want to buy a PUT option inorder to protect your stock.

Be very cautious about buying a stock just before it’s earnings release, stocks often drop significantly if you come out with a poor report. Earnings releases are 4 times a year with one of them being the annual report.

If you are going to trade options make sure that you learn how to trade by getting some good education. There are many swing trading strategies that work well with stocks in todays volatile markets.

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Regardless of the market, the Trade Triangle will attempt to calculate future market prices and provide a long or short signal.  They are best used in association with a indicator that quantifies trend strength such as Chart Analysis Score which is also a component of INO’s MarketClub. Together these tools can help traders and investors find long and short opportunities with the momentum to move in their favor.

The Trade Triangle gives buy and sell signals based upon a series of weighted factors including nominal price change, change in percentage, multiple moving averages, and new highs and lows. The signals are not trying to catch highs and lows but rather discover the majority of a swing trend.

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The first step in understanding the way the stock market works is to know the meanings of the basic vocabulary words.  The word stock is often used interchangeably with the words shares and equity.  Even though they are used interchangeably, they do have slightly different meanings.  When you buy stock, you are actually buying ownership of a piece of the company whose stock you are buying.a person can say that he owns stock in coca cola.this could mean that you own a tiny part of the coca cola company.

The amount of the company that you own is determined by how many shares you hold.maybe you own a hundred shares of stock or maybe you have just one.the number of shares of a stock that you have translates into a bigger piece of the company.  

when talking about stocks or shares the word equity usually also comes up.in order to understand equity one must realise that when a company wants to raise finance they have two options.the option to go into debt is the most familiar to consumers.another way is to raise capital through equity.debt is financed through the selling of portions of the company in the form of shares.the financing of debt is carried out by letting investors purchase shares and using the money generated from those sales to pay off debts.simply when a investors buys shares of stock then he is investing in the equity of the company.  

an element of risk is undertaken by the investors that their stock will increase in value beyond the price they have bought it in.if the value of a share goes higher then a profit can be made by selling the shares to other investors.the profits increase according to the increase in value of the stocks therefore being limitless.  However, there is always a risk that the value will not increase, and in some cases it may even decrease.  When that happens, investors lose their investment.  

when talking about investments bond is another word that is used.when a company issues bonds what it means is that they are financing using debt.  People who buy bonds, are loaning their money to the company, and the bond is actually a contract that guarantees the company will repay that debt on a set date.although the risk is minimized when buying bonds the potential profit is also decreased as opposed to buying stock.  The profit on bonds is a predetermined amount of interest.  

the principle of demand and supply determines the values of stocks.  If the stock is in high demand, and many investors are fighting to buy every share that becomes available, then the price of that stock will go up.when people are not willing to buy shares of a company then it usually results in the stock dropping in value.

This is a basic overview of stock market vocabulary.  For a more in depth look, visit Traders International.

There is a lot of hype surrounding options trading, and for good reason, it’s a good way make a lot of money fast, or can be used to grow your capital consistently month after month.

There’s also a lot of hype about how complicated it is and why you need to spend thousands of dollars on options trading education before you get started. Needless to say this last statement usually comes from trading seminar companies trying to sell your their trading course on options.

Lets cover a few of the basics about options and set you straight about a few important points. Firstly yes it is true that you can make a lot of money trading options, but of course you can also lose money just as fast.

When trading stocks your leverage is 1:1, if you go on margin you can get get 1:2 leverage, but thats about it. With options it is not as straight forward to calculate the leverage but generally speaking you can get between 1:5 and 1:10 when you buy an option on a stock, or ETF.

So with 1:10 leverage, when the stock increases by 5% your option can increase by approx 50%, and this can happen in just a few days, this is why swing trading strategies using options on stocks is so popular.

However the downside is that a big loss can also happen, if the stock drops by 5% your option can also drop by 50%, at which point you may want to close the trade and save some of your option value, it really depends on what your stop loss and risk.

What I’ve just described is called directional option trading where you are betting on the getting the direction of the stock movement correct, this is highly speculative. Options can also be used in option strategies which are much more non directional, such as covered call trades, credit spreads and Iron Condors. In these trades there is much lower dependance on getting the stock direction correct, but it still matters.

So should you learn to trade options?, in my opinion you should not do directional option trades until you become very good at trading stocks. This is because you must be very precise with your entry and exit strategy and trading plan, and be very good at technical analysis.

Whereas if you want to do non directional option trades you don’t need to be such an experianced stock trader to be successful, but of course it does not hurt either.

Learning how to trade options is a very good skill to have, but don’t rush into it and blow out your account. Make sure that you get a good options trading education before you start, and also make sure that you have a very solid stock trading education as well, such one from Top Dog Trading Review.