By: Daniel Jones | 2010-11-22 | Investing Looking at the affect on the stock market, the Dow Jones saw a number of volatile 100 point moves before finally settling higher. The volatility was too much for some traders. This is a classic example of the dangers of trading during the release of such a crucial figure. read more
By: Vijay Kumar Sharma | 2010-03-27 | Stock Market When we think about stock market, we think about its volatile nature. Unpredictability is the essential part of the market. Volatility in stock market is the relative rate at which the price of a security moves up and down. read more
By: Julia Lee | 2011-11-14 | Currency Trading In my last article I wrote about trading strategies you can use in a bear market. We're hearing a lot lately about being 'bearish' in these current markets read more
By: Sourav Sharma | 2011-05-20 | Economics After three long days of negative market breadth, the stock market has shown positive territory as on May 19th; the sensex index closed at 18141.40 up 55.20 points and the nifty registered a rise at 5438.3 up 17.70 points. In terms of percentage, the rise is 0.31% and 0.33% respectively. read more
By: Ajeet Khurana | 2011-04-19 | Investing Stock markets have indexes that are like that are like barometers of the current mood of the market. Learn more about how these indexes work. read more
By: Ronald Russo | 2010-10-07 | Day trading Two companies in our WMM MicroCap index are moving today on different variations of the same theme. Share of Openwave Systems are up $.08, or 4.5% to trade at $1.85 a share on heavy volume as the company's CEO is elected to a powerful trade board, while shares of Cumulus Media are up $.14, or about 5% to trade at $2.97 a share on lighter than average volume as a former director leaves the company. read more
By: Sourav Sharma | 2010-09-13 | Investing Confused about what is happening in the stock market? And it happened so fast that you are still not able to believe your eyes and ears. Yesterday the stock prices were high and you thought you will wait for some time till the prices go higher further; you have even thought about an expected figure, considering it an opportune time to sell the stocks. But today the opposite happened. read more
By: Steve Selengut | 2011-09-14 | Stock Market Call it foresight, or hindsight if you want to be argumentative, but a long-term view of the investment process eliminates the guesswork and points pretty clearly toward a trading mentality that keys on the very natural volatility of the hundreds of investment grade value stocks out there for your portfolio building attention. Market Cycle Investment Management makes market volatility your Very Be read more
By: William Kurtz | 2010-10-14 | Investing The VIX Index is a barometer of investors' complacency or fear. A high reading equates to fear; a low reading equates to complacency. Recently, the VIX has been at approximately the same low levels which prevailed just prior to the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010. Now the VIX is rising, which is an indication that investors may becoming a little less certain that the stock market will continue to rise. read more
By: Doug Fisher | 2010-04-01 | Trading Since their introduction in 1997 index futures traders have traded the NASDAQ emini contract with exceptional success, attracted to their liquidity and simplicity. Commonly known as the NQ emini, traders have learned that just about any type of short term trading system or method can be used successfully to profit with this emini contract. read more
By: Lanny Harris | 2010-09-10 | Business Penny stocks and shares and choices are higher volatility investments that entice both the trader and the extended term buyer simply because of the tiny amount of capital necessary to make significant gains as in contrast with less unstable higher priced stocks and shares. The long term investor buys a share believing that a company's worth will increase over time and the inventory value along with it. When he purchases an choice it is generally to lessen the chance in owning the und... read more
By: Viktor Ko | 2011-05-07 | Investing There is always a question whether to analyze indexes or exchange traded funds. From one side you trade an ETF and from other side your ETF tracks performance of an index. So, what does move ETF price? read more
By: Nicholas Santiago | 2011-07-27 | Investing This afternoon, the major stock indexes are plummeting sharply lower. The catalyst for the decline is obviously the failure of Washington coming to some debt ceiling resolution. At this point, it really does not matter if the debt ceiling gets raised or not, it really comes down to knowing what the politicians are really going to do. It will help if the Republicans simply come out and say the debt ceiling will not be raised, period. This action would help to strengthen the U.S. Dollar .... read more
By: John Robertson | 2010-12-23 | Article Marketing The FTSE 100 is the UK's benchmark index because it includes the 100 biggest companies (as determined by market capitalisation). So it therefore follows that many people want to trade this index. Thankfully there are several ways you can successfully trade the FTSE 100. read more