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admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:02:07 +0000

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And the stock market recovers?

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:59:55 +0000

Past few days have been recovery days and the markets has almost recovered all its loses after the US was downgraded. Was the underlying problem fixed? No. This shows how some investors are clueless, they panic sell and buy back when everyone is doing the same. We still have our major problems in the world and nothing is fixed.
As a beginner you can learn that not to panic when the stocks are falling and don’t follow the rest of the people. Maybe this creates more opportunities to get some puts when the market rallies for a bit more.

Past Few Days on Stock Market

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:46:25 +0000

Today many European countries put a ban on short selling. This included France, Italy, Spain etc… . Short selling is a perfect healthy way of trading for stock traders. This goes to show you how clueless these politicians are and the extend they go to put band aids on this failing global economy. After the week crash that ended in Aug 6 2011, the stocks have had 1/3 of the volume of before. What does this tell you?

Bans Imposed on Some European Short Selling

The only solution is for most of Europe and USA to go to a recession and a long period of austerity and come up stronger and let the economy fix itself naturally than throwing stimulus and money at bad debts. Canada had to do this in the 1990 and it came out strong.

What this means for the people who are learning to trade on stock market? Well this is a perfect opportunity to make money on the volatility (we recommend having more put and short selling than longs and call options). You can easily see how a simple news can be bad for certain economies or single companies or even for the whole world in one shot (where everything goes up and down in a few minutes).

Relax, take caution, diversify and make money by shorting stocks that have gone up way too high and long the ones you think are beaten down very bad but have good potential.

Two day mini jumps on stock markets

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:31:49 +0000

As many thing are still unknown for markets and adding uncertainly — US debt ceiling, EU debt problems and a solution, few things have caused a rally:

Apple, Coca Cola and IBM had good reports. Seems like US corporation are doing great while the country is suffering. Copper is all time high as well as gold. Oil is hovering around $96. China keeps fueling the world economy.

As a beginner investor you should know that markets don’t like uncertainly and volatility. Any problems in any country can take the whole world market down these days no matter how rosy the rest of the countries are. This is something you will learn over your course of leaning the stock market game and investment. These volatility could be great for day traders on the other hand.

ABstocks Forums are now live!

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:31:51 +0000

ABstocks has now launched its forum section for all the beginner and advanced stock market question for any investment strategy. It has two sections: for beginners and the section for those that are already started trading. Please register and ask your question and give suggestions. We will be happy to answer and help you out in your investment, learning and direction to take.

And the market goes back up!

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:54:27 +0000

Since our last post yesterday, the market has completely ignored so much global problems and has been up around 3% on average due to the following news:

- US is possibly looking to offer QE3 (ie print even more money and buy bad assets)

- China has had good growth

Looks like China is the only item that is causing the stocks to rally or fueling the stocks these days.

These are interesting times and you can see that one day markets are blood red, the other day it is going back up. You should learn not to panic and believe in yourself in whichever direction you think the markets will be headed to make your profit. Always be cautions and diversify as usual. Also don’t forget to read on how to prevent yourself from getting into a downturn or recession.

You can learn great lessons if you read financial news everyday

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:40:36 +0000

If you have watched the stock market and been reading financial news past few days, you can easily see how news and uncertainty and worry can kill the stocks. Most of the stocks and major indices have droped more than 4% since few days ago due to the following problems:

- European debt concern is now spreading to Italy. The concern was Greece and Portugal just few weeks ago!

- China is slowing down.

- US debt ceiling agreement is not met yet and if it is not agreed soon, US is up for a default!

- US job number came with 9.2% unemployment rate, which is an increase from 9.1% previously. Nobody was expecting this.

- The only good news is that Canadian job market and housing is just getting stronger. But then again Canadian economy is just the size of California!

You can see that learning to do put options and short selling can work in your favor if markets are going down. You can play with stock market in any direction. Just becuase it is volatile and losing value doenst mean you can’t make money. We expect this downturn to continue for another week at least, if the politicians start working hard to fix these issues, if not things might not go very well in August.

Please leave comments and feedback to discuss this. We appreciate all feedback!

New! Option trading for beginners page is up

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:59:13 +0000

We have now finished a quick guide for beginner to start on option trading. Options are great in a way that not much of a investment capital (money) is required to start with. It can have great gains if you play your cards right and predict the right direction for the stocks. You have to make sure you select the right expiry date, and nothing very short term. Please leave comments or send us an email if you like more areas covered or if you have any questions.

QR codes are starting to get popular!

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:43:07 +0000

Here is a quick post to take your mind away from financial markets and get to know about a technology that is coming very soon. If you don’t know about it already, it is called QR code (quick response) that can store a text in the image that can be scanned with your cellular phone to decode the information inside. You can quickly send a text, a piece of information to someone or a URL with just a quick scan without manually entering into your device. Very cool!

And looks like the market is backing up after oil went down to $91 value (a 4% drop!) due to dumping excessive amount of oil by IAEA to the market. Some analyst mention to look at it as an stimulus to economy. Interesting view!

ETFs for safely investing in international companies

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:12:17 +0000

Here is a great video by BNN on the recent created ETFs to safely invest in international companies (ie European, Asian, South American) diversified. This is great in a fact that you will not be hit if one company shares suffers and you are just buying a US based ETF and they do all the management for you. You can do this on your questrade account (see List of online brokerages for that) with US or Canadian Dollar.

Safely invest in international companies video