Share prices of a good number of stocks move in the market in a similar pattern for a few years. Such stocks are highly volatile with upward and downward movements a number of times in a day. There is without exception a precise time of the day when they go up or come down. Find out stocks that have such patterns and this approach can be exploited to increase your income. Assistance is also available to help you locate such stocks to get you maximum benefit.

Robot programs and their tips are good according to several people. Such programs are not perfect and one should not keep a lot of faith in robots. It is always better to emulate people who are aware of the secret as they are already millionaires. They are responsive to the trading strategies that works nine tenth of the times. Such people invest in different types of stocks.

This strategy is demonstrated and verified, but there is a shortcoming. The investor should be a temperate person. Many people fail with this method because they are greedy. There is a time to buy and a time to sell. People vacillate to sell waiting for further upward movements in the stock inviting disaster.

Zane Elisey is the author of this article and runs the blog: Make money online resources having reviews of various programs which let you make huge money online. Get more information here: http://www.maxupdates.tv

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My pal was a normally a mild-mannered sort – very contemplative, always weighing the consequences rationally before acting. In short, a logical thinker.

Imagine my dismay when that one phrase, “trading options”, triggered this unprecedented tirade. You’d think I’d insulted his family or something even worse.

After a few seconds had passed, I realized the reason for my friend’s outburst. He, like so many other investors, had only lost money trading options.

Why? Because he’d never discovered the number one option trading secret: 3 out of 4 options expire worthless. You read that correctly, when you trade options as a buyer, you have a 25% chance of making money, and a 75% chance of losing money.

This is why professional traders and investors favor the option strategy of selling options, rather than buying them, in hopes that the trade will go their way.

“Wait a minute. How can all of those options just expire worthless? I’ve seen ads for 100’s of option strategies and trading systems on the internet. They can’t all be losing money.”

I had to smirk. Now I really had him thinking. He knew I hadn’t told him the “secret behind the secret” yet, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

“I have one word for you, my doubting friend”, I said,…”Time”. “When you become an option seller, you have time working FOR you, instead of against you. The reason is simple – as puts and calls get closer to their expiration date, they keep losing their time value, due to “time decay”, or theta, the Greek letter that option traders use to denote the % of change in time value of an option.”

This is true of any option, no matter if you’re buying or selling call options or put options, or using a covered call strategy. It’s one of the big secrets of options investing that doesn’t get written about too often.

Because of the power of time decay, you can actually guess wrong about the direction of the market, or a stock, and you’ll still make money selling a call option or put option, as opposed to the buyers on the other side of the trade, who not only have to guess the stock’s future price movement correctly, but must do it BEFORE the option expiration date.

This helps to explain why even conservative investors use the covered call strategy, which is widely considered one of the most conservative option trading strategies around.

To sell covered calls, you must own at least 100 shares of the underlying equity, since each call contract corresponds to 100 shares of the underlying stock.

This is a tool you can use to hedge your portfolio, and lower your risk, by receiving “call premium” money, which lowers your break-even cost basis.

Selling covered calls is a short-to-mid-term option strategy you can use to double and triple your yields on new stock purchases, and/or to earn more income from your existing portfolio.

Want to make money selling Covered Calls? Visit this blog: http://hubpages.com/hub/CoveredCall to see an option table explained, glossary of the option terms you need to know, and a step-by-step actual trade example of how to sell covered calls. Author: Bob Hauver, MBA

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The book begins with an explanation of O’Neil’s CANSLIM methodology. In short CANSLIM is the result of O’Neil’s study of some of the greatest winning stocks in the history of the market. CANSLIM is an acronym, and each letter represents one of the seven characteristics that O’Neil found that those great winning stocks had in common.

In walking the reader through CANSLIM O’Neil shatters much of what’s fed to the public as sage investing advice. Probably the best example of the ‘N’ in CANSLIM, which stands for ‘new products, new management, and new highs’. It’s the ‘new high’s part that is a big shocker to most people, as it was to me. We always hear ‘buy low, sell high’, ‘buy the dips’, etc., so we’ve been brainwashed to look for ‘bargains’ in the market. Yet O’Neil’s studies shows that buying stocks just as they make new highs is a much better way to find big winners. As he puts it, buy high & sell higher. Some other advice that I believe I first heard from this book includes:

Sell your worst performing stocks first and keep your best acting investments longer. In other words, take your losses quickly and your profits slowly.

- The concept of limiting losses to protect your capital.
- All stocks are speculative.
- Never average down, but instead average up.
- Many things to look for as warning signs of when to sell a stock.
- Guidelines on how many stocks to own depending on how much money you have to invest.
- The importance of chart patterns and volume.
- The concept of overhead supply.
- How psychology impacts the markets.
- The importance of being in the right sector/industry group.
- Some uses for moving averages.

As you can see the book covers a lt of ground. It provides an excellent foundation on which to build an investment plan. I think it’s a great primer for novice investors and even for more experienced investors who may not have been exposed to the concepts covered in the book. Whether or not you adopt CANSLIM as your investing methodology the book should be well worth reading. (The section on selling rules alone is invaluable.) Although I don’t strictly follow CANSLIM I have taken many of this book’s concepts and molded them into my own investing style.

Mike Meyers is a long time private investor, with extensive experience in the desktop stock ticker, stock quotes and different stock trading tools – among them the desktop stock ticker.

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That’s why the first thing you need to do before you invest any of your money is determine if that market is going up or down. It’s probably about half of the equation in whether you will make any money in the stocks you pick. And that’s why you can do just as well as your broker picking stocks if you study what the overall market is doing.

OK. So where do you look. The market has some overall statistics called indexes that you can watch. There are three major indexes to examine. They are:

1. S&P 500
2. Nasdaq composite
3. Dow Jones Industrial Average

Each day you should watch these averages closely. Are they trending upward or downward. Get an overall feel for where the market is headed. It’s not good enough to look at the closing stats for the day though. What you need to do is actually look at a chart of the index that includes at least the price and volume action of that index over a long period of time. It’s also best to look at two specific types of charts. One that summarizes the index activity on a daily basis and one that summarizes it on a weekly basis.

This is the first step to learning to make money in common stocks.

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