With international stock trading, you can easily invest or sell your shares of a business without worrying about any political or national boundaries. They are though some restrictions on international trade, but they are not usually a problem for an average investor. Many big companies or governments are trying to encourage foreigners to invest in their stocks. Sometimes, the market of investors is too small for a certain region so if a business wants to expand or thrive, they have to rely on outside money and funding.

There are some drawbacks of international investing such as higher brokerage fees and international earnings taxation. However, by using an online brokerage account and hiring a good accountant these problems are easily solved. Many new international investors also struggle with the time differences around the world, but it doesn’t take too long to adjust to the difference!

International stock trading permits people from all over the world to exchange and purchase share of a company across continents and boundaries. Without it, several corporations could go bankrupt or be in jeopardy. Although very present in society, international stock trading will continue to expand until, most likely, you can freely trade without any restrictions if you are an individual investor.

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The Bullish View

Abby Joseph Cohen, the Goldman Sachs senior market strategist, said yesterday that “We do think the new bull market has begun.” The Wall Street Journal says she is calling for the S&P 500 to reach 1050 to 1100, based on an improving economy and corporate profits.

The Bearish View

On the other hand, Paul Tudor Jones, celebrated hedge fund manager, has a decisively different outlook. He categorizes the rally off the March 6th lows as a “bear market rally.” As reported in the CNBC Stock Blog, the Tudor Investment Corp. sent a letter to clients saying, “The bottom line is that we are not inclined to aggressively chase the market here. ”

The Dilemma

How does the average trader reconcile two fundamentally divergent predictions from two recognized experts in the industry?

The best answer to this dilemma is to accept neither expert prediction, but to rely on your assessment of the markets.

Expert Predictions are Usually Wrong

We know from numerous studies that expert predictions – particularly predictions about the future behavior of financial markets – are usually quite inaccurate. Enlightening studies from behavioral finance have had expert panels give forecasts of a wide array of financial metrics and economic indicators. In most instances, the expert panels were off by a significant margin. In one study, the expert panel actually did worse than students.

It reminds me of the WSJ article that surfaces periodically comparing expert stock managers against dart throws. Guess who usually wins!

Listening to expert opinion runs contrary to good trading and good trading psychology. Based on the evidence, the odds of winning with expert opinion is low, perhaps exceedingly low.

How it Affects our Trading Psychology

Although we all like to be right and may believe that others must know more than we do, when it comes to the markets, this is just not true. When we listen to others we are affecting our own trading psychology in negative ways. We are relying on others to make decisions for us, rather than on our own knowledge, skills, and abilities. Trading is a game of independence; listening to expert predictions leads us into an unhealthy dependency that keeps us from developing sound trading skills.

What you can do

Expert predictions are just more of the noise of Wall Street. It’s really best not to listen. Instead, ask yourself what would it look like for the market to begin falling back into a bear market? What would it look like for the market to continue the current rally? Develop your own understanding of bear and bull moves and then put yourself into the position of being able to anticipate (rather than predict) both. If you spend time anticipating what both would look like, you will be in a position to act appropriately when you see one or the other occur. This, and not following an expert, will help you develop a true psychological edge for trading the markets.

Keeping current with advances in the field of trading psychology will help your trading. You are invited to visit Dr. Gary’s blog where cutting edge research and techniques to develop your skills are discussed: http://www.tradingpsychologyedge.com/blog

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Mark: I remember there was a friend of mine who wanted to get into trading, and he wanted to know if it was hard or difficult, and I said to him, “I’m actually psychic. I’ll prove it to you, I’ll show you how easy this market is.” It was the first Friday of the month, and it was 8:30, New York time, and I put him down on the market and said, “In thirty seconds, this market is going to shoot up — or down, but it is definitely going to go one way”, and he said “I don’t believe you.”

And he’s watching this and the market leaped like 200 points in 30 seconds, and he goes “Wow! Can you do this every time?” Yes, that was actually before news trading became so popular. You can’t predict what is going to happen to your money management, and staying in the game is the most important part.

David: Okay. This leads me to a question I do want to ask, because it is one thing that crops up all the time. People always like to know, if you are so successful trading the markets, why is that you are out there teaching others how to do it? Wouldn’t you be better off trading the markets and sitting on the beach somewhere just counting your dollars?

Mark: That’s an easy answer – to make money. I mean, that’s why I teach people how to check the markets. It doesn’t matter how philanthropic you would like to be, your first objective is to make money for whatever you are going to do with it. But there are lots of different parts of the business of trading, and if you think of learning trading, you probably couldn’t learn how to count, unless somebody read a book to you some time. Somebody has to teach somebody. Now here I am. I’m in Australia, in Melbourne, and I’m not trading.

So even though a large part of your trading — you really have to be active in trading if you are going to be active, even if you use daily charts, you have to monitor it on a regular basis. So when I can’t, on occasions like this, the royalties, or the money that I make from selling books and courses, or I don’t teach people anymore, but the little money that I make from the other interests in trading is what helps support me.

It takes out the fluctuations if you like, because trading, regardless of how well you do, has ups and downs. So the teaching part, or the educational part, brings in enough income to take the pressure off when I’m not trading, and affords me the luxury of doing things like this, coming over here and seeing you guys. So why do I teach if I’m so successful trading? To make money.

David: I think that’s a good answer. What are your thoughts on how much money do you need to actually make trading your full-time gig. Should other people look at other things as well, like yourself? You’ve got courses and things like that that you do. Is that something that other people should aspire to, or what are your thoughts on that?

Mark: I think you should do it. As long as it is morally acceptable to you, there is nothing wrong with doing anything inside the business of trading or any other business that you want to do.

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And the Art of Scalping could be the most under rated form of day trading discipline.

The day trader who scalps for no more than 10% and then sells regardless will never go broke, he or she won’t ride the big waves of course, but think of it this way

Your Canadian $5,000 TFSA, when traded and scalped for 10% profits could look like this

Day 1 – $5,000 invested, a $500 profit earned
Day 2 – $5,000 re-invested, a $500 profit earned
Day 3 – $5,000 re-invested, a $500 profit earned
Day 4 – $5,000 re-invested, a $500 profit earned
Day 5 – $5,000 re-invested, a $500 profit earned

At the end of week 1, no big profit days, but at week’s end you are up 50%. Now repeat that in week two, still only investing your original $5,000 TFSA and your original $5,000 is now worth $10,000.00 by the end of week two.

And further, if you did that for 50 weeks, your $5,000.00 TFSA would be worth $130,000.00

Don’t be tempted to invest more than your original $5,000.00 for at least a few months, for safety sake.

If you buy 25,000 shares of a Canadian .20 stock on the pullback, the stock only has to move up 2 cents and you’ve earned 10% .. let me give you two great examples:

If you caught the Canadian drilling news at Stock Research Portal on Friday August 14, 2009 for Aura Silver Resources you could have scalped likely a lot more than 10%. As the stock did run on the news from .15 at the open to over .50 during the day on 9 million shares traded.

And just two days prior to the Aura news release, Lydian International had news of their own. News that lifted the stock from the open of .55 to a high that day of .88 on 1.8 million shares traded. So clearly the news matters, but it matters most, when the volume is there to support it. In the case of these two Canadian companies, the trading volume increased immediately after the news was released.

But as a disciplined process oriented day trader, you take your 10% and say “thank you very much”.

So what if you left money on the table, you had a profitable day and in the end, that’s the discipline, void of any fear or greed. Discipline is not easy I admit, we’re all human, but it’s that discipline that keeps you from making emotional trading decisions. Emotional trading is death to a day trader!

My strategy is pretty simple, I check the Stock Research Portal site (just sign up for a free membership) for Canadian drilling news releases regularly, then see if higher than usual volume comes in. If it does, I will always wait for a pullback in the share price, never EVER chase it. On the pullback you are ready for some disciplined stock scalping.

So there you go, “the art of scalping” scenario, and how it can keep you focused, disciplined and in the money.

Mike Perras is a former media executive and faculty of business professor. Today he is a freelance writer and also manages the Canadian Stock Alerts blog. It is updated weekdays in real time, and the primary focus is to find stocks with higher than usual trading volume. Mr. Perras doesn’t advocate buying the stocks he mentions. Nothing in this article is either designed to meet readers personal financial situations, or intended or taken to be investment advice.

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The definition in it’s most basic form is:

“Investing is the attempt to make money over a LONG period of time”

“Trading is the attempt to make money over a SHORT period of time”

Now the question is: “How long is a LONG period of time, and how short is a SHORT period of time?” The answer is: “It’s up to you!”

What does this mean? It means that you might consider 6 months to be a long period to hold on to one stock, so you’ll call it Investing, and someone else might consider 6 months a very short period of time and they’ll call it Trading.

But for the sake of uniformity we’ll adopt the following rule:

“If the duration between opening and closing a transaction (i.e. buying and selling a security) can be measured in days or weeks then this is Trading, and if the duration can be measured in months or years then this is Investing”.

Trading:

Usually Traders are only interested in looking at the price chart of a specific security or currency (usually Candlestick Chart), they look for identifiable patterns, or for areas of supply and demand to determine their entry point, and they do the same thing to determine their exit, they stay in one transaction for any duration between a day (or less) and a few weeks, they take a closer look at the market on a daily basis, to check whether their trade is still valid or if it’s time to close it.

To be a trader you need to be very familiar with technical analysis, as well as updated on market conditions, and upcoming events that might alter these conditions.

For instance if a company has it’s “quarterly earnings report” coming out in a couple of days, you might want to keep a close eye on that, either as an opportunity to enter a trade or maybe to close one that is already open.

Traders, can be either “Scalpers”, “Day Traders”, or “Swing Traders”.

Scalpers open and close a transaction very quickly, in a matter of seconds or max a few minutes, looking for small profits, but they execute dozens if not hundreds of such trades a day.

Day Traders hold on to their positions longer than Scalpers but they never keep any open trades for the next day, they close everything before the end of the day.

Swing Traders hold on to their positions for days or weeks.

Figuring out the type of trader you are is very important to your success. It’s very important to be honest with yourself, there is no good or bad style, it all depends on your personality, the style of trading you adopt must match with the type of personality you have, otherwise you’ll be living in conflict, and this can only be damaging to your trading account.

Investing:

On the other hand Investors rely heavily on the fundamentals to decide to buy or not, and while Traders can make money in an UP or DOWN market, Investors can only make money when the price is going up, because an investor’s decision on whether to invest or not in company XYZ is based on the fact whether he believes that this company will grow and expand in the coming months or years. If so then he will buy shares in it.

So how do Investors decide on what company to buy shares in?

Like I previously mentioned, they rely on the fundamentals. What does this mean?

It means they read the financial statements that are released by this company (Quarterly and Yearly), and they try to find out as much as they can about the inside operations of this company, about it’s management, about their future plans, about their competitors. Basically they try to see how healthy the company is and if there’s room for growth. This is called Value Investing.

These are the kind of fundamentals that investors are interested in to assess a potential investment.

Investors don’t really care about the small daily fluctuations of the price, they believe that if a company has a high intrinsic value, then it’s share price will follow over the long run, so they try to buy the companies that have high value and selling at a bargain price.

I hope that this article clarified the difference between Investing and Trading.

On a personal note, I believe that every Wana-be-Trader or Investor should do a very thorough self assessment to find out exactly what kind he is, and what are his strong suites that will be critical in choosing his style.

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In order for me to learn trading and investing I decided to build a website where I will publish everything that I learn as soon as I learn it, I will do that in the form of articles.

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What exactly are they trading? Future commodity trading is not like the stock market where people buy shares of a stock. You do not actual own anything. You are just speculating on what the price will be of a commodity in the future.

When you want to put on a futures trade, you must first put up margin money. This is in case the market moves against you; you will have enough capital to pay the loss to the brokerage firm.

Although speculators make up the bulk of futures traders, the markets were intended to protect farmers from losing everything. A farmer can hedge in the futures and protect any loss he will have in the cash market. A farmer can sell the futures in wheat. He can do this if he thinks the wheat market will fall before harvest. A bread manufacturer might buy the futures if he thinks the price will rise before harvest. Whatever happens to the wheat market, both will guarantee their price.

A speculator is interested only in trading to make a profit. If he thinks the market will rise, he will purchase the futures. If he thinks the market will fall, he will sell the futures. You do not have to own the contract first to sell it. You can first sell the futures contract.

There is risk in any type of trading. That is why some traders only buy futures options, so they know their risk is limited to what they paid for the option. Others who trade futures contracts use technical analysis like Fibonacci trading. They will only enter trades that have criteria from the chart analysis.

David has traded futures & options for one of the largest cash trading firms in the world. He currently owns and runs the following websites:

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Why swing trading success seems so secret to many is a mystery to me. Go take a look at charts. Study them carefully. Start counting the days. You should be able to start identifying patterns. But the key is that you need to be able to identify a method of entry and exit off the stock patterns.

Yes not only do you need to understand patterns for entry for swing trading, you need the swing trading secrets entry and exit mechanisms that can net you out a profit. Not just make a great gain here or there. Your NET profits must be there. This also means that you must carefully examine your costs. Your costs are the flip flops, the losses, the stops, the trades that don’t’ work out.

How are you going to determine you’re your most efficient place for stop loss placement? You need to compare day bar versus intraday bars for reference for your stop losses. Intraday bars, such as the 60 min bars carry many secrets for efficient entry and exit . But the challenge with Intraday bars is that they often require more observation and watching in terms of trading. But the profits can be high and the costs can be low so check it out. If you could make, or at least work up to $100,000 a month trading intraday bars, it’s probably well worth your efforts.

Otherwise day bar swing trading is very liberating. You can simply trade the day bars by night. You can even trade options by night through the use of contingent orders which is awesome. Simply place your orders before the next day’s market open and your swing orders can be triggered by stop to enter orders or by contingent orders on your options. You can also use one follows the other or one triggers another orders to help automate the order process for you.

You are going to have to pick stocks that tend to swing well. Now you can pick stocks that move a lot of points or a little amount of points but the bottom line is that the stock needs to tends to swing smoothly. Every stock, future or Forex pair has a historical behavior or character associated with it and that character gives you and edge. Edges in trading make money.

All in all the swing trading secrets will be found by you through the process of getting in the game, getting your hands dirty, rolling up your sleeves and diving in to start figuring out the nitty gritty details on entry, cost and potential profit. Until you work out your system, demo trade it then trade it real time you’ll never really know, you’ll never really find out if your ideas are actually workable. So get to work and one day you’ll crack the code to discovering swing trading secrets that can actually create a significant and ongoing profit for you, a profit that could provide you a very good living from trading the markets.

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What exactly are they trading? Future commodity trading is not like the stock market where people buy shares of a stock. You do not actual own anything. You are just speculating on what the price will be of a commodity in the future.

When you want to put on a futures trade, you must first put up margin money. This is in case the market moves against you; you will have enough capital to pay the loss to the brokerage firm.

Although speculators make up the bulk of futures traders, the markets were intended to protect farmers from losing everything. A farmer can hedge in the futures and protect any loss he will have in the cash market. A farmer can sell the futures in wheat. He can do this if he thinks the wheat market will fall before harvest. A bread manufacturer might buy the futures if he thinks the price will rise before harvest. Whatever happens to the wheat market, both will guarantee their price.

A speculator is interested only in trading to make a profit. If he thinks the market will rise, he will purchase the futures. If he thinks the market will fall, he will sell the futures. You do not have to own the contract first to sell it. You can first sell the futures contract.

There is risk in any type of trading. That is why some traders only buy futures options, so they know their risk is limited to what they paid for the option. Others who trade futures contracts use technical analysis like Fibonacci trading. They will only enter trades that have criteria from the chart analysis.

David has traded futures & options for one of the largest cash trading firms in the world. He currently owns and runs the following websites:

Gann Trading

Future Option Trading

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An option is made up of either a Call or a Put. If you are the seller of the option you receive a premium from the buyer of that option. To look at it more closely:

* A call option gives the buyer of that option the right but not the obligation to buy a stock at a predetermined price within a specific time frame. This is usually between 4-6 weeks.
* A put option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to sell shares at a predetermined time for a specific price.

To start making money in the options game, you need to be the seller (also known as the writer) of the option though it is not necessary. Being the option seller however allows you to receive a premium for your trades which is an excellent form of cash flow for other wealth creation strategies you may be implementing.

All options have an expiry date and time is on your side as the option seller as every day that passes means that option you sold is worth less and less.

There are a number of different options strategies that can be applied in any type of market conditions and each one has it’s place. The explanation above is merely a basic understanding of how options work. Once this is understood the strategies available would make more sense.

Luke Deland is independent investor and author and creator of Your Wealth Education.

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Most online trading software is very easy to use by even the most unseasoned computer user. It generally contains easy to use drop-down menus and all you do is “click” and enter any required market information. (You can quickly find current market information via numerous websites.) After you have completed filling in all of the required fields and have submitted this information, the software will look at all of the market factors affecting the option you have selected. It takes theoretical pricing components (such as theoretical days-until-expiration) into consideration and makes the components equal to actual pricing information. This helps strategize the volatility of the trade. It also allows you to quickly buy and sell stock and create equity positions by simply entering the purchase price, the number of shares purchased and what the commission will be.

Stock option software is what you need to make the most effective trading decisions. It contains advanced tools that are accurate and precise. It provides pertinent trading information in real-time for individual traders, professionals and portfolio managers. The software is web or PC based and can calculate trading information in a matter of seconds. This eliminates tons of manual calculations that you would have to do on your own without the software. While doing your manual work, the market would likely have changed dramatically and you would have to start all over again!

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