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The BSE Sensex is the index of shares listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange (BSE) and learning how to recognise the trends in the index can yield valuable information about when to buy, when to hold and when to sell, the three main pieces of information needed by every Indian stock market investor.

The performance and trending of the BSE Sensex index of the Mumbai Stock Exchange (Bombay Stock Exchange) is uploaded every day to www.sharesdaily.in where you

will see a number of metrics, the first being the percentage rate of change over the past 1, 5, 10, 60 and 250 trading days.

One often sees the words “short term”, “medium term” and “long term” used in the financial media without any actual
definitions. The sharesdaily.in analysis metric defines them thus:

Short term is the market trend over the past ten trading days.

Medium term is the market trend over the past sixty trading days.

Long term is the market trend over the past two hundred and fifty trading days.

From this you can see that it is possible to have the market rising in the short term but falling in the medium term, etc.

When all three terms are showing positive numbers, the market trend is very strong in that direction, be it up or down.

In addition to the previous trends, the percentage rate of change of the previous trading day is displayed plus the movement over the past week of five trading days.

The other valuable metric is the Volatility Barometer, this measures the trading range over the past ten trading days. If the volatility is falling then the market is more stable,

if it is rising then the market is becoming more unstable. An actual numerical readout will be installed in the future.

The ideal condition for investors is to have the short, medium and long term trends in positive numbers and to have the volatility decreasing. Here you have both gain and stability. This applies to the market index and not to every individual stock.

Always remember that this all can be overruled by sudden unpredictable negative events so have your exit strategy and stop losses in place. More about this in future
articles.

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In stocks, traders and investors base their bidsasks, or buy and sell on lows and highs. The high and low in some instances have pips, currencies, spreads, or shares involved.

Most people in the trading industry will use charts to keep updated on pips. Pips are what traders call percentages factored into points. The percentages are quotes that determine the price set on currencies. The charts help these traders to keep track so they know when to buy and sell.

In the business, small and large banking institutions, as well as large and small companies invest in stocks, or Forex exchange. Using charts, the traders are provided quotes on both sides, which make up ask and bid phrase, depending on the stock market. The bids make up pricing, which is prompted once indicators within programs alert traders on Base Exchange that occurs between buying currencies on opposing sides. Once the alerts come in, the trader may select “ask” has the pricing occurs. The trader bases exchange on his, ask’ which could flip at the drop of a dime.

Quotes enable traders to set their marks on pips, which can decide decimals that rise over the averages. In stocks, decimals convert in some instances to match exchange within the currencies of a sole country. Decimals base values, which are constant at all times.

One of the largest industries and growing is Forex. The foreign market exchanges currencies in stocks that have reached in the trillions of pound brackets. That is trillions in a sole industry. This fiscal market has made the highest mark in the stock market industry. The market has overridden the largest United States equity branches.

Charts are employed in Forex. The guides, aid traders by allowing them to read, interpret through indicators, which send signals. Within the charts are treks, basic strategies, powers, and so on.

Anyone intending to get in on stocks or in the stock market, should take time to learn about highslows, bidasks, charts, pips, spreads and so on to avoid increasing the high risks. Staying informed is the key to successfully gaining in any stock exchange. Still, you want to choose charts and information that offers you precision in the stock market, Forex exchange markets and other stock industries.

Your best solution for just starting out is to download free charts that allow you to monitor and analyze, while exploring pips, spreads, highs, lows, currencies and so on in stocks.

If you are looking are thinking that Penny Stocks are a Get Rich Quick Scheme, Im sorry to disappoint you. Although great fortunes can be made from penny stocks, people can also lose everything they invest in Penny Stocks. The most important investment you can make at the start of your investment career is to invest in education.

Why Education and not stock?

Diving head first into the stock market is a great way of losing your money which is why we dont recommend it. The best thing to do is to read, read and read some more before investing. One of the best places to get free information on penny stocks and trading methods is from the internet.

Forums, websites, news sites and eBooks are a great way to improve your penny stock investment education. There are some great books that you can borrow from libraries or purchase cheaply from shops.

When reading on the internet, please be cautious of stock recommendations and strategies and methods. Stock recommendations and opinions from internet forums can be biased and cannot be fully trusted without doing your own research. Similarly, eBooks with strategies which promise great returns usually do not work as suggested. The reason for this is, even if the strategy worked well for the author, there is no guarantee that it will work for everyone else because everyone is different although you may learn something that you did not already know.

Google News has a business section which is group for free up-to-date information on stocks. Yahoo Finance also has good news section and also provides free charts and company information.

No matter who you get advice from, whether its from a financial consultant or friend, you should always carry out your own additional research. You should make decisions based on facts rather than opinions.

When you feel confident enough you can try some test trades. You can either keep a record of your trades on paper or you can use a stocks simulator website where you invest with fake money. There is a website called Champion Investor (ChampInvest.com) which is great for this purpose as it also calculates profits and losses automatically. Also, if you the top performer of the month, you will be rewarded with 1000.

Using a stock simulator means that you will not lose your hard-earned cash if you make a bad investment. Instead, you will learn not to do it again without losing your money.

If you are consistently able to make a profit with your test trades then you can move onto the real thing. Keep your investment strategy exactly as it was when you were making profitable test trades, but instead of using fake money, you will be using your own money through a stock broker.

So, to summarise – if you are looking to get started in penny stocks, please do not dive in head first without investing your education first.

Picking good stocks is only the first step to become a consistently profitable trader. Those of you that track the performances of stock picks I post on http:www.cisiova.comanalysis.asp know that it is impossible to determine if a stock is good without a good exiting strategy. And for most traders, exit strategy is the hardest part. Many people say that to trade profitably you need to develop the right mentality. Unfortunately, such winning mentality can only be developed through experience. However, there is a short cut to get through the learning curve without throwing thousands of pounds in the process. This short cut is playing POKER.

Yes you heard me right. Apparently, playing poker has a lot of similarities with investing in stocks. First of all, they both deal with money, uncertainties, and a keen judgment of potential risk and reward. In this article I will explain the similarities and differences between stock trading and poker. But before proceeding, make sure you know the rules of Texas Holdem and fluent with the terminologies.

Think of stock picking as looking for good hands to play. In Texas Holdem, you can look at the two hole cards and decide whether you can play the hand or not. Similarly, you can analyze the stock before entering a position. Fortunately for you traders, no one will raise pre-flop, so you just pay the commission. Remember to exit the position you also need to pay the commission, which implies that the cost of entering a position is two times the commission. Good poker players only play good hands, so you should do thorough researches before entering a position. One good thing about trading is that you do not have to wait for good stocks like poker players wait for good hands, you can find good stocks on stock picking websites or using screeners to find them yourself.

Once you call the blinds in poker, you get to see the flops and two more cards. Think of these cards as the performance of your stock after you enter the position. In poker, the flop can make a good hand, a medium hand, or a bad hand (by helping your opponents). In trading, you can observe the potential of the stock as well, and you should objectively judge the downside and upside potential of the stock. In poker, there are times that you have a good hand, and your opponent have a better hand, and you know you are beat. These are the times where your mentality matters the most. An experienced poker player will fold his hand regardless of the amount of money he has put into the pot. As a trader, at times that you think the upside potential fails to actualize, you should sell the stock regardless of how much you have lost. On the other hand, when a good poker player knows he has the winning hand, despite the possibility of losing at the river, he would bet aggressively, without fearing the small losing possibility. In trading, this translates to if the stock goes up and manifests higher upside potential, you should not fear that you will lose your recent winnings. Therefore the winning mentality is to ride when the stock is going up, and sell when the stock is losing its heat. This discipline is easily said than done. So many times I have heard people lost all their money because they hold on to losing positions (due to hope) and sell winning positions too early (due to fear).

By playing poker, you would get the chance to master your emotions, learning not to hope when you are beat, and not to fear when you are favorable to win. You want to lose small and win big, not the opposite.

Now go practice. This mentality only develops with experience.