To build a stock portfolio we start by looking for well-managed companies with good earnings growth that are selling at reasonable valuations!

To find them, we use fundamental factors, which include valuation, momentum and other techniques used in equities research.

We identify the investment objectives, fine-tune the processes to meet that objectives, identify the sources of returns, construct the portfolios, monitor and adjust them as necessary.

Once you bought a stock and has started moving up, you do need to get as much profit as possible. Not being able to do so will make you a losing trader in the long run!

How can you lose if you only take small profits at a time? Isn't a profit always a profit?

Well ... Not exactly!

A profit of 200 is not the same as a profit of 500. If your 200 profit is followed by two losses of 190 each, your 200 profit will become an 180 loss, while an i.e. profit of 500 will just become an 120 win. Do you get the point?

Lawmakers on Tuesday spared auto dealers from new scrutiny and neared agreement on trading limits for banks as they raced to complete the biggest overhaul of the financial rule book since the 1930s.

Negotiators signed off on new consumer protections as they resolved some of the most contentious sticking points in the sweeping rewrite of Wall Street rules.

A method of picking stocks that is closely related to technical analysis is momentum investing.

Anyone who’s ever watched a snowball going down a hill knows how quickly it picks up speed.

Benjamin Graham (1894 – 1976), father of fundamental analysis, made the “buying below book” strategy famous. He believed stocks that sold for two-thirds, or less, of their net current assets were bargains.

Because Graham was so successful, his methods of analysis gained a wide following and many professionals now watch for these undervalued stocks.

Scalp trading is a style of trading that is designed to capitalize on small percentage moves.

It uses price setups that present exceptionally low risk opportunities.It also uses positions initiated and closed out in the same trading session.

Credit-rating agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s dodged a bullet on Tuesday as lawmakers decided to strip out a provision in the Wall Street reform bill that would have upended their business model.

Negotiators from the House of Representatives and Senate tasked with hammering out a final version of the sweeping reforms agreed to remove a measure that would have set up a new clearinghouse to eliminate perceived conflicts of interest in the ratings industry.

“Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past!”
-Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 – 1618)

They say that one of the best reasons to study history is to help shed light on today’s events.

To predict the future directions of the stock market, generally start by looking at past wanderings, because the history of the stock market is always repeating itself!

President Barack Obama will press BP executives this week to set up an escrow account to pay damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

The move comes as Obama, who will address the nation about the spill on Tuesday night, faces questions on his handling of the disaster, which was in its 55th day. Millions of gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf since an April 20 offshore rig blast killed 11 workers and blew out the well.