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Understanding debt

Published on Jul 14th, 2009 by trade.

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Debt simply means to owe, its used by lot of companies to fund their assets and finance business. Debt market is one of the largest markets in the world. The overall transaction volumes are very high as most corporates are only onces to prefer trading in this market, these include banks, financial institutions, mutual funds, government bodies etc.

Debt free direct is one of the major players in debt management solutions. Debt is also considered as one of the safe bets in investments, debt free direct is uk based group with large activity in this market.

Debt is also related to overall credit rating of the company, higher the credit rating, more advantages you recieve with the interest rates and grace periods with relation to repayments.

For corporates, companies can look forward to aquisition of larger players in the market through debt route.

  • Look forward to acquiring new assets for the company
  • Start new plants and industries and more.

Different types of debt includes bonds, foreign debt, loans, pay day loans, external debt.

Some of the effects of debt: Debt when increased at a large proportion can be converted to equity, this would lead to safeguard of interests of the bankers and financers to the company, as long as the company is of sound background and willing to turn the future of equity investors things should work well.

Debt is always a burden and there are chances that it could lead to nightmares for companies with falling economic situations. There has to be enough risk management done to avoid such situations, though there are times where things go out of control like in case of US auto makers , sales dropped due to worst economic situations and thus causing further losses , this would lead to lower revenues , thus the companies would either have to take more loans or delay current outstanding loans.

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Payday cash advance

Published on Jul 10th, 2009 by trade.

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Payday cash advance is a small loan which is given for a short period of time. Pay day loans has a limit of about $1,500, and most companies will not require credit checks and offer a no fax payday loan. Many people who take out cash advances do so as they urgently need money between paychecks. This loan generally will  be given in cash and will be secured by a post-dated check. On the due date that the payday advance is supposed to be paid back, the lender will withdraw money from the borrower’s account using the check.

Most payday loan companies operate in small shops, but they are often funded by larger financial institutions such as banks. Lot of banks also offer a similar service which is known as a direct deposit advance. The advantage of cash advance companies is that they cater to people who can often not borrow money from banks due to bad credit or other issues. Because some people have bad credit, banks consider them to be a risk and will not loan them money. However, this has left open a large market which payday loan companies have tapped into. A good website which has information on cash advance loans can be found at http://www.paydaycashtoday.com

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Dealing with penny stocks

Pennystocks are stocks of  the companies generally facing losses or are non operating or either closed down, example Abm corporation trading at $0.02 with company operations and plant shut down, these stocks shoot up with following news

  • Company will be restarting its business
  • Join venture with a larger company
  • News of being taken over by other company
  • Change in business plans and policies, or entering new business.

Its a huge risk to enter these stocks without having sufficient study and knowledge, as some firms situation remains the same, as the directors of the company are unable to recover the debt burden on company. If you are looking for day trading in penny stocks look for companies with high volumes so that entry and exit with quantities is easy and fast.

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Trading in stock market

Published on Feb 23rd, 2009 by trade.

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To start trading in stock market its important to make a proper study, learn , do a lot of research and then begin to invest.

Start with understanding the stock market system and know all possible phrases required to trade.

Stock Index : A stock index has to be carefully monitered as the price moments are very dependent on performance of the index, its good to go on short for falling index and go long on rising index for stocks to gain immediate returns.

Stock broker: Choose a good broker who will help you to give you best entry buy level and best entry sell level with proper timings, as the markets are so quick within seconds the price might go up to a very high, or fall to very low level. Paying additional commission to broker is worth then loosing lot of money with stocks. 

Investing: Invest 10-20% of the total amount which you want to put in for the portfolio of stocks, make sure that this you are ready to face the stock fall or rise and for upcoming losses before you gain any profits, you have to be prepared for the losses.

Quick book your profits: Its good practise to book your profits , at the end of the day what we want is to earn, keeping stocks and getting greedy would lead you with trouble, so make sure you book profits and regular intervals.

Stop loss: Very essential to look forward keeping stop loss while trading, this also depends on market moments, there are many situations when stocks are flat and suddenly the burst out going up or fall badly, stop loss would save your loss going further.

Research:  Choosing right stock to trade ensures that your trading can be smooth, there has to good buying and selling depth and lot of traders for easy entry and exit even with high volumes.

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Stock market meaning

Published on Feb 12th, 2009 by trade.

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Stock market : Stock market is a market where shares/stocks of various companies are traded , every stock market has its index, the index acts as barometer to the market, any change in the index reflects relative change in the stock prices. Usa has the largest stock market  trading volume in the world. It is also termed as equity market. Total world futures /derivative market is valued approximately $791 trillion.

The total world stock market capitalization is about $36.6 trillion. 

Examples of stock markets in the world :

  • NYSE  - New York Stock Exchange
  • LSE – London Stock Exchange
  • BSE – Bombay Stock Exchange
  • NASDAQ – National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System and many more..

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Stocks meaning and types of companies

Published on Feb 12th, 2009 by trade.

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Stocks / shares: It is an instrument by which a individual gets share in a company/corporation which may be private or public. 

Public companies are listed in stock market and their stocks are traded, price of stocks vary depending on the companies performance and market conditions. 

Private companies are the one which have few private investors to fund the working of a company, a mid size company generally prefers to be private as the management with public company is much more complicated with more formalities to be carried out, also decision making becomes more difficult with additional people to be part of the board. 

Example of public company: Google stock , its symbol is goog, when you search goog in stock search index you will find the prices of google stock. Google stock is listed in Nasdaq stock exchange in USA.

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Funds are very essential for stock trading.

Higher Trades: With funds you can make higher trades of larger amount, thereby higher chances of profits.   Example: Quantity of stock 2000, price of stock $100, so total cost of transaction comes to $2,00,000 , to go ahead with this transaction funds have to be added in advance to the broker, these transactions may go higher depending on your trading volume. 

Positions: In case you are stuck up with your trade you may want to take positions to cover up your losses. Also positions in general you may take for long and short calls depending on market outlook. This helps you gain more profits, example : market has fallen 20% in last week, and you brough stocks at last day of the week expecting some gains further, once market starts covering you make profits as your stock price goes up. 10% plus profit is good decent returns to book your profit with stocks u purchased at end short bearish trend.  

Cost of loan : Loan costs between 5% – 24% per year depending on how big loan you take and what kind of security you provide for your loan amount,

Profit : Anything you make more then 10% is good enough profit for short term, as your monthly cost for loan is 2% and you make 8% on amount you trade with.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average initiated in the year May 26, 1896, lisense for investable instrument was in the year 1997. Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products, Dow Jones provides full index service.

  • Dow jones covers more than 12,000 securities in 65 markets. 
  • Dow holds more then $2.1 trillion in assects with dow and doe stoxx indexes.
  • Other then equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes maintains a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. 
  • Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families.

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Booking Losses

Published on Sep 6th, 2008 by trade.

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Booking Losses

Everyone wants profits in trades, its general mentality of traders, though you need to keep in mind that losses is part of your profiting game.

Everytime you make a loss is to save your profit and your capital amount, booking loss is to save further losses and avoid loosing more money.

Before u start trade: Before you start to trade with stocks keep in mind of booking a loss at the price you can afford to loose. Set a limit to stop trade and cancel all position at the target loss price.

Quick Decision : The decision has to be spot in seconds also has to be done in advance , like you buy certain stock at price of 100 and stock falls to $99.5 , you feel that something is wrong or either markets have risen too much and chances of being corrected, immediately you book your loss at 99.5 which is 0.50 per unit of loss. Now when the stock falls to 98, you saved 1.5 on per unit which is indeed good save of 1.5% per unit.

Emotional Imbalance : At times traders get emotional thinking to wait further and carry on with the stock position, this leads to further waiting and more losses. This creates more panic and at the end a more bigger loss is incurred.

Market Study: Always study the market volumes, market movements, be active to immediately take a decision , also when you invest certain amount.

Making profits or covering in loss: Short double positions when the stock is going down, like u made a loss of 0.50 on 100 units, go short on 200 units if you feel that price may go down further, this can cover up your current losses, so even if the price falls down further 0.25 u make 0.25 x 200 worth profit, be very careful with this as sometimes the stock might bounce back from lower levels as well.

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