Selasa, 29 Juli 2008

Stock Investing Tools

By Hyder Khan

Successful stock investing without the proper tools is like building a house without using a hammer and screw driver. It can be done successfully, but your odds that the whole effort will come crashing down on you are much greater. If you have been investing in the stock market for any length of time but have been frustrated by the frequent ups and downs in the market, and you find yourself in the red more often than not, then you may not be leveraging the right stock investing tools.

Research is one of the most critical elements of the entire stock investing game, especially if you are a day trader looking to make quick gains on your investment. How do you know which stocks to invest in, out of the hundreds of thousands of stocks available on the market? How do you know which ones are doing well and which ones are doing poorly? And how do you game the market so that you can get into and out of a stock as quickly as possible and walk away with a sizable profit that you can be happy with?

Computer software programs exist now that can greatly simplify the research process for you. There are stock analysis programs that are capable of processing millions of data points belonging to hundreds of thousands of stocks in a matter of minutes. By analyzing various trends using complex mathematical algorithms, they can make "stock predictions" for you. These predictions are really mathematical forecasts based on extrapolations formulated by the data available to the software program.

If you could run a computer program that would process all of the data available about every stock on the market and spit out a handful of "hot buy" recommendations for you, would you take its advice? The computer is basically telling you that based on past performance, trends, and patterns, stocks X, Y, and Z are on the verge of experiencing a sudden spike in value in the impending future. Would you do it?


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