Don't get me wrong...I'm not saying you should not look at the financials before buying but my trading is primarily done from a technical view.  I only check the financials to see if they are sound because the odds of the price going up are better if the company has good financials.  I use technical analysis to gauge current market sentiment regarding a stock and buy and sell the trends.

When trading you always want to put as many of the odds in your favor as possible.  There are many stocks to choose from so it is to your advantage to only choose the ones with the best odds.

Where to start, christ this is new to me.  So many questions.

What are the requirements to trade using Zecco, I have seen something about a minimum sum?  Held where or invested in what?

Can I trade from the UK?

If I invest in AAPL one week and log in a fortnight later to find it has shot up 10%, say I log on and notice its looking good and want to sell will that sale happen immediately before it drops again. 

I'm not investing massive sums so will be hoping to make a couple of trades similar to this, I assume that is fine?  I have been learning about pattern day trading but that is not what I am interested in.  Merely capatalising if the market turns my way.

Don't even get me started on stop, limit etc I think I know what it all means but I'm not terribly sure.

 

Hi cowen70 and aagnew,

Thank you both for participating in the Zecco.com Investment Forums.   Please do direct all Zecco Trading account-related questions to customer service, as such posts are not allowed here.

zecco-jon:

Hi cowen70 and aagnew,

Thank you both for participating in the Zecco.com Investment Forums.   Please do direct all Zecco Trading account-related questions to customer service, as such posts are not allowed here.

AH my apologies, I'll try and stick on topic and in the right section.

i d'ont know what aon mean, but i do know that a free trade can increase profits, even on an unusually buy @ 0.0004, costing approx. $1.50 . i have a lot to learn, but thanks to zecco i can start with $100. this will make me a multi-millionaire.

i want to sday thank you i am new to trading and want to learn all i can and hopefully prosper

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The market is efficient because everyone has a different opinion. If everyone had the same opinion (such as to sell or to buy), you get a frenzy one way towards a substantial discount in the market (sell) and a significant premium in the market (buy). Contrarian investors believe that there is an end to a particular trend. For instance, while bears think the stock market is going to have significant trouble, I personally believe that we are at a bottom (given the current rate cut). If rates rose, it would change the psychology of the market.

I find it interesting that people trade technically. Due to options being at certain intervals, there is definitely merit to the technical trader as options are exercised at certain breakpoints. But fundamentals help decipher between a company that's worthless and a company that may have value. Looking at a balance sheet may not make you money from not investing in a "hot" stock, but it can help you from losing money if you were to invest in a bankrupt company. There is no guarantee that just because the financials are good that the company will remain in business, but knowing they have enough cash to operate the business and pay creditors, gives me peace of mind. That's why it can be better to invest in an index fund as you avoid the emotion that goes into investing and you dollar-cost average over a long-term. You avoid timing the market and remain a passive investor. I tend to prefer technical analysis from a rate-of-change standpoint but with option exercises, it can definitely be useful to use technical parameters that don't involve rate-of-change.

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Aqua

Hello everyone,

I look forward to using these forums and this site to succesfully learn to trade for a living. Thanks ahead of time for all the help I will receive!

I find the best way to invest is to take all the knowledge possible and find out what works for you.  I like to look at the supply and demand forces of the market.  The best way I can gauge those numbers is by looking at the advances and declines.  I have a website that shows graphs that do an excellent job of forecasting.

Good Luck,
Scott
www.advancedtrendanalysis.com

hi aqueswim47. i just started here at zecco.com i feel out it right now, im new to the stock market, any chance you can recomend some books i can read about the stock market. i still have no clue of most of the stuffs here

ladiesman217:

hi aqueswim47. i just started here at zecco.com i feel out it right now, im new to the stock market, any chance you can recomend some books i can read about the stock market. i still have no clue of most of the stuffs here

Welcome to the Zecco.com Investment Forums.   Read some book suggestions here.

Hi,

Could anyone explain what "structured investments" are and whether they can be used/accessed by individual investors?

Thanks.

"If buyers are more aggressive than sellers the price will rise. If sellers are more agressive than buyers then the price will fall"

Hi, I'm new here.  I have opened a Trading Account but have not funded it yet. 

Your answer is very realistic and I quote the above selection to perhaps explain my experience with stocks I bought offline with HSBC in my country.  I bought some shares when buyers were flocking to the market at about $37.  After some days the stocks started to go down until they are now only $22. (but now levelling out, I think).   I think that what happened was that the 'old' investors, who had bought at a very low price much earlier decided to sell out at $37 making a huge profit, ie. the sellers became more aggressive than the buyers, thus bringing down the market price.  However, I'm not worried, since I bought these for the long run and I'll wait until I break even at least.

And I have a question, pl.  Do the corporations pay dividends, such as Google, Amazon, Dell, etc.?

I found a book that was a compilation of what a bunch of CEOs thought including Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, Steve Forbes, Suze Orman and several others. That book was: "The Best Investment Advice I ever received" by Liz Claman. In that book many investors referred to: "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. The current version Revised has a commentary by Jason Zwieg that is really really good from a value perspective.

I've read Motley Fool's Rule Makers Rule Breakers, that came out in 1997 and I back tested their portfolios. In that back test I found that their portfolios recommended in 1997 tanked horribly in 2000 and did not clear their losses until Feb of 2007. So I don't recommend that book.

I've read just about every book that they have on investing in my local library, but most of them are published around the 1997-1999 time frame which was the last big run up before the crash from 2000 to 2003.

Finally, a really good book is "More Wealth Without Risk" which covers a lot more than just stocks and bonds.

I recommend that you learn to use excel or a spreadsheet program, gather data from yahoo or google finance, and back test any strategy before really buying. I hope you get lucky and make some good money on your first trades.

BR

I would like to thank everyone in advance for any and all help I can get on here. I am not new to stocks, but I am new to purchasing them myself. As a kid, my Dad always bought us stocks for Christmas, and when I worked at a bank, I bought mutual funds for myself and my daughter. This will be the first time I buy stocks online myself and I look forward to it. I'm glad there is this site that I can ask questions and not feel stupid for asking since everyone has to start somewhere! I really like this page that gives some good information.... http://www.zecco.com/
I hope for those who are like myself find this link helpful. I know there were a coupld of terms I wasn't sure about until I read this.
Also, I have been watching CNBC Mad Money, and have been learning a lot from that as well.
Anyways, again, I just want to thank you all for your help as I learn how to buy and sell online, and what to look for.