3 best Stock Tips for day trading/traders

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I always like long term investment strategies and always back them, however many of the stock investors invest for short terms and many do day trading of stocks to earn fast buck, which may not give high percent returns but is surely fruitful if done with great acumen and with the correct stocks.

Day trading of stocks is a risky affair as it doesnot follow any basics of stock investing and is mainly done on gut feeling and risk taking abilities of the potential investors. There are several important tips which are very vital for doing day trading, Adding that Indian Stock markets are highly volatile so these stock tips for day trading become even more important to follow, so that the risk is minimised.

So here are the 3 day trading tips which a intraday trader must know for minimising the loss. These Intrady trading tips would surely help those who are yet to start with day trading or who is already a day trader.

1. Stop Price - The most important stock tip for day trading is that one must know the nearest resistance level of the stock on the lower side and should always use stop limit in such case, A stop will be triggered when the stock price goes below the stop price. It is basically you are defining a selling price at which the stocks would be sold thus saving your losses incase the stock price nosedives further. If you are not sure about the brought stock then the best option is to use Stop Price.

2. If you own a stock which has gone up sharply but with very less volume traded then you need to sell this stock as something is fishy in such case, the reason is that because only few people purchased but don't have reason and because of big move other persons(which already have the stock) will be interested in selling the stock after this big rise, that's why the stock will probably go down on selling hence you can be in losers list. If there is large volume traded for a stock, then go by the other investors and just follow what the other people having same stock are following.

3. Uptick rule for day trading - When you put a market order to sell a stock, you need an uptick to be executed. If this don't happen and the stock
continue to fall, and fall again and after 2% down an uptick occur, you will be executed at that price. With this you will either miss big moves because limit order or loose money because big slippage.

10 Stock Investing tips in Warren Buffett way

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From the time when my interests in Stock markets everincreased, I always wanted to know how the legendary investor Warren Buffett invested in stock markets. There are so many people who invest their money in stock markets but still none of them has come even closer to the future which Warren Buffett has made out of investing in Share markets in USA, There are few things which are different between today's normal investor's(In which all TV channels analysts and modern day investors come), and the other is Warren Buffett.

I have read the Book "The Warren Buffett Way" and recommend reading this book for all the fellow investors and followers. You can also gain some insight from best books for stock markets available today and my take from "The Warren Buffett way" book can be read here.

This post is dedicated to legendary stock investor Warren Buffett, and describes 10 stock investing tips which are non-failing and are followed by Warren Buffett or are derived from his life style and analysis of the stock markets, Do remember that his worth of >50 billion has come from investing in stock markets for long term.

So here are the 10 stock market investing tips or the Warren Buffett way of investing:

1. Be Self-Dependent : Stock investment is one field where a person should not depend on any body else for some sort of advice as there is no gurranteed advise in stock market investing, One should invest by following his/her own intellect/analysis and should remain away from stock market advisors as according to me they are sheer fools who dont know anything and put our hard earned money into risk.

2. Be Simple-live Simple - Extravagant lifestyles make a person a money guzzler, and chances of having such lifestyle are too high if in past you have made some fast bucks from stock markets thinking that you will always make profit out of it.
Warren Buffett is following a simpler lifestyle and focuses on investing in correct stock by sheer analysis and forgetting about all the worldly pleasures which are simply nothing but insane. Living a simple life would help in having more money for more investing.

3. Invest in stocks you know - Like the legendary investor Warren Buffett one should always invest in companies whose working is familiar to him/her, this reduces the risk of failure/loss while making the investment decision.

4. Make your own path - For making huge profits from the stock markets one should not go with the crowd, most of analyst out there are strictly short term once and nonreliable, dont simply do what all are doing and remember due to such shortsightness in stock markets the SENSEX come down to 14k levels couple of years back, just follow what your brain says without any concern about anybody.

5. Believe in Indian Economy - Anybody who wants to invest in Indian stock markets should not consider change of govt or any emergency as time to sell the stocks, always have faith in economy as the fundamentals of indian economy are very strong as grey economy runs alongwith legal economic data, this was the reason why indian Companies hardly went into any type of recession.

6. Buy when stock is undervalued - The best time to buy a stock for long term is when all others are selling it, this is time when the stock would be undervalued and you can make huge returns on your investment. Buffett doesn't pay much attention to earnings per share, a common measure of value. Instead, he likes to see companies with good return on equity, solid operating margins and reasonable or no debt.

7. Invest in Innovative company - According to Warren Buffett one should always look for companies which are very active innovator and have patents in their field, the problem with indian companies is that these are more copycats and no innovators but still invest in companies which are holding patents in their fields as such patents keep competitors at bay.

8. Purchase huge stocks - Most of the investment companies in india wants to do diversified stock investment for minimising the losses, but if a person has to make big bucks then he should keep on purchasing the stock which he has well analysed and should not diversify, this is again thinking different from the crowd.

9. Be a lifetime player - Whosoever said that stocks are meant to be sold is a fool, always keep on adding the stocks without thinking about selling, if you purchase a stock by keeping selling in mind then you would probably make mistake in both the tasks.

10. Wait for Stock market crash - One should always wait for the stock market crash and should think this as oppurtunity to purchase even more stocks, Market crashes bring the stocks to minimal levels thus making all of them undervalued just because of some temporary economic fluctuation, just wait for such time and purchase.

Indian Stocks close in red | LIC housing, PNB, Central bank nosedives

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As news about CBI arresting some of the top management of LIC housing finance, Punjab National bank and Central bank over scam in home loans allotment reached the Dalal Street, The impact was immediate. Stock prices of the LIC housing finance tumbled and were down by a whopping 18.88 percent, whereas stock prices of other PSU banks also nosedived as investors wanted to safeguard their money. Stock prices of Central Bank of India nosedived by over 8 percent and that of Punjab national bank also fell by 2.33 percent at closing today. Makes me think whether all the PSU's working is crystal clear?? I think if we investigate each and every PSU balance sheets there would be inflated numbers in liabilities for sure which actually might not exist at all, so people who have invested in PSU thinking as safer option might lose their money until government of India finally take over them for safeguarding the stakeholders...what an Irony in indian stock markets.

Already Indian stock markets are the most volatile stock markets of world and such news further makes the investors think whether the present price levels are actually fit or are overpriced, Investing in such volatile conditions requires great analytic acumen and the 3 most important tips for investing in volatile markets(read full post)

Coming back to the stock market's todays report, the impact was obvious BSE bankex fell by nearly 3 percent today. The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark index Sensex closed at 19459.85, down by huge 231.99 points. The 30-share index touched high of 19835.57 during intraday trading today.

The broader index National Stock Exchange's Nifty was no different and closed at 5865.75, down by 69 points and touched a low of 5833.60 in day trading today.

The stock prices of all the PSU's whose working is under CBI radar are all set to fall further tomorrow as well until the finance ministry makes some strong statement for protecting the shareholder's interests.

Top 3 investing tips for Volatile Stock Markets

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We all know that Indian Stock Markets are one of the most volatile markets of world and correct prediction of Indian Stock markets is not easy at all and any person who says confidently that he can understand Indian Stock Markets correctly and hundred percent profit gurrantee if someone invested through him/her is simply making fool of the Amateur investor who goes to him for advice. One should always be careful if he comes across such investment agency or person, you can seriously lose your hard earned money.

I am trying to put some light on the best 3 investing tips for such volatile stock markets, but don't forget to use your own brain too along with these top tips for investing in Volatile stock markets.

So The top 3 investing tips for Volatile stock markets is following:

1. Diversify your investment - The best strategy to minimise risk of loss(If it happens) is to diversify while investing, which means that you should not invest whole of the monesy available in one single stock or I would say not even in a single sector too. The reason is that if you invest all of your hard earned money into one stock or sector, the chances of loosing whole of the money are too high if that sector becomes bearish. It is always better to diversify your investment for eg- If investor wants to invest 100,000 rupees into stock markets (which are very volatile, like the Indian Stock markets). He can break the amount into parts and then invest in different sectors thus making probability of loosing whole money very less, you can invest 25k in FMCG, 25000 in IT, 25000 in banking, 25000 in Auto sector stocks.

2. Expel the word 'Panic' out - The golden rule to any investment which involves some amount of risk is 'DON'T PANIC' if you follow these two golden words then you will definitly make profits, and always be a long term investor , Remember short term investment decisions are more prone to losses as compared to carefully analysed long term decisions in stock market investing. The worst thing you can do as an investor is panic and sell everything and then wait for the market to recover. Always remember "Buy low Sell high" should be motto in stock market investing.

3. Rebalance your investment - This tip requires some logical and analytical ability from the investor but would help in bringing the probability of risk down to maybe even zero percent. I would try to explain this tip with help of an example(feel free to comment in case you need more explanation).
Consider a person wants to invest 50,000 INR and he is not sure what percent he should invest in stocks or bonds, Do remember that always invest only that amount in stocks which is inline with the risk you can afford. There should be a balance maintained between investing in stocks and investing in govt bonds. He decides to invest 35000(70 percent) in stock markets and remaining 15000(30 percent) in bonds, Now there can be strong probability that the stock markets gave higher return on investment then the bonds. Considering that the person reinvested the dividends and profits again in stocks would become a riskier affair because the percentage of money invested in stock markets would rise and could reach levels of 80 to 85 percent, This would mean that the investment is no longer inline with the risk which person could tolerate and he might loose huge money if there is a stock market crash in next year of investment.

Now at this time the investor should again rebalance the investment between the bonds and the stocks so that risk always remains inline with what he can afford to lose. He should invest adequate percent of money earned through dividends in bonds so that overall percentage of investment remains as initial(70:30::stocks:bonds).

Thus rebalancing the investment is very important while investing in volatile markets like Indian Stock markets

So before closing this post I would summarize that Indian Stock markets like The Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange are very volatile and investor should follow these 3 tips for investing in such markets in order to minimisez the probability of losses.

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HAPPY TRADING!!