What Is Stock Market

The strong stocks of 2012 Q1

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:21:41 +0000

What is stock market update of 2012 Q1:

As you all know all the doom and gloom of the stock market is now gone and everything is rosy. Greece is now patched up and ready to go with massive debt restructuring that happened last month. Now we have to wait for which of the EU’s counties will come up that has a debt problem.

You see markets usually rally on election years and this year there are over 40 elections in the world! This year so far has been very positive. We will see how long more it will go this rally that is.

USA data seems to be positive as well.

You have to make sure you still are cautious with your investments, and for those of you that get into stock market now and are beginners, have to be very careful what to invest in. Try not to buy anything that is way to up unless you are really sure. Apple stock might come to mind.

ABstocks.com is now moved to whatisstockmarket.org

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:10:11 +0000

Abstocks is now called What Is Stock Market. This is to make our visitors find us easier and show that we are a non for profit website here to help our visitors know what is the stock market and learn it. The old website does still work and please don’t forget to update your bookmark.

Leave a comment if you like us to cover more areas and we’ll be glad to help you beginners in the stock market area of investments.

ABstocks.com has a facebook fan page now!

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:02:07 +0000

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And the stock market recovers?

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:59:55 +0000

Past few days have been recovery days and the markets has almost recovered all its loses after the US was downgraded. Was the underlying problem fixed? No. This shows how some investors are clueless, they panic sell and buy back when everyone is doing the same. We still have our major problems in the world and nothing is fixed.
As a beginner you can learn that not to panic when the stocks are falling and don’t follow the rest of the people. Maybe this creates more opportunities to get some puts when the market rallies for a bit more.

Past Few Days on Stock Market

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:46:25 +0000

Today many European countries put a ban on short selling. This included France, Italy, Spain etc… . Short selling is a perfect healthy way of trading for stock traders. This goes to show you how clueless these politicians are and the extend they go to put band aids on this failing global economy. After the week crash that ended in Aug 6 2011, the stocks have had 1/3 of the volume of before. What does this tell you?

Bans Imposed on Some European Short Selling

The only solution is for most of Europe and USA to go to a recession and a long period of austerity and come up stronger and let the economy fix itself naturally than throwing stimulus and money at bad debts. Canada had to do this in the 1990 and it came out strong.

What this means for the people who are learning to trade on stock market? Well this is a perfect opportunity to make money on the volatility (we recommend having more put and short selling than longs and call options). You can easily see how a simple news can be bad for certain economies or single companies or even for the whole world in one shot (where everything goes up and down in a few minutes).

Relax, take caution, diversify and make money by shorting stocks that have gone up way too high and long the ones you think are beaten down very bad but have good potential.

Two day mini jumps on stock markets

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:31:49 +0000

As many thing are still unknown for markets and adding uncertainly — US debt ceiling, EU debt problems and a solution, few things have caused a rally:

Apple, Coca Cola and IBM had good reports. Seems like US corporation are doing great while the country is suffering. Copper is all time high as well as gold. Oil is hovering around $96. China keeps fueling the world economy.

As a beginner investor you should know that markets don’t like uncertainly and volatility. Any problems in any country can take the whole world market down these days no matter how rosy the rest of the countries are. This is something you will learn over your course of leaning the stock market game and investment. These volatility could be great for day traders on the other hand.

ABstocks Forums are now live!

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:31:51 +0000

ABstocks has now launched its forum section for all the beginner and advanced stock market question for any investment strategy. It has two sections: for beginners and the section for those that are already started trading. Please register and ask your question and give suggestions. We will be happy to answer and help you out in your investment, learning and direction to take.

And the market goes back up!

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:54:27 +0000

Since our last post yesterday, the market has completely ignored so much global problems and has been up around 3% on average due to the following news:

- US is possibly looking to offer QE3 (ie print even more money and buy bad assets)

- China has had good growth

Looks like China is the only item that is causing the stocks to rally or fueling the stocks these days.

These are interesting times and you can see that one day markets are blood red, the other day it is going back up. You should learn not to panic and believe in yourself in whichever direction you think the markets will be headed to make your profit. Always be cautions and diversify as usual. Also don’t forget to read on how to prevent yourself from getting into a downturn or recession.

You can learn great lessons if you read financial news everyday

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:40:36 +0000

If you have watched the stock market and been reading financial news past few days, you can easily see how news and uncertainty and worry can kill the stocks. Most of the stocks and major indices have droped more than 4% since few days ago due to the following problems:

- European debt concern is now spreading to Italy. The concern was Greece and Portugal just few weeks ago!

- China is slowing down.

- US debt ceiling agreement is not met yet and if it is not agreed soon, US is up for a default!

- US job number came with 9.2% unemployment rate, which is an increase from 9.1% previously. Nobody was expecting this.

- The only good news is that Canadian job market and housing is just getting stronger. But then again Canadian economy is just the size of California!

You can see that learning to do put options and short selling can work in your favor if markets are going down. You can play with stock market in any direction. Just becuase it is volatile and losing value doenst mean you can’t make money. We expect this downturn to continue for another week at least, if the politicians start working hard to fix these issues, if not things might not go very well in August.

Please leave comments and feedback to discuss this. We appreciate all feedback!

New! Option trading for beginners page is up

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:59:13 +0000

We have now finished a quick guide for beginner to start on option trading. Options are great in a way that not much of a investment capital (money) is required to start with. It can have great gains if you play your cards right and predict the right direction for the stocks. You have to make sure you select the right expiry date, and nothing very short term. Please leave comments or send us an email if you like more areas covered or if you have any questions.