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How to Make Money in a Tough Stock Market
Making money in the stock market can be tough during the best of times but when the economy takes a downturn and spirals into recession, making money in the stock market can seem to be nearly impossible. in this article today I’m going to give you some tips and tricks on how to profit even during tough times in the stock market. with these tips you’ll be pretty far ahead of the game compared to everybody else.
The most popular strategy for making money in a tough economy is to engage in short selling. Short selling scares a lot of investors, especially a lot of smaller individual investors because either they don’t quite understand the strategy or they get nervous about the potential open-ended losses that are possible based on the nature of short selling itself.
The fact of the matter is, short selling can be much easier than you may think. Yes, it is quite risky but there are ways you can mitigate that risk fairly easily if you know a few simple tricks.
Before I get any further along I should define what short selling is in case you haven’t ever heard of it before. Short selling is the act of borrowing shares, usually from your stockbroker. you then sell those shares at the current market price and pocket the money. Let’s pretend that you sold one share short for $100.
Now you simply wait. When you sell short you have made a bet that the market is about to turn down or at least that the particular share that you sold short is about to drop in price. Now let’s pretend three weeks have gone by and the stock that you sold short has tanked in the market and is currently now selling for $30 per share.
What you do now is simply take your hundred dollars that you earned by selling your original borrowed share and use $30 of it to buy a new share of stock at the current market price (of $30). you now take that share and give it back to your stockbroker because remember, you have borrowed a share from them and you now have to pay them back.
That’s it! You’ve made $70 by borrowing a share when it was trading at $100, selling it, pocketing the hundred dollars, waiting for the share to sink in price, buying back in at the lower price, paying back your stockbroker the share that you borrowed, and pocketing the difference. That’s all short selling is!
There is a substantial risk involved in short selling What happens if the stock doesn’t drop in price? What happens if it in fact increases? Let’s say that the stock went from $100-$150. you still owe your stockbroker one share of stock and when he wants it back you’ve got to give it to him which means you have to go out onto the broad stock market and buy a share for whatever it’s currently selling at, in this case $150 which means you will have lost $50.
People consider short selling very risky because there is no ceiling to how high the shares can skyrocket and as long as the shares keep climbing in price, you keep losing money until you eventually buyback in to cover your position.
So there you have one very quick and easy way to make money in a down stock market.
How to Make Money in a Tough Stock Market
Stock Trading Software
When it comes to stock trading software, there are many programs to choose from. Whether you are a professional trader or a trader with few skills, there are certain things you should look for in your stock trading software depending on where you want to trade.
The Forex stock trading software is made to let you work your way through the Forex market. The Forex or foreign exchange is the place to look for currencies worldwide. The different currencies are being exchanged daily with one another from small portions to large amounts. This is the world’s largest amount of transactions, as on a daily basis more than three trillion dollars are exchanged in this manner. when you decide to trade on Forex, you are allowing all of your investments to be changed from one currency to another currency. If the currency drops from bad economy, your investment is still safe because you can choose another stronger currency. Currency pairs are commonly used such as USD and Euro.
With this being said, Forex can be confusing if you do not know what you are doing with all the conversions and currencies. Finding a stock trading software that allows education and utilization of Forex is indeed something all traders should do. there are free stock trading software programs that offer technical analysis online, remember you are taking part in electronic trading and will be using the electronic automated stock exchange. So finding a software program that works well with real time updates is essential. another crucial selling point you should look for in your stock trading software is a price to earnings ratio option. This is the most popular of stock analysis metrics, and is normally found in most high end software programs.
Financial stock trading software programs are used to complete analysis and comparison as well as charting of the stock market to help you make an informed decision. there are many high end stock trading software programs that can be downloaded for free on the internet that will help you to balance your portfolio as well as give analysis of different brokerages and other financial businesses. most all programs will also offer you the opportunity to create and test investment strategies while setting your goals for income requirements. these options are important for those who are just starting out in the investment world, as well as those who are well seasoned traders so everyone can benefit from these points.
One common denominator between free and fee based stock trading software programs is that they all will help you adhere to the golden rule of trading: buy low and sell high. Many of these programs will have artificial intelligence built right in so that even when you are not looking, the software will alert you to stocks that go low and have the potential to rise again in the very near future. An automated helper right on your computer, looking out for your financial interests: what more could you ask for?
Wall Street and Main Street are on Completely Different Levels
Last week I wrote about whether or not the recession was truly over with the intentions on getting your point of view first (Here is the link to the previous article), now here is what I think.
Wall Street and Main Street are on Completely Different Levels
Just because Mr. Bernanke says the recession is over has no actual correlation to the real standing of the economy. Yes, he may be the head of the Federal Reserve but his statement last week didn’t connect with many Americans. Yes the economy is improving, yet we are nowhere near our optimal level of production. I think the huge problem and something Bernanke hasn’t realized is that there is a huge disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. On Wall Street we are acting like these are prosperous times with stock prices soaring, banks improving, and big bonuses being handed out. Though when you bring it back to Main Street and the level of the average American we are struggling to make ends meet. Unemployment levels are at frightening levels, housing prices are at an all-time low, and the average person is being further pushed into debt. The big problem I have with the health of the economy is the psychological aspect of the economy. On Wall Street now the excitement is rolling with the soaring markets. However across the
nation, the recession mentality is holding strong and it’s not a good one at that. This mentality has taken a direct hit on retail as consumer spending is down significantly this year. Most Americans are cutting back on discretionary spending and are planning on continuing this habit, which I see as a huge hit to the resurgence in the economy. If the economy continues to not facet a healthy recovery then elections in 2010 will become interesting. History has shown us a low unemployment rate directly hurts the party in power. This bodes well for the Republican Party, as it’s very likely we could see the Democrats lose a significant amount of congressional seats. What the government needs to realize is everything they are doing now is completely wrong. People are tired of hearing excuses they just want to see results. Plus the constant push of the healthcare bill is not helping his party either. To facilitate a strong recovery Obama needs to forgo his health care reform and create new jobs. He needs to create new industries that can thrive throughout the next century. All spending should go towards high-tech, environmentally friendly jobs. Investments in huge capital expenditures and public projects.
