How Media Can Move The Markets

It is very important to understand how the media can move markets. A week after putting a year end price target of $1450 on gold, Goldman has seen get surpassed as gold has fallen. While there are many factors as to why this is happening, one has to do with the...

Setting Up Short-Term and Long-Term Goals

In last week’s trading, I found out that it is important to set up/recognize your short term and long term goal for your stocks. For example, I will find some high volatile stocks to engage buying or selling within a short period if I just want to earn some...

Reading More, Learning More

I have been able to read more and learn more this past week. I also look forward to interviewing with a hedge fund this week, thus my preparation for investing related knowledge will definitely increase. I look forward to implementing new strategies this week.

Different Factors to Consider

I have submitted my first trade, albeit of small volume. Actively trading made me realize how many different factors there are when considering which stock to invest in. I hope to come up with a plan when the price starts rapidly moving for or against me.

Controlling Your Emotions in Trading

When I first began investing, I looked to a few sources for advice. I read books and newspaper articles about the topic. Originally, I thought there wasn’t much to it; you choose what trades you want to execute, and you execute them. I never really thought about...

Long and Short Positions

I did not change my long positions compared with last week and I have earned some unrealized profit from longing them. However, I had a very large unrealized loss since I shorted Google and Apple at the beginning of this week but the stock market rallied afterwards,...