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How to interpret stock performance charts "vs S&P 500"
I'm new to investing, and have been trying to reconcile what various financial advisors recommend for long-term holdings. Some recommend sticking to passively managed index funds, claiming that few, if any, actively managed funds consistently track…
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Why is it important to research a stock before buying it?
I’ve been thinking about investing some stocks and everyone is telling me that I really should research each stock, look through their financial statements and track the news and understand everything about them.
But the more I read, the more it’s…
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What are 'business fundamentals'?
I remember the .Com crisis when experts were saying the market was returning to 'business fundamentals' to evaluate stock. Looking at this question, I was wondering what those are and whether some lessons have been/or can be learned.
This is of…
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As a small investor, what do we really get while we buy a stock of a company which never pays a dividend?
The question is relate to If a stock doesn't pay dividends, then why is the stock worth anything?
And I have something what to add to know more about it.
As a baseline, I should state that I understand that buy stock of a company, I can own one…
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Idea for getting rich using computers to track stocks
Hallo,
I have been toying with this idea in my mind for a while now and to me it sounds like a fool proof way of getting 'rich'. I'm sure someone has had the same idea as me, maybe even tried it, and because not everyone is doing it I'm guessing it…
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What is the difference between current and non-current liabilities?
Take this page:
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices/stocks/summary/fundamentals.html?fourWayKey=GB00B1YMN108GBGBXASQ1
Under liabilities you have current and non-current liabilities. What is the difference?
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Why is the stock market rising after Trump's attack on the TPP?
So USA are on their way out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the stock market has been rising ever since and is currently (djia, s&p500) at its highest peak in months.
Why?
Why did investors respond positively to this, when it clearly…
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What is the buy-hold-sell indication based on?
On websites such as Reuters an "analyst consensus" is displayed in the form of a buy-hold-sell sliding indicator.
What is this indication based on?
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Why liquidity implies tight spread and low slippage
At this link: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/06/daytradingretail.asp they mention:
Liquidity allows you to enter and exit a stock at a good price (i.e.
tight spreads and low slippage)
I know the definitions of liquidity (how much…
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Can S&P index drop very low but never recover?
I have read a commentary from an analyst that most of the stocks in S&P are in over-sold region and the S&P can only go higher and never lower. Can I expect that the S&P will go higher to 6000 level in the next few years and not lower to a level…
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What does Jim Simons signify by "stocks don’t double in a day"?
Source: D. T. Max. “Jim Simons, the Numbers King.” The New Yorker, December 18 & 25, 2017 Issue
He hired another mathematician, whom he’d met at the I.D.A., and they began to create models that predicted the direction of currency prices. Simons…
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How to find conversions between GICS and ICB classifications?
not sure if this is the right place to ask but for a personal stock portfolio I'm doing some analysis, and as I am considering stocks from different regions I have a dataset that partially uses GICS and partially ICB sector classifications. Are…
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Mismatch in SAMSUNG PER
I'm new to the stocks world, and I'm trying to calculate Samsung Electronics PER by myself to get used to this calculations. To calculate the PER first I'm calculating the EPS from Samsung taking the data from the financials in Yahoo, search for…
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Finding the right entry point to buy stocks after a pull back
I have made mistakes of buying stocks in a day or two when the stocks do a pull back. Then it drops further, and I stay in a 20-30% loss for some weeks or months.
Is it normal that type of bad decision every investor or trader
experiment? Should an…
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How can net money flow be positive while stock price drops
This is the price and money flow chart for a public stock on the HKEX.
I'm confused as to why the stock price kept dropping throughout the day while the net money flow by both retail and major (institutional) investors were positive and kept…
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