1. Scalping:
The act of selling as soon as the trade becomes profitable, even if it is only a mere profit. Therefore, traders will buy multiple shares from different companies and sell immediately even if it is a few cents higher, because many small profits will eventually turn out to large profit gains. However, traders must have a strict selling strategy, meaning not selling the stocks, trusting that it will go up even more, thus, making the whole strategy in vain.
2. Fading:
A very risky strategy, requiring trader to have a high risk tolerance. Trader would buy a stock when it is failing and sell it when it starts to rise. This might sound very easy, but there are numerous times where the stocks never, or take a long-period of time to
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1. Fundamental Analysis:
It is regarded as one of the best ways to evaluate the value of stocks. The objective is to discover their true value by examining many factors including debt load, profit margins, cash flow and P/E ratio and etc. For example, if a trader was to analyze Samsung Electronics, he/she will look at every single factor that can affect the stock’s value, such as the smartphone market and their management. And in the end, if the company is over-valued, the stock will be sold and if it is under-valued, it will be bought.
2. Past performance:
Simply buying stocks based on past performance. However, many investment advisors don’t recommend this strategy due to one reason. Many people buy high-performing companies simply because they are doing well, and don’t even know why. For example, during 1997 and 2000, Nokia’s stock value skyrocketed; however, it was bound to go down because they lacked the capital and the infrastructures by Samsung and Apple to keep up their value. And this is the
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Value Investment:
A bit similar strategy to the fundamental analysis mentioned above, it involves buying stocks that are under-valued by the market. It is more likely that the majority of these companies will be public companies and very few in the technology industry. The buyer will look for low P/E ratio (high P/E ratio generally anticipates high hopes for the company), high dividend yields (higher dividend yield means steady cash flow and more money paid to you in general) and etc. So, to sum up, it is simply buying stocks that are priced lower than it is actually worth.
5. Dividend Investment:
Dividend yield is a ratio that indicates how much a company pays back the dividends annually compared to its share value. It is a way to calculate how much cash you are receiving from the company. What dividend investors do it fairly simple. They find companies that have high dividend yield and buy them because those companies will provide the share-holders with consistent cash-flow and therefore, prove itself that the company is financially stable, low-risk and healthy. Many buyers, typically people looking to retire prefer this to desire retirement income.
6. Dogs of the
What Gekko is referring to is one of the worst stock market crashes in history known as “Black Monday”. This stock market crash began from Hong Kong and spread west to Europe, hitting America after other stock markets have already been shredded. In Australia and New Zealand, the 1987 crash is also known as "Black Tuesday" because of the time zone difference. What made this nightmare happened? Well, the most popular explanation is selling by program traders, most notably as a reaction to the computerized selling required by portfolio insurance hedges. After Black Monday, regulators overhauled trade-clearing protocols to bring uniformity to all prominent market products. They also developed new rules, known as "trading curbs" or colloquially as circuit
For example, if an investor wants to buy a share of X at $10, a high frequency trader will buy the share for that amount and sell to the investor at $12 before the investor even notices the
...s can be used for speculative trading strategies like short selling (1) and trading on margin (2). Overall, regardless of your investing
The stock market is a centralized area where buyers and sellers comes together to perform stock transaction. When one thinks of the stock market, the first thing comes to mind is Wall Street which is sometimes referred to as the New York Stock Exchange as well as the NYSE.
Margin buying is a practice originated from the Roaring Twenties and that hastens the eventual decline of the
Samsung’s cost advantage is clearly visible from the comparison of costs (and their elements) that were borne by the company and its competitors in 2003 (Tab. 3): Samsung’s overall cost was 24 per cent lower than the weighted average cost of the other four producers; two most significant elements of the cost structure, i.e. raw materials and labour, were 36 and 27 per cent lower respectively. When expressed by means of a relation of average selling price to costs (“productivity” of cost elements), the differences are even more visible (comp. Tab. 4 ): overall superiority of Samsung over its competitors exceeded 51 per cent!
However, RLK’s competitors are downsizing and outsourcing R&D and exploiting on the cost advantages. If RLK decides to invest more money into R&D and should the new product stall on launch, they face the danger of becoming bankrupt.
It is used to measure the position of a firm in relation to its relative market share as well as its market growth. Based on this the situation where in all of the given four divisions of the firm are at different levels of performance can be evaluated in order to formulate a 5 year strategy plan. This can help in the creation of a portfolio where in returns are optimized by re investing in growth oriented sectors and divesting out of the sectors that are saturated and loss making for the firm.
We analyzed the market for two weeks to determine when the equity market would turn from a bearish to bullish market. Without a change in the market and a declining bond price, we decided to invest in equities according to our investment strategy, which brought us into the second phase of our portfolio. Therefore, at the beginning of February we bought shares in Sirius, Microsoft, Neon, Washington Mutual, and Nike. As assumed, the equity market continued to plummet decreasing the value of all our stocks except for our Gold Corporation stock.
For these outcomes, the team has chosen three possible options for alternatives (1) recall, (2) no recall or (3) delay of release. As for the aforementioned list, the group examined there values alongside the fixtures of corporate social responsibility and the consumer sovereignty test. The team analyzed the alternatives with the former under the following four criteria; economic, legal; ethical, lastly philanthropic responsibilities. For the latter concept, the following criteria was utilized, consumer capability, information and choice.
There is a sense of complexity today that has led many to believe the individual investor has little chance of competing with professional brokers and investment firms. However, Malkiel states this is a major misconception as he explains in his book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”. What does a random walk mean? The random walk means in terms of the stock market that, “short term changes in stock prices cannot be predicted”. So how does a rational investor determine which stocks to purchase to maximize returns? Chapter 1 begins by defining and determining the difference in investing and speculating. Investing defined by Malkiel is the method of “purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably predictable income or appreciation over the long term”. Speculating in a sense is predicting, but without sufficient data to support any kind of conclusion. What is investing? Investing in its simplest form is the expectation to receive greater value in the future than you have today by saving income rather than spending. For example a savings account will earn a particular interest rate as will a corporate bond. Investment returns therefore depend on the allocation of funds and future events. Traditionally there have been two approaches used by the investment community to determine asset valuation: “the firm-foundation theory” and the “castle in the air theory”. The firm foundation theory argues that each investment instrument has something called intrinsic value, which can be determined analyzing securities present conditions and future growth. The basis of this theory is to buy securities when they are temporarily undervalued and sell them when they are temporarily overvalued in comparison to there intrinsic value One of the main variables used in this theory is dividend income. A stocks intrinsic value is said to be “equal to the present value of all its future dividends”. This is done using a method called discounting. Another variable to consider is the growth rate of the dividends. The greater the growth rate the more valuable the stock. However it is difficult to determine how long growth rates will last. Other factors are risk and interest rates, which will be discussed later. Warren Buffet, the great investor of our time, used this technique in making his fortune.
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The stock market; all though enticing, is no get rich quick scheme. It is a rather complex economic system that can be found throughout the world. It has seen a great deal of changes since its inception. The history of the stock market is very much like that of a graph of a stock with plenty of ups and downs. Without all of its highs and lows we would not have the stock systems we have in place today. Today we have a system where the companies and traders have a mutualistic interest; for the stocks to excel. It is the talking point of many conversations along with being subject to much speculation. Stock markets are ever expanding as more and more IPO’s are being filed. With a platform in place to allow crucial funding to corporations, the stock market is one of the most important systems set in place.
Without a successful business strategy put in place the company would fail and be unable to compete with competitors. There would be on way of knowing what resources are required. No planning for the future of the business. If there are no targets set out to achieve there would be no way of measuring how successful the company has been.
The Dunkin brand has two major companies Baskin Robins and Dunkin Donuts. For this business analysis I will be focusing in on Dunkin Donuts of the Dunkin Brand. Dunkin Donuts is one of the leading companies in the coffee industry that is growing rapidly each day. Though the coffee is rapidly increasing, can Dunkin Donuts keep up and compete with top rivals?