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By: Brett Hill

"I only wait bundles of cash pile up in corner of wall, then I walk there and pick it up without efforts. Besides, I do nothing".,Trade mater James Regales said so, but what will the words of master to inspire investors?

As we know,currency market is consists of a series of trading days, and it's uncommon for complete irrelevant next trading days. But in some trading days, obvious characteristics board trend had clearly indicates the real intention of market, if we could grasp these trading opportunities of high profitable percentage,it'll be very helpful to make profit. In conclusion, easy" pick up money" opportunities are as follows:

Balanced market of close high/low: The trading day was balanced market of rise and fall but closing price is high ( or low), this shows one side obtained assumed victory. So the morning session trading on next trading day usually well be beneficial to closing side. Therefore, open a position on closing direction is a good move.

Strong trend trading day: market is controlled by unilateral force from opening to closing, exchange rate moves toward one direction. This is absolutely good chance to open a position by trend and bear very small risks. This is because the value range in next trading will commonly be continued, and it can ensure there's plenty of time make profit and leave the market without suffer losses.

Gaps: In market opening stage, gaps will be formed by the resistance entry of long-term strength, it has characteristic of support and resistance function. To open a position along gaps direction also has high profitable percentage. However because there are many types of gaps such as ordinary type, breakthrough type, relay type,exhaustion type,etc, so investors better to take action after clear analysis combined with overall environment.

Breakthrough consolidation area: When the maintained consolidation area is being breakthrough, the exchange rate change is usually rapid and fierce. This is because market participants have changed views of value and confident intervention of long-term strength. At this moment, investors should enter the market following breakthrough direction and enjoy the pleasure of "free ride"

Breakthrough failure trap: When exchange rate failed to impact resistance level( or support level), it will usually fall back to original value range. The longer of time cycle of reference point impact, the broader of return range, and this is a concept in basis of market balance. Therefor, investors should quick witted, "turn around strike".

The above trading opportunities are not absolutely not going to fail, but in compare to say are safe and reliable. If a trader could has patience to wait for emerging of opportunities and sensibility judge its fact, and combined with scientific assets management methods, and to decisive actions, he/she will must attain the good results.

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by Shaun

Selling Naked puts and naked calls are two strategies that are hardly used in the stock market. And there is a reason for that, they are considered to be the 2 riskiest strategies of all.

What is the difference between the strategies and what makes them so risky? Well when you sell an option you are giving someone else the right to either make you buy or sell a stock at a given price on or before a given date.

For instance when you sell a naked call you have the obligation to sell a stock at a given price on or before expiration. So if you sell the $30 call option the buyer of that option can make you sell the stock at anytime during the lifetime of that option.

So if the stock goes up to $40, $50, or even $100 you will be forced to sell it at $30. Of course this has the potential of giving you a very big loss. Your potential loss is actually unlimited. That is why I never ever even think about entering a naked call.

A Naked Put on the other had can be less risky. If you sell a $30 put you have the obligation to buy the stock at $30, which means that the most you can possibly lose is $30, not unlimited.

If the stock is a very strong company that you would not mind holding onto for a long time then there can actually be less risk in selling a put then there is in buying the stock, because you get paid to buy it.

So while naked calls are too risky to touch (at least for me) naked puts can definitely be a great strategy if you use it right.

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About the Author

When I was young I wanted to learn how to trade the stock market. So I traveled around the country listening to professional traders talk about how they are making money in the market. Now I understand how easy it is to make money in the stock market and started a site http://www.stocks-simplified.com to help others learn.

by Sam Wilmore

Looking for Historical Stock Data for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX)? Well you've come to the right place. You can download free HKEX Historical Stock Data in metastock format from 2000 - 2009. The data is updated every month, and downloadable every month in zipped .CSV (comma separated values). You can import this data into software programs such as Amibroker, and use it to back test your buy and sell strategies.

The historical data can be used for both technical and fundamental analysis, though it is more geared more towards technical analysis. What is Technical Analysis? It is a method for predicting future price movements in stocks based on previous stock movements. The many technical indicators traders use can include RSI (relative strength index), moving averages, regressions, MACD, just to name a few. All these indicators rely on stock prices, price changes, and volume changes. This information is available in the metastock data provided. Metastock data is of the form:
Symbol, Date, Open Price, High Price, Low Price, Closing Price and Volume

Once you've developed your trading model, you can back test it against the HKEX Historical Stock Data

The data can be downloaded in its raw form, or with adjusted closing prices for dividends and stock splits.

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By: Juli Alee

All in all, share prices aren't just prices moving up and down, up and down. They are a reflection of a company.

If you were interested in buying your local corner shop, you'd look at things such as management, if profits were improving and if there were competitors taking away market share.

Shares are essentially a share in a business and while it may not be your local corner shop, the concepts are very similar.

Underlying drivers of the business are important

Here's what famous investor Peter Lynch has this to say to investors: "Well, they should think about what's happening. I'm talking about economics as forecasting the future. If you own auto stocks you ought to be very interested in used car prices. If you own aluminium companies you ought to be interested in what's happened to inventories of aluminium. If your stocks are hotels, you ought to be interest in how many people are building hotels. These are facts."

The point of the story is that investors should be aware of the underlying drivers which help or hinder a business.

Watch economic events closely

If an economic event shows a business environment that is favourable to companies making profits and growing, you'll usually see a positive reaction from share prices.

But if the economic event shows that company profits may fall, you will generally see share prices come under pressure.

If interest rates are low, employment high, consumer confidence high, then it will be relatively easy for businesses to make money.

But if interest rates are rising, employment is low. People then stop spending money and businesses make less profit. So share prices fall.

Market sentiment is important too

The share market is like any marketplace. If there are more buyers then sellers then prices will rise.

And if there are more sellers than buyers prices will fall.

Buyers drive up the price and sellers drive down the price. A perfect example of this is at the seafood markets. Normally prawns sell for around $25 a kilo. At Christmas time, prawns sell for about double. Why the big difference? At Christmas, the large number of buyers drive up the price of prawns. The seafood market, like the sharemarket, sees buyers drive up the price and sellers drive down the price.

In the end, the sharemarket is simply a market full of businesses. In the long-term, share prices are a reflection of the value of the underlying business. You'll find that businesses that increase their profits increase their business value and share prices should eventually follow suit.

Happy investing!

Julia Lee is an Equities Analyst for online share trading platform Bell Direct. Julia provides information on share trading and stock market research for frequent traders and investors.

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