Friday, April 24, 2009

Stock Research Education

As in other fields, the internet revolution has created the fierce competition amongst the share brokers. If the broker takes regular and methodical steps to educate the investor on topics that interest him studying which one thinks that profits can be increased, that is the best service the broker can provide. The main participants in the stock exchange are investors, market analysts, traders and other institutions concerned with investment business. Most of them depend upon research and analysis to do the trade, for which they create specialized cells. Transferring the research findings for the benefit of the clients has become the important part of their operations.
The vast amount of study material on shares available online, has thrown up a new class of research scholars who conduct research on the share market in their individual capacity. Research by such individuals is likely to be without any bias.Stock Research education is available to the investors, with tools like charting software, books, service providers, training and a number of different research techniques.
Any package of stock research education must involve the following for the correct evaluation of the intrinsic worth of the share:
Fundamental Analysis Technical Analysis
Fundamental analysis contains the use of economic and financial data to assess solvency, efficiency and liquidity and the earning potential of the specified company. For this analysis, the documents required are the annual report and the relevant financial statements, legal observations by the corporate officers, statistics related to the industry, market trends and the macro-economic data. The goal of the fundamental analyst is to locate the undervalued shares and tender advice to buy them in anticipation of appreciation of value.
Technical analysis views the actual history of trading and the price of the share or index. A chart is used for this purpose. A technical analyst proceeds on the belief that securities move in trends. Such trends continue until something happens to change the trend. With this approach sometimes the analysis could be wrong and patterns and levels can not be detected properly. But such an eventuality is rare. In majority of the cases, the analysis is right.
Buying and selling activity affects the price of the traded shares. A trader has the reason either for buying or selling the share. Traders often act alone but the weight of the numbers has a direct influence on short term prices. They succeed in creating confusion and uncertainties in the minds of buyers or sellers and their actions contribute to the upswings and downswings in the price of a share.
This is the context where stock research education has the important role to play. With charts and technical indicators you are able to study group behaviors and sentiments of the investors. This study is considered both science and art. It is science, because scientific tools like mathematical formula, statistics and computers are used in the study.
Stock research education helps one to determine the relative strength of buyers and sellers; judge the mood of the market and determine the favorable time to buy and sell the equities. To articulate the theory how the price is expected to move and to formulate a stop-loss strategy. The important principle as for the technical analysis of stock market research is-history repeats itself and it happens so, quite often.

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