Now, back on track..
Do you know how to read and fully understand the stock market charts, graphs and percentages and other random things in your local newspaper? These charts and graphs can be valuable resources for investors, but if you have no idea what you are doing or looking for, then they’re pretty much just a bunch of letters and numbers. That is why it's important to learn to read them, and FULLY understand them.
Well for starters, the first two columns are the 52 week high and low price. If the numbers you see are close together like 20 and 22 than you know that you have a stable company. But, if there is a large difference like 20 and 50, than that is when you know there is some instability and you might want to dig a little deeper before buying more stocks. The third column you see is yesterday's closing price. If the company is trading at close to the highs, you know that the value is going up which means you are doing good whereas if it is near the low, think twice about investing in it as it is probably on the decline meaning it isn’t doing too well and you should just stop investing in it.
Next up is the three or four letter code demarking the company. Each code available is unique to everyone who reads and uses the stock market so you will be able to follow the all the companies on the stock ticker.
The fifth and sixth columns show all the dividends that you can spend. Number five is the dividend amount while number six is the dividend yield.
The price to earnings ratio comes in at number seven. P-E is the stock's price divided by the company's per share earnings for the latest four quarters.
The numbers of shares sold yesterday in thousands creates the next row.
The high/low for the previous day makes up column 9. You can see how much one day movement there is.
The last column you see is the market's close and net change which will tell you how the stock has ended the day before.
And that is how you can read and understand the stock market.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Off Topic: Another Great Hosting service!
These days when you always seem to get fantastic customer service, I am always impressed when I have an experience where someone goes above and beyond their job to help you. With InMotion Hosting technical support, that seems to be the case. I've been hosting with them for about 4 years now and every single time I've had an issue or something go wrong, their response has been quick and very helpful which is quite impressive. I, myself am a self-taught student of Wordpress, so when I launched into getting my sites up and running, there were a few challenges that I had to face in the unknown mechanisms of Wordpress. Most recently, one of my websites was hacked and they sent me an email telling me and that they had stopped the hacker downloading some suspicious files. They changed my passwords and sent me all the information about my account details and what happened. My website was out of commission as a result. I tried to notify my web-help guy, but was unable to reach him. Unable to get my website back up, I notified the support team that both of the passwords did not seem to be the same and went to bed in a little bit of a panic. The next morning I woke up to a note explaining the next steps in the password issue and oh-by-the-way, they reloaded all my files and the site was fixed. They turned my panic into feeling reassured that yes, indeed, I have pretty solid backup with my host. Support like that is hard to find these days and most crucial to business owners like myself who's main focus is not building and maintaining their websites. I highly recommend them to anyone who cares about what they are doing!
Biggest Pro: GREAT technical support - both in people and documentation.
Biggest Con: I would like to see some more automated billing details and status’s available.
Biggest Pro: GREAT technical support - both in people and documentation.
Biggest Con: I would like to see some more automated billing details and status’s available.
Off Topic: Great Hosting Service!
Outstanding Service From HostGator
I have been a HostGator customer for a numerous years. But just until recently I have had two shared business accounts there at HostGator.com, and I have always been impressed by the service that I was getting. Heck I was only paying around 30-50$ a month, but whenever I needed anything from their support group I was always made to feel like HostGator's biggest customer.
I just recently got a dedicated server for a new site. I was a little nervous about making this move, mostly because I have never managed anything other than some early Windows servers back in my "hands on" days at work.
The HostGator support & transfer team, along with the GREAT video tutorials that the HostGator staff makes available, made the move a snap. I spent just around week or so going through the tutorials and getting to know myself with my server and the management interface which I had never used. When it came time for the move the HG(HostGator) transfer team was outstanding to work with. Straight away after the move, I had a few questions regarding some standard practices on my servers setup, and the support team was amazingly a lot more than helpful to me.
HostGator just ROCKS. From the stable infrastructure of this web server host, to the great equipment that they possess and their cheap, affordab
I have been a HostGator customer for a numerous years. But just until recently I have had two shared business accounts there at HostGator.com, and I have always been impressed by the service that I was getting. Heck I was only paying around 30-50$ a month, but whenever I needed anything from their support group I was always made to feel like HostGator's biggest customer.
I just recently got a dedicated server for a new site. I was a little nervous about making this move, mostly because I have never managed anything other than some early Windows servers back in my "hands on" days at work.
The HostGator support & transfer team, along with the GREAT video tutorials that the HostGator staff makes available, made the move a snap. I spent just around week or so going through the tutorials and getting to know myself with my server and the management interface which I had never used. When it came time for the move the HG(HostGator) transfer team was outstanding to work with. Straight away after the move, I had a few questions regarding some standard practices on my servers setup, and the support team was amazingly a lot more than helpful to me.
HostGator just ROCKS. From the stable infrastructure of this web server host, to the great equipment that they possess and their cheap, affordab
Friday, January 8, 2010
Jaunary 8th, 2010
Sorry for the day skip
Many people are always puzzled to decide on which stocks on stock to invest. Stocks are very surprising for many, many never now when a stock will either go up or down, the stock market is always moving.
My best advice is " Do not always give up on a stock if it reaches a low point, these low points might create a slingshot effect the next moment, you never know. Always do your research before investing, stocks are never a sure thing.
For the first week of January,
These stocks are some stocks I came across during my studies. All of them have great
volume and could easily have the strength to reach a record high in the next few days.
SkyBridge Technology Group Inc (SKGO)
ISTAR FINANCIAL INC (SFI)
Many people are always puzzled to decide on which stocks on stock to invest. Stocks are very surprising for many, many never now when a stock will either go up or down, the stock market is always moving.
My best advice is " Do not always give up on a stock if it reaches a low point, these low points might create a slingshot effect the next moment, you never know. Always do your research before investing, stocks are never a sure thing.
For the first week of January,
These stocks are some stocks I came across during my studies. All of them have great
volume and could easily have the strength to reach a record high in the next few days.
SkyBridge Technology Group Inc (SKGO)
ISTAR FINANCIAL INC (SFI)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Jaunary 6th, 2010
Many people are always puzzled to decide on which stocks on stock to invest. Stocks are very surprising for many, many never now when a stock will either go up or down, the stock market is always moving.
My best advice is " Do not always give up on a stock if it reaches a low point, these low points might create a slingshot effect the next moment, you never know. Always do your research before investing, stocks are never a sure thing.
For the first week of January,
These stocks are some stocks I came across during my studies. All of them have great
volume and could easily have the strength to reach a record high in the next few days.
EcoBlu Products Inc (ECOB)
Puramed (PMBS.OB)
My best advice is " Do not always give up on a stock if it reaches a low point, these low points might create a slingshot effect the next moment, you never know. Always do your research before investing, stocks are never a sure thing.
For the first week of January,
These stocks are some stocks I came across during my studies. All of them have great
volume and could easily have the strength to reach a record high in the next few days.
EcoBlu Products Inc (ECOB)
Puramed (PMBS.OB)
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