I first learned about stocks two years ago, that was in 2006. But then I did not take it seriously. The first trade that I did was a JFC stock thru BPI Trade, the online trading platform of BPI bank. I remembered, I bought 100 shares of JFC at above market value back then just to have a match with my buy order because I have been placing my order for a few days already but there was no match. The market value was Php 42 and I bid for a buy at Php 44. Presto! It’s an instant match! But

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In my effort to further educate newbies in the field of stock market, I initiated this article for stock market beginners. You may call it Stocks 101 or Stocks for Dummies. First and foremost, what is the stock market? A stock market is an avenue for companies and corporations to offer their shares in the public. Once a company listed their shares in the stock market, then the public is free to buy and sell those stocks. So what’s the pros and cons of a company in listing their stocks

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One of the things that kept me thinking before when I was starting as an investor is the Federal Rate. Why is it so important? Why do the whole world of investors look at it too much? And how powerful is Ben Bernanke to control and manipulate it? We can see that a lot of times, if there was a federal rate cut, stocks will go up and rally. What’s in the federal rate cut that makes stock investors happy? And why is the Fed now continuously cuts it reaching record breaking lows of just

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As discussed in one of my previous articles, we must invest in order to fight inflation. But is it the right time to invest considering the effects of the global financial crisis that the world is now facing? Before, our problem is inflation. Oil price reached above $120 per barrel. Analysts and economists quote this as stagflation, a condition in the economy in which inflation and economic stagnation occur simultaneously. Now that inflation has greatly decreased with oil price reaching below

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I have been a direct stock market investor since September of this year. In just a short span of time, I have learned a lot when it comes to trading stocks and these are the following tips that I would share to my readers on what stocks to buy. Although some of these cannot be employed here in the Philippines since we have a small market, a lot of them will be useful in other countries. Note, however, that I am not knowledgeable in technical analysis, a program used by traders to assess the

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