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Price and the Valuation of Shares
Price and the Valuation of Shares

Everyone can find out the price of shares by looking at the live ticker on your stock trading charts. But the price of shares aren’t set in stone. Stock prices are always in a state of flux, moving up and down at the mercy of the constant pull and push of supply and demand between buyers and sellers. How about the valuation of shares? The value of shares depends on who is looking at the stock. It’s all about perspective: where there is a buyer, there is always a seller and a trade is made when an agreement in price is completed.

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Money Management Trading Skills
Money Management Trading Skills

There are a lot of skills involved in trading shares and other securities. Money management trading skills are more important than knowing which stocks to pick and knowing the best time to exit your trade. Money management is also known as risk management, it’s all about preserving your capital and your risk appetite. Many people focus on looking at charts and creating systems in picking stocks and exiting stocks but ignore the important risk dimension to their trading.

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How a Stockbroker Works for You
How a Stockbroker Works for You

What is the exact role of the broker when it comes to buying and selling your shares on the sharemarket. How can a broker help you decide which shares to buy and sell? Once you have placed a trade with your broker either by telephone or online, what happens now? What happens to your shares and what role does your broker play?

Decide What You Want From Your Stockbroker

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Trading Psychology

Astrology Share Trading
What is Astrology Share Trading

People use fundamental analysis and technical analysis to make investment and trading decisions. But there are a certain group of people who believe in using astrology for share trading. One website claims: "[Service]... offers a unique educational experience for traders wishing to decipher the esoteric mysteries veiled within the teachings of legendary trader W.D. Gann." You've probably heard of, William Delbert Gann who created the technical analysis tool known as Gann angles. Gann market forecasting methods are based on geometry, astrology, and ancient mathematics.

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Forex Trading

8 Steps to Scalp the Forex Market


A talented forex scapler immediately exits their trading position if the market does not go their way.

A talented forex scapler immediately exits their trading position if the market does not go their way. The scalper would make quite a number of trades a day from 10 to a couple of hundred trades - not holding on to losing positions or praying and hoping that their losing position will turn around.

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CFD Trading

Starting CFD Trading?


Are you starting CFD Trading? Learn about the essentials in this introductory article to CFDs

CFD trading has boomed since it was first introduced in Australia by IG markets in 2003. This article is for those people starting CFD trading. The growth of the product can be attributed to the attractiveness of the products’ easy to access leverage, ease of use and easy access to the price movements plenty of securities worldwide. The CFD Trading dream is to be able to live off your trading profits.

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Other Stockmarket News

US Jobless Spike

The US has lost jobs for the fifth month in a row at 5.5 percent as the jobless rate spiked (increasing by 0.5%) as a consequence of a class of students graduating schools and moving into the workforce. This is the largest spike in teenage unemployment since 1948. The spike was larger than every forecast from a Bloomberg News survey of economists. Allen Sinai, chief economist at Decision Economics in New York, has said that "Most of the economy looks in recession.'' Also Ten-year Treasury yields dropped to 3.92% in New York, from 4.04% on Thursday.

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Credit Squeeze and Non-Bank Lenders

The subprime mortgage crisis has created a credit squeeze. The credit crisis has led to increased costs of debt and the lack of investor interest to refinance existing debts, which lead to the collapse of RAMS home loans and also the recent end for packaged mortgages (also called securitisation). Higher interest rates are expected as non-bank lenders cannot offer home loans as a result of the credit crisis. Since non-bank lenders are out of the picture, the lack of competition means higher interest rates.

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Aussie Dollar 24 Year Record High
Aussie Dollar Chart

The Aussie dollar hit a 24-year high this morning against the US dollar greenback. At 7am local Sydney time, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9565, up more than one US cent from Friday's close of 0.9434. This means imports like electronics and other products from overseas are cheaper. The Australian dollar has more buying power overseas so it is a perfect time to travel or buy up foreign currency, especially the US Dollar.

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Australian Share Trading News

Billabong Profit Falls


Surfwear retailer, Billabong (ASX:BBG) have announced their full year profit results at $146 million for the 12 months to end of June. Full year profit fell by 4.5 percent.

Billabong Profit Falls


Surfwear retailer, Billabong (ASX:BBG) have announced their full year profit results at $146 million for the 12 months to end of June. Full year profit fell by 4.5 percent.

Wesfarmers Profit Results


Australian agricultural, retail and mining conglomerate, Wesfarmers (ASX:WES) has seen a slow profit growth, releasing a reported net profit of $1.6 billion, up 2.8 percent form the previous year. Earnings in the company's resources dividsion fell by 81 percent from higher royalties and lower coal prices in the first three quarters.

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