Stocks
In my opinion, there are
2 ways to invest in stock, which depends on your personality and
mindset, and finally the time you are able to spend with your stocks
analysis and trading.
Long term investor
The long term investor
is a person who is risk adverse. This means that he will only buy good
stocks at a discount, with high potential upside. He is able to
sustain short term losses without fear, due to his confidence that the
good stock will eventually give him good returns. He select his
stocks based on fundamentals. The fundamentals easily available to
normal investors are:-
Consistent Revenue
Growth
Consistent Earnings
Growth
Competitive Advantage
Return on Equity
Strong Institutional
Support
In general, a long term
investor will buy the good fundamental stock on his watchlist only when
it becomes cheap enough. In general, this comes into place when the
market goes into correction or when something happens to the company.
The decision to purchase depends on a few factors:-
Historical E/P
Whether the current
downturn is only temporary
Whether company is well
managed
Short term investor
The short term investor
is willing to take on slightly more risk than the long term investor.
He will buy stocks that is moving up, ride the uptrend and sell before
the downtrend. He will cut loss quickly if the stock moves against his
position. He should also select his stocks base on fundamentals.
However, their purchase
decision depends on technical analysis, which basically consists of the
following few factors:-
MACD
Stochastic, slow
RSI EMA
Parabolic SAR
RSI Reverse
Bollinger Band
The detailed writeup on
how to analyze stocks will be discussed in the following sections |