This is the first in what I’m hoping will become a regular feature on my blog. The aim of this post is to try and link the economic, fundamental and technical theories with trading and investing in the real world.

Why have I called it ‘Useful Share Market Tips’? Well, because I believe success lies in learning and understanding. Trading and investing for beginners usually starts with the search for the ‘latest hot tip’.

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Useful Share Market Tips – The U.S Economy and the Stock Market

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losing money on the stock marketIn the previous post we looked at the foundation of wealth building – Your Wealth Creation Blueprint (plan). We also examined the importance of setting measurable investment objectives and the need to avoid trading strategies that are incompatible with your personal level of risk tolerance.

In this post we’ll examine three more reasons why you’ll never be profitable as a trader or investor: Continue Reading

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12 Reasons Why You’ll Never Be Profitable as a Trader or Stock Investor (Part 2)

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Around 90% of all retail traders and investors are worse off financial, after the first couple of years in the stock market, than before they started trading or investing. And that’s if they make it through those early years without going broke.

This is a staggering statistic and one that is echoed around most of the financial markets of the world.

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12 Reasons Why You’ll Never Be Profitable as a Trader or Investor – Part 1

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Market forces, know as supply and demand, play a significant role in the determination of price. Understanding the basics of economics can assist an investor in two ways:

  1. The stock investor is able to make an educated assessment of where the economy and financial markets are in the current economic cycle. And therefore, which asset classes will most likely offer the greatest return,
  2. The stock investor (and trader) will be better placed to understand which side of the market is driving a stock’s price. For example, is it the supply side or underlying demand that is currently moving a stock’s price?

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Market Forces: Supply, Demand and the Stock Market Investor

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