Fastest way to screen and shortlist your Stock picks

Yes, many people want to trade stocks when investing or trying to figure out an investment but the difficulty of narrowing down to the best 2 or 3 can be  really time consuming. That is about to change.

How to Short List Stocks and Investments

Investing.com recently introduced a nice feature on their website that allows you to screen your stocks by the criterion you select. There are several criteria that you can use to narrow down your stocks form Profits/Earning ratios, Return on Investment, Dividend yield etc.

You can use this criteria to screen stocks with the highest dividend yields, Return Year to date (YTD) etc.

Shortlisting stocks and investments using Stock screener  at investing.com

With this tool, even the most newbie of investors can quickly make the best choices when stock picking or shortlisting an investment.

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Best Alternative to PAMM accounts

Having discussed PAMM accounts here, here and here, most traders in the Forex market are aware that there are other ways to trade some of which include

• Forex signals
• Automated trading
• etc

Forex4you share4you service by e-global brokers

However few traders are aware of Forex4you service called Share4you which is a hybrid of PAMM and forex signals. It is a social networking service that allows you to copy the trades of some successful traders in return for some commission. this commission is a very meager amount of about 8 dollars for every lot you trade. 

you can find and explore the network platform here.

The service allows you to also trade in cents. if you are not comfortable with starting out with a big investment sum, for the cent account.

Please note that at the time of writing the Forex4you offers clients up to 25% deposit bonus. Feel free to utilize this service should you choose to patronize them

How to use the timing and release of quarterly statements when trading stocks

Trading Stocks is great for investors who know how to valuate a business but even better is knowing when to place your trades when making these stocks investments. There are two sides to investing. 

• Knowing what to buy and 
• knowing when to buy

Knowing what to invest in is the easy  part as there are a lot of blue chip company doing great however knowing when to buy is quite challenging. It is particularly challenging because you have to be sure that a stock market burst is not at the corner  or that you are not buying a stock whose price will not undergo any significant movement in the near short and medium term.

THE PRE- MARKET BEHAVIOR OF THE STOCK MARKET

As it is, the financials of most stocks are released on a quarterly basis but these stocks are usually preceded with some pre-market activity (usually ranging from some weeks to about a month or so to the actual release). This is primarily because of the fact that be it as it may some people will be privilege to get some first hand information about the market before the general public. This is known as insider trading and  it is illegal. But let us face it, there is little that can be done about this however we can still utilize this pre-market movements to give us an indication of how good the financials to be released could be. it could also help us to pre-determine what kind of trades we are going to be making when the financials are released

THE POST-MARKET BEHAVIOR OF THE STOCK MARKET

The post market reaction of the market on the other hand is the one most traders are aware of. People that do not know how to read or interpret these financials usually wait for others to do so and also make purchases before they place their trade. This is usually accompanied by a surge in a particular direction. As an investor, you can easily combine this with some technical indicator of your choice to make very short term profits of 1 to 2 months.

BOTTOM LINE

Knowing what to buy is great but knowing when to buy could make a huge different to your profits. I urge you to start monitoring this behavior on your shortlisted stocks before buying as it will make a positive impact on your portfolio.