How do YOU determine the market momentum behind share price determination?

When I look at cash flow, fundamentals, technicals, many …. most stocks do not look all that attractive. The news talks them up, but most on their balance and income statements…..their real income levels do not look all that great!? And yet, many of these share prices continue to rise …in the commodities and energy sectors and a few tech stocks?

Where is their momentum coming from ? Is there a momentum measuring stick or some indicators or signs of expectations that I should be looking at, or do you see the same thing…..a flat to declining market that is desparately looking for places to most safely park devaluing currencies?

Who has the best site for breaking financial news?

I want to momentum trade on breaking corporate news. Is there a site that provieds real time breaking news and investment analysis of that news. If a company reports earnings of .00/Share but analysts are looking for .50 that would be bad news but I won’t know what analysts are looking for so I need some quick analysis of how this news will effect a stock price. Anybody out there doing this?

What is the type of stock order called when you only agree to short sell a stock at a certain price level?

For example, I know that I can place a Buy Stop order if I want to take advantage of momentum from high volume at a price level above the existing level. This is only when I’m long on a stock. I want to activate a sell short once it hits a lower price level .Basically, I am asking for the name of the concept of a Buy stop except when you apply it to a short sale trade. Thanks.

How do I tell if the market will go up/down tomorrow?

I know that there is no straight factual answer to this, however, are there any types of tools or signs that i can use such as momentum, that may help predict the stock market’s strength or weakness in the upcoming day?

How do I invest in these stocks and find them? HELP?

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Look bellow at Diedrich coffee DDRX over the past six months (chart at the bottom of this) it has had a massive gain: Stocks like this one and others that I seen come out of what is called a “Narrow Sideways Price Channel”! In other words in this case it was at a relatively FLAT price or price channel when it was a penny stock and then it stated picking up momentum. There is a rule I once remember reading in an investing book that if a stock or commodity is in a narrow flat price range: if it STARTS to gain momentum in will generally continue on in that direction until resistance is met. In other words if there is a 20 dollar stock and it stays almost the same price for 3 month but then all of a sudden starts falling to 18 and bellow, then it will probably KEEP going down for a long time to come i.e. falling demand. The same holds true for this stock if a stock that’s 35 cents which it was and stays flat and then goes to 1.10 there is a good chance it will keep going up i.e. rising demand. I have SEEN this pattern before it’s amazing how it seems to work. SOOOO how can someone screen for this or find this? IS there software for finding horizontal narrow price channels?

how do I monitor performance of a "value investing" approach in stocks?

I have come across a number of articles that discuss the plusses of a "value based investing" approach in stocks…… presumably as compared to the momentum approach.
My question is: are there any fundamental reasons why a growing, profitable business today should have a high stock price at any point in future (assuming that today the price is not high enough). To me, this thinking sounds similar to the naive belief one has that if you did well in school/college you will be rewarded in life… more wealth, wine, …

Also, how does one monitor the performance of this approach regularly?

What does SHORTING of STOCK means in intraday trading?

Do i have to hold stock before i short them. Please give me some good tips on intraday trading , how to know which stock is having a good momentum and good for dya trading.

How to calculate when momentum or motion is running out?

If I wanted to apply some science to the stock market.. how could I determine when the momentum of a stock uptrend was getting weaker?

Thanks for the insight!

Investors / Traders that have been in the market for 10+ years?

Hi

My personal experience has been very bad, in spite of paying a lot of money and learning dozens of different strategies.

If you fit into the criteria listed (i.e. you’ve been trading / investing successfully for over a decade), i would like to ask if your ROI has exceeded the ^DJI over that time frame.

If it has, what kind of returns have you been making?

Honest answers please. Too many crooked salesman are out there making trading sound like a breeze. I’ve done a crap-ton of financial modelling, dcf, fcff, fcfe, momentum and trend trading strats and at the end, i realize now that it may all have been for naught.

I would know enough to conduct a seminar on financial modelling and technical analysis, but in the end, i would not believe in a word myself.

Would the following momentum strategy yield consistent positive returns on an avg. annual basis?

Buy the top % gainers(5 stocks priced between & ) every day, as soon as the market opens, sell the same day. Essentially you are betting on the momentum of the stocks to go even higher, and a pop in any stock(s) should outweigh the down movers. I have been modeling this strategy for the past few weeks with some amazing results. Has anyone tried this? What do you think?

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