what are the determinants of stock market?
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the economy\nincome\ndebt\na lot of stuff\nsorry thats all i can offer with such a vague question
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These might be of help:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_market\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange
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The stock market will go up in the next few months.\nThe stock market will go down in the next few months.\n\nThe key is to make money regardless of the markets direction.\n\nJ
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Any equation explaning the relationship between two or more observations (or data points) could be called a regression. It's really an extrapolation of the underlying line (or non-linear relationship) that explains the variance.\n\nPerhaps you could do a simple one- pick a stock and use the closing price over a period (say 3 weeks, 15 observations). Then try to come up with a formula to explain the pattern.\n\nActually, that one is kind of hard without stats software. But there are others- such as average temperatures in a given area...
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Wiki usually does a good job on explaining...\nhttp://www.ask.com/web?q=%20commodity%20markets
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In order to estimate COVARIANCE MATRICES, most analysts contruct stock prices as a linear combination of factors.\nObe way to do that is factor Analysis, in which you find orthogonal factors that explain the stock prices.\nThen, you can calculate the covariance between two stocks as the covariance between to factor portfolios. Since portfolios, by definition, are less volatile than individual factors, then the covariance estimation is more stable.\nThe drawback for that technique is that factors, except for the first ones, do not have an easy explanation.\nSome companies, most notably BARRA have devised methods for constructing stock returns as linear combinations of non-orthogonal but easily identifiable factors.\nOne kind of such factors is INDUSTRY EXPOSURE:\nHow much of a stock return is explained by an industry index?\nFor further information, I recommend you reading on FACTOR ANALYSIS AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS for the statistical part,\nFor the financial theory that support the use of these techniques, read on ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY, which is about explaining return as a function of a set of factors
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the www.stockcharts.com:\n\nuse the tool to analyze GLD and IAU.
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Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal Factors\n(business evaluation)
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You are wise to consider investing and the stock market. It is one of the most important parts of a free and democratic society. Here are some books to get you started:\n\nHow to Make Money in Stocks - William O'Neil\nMaking of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein\nThe Investor's Edge - Gary Kaltbaum\nStock Investing For Dummies - Paul Mladjenovic
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The answer is by using simple mathematics.\n\nFirst you need to decide how much of each stock you are going to buy - since not all stocks are priced equally some would be $20, other $400 and some 0.05 cents.\n\n$100,000 over ten stocks... Decide what ratio you will hold of each stock. E.g. 6:3:4:1:9:4:3:7:9:2\n\nSo totalling the ratio is 48. Now you can use a combination of the ratios and fractions to find out how much stock you can hold with your $100,000.\n\nI may have left you out on a limb there - but this calculation is uneccessary. Why don't you just buy your stock one by one until you run out of money? :P\n\nOK Lets try the example with 2 stocks and $100K\nyou want the weighting to be 3:4\nso you want \n3/7ths of your money to go to 1 stock\n4/7ths of your money to go to 1 stock\n\n3/7*100K=$42857.14\n4/7*100K=$57142.85\n\nNow say stock ZXC was $5 each and stock ABC was $67\n\nNow you go:\n$57142.85/$67=852.88 Stocks\n$42857.14/$5=8571.43 Stocks\n\nThere you go. Now do the similar calculation with your ten stocks! Haha!\n\nGood Luck!
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actually, the efficient market hypothesis is claiming that prices of securities fully reflect available information about securities.  And it further states 3 forms of EMH. \n\n1) strong form -stock prices reflect all information relevant to the firm, even including information available only to company insiders.\n\n2) Semistrong form - stock prices already reflect all publicly available information. This information includes in addition to past prices, fundamental data on the firm's product line, quality of management, balance sheet composition, etc. \n\n3) Weak form - this form states that stock prices already reflect all information that can be derived by examining market trading data such as the history of past prices, trading volume, or short interest.  It implies that trend analysis is fruitless.  If such data ever conveyed reliable signals about future performance, all investors would have learned long since to exploit the signals.  Ultimately, the signals lose their value as they become widely known. \n\nWhile random walk theory is the notion that stock price changes are random and unpredictable.  Randomly evolving stock prices are the necessary consequence of intelligent investors competing to discover relevant information before the rest of the market becomes aware of it.
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The determinants of the price elasticity of supply are:\n*the number of producers -- The more producers there are, the easier it should be for the industry to increase output in response to a price increase. Supply will thus be more elastic.\n*the existence of spare capacity -- The more capacity there is in the industry, the easier it should be to increase output if price goes up. This makes supply more elastic.\n*ease of storing stocks-- if it is easy to stock goods, then if the price rises the firm can sell these stocks and so supply is more elastic. In the case of goods such as fresh products, it may not be easy to store them and so the supply will not be very flexible.\n*the time period -- Over time the firm can invest in training and more equipment and more firms can join the industry, so supply should be more flexible, more elastic.\n*factor mobility -- i.e. the easier it is for resources to move into the industry, the more elastic supply will be.\n*length of the production period -- i.e. the quicker a good is to produce, the easier it will be to respond to a change in price; supply in manufacturing is usually more price elastic than agriculture.
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Stock markets are everywhere.  If you know which stock to pick, you will make money in any market.  Do your research and invest properly and you will make money.
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Stock- It enables companies to raise money thru sharing equity and it enables the public to participate in the well being and management of a company.\n\nBond- It enables companies to raise money thru borrowing money and it enables the public to buy debt instruments at a better yield than US Government bonds.\n\nOption- It enables the buyer to participate in the price move of an underlying security for a smaller entry cost than buying the security itself. It enables the seller to generate slight income from an otherwise static position.\n\nFuture- It enables suppliers to lock in sales prices of commodities at some future date...turning a variable revenue into a fixed revenue. It enables buyers to lock in a price paid at some future date...turning a variable expense into a fixed expense.\n\nEssentially financial instruments enable the transfer of capital and risk to occur.
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A resounding yes!\nMarkets have grown since the beginning of time.  All the stock market does is show the level of trade between humans and business.  This started with the first transaction when Eve gave Adam an apple.  And has been happening and increasing throughout time.  To say that you don't think that stock market is worthwhile, or that it will not increase, means that man, and civilization will not expand, get better, grow.  The markets have to grow as man grows in ever increasing ways, from technology, from increased population, from new discoveries, from things we cannot even imagine yet.\n\nSo in my humble opinion the markets may not be perfect, but they will continue to grow, continue to exist, and are definitely worthwhile!
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Stock markets are regolamented markets in wich you can buy and sell stocks, (shares, partecipations in a corporation).\n\nThere are two different ways in which stock markets can be organized. In quote driven markers negotiations are pulled by prices: the dealers show the bid and ask prices at wich they buy and sell a share.\n\nIn order driven markets the price of a stock is determined by demand and supply for that stock without the intermediation of a price-maker dealer. Generally it is similar to a double auction sale: many sellers sell to many buyers.
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Well, I think technical analysis is only one of the many tools we can use to predict market movements. There are many factors to look at when investing. There will always be people on either side of the fence when it comes to forecasting and this is probably when the technicalities come in but then again, if you are looking at short-term profits, it is more important to look at the market sentiments.