What is "candlestick" investing method for stocks?
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candlesticks are graphs of the price changes as a function of time.  the lower line of a candlestick indicates the starting price, the top line indicates the ending price.  if a candlestick is white, then the price went up. if it's black, then it went down. and lastly, the line running vertically thru the candle represents the price flucuation during that time period.
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Invest in mutual funds and be long termed. No one can time the stock market exactly. Trying to do so is pure gambling.
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None.  IMHO, you should start by learning how to invest, determining WHAT to buy through Fundamental Analysis and determining WHEN to buy with Technical Analysis. \n\nIMO, newsletters only make narrow recomendations based on their system of analysis and investment strategies, and often they are compensated heavily for their recomendations and therefore dangerously biased.   I firmly believe that to get a clear picture about any stock, and to determine whether you're actually going to invest in it, it's best to do your own research and adapt a system that meets your investment needs, style and risk level.  There are many stocks ripe for the picking just about at any time if you know how and where to look.\n\nStart with Investors.com, it's William O'Neil's online version of Investors Business Daily.  The How To Invest section is the best place to start learning the importance of Fundamentals and the basics of Technical Analysis.   The site has the IBD 100, a cross index list of the market leaders, the Stock Checkup, a great tool for checking fundamentals on any stock, and articles and analysis of stocks and general market conditions.  They also run various screens every day which in addition to the other lists, (IBD100, New America, stocks under $10, CANSLIM select, ect) are very helpful for finding investment ideas with solid Fundementals that are ready to move.  The CANSLIM method alone is a very successful and popular trading system, but I prefer to use a combination of Fund & Tech Analysis, rather that just the rating system alone.\n\nFrom there you can move on to more detailed study of Technical Analysis.  \n\nStart with StockCharts.com, they have an excellent free Chart School which helpfully explains various chart patterns and Technical Indicators and overlays.  Pay particular attention to the Chart Patterns section, and make sure you learn about Zig Zag patterns, Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Volume, RSI, the MACD (Mac-D), The Williams %er, Stochastics, and the Chaikin Money Flow.  Sounds complicated, but when you start chart reading you'll want about a half a dozen or so of these overlays and indicators.  I personally rely heavily on the ZIG-ZAG, MACD, Chaikin Money Flow, Volume, Moving Average and RSI.\n\nStockTA.com is also an excellent Technical Analysis site, with charted Fibonacci resistance and support lines and will tell you if the stock is bullish or bearish in the short, medium and long run.  The site also has an extensive Candle Pattern Glossary and a fantastic technical screener.\n\nThe above sites do have premium services, but all the services I mentioned are free.  After you've absorbed some of the Technical information, do some reading on Fibonacci numbers and Elliot Wave theory, there are good links in the "School" section of StockTA.com.  I've been using Elliot Wave and Fibonacci's to help refine my in and out points.  StockCharts.com's "ZigZag" overlay helps me plot and count the waves and that helps determine where I am in the overall pattern.  \n\nSo basically I'll find interesting stocks through the screens on Investors.com or StockTA.com, run them through the Stock Checkup at Investors.com, if they measure up I'll run them through the Analyisis & Fib Analysis at StockTA.com and do an extensive chart study, examining the 2 yr, 1 yr, 6 mth, 3 mth, 1 mth & 5 day.  I'll also do my due dilligence, studying the profile, key statistics, headlines, etc. through Yahoo Finance and web searches.  If it all measures up and the stock is in a base or in a pull back and it's starting a wave 1 or wave 3, it's time to buy.\n\nRemember, always protect your downside with a stop loss or a trailing stop loss.  Once you have absorbed a few of the things I've mentioned, the fog will begin to lift and you'll start seeing which stocks should be bought or sold and you'll be able to do your own analysis on any stock, no matter where
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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Two ways. One is buy low and sell high. Second is by a sound stock that pays dividends and hold it for a long time.
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Basic advice: if you're new to stocktrading start with longer term horizons first, to get a feeling for what you are getting into.\n \nThen:\n1. Read everything about daytrading you can get your hands on\n2. Invest in some software\n3. Develop a system \n4. Paper trade the system for a few months\n5. If you didn't make profit at point 4. go back to point 3.\n6. Open an account with at least $20000\n7. Start trading your system\n\n70% of all new daytraders give up within a year, mostly because they skipped points 1,3,4 and 5.
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First, try trading virtual money on a Simulator real time at Investopedia.com\n\nLook into the Investor platform at TerraNovaOnline.com\nI think this one is free if you open an account there. I use the full-blown package called RealTick for $250/mo. The Investor platform is the same software, sized down to one screen. I use five monitors. This is very technologically advanced softwarefrom Townsend Analytics, the one that digitized the entire Nasdaq last year. Cutting edge technology. If you make some money, then definately upgrade to RealTick.
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Generally speaking, there is no such thing as cheapest way to invest in stocks.\n\nYou need to have plenty of fluff and lot  of knowledge to really make it in the stock market
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There are sites such as sharebuilder.com that have very low commissions but they execute your order in a non-timely fashion.  It's a decent way to get started investing.
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It depends on what your goals are.\n\nTraders trade on news and daily price movements.\n\nInvestors hold for the long run.\n\nTry the top down approach: think about what services/products will be in demand in the next few years, and then find out which companies are set to take the reins to supply that demand in the coming years.\n\nGood Luck!
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I'm suspicious of your intentions. The first thought that comes to mind is this sounds like day trading, which while legal, can break the bank. I prefer to invest in equities which represent solid Companies, doing well while increasing their ROI, ROE, increasing the size of their resistance to competition-sometimes referred to as their moat & leading with better than average menagement. Here's a site you can learn much from if you'll take the time, link 1. \n\nBut if you really want to test your financial reserves, try this, link 2:
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Part of fundamental analysis is not just reading the numbers, but knowing what to do with them.  \n\nI would recommend\nJim Cramer's Real Money by Jim Cramer \n\nCramer recommends a fundamental approach, similar to value investing.  This book gives a good  explanation of market cycles, and how to determine if a stock is 'cheap'.\n\n\nor\n\n\nHow to Make Money in Stocks by William J O'Neil\n\nO'Neil  uses an approach that combines fundamentals with technical analysis.  Its a more actively traded style that takes advantage of momentum.\nI found his  explanation of growth companies and  how to evaluate the fundamentals helpful.
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I would not even bother with something like this.\nBut if you really want, goto yahoo finance and use their java based stock screener.
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Exchange Traded Funds is the cheapest way.\nMutual Funds focused on Gold are more expensive and riskier but can give you bigger returns therefore it could be considered a better way.\nThe highest risk is on stocks of Gold Mines but once again the return is the highest.\n\nIf you are just looking for a "hold for a long time" strategy the best way to go is to buy the Gold digitally.\n\nIf you need more details I can advise you.
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4 technical analysis of stock/commodity with buy sell signal\n\naptistock freeware is best\n\ndetails in my other answers
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In point of view STP approach is probably the best solution. Check www.stpinvesting.com and you'll find it for your own.
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Value.\n\n1. One Idea: Rank the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 by P/E ratio.  Buy the ones with the lowest P/E ratio.\n\n2. Better Idea: Buy a value fund listed in Consumer Reports as a good buy.\n\n3. Best Idea: Forget the mumbo jumbo, invest in the Couch Potato Portfolio and do as well as the chumps who deal with all the witchcraft pushed on small investors by stock brokers.