Stocks and stock trading

It is not difficult to make money in stocks during boom times.

Are you a bull or a bear?

A rising stock market are called a bull market. When the market falls it is called a bear market. And if it is neither, it most be a horisontally trending market (no direction).

Shorting: Making money on stocks when the market falls

When the stock market falls, it is more challenging to make money. Then it is far from the winners, and it is difficult to select the right stocks. However, it is possible to make money in falling markets as well, using shorting.

Shorting is an option if you think that a stock will be far down, or if you think the recession (fall) in the market.

Different types of stock trading

Stocks can be traded in many different ways. The most common by far is to buy shares on a stock exchange, such as the Oslo Stock Exchange, and then sell one of these again at a later time, and hopefully at a profit.

Share CFD is also a popular option. You buy so-called contracts for difference where the shares of the underlying security at the contract. It may sound complicated, but after you have come into this so it is just as easy as regular trading.

Daytrading and active trading is a kind of stock trading where trading is close to each other in time. For example, you can buy shares in Statoil at 13:00 and sell their shares again at 1:03 p.m.. It happens all the share trading (both purchases and sales) within a period of only a few milliseconds, seconds, minutes, or at most a few hours. The advantage of daytrading is first and foremost the need to hold stocks overnight when markets are closed, and if you have a profitable strategy can achieve very high returns. It is said, however, that it is harder than daytrading trading equities in the longer term.

Share Savings is the opposite of active trading. You buy a stock that one form of savings. The stock owned like in several years, and it is not concerned with the small svingningenen in the market. Buy a stock at 18 and sell it when you retire. One can of course choose stocks that form of savings in a shorter time frame as well, but a period of 5-10 years is advisable.

Mutual is also a kind of saving, but here you do not manage your money yourself. There is a brokerage and other portfolio managers who handle the buying and selling of shares. Because there are others that manages the portfolio on behalf of its clients, it will apply relatively expensive fees. This applies also to have a good time, and recommended time horizon is at least five years and preferably more. If you have the opportunity and time to it, so it's usually much better to invest in stocks on their own than through a fund.

Stock Trader

A stockbroker was in the "old days" a person who executed trades in the market on behalf of a customer. You as a customer can sit at one end of the phone and say you wanted to buy 5000 shares in Statoil, and then relayed broker this order to the Oslo Stock Exchange.

Today, technology has made stock trading a lot easier purely practical. You is not through another individual, but through an online broker online.

Learn stock trading

The best way to learn stock trading is not reading many theoretical books. Practical experience is far more useful, so you can take the theory a bit along the way. Start by creating an account with one of said network brokers above and try your hand at different strategies.

It is not necessarily so hard to make money on stocks. Read about the companies you invest in, and always do a thorough preparation with shares you buy. Some online brokers also offer daily reports where you get infomrasjon and analysis on the market, which you can use to make trading decisions.