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Accounting 201 - This is a written assignment. Assume you are about to invest in the stock market. What are you going to consider and what tools will you use? What do the tools say to you?
Before investing in stock market, we are going to consider following tools:-
1. Education – Investors need good information about stock market. If any investor want to start to invest in a particular stock than he should be proper knowledge of that stock. If you will not get proper information that is important than it will be dangerous if you don’t have the education to use it, so before investing you should know about the stock in which you want to invest.
2. Stock Chart – before investing in particular stock you should have stock chart of particular stock, which have historical information for last 3 years. Deep study of historical chart will enable us to understand which time is good for investing in particular stock.
3. Trending news. – before investing in stock market we should know about the trending news related to particular company, industry trend, economic trend, political news, international trend.
4. Strengthens the Analysis– Whether the investor is watching the broader market or tracking an individual stock, the distinctive range of charting tools will give him the edge he needs to understand what he wants to know.
5. Better Portfolio Monitoring– An individual can monitor and analyze his/her portfolio by saving and organizing the charts that he is watching in the custom chart lists.
6. Streamlines the Research– The scanning and alert features help in finding new trading or investment opportunities faster than ever before. Scan thousands of symbols in seconds to find stocks and funds that fit an investor’s specific technical criteria
7. Simple Moving Average (SMA) - Moving averages are one of the main indicators in technical analysis, and is available for different time periods i.e 20 days, 50 days and 200 days Simple Moving Average (SMA).
8. Moving Average Convergence and Divergence (MACD) This tool is used to spot moving averages that are showing a new trend, whether it is bullish or bearish. Though this tool is somewhat the same as Simple Moving Average, it is different in terms of calculations.
9. Relative Strength Index (RSI) The relative strength index is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of latest price changes to assess over purchased or oversold conditions in the price of a share or other asset.
10. Parabolic SAR-This tool is a bit complex and has been designed for experts. The parabolic SAR is an indicator used to decide the price direction of an asset, as well as draw attention to when the price direction is changing.