For all intensive purposes you can do two things with a stock: trade or invest.
A trade is a short-term affair (days to weeks), while an investment is a long-term option (months to years).
The idea it to determine which option is best for the stock at hand.
Because trades
Although we are in our second week of the holiday low volume trading, there are still some great plays out there.
AK Steel (AKS) made a nice move after testing the 200 SMA (red line) and bouncing higher. It seems to have broken that related resistance
While we can use technical screeners to find a list full of recommended stocks, sometimes there are just great stocks you have to play even if they don’t meet your criteria.
Some of these examples includes stocks that are releasing new products or the related sector is
Last week I continued my bashing of Research in Motion (RIMM) in favor of Motorola (MOT). Mainly because it seems like the Droid will take even more market share away from the once favored Blackberry, which has already been hurt by the iPhone.
Thankfully, I am just
In what seems to be a heartbreaking year for Research in Motion (RIMM), the phone producer has yet another obstacle to hurdle as it was just downgraded the other day from buy to sell. While these type of downgrades happen all the time, the fact is
During trading hours earlier today, I posted a chart of Motorola (MOT) on Twitter. Mainly because there was a lot of related activity going on. Research in Motion (RIMM) was downgraded, while Motorola was upgraded… obviously due to their new phone the Droid (more on that to
It was not so long ago that everybody was looking at Research in Motion (RIMM) as the new best thing. Everybody had a BlackBerry and the world was hooked, but then came along Apple (AAPL) with its iPhone, and suddenly the whole game was changed.
Today we are going to