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The stock's relative strength is the stock's price performance compared to the general market (or to a market index such as the DJI or S&P 500).
A stock with high relative strength rises faster than the average.
About 10 percent per year is the long-run rate of return for stocks.
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Technical analysis is an effort to forecast future market activity by analyzing market data such as charts, price trends, and volume.
Technical indicators are measures of a stock's price and volume movement over time.
Technical analysts study charts of past stock price and volume activity because certain stock and volume patterns have in the past been found to be predictive of others.
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Fundamental analysts study past records of corporations assets, earnings, sales, products, management and markets to predict future trends and to evaluate whether a security is overvalued or undervalued.
Fundamental indicators are measures of corporations assets, earnings, sales, products, management and markets.
Fundamental analysis is an effort to predict the future price movements of corporates securities by researching and examinating a corporation's financial statements and balance sheets.
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A Stock buy signal is a condition that indicates a good time to buy a stock. The exact circumstances of the signal will be determined by the indicator that an analyst is using. For example, it's considered a stock buy signal when the MACD crosses above its signal line or when a corporation beat the analysts forecasts.
A Stock sell signal is a condition that indicates a good time to sell a stock. The exact circumstances of the signal will be determined by the indicator that an analyst is using. For example, it's often considered a stock sell signal when the RSI crosses down through the 50 level or when a company financial results are way below the analyst forecasts.
Apart from real-time quotes, the delay on most financial sites between a trade and the stock quote that shows is 15 minutes for Nasdaq and 20 minutes for other exchanges.
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In online stock investing, psychological tolerance measures how much risk you can handle emotionally.
A round lot of stock shares - one hundred shares - is the preferred unit for setting up portfolios. It's the standard unit by which stocks are traded.
A stock watchlist is a list of stocks you don't own but want to follow their performances, with the possibility to buy them in the future.
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Online stock paper trading is the virtual buying and selling of stocks to test investments skills or theories.
Penny stock list is the name sometimes given to the list of stocks priced below one dollars a share.
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