Trading Simulator's are an easy way to begin trading market's without the risk of losing your hard earned capital. By opening a online demo trading account, a trading simulator allows you to perfect order entry and exits all while learning the personality of the market you are trading. I personally urge you to review all trades you have done on a daily basis and diligently keep a trading journal. Some trading simulator's have the ability to replay market data, which allows a trader to review the market's action and learn from trading mistakes that were made. The advantage of this is that you can speed up, slow down, rewind and learn.
When you have become comfortable with your trading using the Trading Simulator your next step should be to fund an account and start small using real money. You will want to have a brokerage that has excellent human support in case you run into a problem trading. Remember you can make all the mistakes you want trading on a simulator but when it comes to trading with real money it can cost you! Never trade with money that you cannot afford to lose.

Utilizing a Futures or Forex Day Trading Simulator will help a trading simulate the mechanics of Day Trading. A trading simulator will allow a person to enter a market order to buy or sell. A trading simulator will allow a trader to practice stop orders or limit orders. A trader can even practice less used orders like OCOs, MITs, and SCOs on a Trading Simulator. Traders can practice cancel-replacing orders on the trading simulator. The trading simulator will also allow a trader to practice how to cancel an order outright. One of the nicest features with using a demo account is one click trading to place, amend or cance orders. Most Trading Simulators will have a demo account feature that will allow you to track money you make or lose. You might try Trading Simulator on http://www.tradingsimulator.net/, one the best stock trading simulator

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Arah indikator biasanya mengikuti arah harga. Jika harga naik maka indikator juga naik. Tapi ada kalanya indikator membuat gerakan berlawanan dengan arah harga. Jika trend harga naik dan trend indikator turun, gerakan tersebut dinamakan dengan bearish divergence, yang artinya kenaikan harga mulai melemah dan keumungkinan harga akan turun. Sebaliknya jika trend harga turun dan trend indikator bergerak naik, itulah yang dinamakan dengan bullish divergence yang artinya pemurunan harga mulai melemah dan kemungkinan harga akan naik.

Trader yang cerdik selalu mencoba bergerak terlebih dahulu dari kebanyakan trader lainnya (crowds) dengan selalu mencoba mencari divergence. Divergenve dapat terjadi pada indikator-indikator tertentu seperti MACD, RSI, Stochastic, MFI, OBV.

Mereka-mereka yang tidak bisa membaca chart beserta indikator-indikatornya tidak mungkin dapat menemukan divergence. Merka adalah trader buta yang mencoba menjadi trader buta dari gua hantu. Program-program tertentu seperti Metastock dapat menemukan divergence secara otomatis.

Contrarian trader adalah trader yang bertidak berlawanan dengan kebanyakan trader (herds). Mereka melakukan penjualan jika misalnya yang lain masih beramai-ramai beli. Mereka membeli pada waktu kebanyakan trader lainnya menjual. Mereka tahu bahwa harga segera akan berbalik antara lain dengan mengetahui adanya divergence.

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Smart Way to Use Annual Report for Trading Reference

There are many steps in calculating the fair value of a company. However, before we even do that, it is imperative to know how a company earns its profit. Does it do that by selling to consumers? licensing its technology to other companies? or extracting natural resources from the ground?

The sensible way to do it is by reading the company's annual report. What is an annual report? Annual report is yearly publication by public companies to better inform investor about the company's line of business. Annual report gives investors a glance of the company's line of business, financial health as well as management's strategies for doing business.


Let's look at CNET Networks Inc. The company trades in the NASDAQ market with symbol: CNET. What does CNET do? I know CNET owns cnet.com. But do you know that it also owns download.com, MP3.com, ZDnet.com and News.com ? How do I know that? Yep, you guess it. CNET's Annual Report will gives you all that.

From CNET's annual report, we can do a little digging for CNET's internet traffic. As of August 27th 2005, these websites of CNET attracts 3 % of all internet traffic. Pretty impressive, considering that Google holds 23% of all internet traffic. On April 2005, Google had 78.6 million unique visitors. By comparing this metric, we might have an idea CNET's revenue potential for the month of August. I will not go into that but this shows how useful reading CNET's annual report is. Reading an annual report serves as the first step towards investing in a particular company.

How do we obtain annual report? There are several sources for this. First is the companies own website. You are interested in knowing more about CNET Networks? You can get the annual report by going to http://www.cnet.com and go to its shareholder relation. After several clicks, you can then download the annual report.

Or ... you can go to some websites that offer complete annual report for a number of different companies in alphabetical order. Our website is one of them. Admittedly, while having hundreds of annual reports in one place is convenient, it is not as thorough as what the company's own website has to say.
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Forex trading uses currency and stock markets from a variety of countries to create a trading market where millions and millions are traded and exchanged daily. This market is similar to the stock market, as people buy and sell, but the market and the over all results are much much larger. Those involved in the forex trading markets include the Deutsche bank, UBS, Citigroup, and others such as HSBC, Braclays, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, and still others such as Goldman Sachs, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley, and so on.

To get involved in the forex trading markets, contacting any of these large broker assistance firms is going to be in your best interest. Sure, anyone can get involved in the forex market, but it does take time to learn about what is hot, what is not, and just where you should place your money at this time.

International banks are the markets biggest users on the forex markets, as they have millions of dollars to invest daily, to earn interest and this is just one method of how banks make money on the money you save in their bank. Think about the bank that you deal with all the time. Do you know if you can go there, and obtain money from 'another' country if you are heading out on vacation? If not, that bank is most likely not involved in forex trading. If you have to know if your bank is involved in forex trading, you can ask any manager or you can look at the financial information sheets that banks are to report to the public on a quarterly baiss.

If you are new to the forex market, it is important to realize there is no one person or one bank that controls all the trades that occur in the forex markets. Various currencies are traded, and will originate from anywhere in the world. The currencies that are most often traded in the forex markets include those of the US dollar, the Eurozone euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound sterling and the Swiss franc as well as the Australian dollar. These are just a few of the currencies that are traded on the forex markets, with many other counties currencies to be included as well. The main trading centers for the forex trading markets are located in Tokyo, New York and in London but with other smaller trading centers located thought out the world as well. Read More...

A pattern of chart showed by INDF this week. It was a signal that unrealized when I bought INDF yesterday by market closed. Cup & Handle chart pattern with break highest price all the time and support by the big volume.

As we know yesterday's market cap close around 4 T, which 1T was dominated by foreign investor. It seem foreign investors are still confident with our market.

Break highest price means uncharted area, so define the target price will be by pivot insteal of fibonachi retracement.

Let's see what market will move to... Up, Down or Sideways.


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It has been a surprised when heard news about Toyotal Recall about Accelerator Pedal. As dealer said that they have no choice anymore since no solution for the problem yet, they're not actually recalling any vehicles, unless there is a suspicion of a sticky gas pedal.The recall announcement should has impact to Toyota's Stock in the market but how the announcement has impacted. We will see on this weekend.

Related to this recall many customer give their thought. One of them is as follow

Toyota is not the manufacturer that it used to be. Lots of problems in recent years.

There was the recent problem of engine sludge in some models. This problem even extended into their flagship Lexus brand. Toyota initially blamed the owners for not keeping up with their oil changes. However there were too many early engine failures from excessive sludge for these to be isolated incidents of owners not changing their oil. It took a class action lawsuit to finally get Toyota to admit to their design flaw. Not very good customer care here.

Then there was the problem with excessive frame rust in the Tacoma trucks. Another class action lawsuit. Toyota quietly bought up many of the effected trucks and had them crushed.

Then there is the severe frame flex problems with the Tundra trucks. I have a friend who bought one to pull his fifth wheel travel trailer. This truck should have had enough towing capacity for this trailer. He noticed that the truck would not hold an alignment. He later found that the frame of this truck was permanently tweaked (bent).

The Tundra trucks also suffer from severe frame rust. Toyota recently sent a letter to the owners of these trucks to remove the spare tire. Seems the frames are rusting so badly that the spare tire can fall off. This has caused some accidents.

So I am not surprised they have this most recent rash of problems. Not they are blaming a sub-contractor. However I would bet money that this sub-contractor is building these parts exactly to Toyota specifications. Most likely a design flaw, not a quality issue.

I am confident that Toyota will get this most recent issue with the accelerator pedal fixed very quickly. To much money involved in lost sales and image for them not to.

However, with their recent track record, you got to wonder what design flaw related recall will come next.

Toyota is not the brand they appear to be. Just good marketing. I would take my Chevy over a Toyota any day.

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Since Apple Big Announcement this week, news was spread out massively. according to foxbusiness.com, there isn’t a shortage of potential market-moving events happening on Wednesday. For a start there’s the conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and the new product unveil by Apple.

There is also the bombshell recall by Toyota, a drop in new home sales and the fact that many traders will more than likely be glued to their televisions tonight, for President Barack Obama’s very first State of the Union Address.

No doubt traders will also be keeping their eyes on Apple, which only two days after blowing away earnings expectations, is expected to unveil its new tablet PC style device. Some are already predicting that it will revolutionize the publishing business.

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One of the most commonly studied technical indicators is the MACD. This indicator (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) reflects a difference between moving averages and refers to the ascendancy or not of the mid-term relative to the short term.

The considered average lengths are respectively 26 days (0.075 exponential coefficient) and 12 days (exponential coefficient of 0.15).

Moreover, to estimate the variations of the trend, an auxiliary indicator (named signal line) is formed. It is based on a new exponential average on 9 days (0.20 coefficient).

The advantage of this indicator is triple: absolute position of the MACD, relative position to its signal line and existence of divergences.

From the first point of view, oversold and overbought situations can be identified. Thus, a strong rise of the MACD indicates that the 12-day moving average is more rapidly rising than the 26-day one, thus showing a stronger volatility in the short term. Then, the crossing of the zero level should be considered with special caution.

From the second point of view, one of the most relevant invitations to buy is the crossing up of the signal line by the MACD, especially when it occurs on up reversing levels for the MACD (cf.
graph).

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The most simple trend indicators are moving averages. They simply correspond to an average calculated on an evolving time scale: every day, the oldest value (often taken at the close) in the average calculus is replaced by the value of the new session.

Consequently, the predictive interest of this indicator is nil (since it represents prices evolution with a certain delay). Still, it enables one to determine trends of mid or long term,
stronger and stronger as the average direction is steady.

In spite of the simplicity of this indicator, the length of averages used should be handled with caution. Indeed, analysts prefer using two moving averages simultaneously, with quite different lengths to forecast possible trend reversals. Thus, one will often jointly use moving averages calculated on 20 and 50 days, or on 50 and 100 days…

In particular, this simultaneous use makes it possible to determine buying signals. These occur whenever a short term moving average (e.g. 20 days) crosses a longer term moving average (e.g. 50 days) coming from beneath and thus comes above. This expresses the tendency of the stock to have its most recent prices at a level higher than older prices, thus showing a bullish trend.

Reciprocally, a selling signal occurs whenever a short term moving average crosses down (i.e. from above) a longer term moving average and thus comes beneath.

Overall, the interest of moving averages is to avoid going against the market trend when it follows a strong move.

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