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Tips for beating the market tend to come and go quickly, but one has held up extremely well: if executives, directors or others with inside knowledge of a public company are buying or selling shares, investors should consider doing the same thing. Research shows that insider trading activity is a valuable barometer of broad shifts in market and sector sentiment. But before chasing each insider move, outsiders need to consider the factors that dictate the timing of trades and the factors that conceal the motivations. Reasons to Follow Insider Trading The argument for shadowing insiders makes a lot of sense. Executives and directors have the most up-to-date information on their companies' prospects. Intimately acquainted with cyclical...
Have you ever had to endure the tedium of listening politely to a loquacious individual at a party brag about the killing he made through investing in stocks or the stunning returns his little-known investment manager generated? If you’ve wondered whether there’s a way to get in on the action, mirror trading or investing may be the answer. But before you plunk down your hard-earned savings into a mirror trading account, you should know this fad has a number of drawbacks that may restrict its appeal to a tiny slice of the investing populace. What is Mirror Trading? The concept of mirror trading was first introduced in the foreign exchange market in the early 2000s but it took a few years for the equity market to catch on. Mirror...
The term “stock exchange” tends to conjure up images of a room crowded with men in suits – one hand pressing phone firmly to ear, the other waving furiously in the air. Once upon a time those iconic images were an accurate representation of the controlled chaos that was the floor of the venerable New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE as it is known. When NASDAQ launched in 1971 as the world’s first electronic stock market, it set in motion the changes that would lead to the complex and fragmented status of markets today. A status better represented by the image of the "1s" and "0s" in a line of binary code. As alternative market centers proliferated – some exchanges, some not – so too did the choices of where to execute a trade. Today there...
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