What for have you come on the stock market? Do you want to grow rich? Do you wish just to try something new? Do you have some other reasons?
This article is written first of all for investors and for those, who are already involved in game on the stock market, and for those, who just is going to make the first operations with safety stock. There is a joke, which has got the big popularity during crisis: “The investment is an unsuccessful speculation”. We will consider that everybody, who has come on a stock market for the purpose of profit reception, are investors, irrespective of terms of money resources investment in market assets and frequencies of operations with assets.
You have brought money to a stock exchange. And depending on the purposes, which you have put to yourself, began to trade actively, very often making transactions, or have chosen strategy of intermediate term and long-term investment in assets.
In the first case, at active operations, it is necessary to care about getting of the operative information for us.
In the second case, when you invest means for rather long term and there is no need to follow short-term tendencies to you, it is possible to neglect efficiency of getting of the information.
Before fulfillment of operations in the market, the investor carries out the analysis of the available information for the purpose of forecasting of a situation and definition of the actions.
There are various methods of the analysis. The investor chooses that method, which corresponds to his abilities and understanding of occurring processes. We will not list pluses and minuses of various methods. It is more important to notice that there is no method of the analysis and forecasting, which would give possibility to get constant profit to the investor. There is no “gold strategy”, which will bring you a fortune.
It is not important, if you analyze news or price schedules, but you should understand that any law, which you have found now, will cease to work sooner or later, because other investors also will find this law, though, probably, thanks to other methods, which are distinct from yours. When the considerable part of players starts to apply the same strategy, it gives failure.
What should you do? It is necessary for you to develop the approach at which you will change strategy as soon as it will start to become outdated. But it is not necessary to forget and about strategy, which you have refused, because sooner or later it will start to work again. Keep them in reserve.
How much money do you need to start to play?
For beginners it is better to have the fewer sums. Do not be afraid to be late. In the market there are always possibilities to earn, and it depends only on your experience, if you can use these possibilities. At first you should gain experience, risking with, as it is possible, the smaller sum. Depending on activity of game you will need different time for this. It is obvious that earlier than in half a year it is impossible to increase monetary investments, even if you win. And only after you have familiarized with bases of the stock, financial markets, have learnt to win and lose, you can gradually start to add means at your account.
Before you make up your mind to make a forex investment or start forex trading yourself, better find a nice forex book and learn more about foreign currency trading market - this will save you from tons of troubles and traps.