Teen Traders' Blog

Media and news is something very important for traders. Why am I emphasizing on listening, watching or reading to news so much? Because you need to know what the companies on the street are doing , planning to do, won’t be able to do or are quite capable to do. Companies have to justify every move they take to the Market Regulators such as SEBI or SEC. They therefore take shareholders consent before taking major moves. They announce their strategies, their projections and reports to the media. Hence media contains quite valuable information about the trajectory in which a stock or in a broader perspective, the market shall ride.

 So what we see in movies that one threatening sentences by companies(mainly fraudsters) change the course of their trajectory is many a times true. Not only Fraudsters but even when companies announce their quarterly or yearly results, the course of  their stock prices change. So staying alerted and informed is something that you should certainly not neglect.

The best way to research about the stocks is by looking around you. Look around yourself. Which company you think is doing great? Which companies you think can outperform its peers? In the end , investment is all about perception. One person sees opprtunity in something and the other person in something else. Both put money where they wish and the one person’s perception comes out to be true and the other guy dooms. The better you start understanding the environment and the happenings around you, the more you will know about the markets. Start thinking smartly.

It surely won’t be easy. Perceptions just don’t come with a flash. It will take time and even money. But be focussed. You will take wrong steps and commit mistakes. Sure you will but remember no pains without gains.

And stay infromed.Read ,watch the news often. The one thing that shapes your perceptions are your thoughts which in-turn come from what you hear see and listen. Click here