This is the first example of many to come that illustrate pretty simply how resistance and support works on a stock chart.
Utilizing technical analysis you can make trades based off of support or resistance points fairly easily. The thinking behind such trades is actually quite simple, if we know that support for the stock comes [...]

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Lock-up? What do you mean lock-up?
Well, in the stock lingo world, IPO lock-up simply refers to the period of time after a company first goes public that insiders and majority stake holders cannot sell shares. The period of time is 90 to 180 days, and the reason they do this is so insiders cannot simply [...]

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So I was enjoying family festivities all yesterday since it was Mother’s day, and woke up this morning feeling like I missed something, and that something was the final update for the contest! No worries though, the winners have be found, and someone will be added to the hall of fame, let’s find out who!
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It took a while for this sale to finally materialize, and private equity firm Cerberus has come out on top. Cerberus has agreed to buy the money-losing Chrysler (DCX) for $7.4 Billion.
The stake Cerberus will have in the company comes out to 80.1% exactly, which is a huge risk to take on a company that [...]

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This week here on ST101 was all about volume in relation to the stock market, and to conclude the week yesterday I posted a quiz to test your knowledge of what we learned!
You can view the original questions here, and below are the answers:

Shares
Up ; Down
Technical analysis
The listed average (typically 60 trading days, or [...]

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This week has added another group of great posts for the blog archives! Subscribers this week hit a new all time high of 429 subscribers which was also awesome! Google reader still is most popular, and man this party just continues to move on up in size. Here is a recap of the educational posts [...]

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Today is Friday, and I figure I might as well send some link lovin to some high quality bloggers. These guys I admire for not only the quality of their blogs, but for their dedication to blogging in general. These posts are from throughout this past week:

I got diet pills for $109, but never ordered [...]

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Five traits of a highly successful investor (in no particular order):

1. Discipline - Every investor has to be disciplined in the market. If you can’t follow your own rules and stick to a strategy, you may find yourself laying dead in the battlefield faster than you know. Discipline is the most important trait of a [...]

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