Price gaps are very important to any investor because they can signal a critical change instock’s direction. Gaps occur when a stock trades up or down in price during after hours trading or in pre market trading. Understand how to interpret the gap and you can have a distinct advantage for the long term outlook [...]

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This post is to highlight some of the free stock education articles featured here on Stock Trading To Go.
First thing is first, read up on How to Make a Stock Trade Online.
After that, explore one of four different order types:

Market Orders and How They Work
Stock Limit Orders and How They Work
Using Stop Loss Orders, The [...]

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There are a multitude of different ways to get a basic or in depth read of what the market overall has been up to. When speaking of the market as a whole you usually refer to one the major market indices such as the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ Composite. This post will utilize the [...]

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When it comes to investing online in the stock market, there are many different types of ways you can go about your business. Day Trading is one of those trading types that falls under the active trader category, and requires prior experience and skills to be successful.
What is Day Trading
Day trading is simply the act [...]

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Most investors never consider selling half their stock positions because they simply never thought of it as being a strategic play. When the circumstance are correct though, like for instance taking profits, you can help yourself effectively make more money trading stocks.
Stock Trading Tip
Learn to consider selling half your position in a given stock as [...]

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Initial Public Offerings, also known as IPOs, occur when private companies raise capital by taking themselves “public” from “private”. They are typically very risky because you never know what will happen on that first day of trading. This article will explain the basics behind IPOs, how they work, and what they mean to you as [...]

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When I taught lessons on the stock market, the first lesson boiled down answering the simple question, “What makes up the stock market? How do I track ‘the market’?”
This is critical to taking the first steps into understanding the market as a whole, because if you don’t know what to look at, how do [...]

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