June, 2009
Since stock index funds buy the same stocks as the index, won't their prices become artificially inflated?
My understanding of the DOW or S&P500 index funds is that if GE represents say 1% of the S&P500, it will represent 1% of the value of the S&P500 index funds.
Since many people invest in these index funds to represent the market, won't any company in the index be artificially inflated in price due to [...]
Any ideas on where the stock market is going from here?
I've recently gotten into trading options, but I've also noticed that pretty much every stock I look at has gone up since March, and my RSI isn't helping me much. It basically has all the stocks at 50% right now, so there is no indication whatsoever of which way the market will go from here. [...]
Does anyone know a good site that helps you find penny stocks or does anyone know a good penny stock?
im wanting a good penny stock that i can buy a fifteen hundred shares and make big money anyone got any good idea's
LOL "good penny stock"!! I am adding that to my listing of Yahoo! oxymorons. If a stock was "good" it would not be a penny stock! LOL I [...]
How significant are stock market indexes for determining the health of an economy?
Politicians are always quick to take credit when stock market raise, and they’re quick to blame opponents when they fall, but these are based on complicated calculations, which, recently, have lead to abnormalities based on wide fluctuation in one or other product and service (oil and housing come to mind).
So are stock indexes as reliable [...]