Stock market for beginners
Market momentum was halted with the introduction of the new trading system, which was unfamiliar for lot of users.
Red seems to be the dominating colour at the ATS terminals at the Colombo bourse! The dismal performance of the Colombo bourse continued as more force selling, panic selling and profit taking caused selling pressure across the board during the past month with analysts saying that both the market indices were pushed further into the red as the highly capitalized banking and diversified sectors suffered heavy losses during this time.
General belief of the seasoned share market investors is that it is the end of the road for the new. Everything that goes up comes down. So is the story with the share market. Take your time to read and listen, as there is so much you can learn.
Don’t trade as soon as you get an investment idea. Instead, keep the share on your watch list, and keep some money spare in your trading account. Great investing opportunities will appear.
Boom and bust are two things that appear with great regularity in share markets. The stock market can be a great place to make money; it can also be a great place to lose money. As we all know that any investment is not free from risk. Making profits in shares is not in your hands, but avoiding mistakes is definitely up to you. Stock market doesn't care who you are and it's certainly not there to help you. So expect no mercy from it;
Risk is an inherent part of investing in stocks. People always dream of making a fortune in the stock market, and many do it, but many other investors have lost everything very quickly. What I have seen is that many Retail investors have very little knowledge about the stocks they purchase or trade on. This is quite risky, as at the end of the day the stock market is not a place to gamble. In most cases you don't even understand all the types of risk your investing is exposed to.
When investing in stocks or any investment instrument there is a lot more risk than most investors think. It is a good idea to bear in mind, and to get to grips with exactly what you can do for your trading, it remains advisable to ensure you know what you're doing before meddling with products. Unless you watch and study the developments taking place in the market with regularity, you cannot turn out to be a good investor. Picking up the right trades at the right time, involves lots of calculations and projections. The most important and most often repeated advice was that we can go wrong despite all our analysis and strategies. There is no such thing as guarantee in the stock market. While it's true that you should never invest in something over which you lose sleep, you are also guaranteed never to see any return if you avoid the market completely and never take any risk.
Remember nothing happens in your stock trading without giving you an opportunity to learn a lesson. Have faith that you can start again. May be this will not happen again to you which means that the path from here is golden. What you can control is what you do, so make the very most of that opportunity. In any situation, never forsake trading discipline. That needs to be the permanent companion of your trading psychology. Put another way, investors who "behave" themselves by being disciplined tend to do far better than those who don't. Sometimes one approach will be more appropriate than another. If you take time to consider the various possibilities, you are more likely to make a decision you believe is correct.
Turn your weaknesses into your strengths. Success is failure turned inside out.
Have a great day and safe trading!