Trading drug stocks can often be very profitable. A recent example is the forty percent rise in stock price of Orthovita in response to a bid by orthopedic and surgical product maker Stryker. This is the world of bone grafting materials, artificial hips, and bone cement. Although Orthovita does not make or sell drugs as [...]

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Trading penny stocks is often an over the counter, OTC, endeavor. However, there are stocks trading on the NYSE or NASDAQ that have fallen from favor and are trading for less than a dollar a share. Although some refer to any OTC stock selling for less than $5 a share as a penny stock, the [...]

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This is a good bottom line question. Can you make a living day trading? The answer a person gives will probably depend upon the view one has of a lone individual at a trade station scalping profits from price movement in the stock market. There is a lone cowboy mystique to the trader working at [...]

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The stock market news often reports that a stock is up or down in pre market trading. So, what is pre market trading? It is trading that takes place before the NYSE or NASDAQ open. What is pre market trading for the average investor? It is a market with reduced liquidity and reduced volume in [...]

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How to trade commodities is in many ways similar to trading stocks. A person can trade options on commodities similar to trading options on stocks. However, one trades futures on commodities. There is no ongoing ownership of the commodity. The investor or trader engages in a futures contract to buy or sell a given commodity [...]

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