Today, you can find many articles warning of an imminent market pull back. As a new investor, it is helpful to understand how the various indicators contribute to these forecasts so that you will be forewarned and can make appropriate alterations to your portfolio before a bottom drops out. Those who are unprepared often pay a large penalty.

Long-awaited government rules aimed at “tightening” home lending standards to head off another mortgage crisis are not as tough as the Obama administration is advertising. What’s not required is any minimum down payment or credit score, which studies show are the two most important factors for predicting the ability of a borrower to pay back a home loan.

Cyprus’s president says that country’s economic crisis is now contained, and it won’t need to leave the euro. But even if you believe him, that hardly means Europe is out of the woods.

The ADP National Employment Report announced Wednesday that private employers hired 158,000 new workers in March — the smallest gain in five months and far below the 200,000 forecast by economists.

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Today we will analyze if volume on its own is enough to drive a stock higher or if volume combined with other factors are necessary for future price increase.

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As we plan our investment strategy, we must examine current events. The market has been focusing on current events as the number one driver of market direction. As a result, most large investors are now biting their fingers waiting for the next shoe to drop.

“The trend is your friend” is one of the best known sayings, although it’s message is incomplete. The full version should be, “The trend is your friend, until the end when it bends.”

Many experienced investors forgot a popular stock market adage to “NEVER CATCH A FALLING KNIFE” when they picked Apple stock (AAPL) at $500 a share.

Volume precedes price, meaning that the loss of upside pressure in an uptrend or down­side pressure in a downtrend actually shows up in the volume figures before it is manifested in a reversal of the price trend.

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