Finance & Investment Trading tips and poker hands


by MELANIE C - Date: 2007-07-11 - Word Count: 320 Share This!

Trying to buy our recommended stocks can be frustrating at times. But patience often has its rewards.

You probably never thought you'd read it: Trading tips from The Intelligent Investor. Well, there's no need to run out and cancel your subscription - we're not changing our spots. But we do want you to be able to buy your shares at the cheapest possible price.

This Investor's College is not about 90-day moving averages or long-legged dojis (which apparently signal a 'top reversal' to those who follow Japanese candlestick patterns); it's about getting the most value out of your subscription and how some simple steps can help you maximise your long-term returns.

If you use a real person to buy your shares, he or she would know a lot more about trading than we do (my handful of transactions each year doesn't exactly qualify me as an oracle of trading). So, if you choose to act on one of our recommendations, all you need to do is let your broker know that there are probably a lot of other people out there trying to do the same thing.

DIY trading advice

If you're doing your own trading online, though, our general advice is to play your cards close to your chest. If you were The Intelligent Investor's official broker, trying to buy 4 million Timbercorp shares on behalf of everyone, you wouldn't simply place an order for 4 million shares on the market. Every seller in their right mind would think twice about selling into such a large buy order.

Like a good poker player, you wouldn't want to reveal your hand. You'd sit there and nibble away over a few days or weeks and accumulate your position, over time, without anyone noticing it was one person doing all the buying.

Visit The Intelligent Investor for the rest of this article on buying stocks to find out more on buying shares.


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