Out topic..

Need advise from expert. If i brought this stock at 1.50/1000 unit, how many % of increase of stock price should i let go/sell ?? 20% or 25%??

Thats totally up to you. You need to decide what kind of time line or trade you want to do before you buy a share. Some people want to buy something and keep it for a day because they know the share prices will not last, so they buy today wait for it to go up a little and sell it when they make a minor profit.

Where as some people do not intend to sell the shares they buy because they are confident of the counters they buy will increase over time. And will only sell in a few years time when they want to buy a house or car.

You have to know your limits and have some kind of strategy before you make a trade. Are you a day trader? Short term, mid or long term investor? How much money do you have as reserve? How much of a time frame do you have before you need to use the money for something else?

So the answer to your question is "You should know best". These kind of questions does not have straight answers and will vary from people to people.

This question is not a question at all whereby you won't get an answer.

Instead think of making money of 20-25%, you might be experience loss rather than gain. Sorry, not meant to pour 'cold water' on it.

You are the one decide what to do with your money, not others. There is not such thing of stock goes up 20% or 25% then one should sell.

TMY kia..,

Why the hell do you buy the stock to begin with if you cannot answer this question? That is the FIRST RULE of buying stock. You ONLY buy a stock when you know WHY you are buying.

Dreamer

actually, another fundamentals that newbie should know is to read the news. Try to get to know news before anyone else does. Of course you will not be the first to know but at least be the first few.

let say i read about change of board of director, should i buy or not?

or maybe collaboration between to company, should buy or not? .. hmm .. blur blur ..

You should have a Selling Price & Buying Price. Failing to do some, means that you have no proper planing in purchasing stocks. Advising you to pour your money into FD better.

Adviseable of not just buy stock based on news.
Look at its price movement (technical analysis theory) or other methods.
Sometimes, the news that been reported has been reflected in price chart before it has been release.
So when retailers get into it, other investors/big sharks begin its selling transaction ..and we as small retailer stuck became long term investor.

Do some analysis first before jumping into board.
"BUY ON RUMOURS, SELL ON NEWS"

This post has been edited by dreams_achiever: Mar 30 2008, 12:45 PM

WinDs,dreamer101,cherroy,skiddtrader,

Guys tks for advised, I feel i asking dum advised.

As I know, when i sell at certain price and other investor buy is complete trading . If the stock price rose 110% and i sell, is there ppl will buy???

This post has been edited by TMY kia..: Mar 30 2008, 01:12 PM

usually syndicate or big guys use this to trick u to sell or buy though... IMHO, u can lookout for ctr wit low volume either to sell or buy... dats d moment crowds wont monitor closely d counter...




wow, ur question so subjective leh...

let say u buy an antic watch for rm50, n decided to sell it at rm200, will i buy? well, it depends wat...if i see.. d value of it is more than dat, of course i'll buy

The stock market needs a willing buyer and seller, else there will be no trade. As long as there is no queue to buy, you can't sell and you have to lower your price until someone is willing to buy it, or hold it there for someone to buy it.

Same with buying, if no one wants to sell there will be no queue at the sell orders. So the buyers needs to increase their offer price to entice sellers to take it.

As long as there aren't enough buyers, prices will drop. Opposite for sellers, as when there aren't enough people to sell meaning they love their shares, the offer prices will go up to reflect the value of it.

That is why sometimes you see the prices plunging like when after the GE, prices for a lot of stocks drop a lot. That's because there are a lot of nervous shareholders who wants to sell but the buyers are also nervous and do not want to buy. Thus the prices slowly drop as the orders are done and since there aren't any buyers, the sellers always lower their prices and queue it lower and lower. If there are a lot of desperate sellers, and no one is buying, you will see the prices drop very fast as each seller try to out bid the other by lowering the prices as fast as they can.

For your question, if your stock increase by 110% and there are still people waiting to buy, then of course you can sell immediately. But if there aren't any buyers at the last price and the buy queue is still very low, then you can't sell at the price you want and it will be queued at the sell orders.

Read up more on how stock markets function from the internet or books from library which has plenty of examples and guides. You can't expect to learn everything from the forums. I have to agree with what WinDs said and put your money into Fixed Deposit and earn some interest while you are learning.

Edited to put into stock market thread.

This post has been edited by keith_hjinhoh: Mar 30 2008, 07:01 PM

i'm also newbie here & been thinking like seng kiat.

well, not buying for call warrant just stock from main board market like PMIND. what u guys think if its not CW?

at least there r movement in my acc rather than sleeping & waiting for it going up with small unit.
thinking to buy in big unit but small buying price.

This post has been edited by amy_LMNT: Mar 30 2008, 10:48 PM

The only reason people buy warrants are because of their leverage. In a bull market, warrants are extremely popular because as the main stocks rise, the warrants will follow. And in terms of percentage gained, warrants normally gives a better percentage. But beware as leverage is a double edged sword as it can go down as fast as well when the main stocks go down.

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This post has been edited by Seng_Kiat: Mar 31 2008, 09:53 AM

Brokerage will kill you if you do that a lot. People think if the share price goes up, they make money. But they forget one thing, you have to pay for brokerage. Even if the stock goes up, you may still lose money if you sell, and it doesn't cover brokerage costs.


This post has been edited by wodenus: Mar 31 2008, 06:05 AM

i bought FTEC today at 0.24 for 10k units .. hope it will grow up later .. .

Well prices will be falling but you will get more shares since Bonus will be issued in April. 8:5 bonus issue.

guy,

is it the falling price will be the same value (plus multiply etc) the free given? lower value in total? or higher value in total? ..

The market will probably correct the valuations so it most probably will be almost equal the value it currently is.