Month: February 2008

  • Stock Market 101: Fundamental and Technical Analysis

    The stock market and the economy are for a large part unpredictable but there are several techniques to help you pick the right stock for your stock portfolio. Fundamental analysis and technical analysis are two trading theories I’m getting familiar with. Fundamental analysis The way I see it fundamental analysis can help me to pick…

  • NVIDIA gets hammered by Wall Street

    I just learned the hard way that the stock market can be very unpredictable. Yesterday I wrote about NVIDIA’s earning results and I said I expected the stock to go up because earnings were higher than analysts expected and also because the guidance NVIDIA gave during the conference call was pretty good. I was quite…

  • NVIDIA beats expectations, good guidance

    As I wrote a couple of days ago I bought some NVIDIA shares. NVIDIA’s stock performed fairly poor in the days after I bought the shares but since yesterday I’m back in the green. Today they’ve announced their financial results and it was a pretty interesting day, NVDA opened at $26.20 and closed at $27.02.…

  • Dollar heading the right direction – EUR to drop under $1.4?

    The dollar is gaining some ground again this week. After flirting with $1.5 per EUR the currency exchange is now heading up again to $1.45 and higher. Currently 1EUR is worth about $1.45 and I just read that ING analysts expect the dollar will rise to $1.38 per EUR this year on lower US trade deficits, optimism…

  • Tech shares are going up again

    The INTC shares I bought last week are doing pretty well. When the stock market dipped I managed to buy the stock at $18.32 – one of Intel’s lowest levels in one year and a half. I was planning to keep the stock for at least several months and the market went up quicker than…