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What/Who really is a trader??
guru267
#11 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 9:52:19 AM
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robertyawe wrote:
Trader: Those who bought safaricom at 5/- and hoped it will get to 17/-
Investor: Those who bought Safaricom at 2.60/- sold at 6/- and are back at 4.85/-

As an investor it does not mean that you will not occasionally trade to pick profits off the floor but that you have a detailed appreciation on fundamentals.

This is a fallacy
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Deuteronomy 4:16
the deal
#12 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 10:13:07 AM
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There's no difference between a trader and an investor...what we have are different entry points and exit targets and different risk thresholds....
smooth
#13 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 1:47:44 PM
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A while a go I read on a day trader on NYSE , his was a capital base of so much dollars of cash and would look at movement of stock prices, thus depending on demand,supply and graphs . he would bet on a stock moving in a certain direction and at the end of day sell all his buys and count his profits. This certainly is not an investor.
Aguytrying
#14 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 4:19:53 PM
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What i wonder is how many stock traders/investors in the nse rely on fundermentals and technicals analysis and how many just listen to there brokers?
In other words, how effective is fundermentals and T.A in the nse.

Nb:im in no way undermining these two or expressing my opinion, im just curios what the bulk of traders/investors rely on, and how this affects movement of share prices.
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself
CapitalMarketsGeek
#15 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 8:44:45 PM
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Who is a trader?
Someone who bet on equity, fixed income,derivative and alternative investments in hope of profiting from, price movement on either sides,increase or decrease.
Investor?
Is a general term meaning anyone who take a risk in any form of markets in hope of making profits.

There is a difference btw an investor and a trader, an investor is either a fat rich stupid idiot who do not understand anything about capital markets and do not have nerves to execute any trade so they pay a percentage and leave money on the table for jokers like me to have fun with or and institution who manage fund from old people and leave the key to the safe for traders to have fun with
On the other hand a trade is a brilliant individual who have earn the right to recieve free money from investors. Remember, you have to earn a right through hardwork( school). After you have earn the right you can sit and watch supercomputers execute trades for you, good thing is, supercomputers execute trades, you get paid, how cool is that? The rest of the people who call themselve traders are actually dummies, if you still spend time looking at fundemental analyis, you are a dummy quit trading and be an investors!
youcan'tstopusnow
#16 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 9:13:56 PM
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote
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sheep
#17 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 9:42:56 PM
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qw...... is that you? The grammar is so similar.
The utimate goal of investing is to buy low sell high;if we re-write this core equation in psychology terms it becomes buy fear sell greed.
guru267
#18 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 10:09:36 PM
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Aguytrying wrote:
What i wonder is how many stock traders/investors in the nse rely on fundermentals and technicals analysis and how many just listen to there brokers?
In other words, how effective is fundermentals and T.A in the nse.

Nb:im in no way undermining these two or expressing my opinion, im just curios what the bulk of traders/investors rely on, and how this affects movement of share prices.

@qw... Whats up?? Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
Mark 12:29
Deuteronomy 4:16
mozenrat
#19 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 10:17:34 PM
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@capitalm....

Wonder why the investor Warren Buffet beats them all if investors are big fat idiots..

That dude that said investors look at companies and traders look at stocks got it right...

That group of people who just throw their money in and then peek to check the price after 7 years are neither investors nor traders.. Those are the idiots.. they're the same ones who ask their brokers for picks.

Aguytrying
#20 Posted : Monday, September 13, 2010 11:09:20 PM
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Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
guru267 wrote:
Aguytrying wrote:
What i wonder is how many stock traders/investors in the nse rely on fund....s, how effective is fundermentals and T.A in the nse. .

@qw... Whats up?? Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

@guru. Ha ha. I have been infected by his posts!
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself
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