{"id":4193,"date":"2020-10-05T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investagrams.com\/daily\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2020-10-05T20:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:40:03","slug":"winning-with-nothing-but-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investagrams.com\/daily\/2020\/10\/winning-with-nothing-but-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning With Nothing But The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before entering the level 10 in a game, the player needs to start at level 1. Before even the famous Shakey\u2019s or Mang Inasal have started, they have started small too! And just like any other investor or trader, everyone starts with the foundation of the basics in technical and fundamental analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Winning in the stock market is a process. It is never just a one-step win or even a trade with 80,000 pesos gain. Everything starts with a good foundation of financial literacy, and this starts with the basics in technical and fundamental analysis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, what\u2019s in it for you to understand the basics? Understanding each concept of technical and fundamental analysis will help you assess the stock you are about to pick. It helps you gain more wisdom on how you should understand the stock market and the company on various perspective, just like how you would choose between wearing a casual or formal attire. Analysis provides information that will help you interpret the structure of the company or even understanding the figures on the financial statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an investor, you must know the intrinsic and true value of a stock. You must be able to determine if the value reflects on the stock prices. Of course, who would like to buy a 500 pesos worth of ground coffee without knowing its history, background, and components! This is the reason that you should invest in knowledge on analyzing the stock market.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Fundamental Analysis<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fundamental analysis is not just defined to be any fundamental, basic, or elementary education. Understanding the component of fundamental analysis would help you asses the quality, profitability, sustainability, and growth of the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start from a top-down approach, in which you would start analyzing information from general to specific. Now, how are you supposed to win the basics in fundamental analysis? Remember the acronym <\/span><b>FLIGHT! <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now we are boarding to our destination, the fundamental analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>F <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Financial as your Language<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English and Tagalog are not enough in understanding the stock market. Make finance as your language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Why? So that you can understand the financial characteristics and financial statements of the company you are about to invest into. Now, making finance as your language does not solely mean accounting or computing. It also helps you understand underlying factors and signals such the news and press releases of the company. Assess the valuation, earnings, and growth, of the company to know the financial health in terms of assets, obligation, ratios, and cash flows.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>L <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for the Law of Demand and Supply<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math? Stock Market? And now Economics? Yes! You see, if there are sellers and buyers, there is a demand and supply in the market, and this makes the stock prices rise and fall. Take note that when the stock goes uptrend, there are many buyers. Otherwise, there are many sellers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>I <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Intrinsic Value\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always keep it in mind that you would want to buy a stock which reflects its value on the stock price. To know this, you must check the Price-Earnings ratio of the company and compare it among its peers or company of the same industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>G <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Growth and Good Investment<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relationship of the price and value also leads to quality of growth and goodness of the investments. In order to know the quality of the company, you must check on the high-quality rate of the company\u2019s value on the financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow) and financial ratios (liquidity, operating, valuation, common size, solvency). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never just check on one part of the structure! You must check the signals and be able to determine if the company is under too much debt or is it well operating on its finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>H <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Historical Performance<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a must to check on the historical performance of the company to check whether or not they are growing. Ask yourself if it is the company you are willing to place your money into for a certain period.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>T <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stand<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s for Think not Trend<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never invest on a stock just because it goes trending or your friends tells you so. Think wisely and analyze the company\u2019s stability and development. Remember being famous or big does not necessarily mean it is good investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now we are unto our next destination, technical analysis. Now, let\u2019s <\/span><b>READ!<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Technical Analysis<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><b>R <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Reading Charts, Lines, and Patterns: Market Structure<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding the different charts, trend lines, and candlestick patterns will help you understand the market structure. With these visual representations, you can slowly begin to determine if the stocks are going uptrend, downtrend, reversal, or sideways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>E <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Evaluation with Indicators<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, in technical analysis there are various indicators. However, you must begin with learning the concepts then applying each and checking which one would fit your strategy as a scalper, day trader, position, or swing trader.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You must first understand the concept of floor price and the floor ceiling, also know as the support and resistance. Why? Because this will help you understand the breakouts and breakdown with the candlesticks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can also use the RSI, to know if the stocks is overbought or oversold, or the moving average to know the buy signal. There are various purposes of indicators. But most importantly, this will help you enter and exit the market on a great time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>A <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Assessing yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessing chart movements is useless if you do not have risk management and control over your emotions. As Alexander Elder quoted, \u201cthe markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses\u201d, and I guess you wouldn\u2019t want that either!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>D <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stands for Don\u2019t forget to read and do a strategic application<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all these points to remember, always enjoy learning and re-learning over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>Charlie Munger: The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. 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