Finance Girl Toronto

I noticed a strange behavior with regard to LinkedIn stock today. The stock is trading between $191 and $192. This price is a bit strange because Microsoft’s purchase price for LNKD is $196 per share. If markets behaved efficiently the current stock price should be at minimum $196. I can only find two reasons for the discounted current price. First reason, Microsoft is still waiting for regulators to approve the purchase. I can’t see a reason why regulators will block this…

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I have decided to do short term trading. See my rational behind it: http://www.financegirltoronto.com/2016/06/short-term-trading/ Now comes the tricky part of identifying what securities I am going to pick for my trading. If you are really interested in trading – you have to be willing to put in the time to understand the basics of how the markets work and what type of strategies are out there.  Otherwise, what you are doing is the same thing as what you would do…

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Based on research done yesterday I had placed a market order for Linked In at around $132. See analysis posted on 12th of June: http://www.financegirltoronto.com/2016/06/what-stocks-to-pick-for-trading-for-the-week-of-6122016/ When you are doing short term trading market news is very critical. As such I was checking around 9 am on Monday June 13th the pre market price for linked in and realized Microsoft has announced purchase of linked in at $195 per share! The pre market price was $195 ! I was a bit…

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Want to know if the market would be up or down this week? Found an  article – This article talked about stock index futures being lower and one possible reason being the 50 person shooting that happened in Florida. Futures of the stock index are usually a good indication of where the market will open. If you need further details on what a future is you can find it on Investopedia. Even though this article is for the US indexes…

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The financial markets are affected by many different events. Events such as a Central Bank’s decision on interest rates, government releasing different type of numbers such as unemployment rate, major companies reporting earnings, events that affects large countries such as a recession in China, and events that affect specific sectors such as OPEC’s decision to cut oil supply. In addition to the specific news stories that come out throughout the day, the markets are affected by specific events. See below…

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