Friday 18 May 2018

santa fe high school attack: Condolence around the world

At least eight people have been killed at a school shooting in Santa Fe in  Texas.The exact death toll is unknown in what is likely to be the 22nd school shooting in the US this year.Ed Gonzales, the Harris County Sheriff, confirmed between eight and 10 people had been killed. Others are also reported to have been injured including one girl who was shot in the leg.  In all 12 people were being treated at local hospitals.The majority of those killed were students but adults, including staff were also victims.Reacting to the shooting, Donald Trump said: "This has been going on for too long in our country, too many years, too many decades now.
Law enforcement officers respond to the attack 
"We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our love and support for everybody affected, "  he added."My administration is determined to do everything it can to protect our students, to protect our schools and to keep the weapons out of the hands of people who are a threat to themselves and two others."
The suspected shooter is reported to have walked into an art class at about 8 am local time Santa Fe High School and started firing. 
please express your views on this typical situation in our country USA. 

Friday 11 May 2018

Symantec‬ stock slump 11 may 2018

Symantec (SYMC) stock plunged 33% in early trading Friday on the news.

 Symantec Corp's (SYMC.O) shares sank by more than a third on Friday after the cyber-security firm said it was investigating concerns raised by a former employee but gave little other detail, spooking investors and Wall Street analysts.
FILE PHOTO: The Symantec logo is pictured on a screen
The fall knocked roughly $6 billion off Symantec's market value, drove a slew of price target cuts by analysts and was the steepest decline in its shares since the dot-com bubble of 2001.
The maker of Norton anti-virus software said on Thursday the issue in question was not security-related or about a breach in its systems but added the probe was being led by an audit committee from its board of directors.
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters it was separate to another investigation launched in November by Lifshitz & Miller LLP into the board for possible violations of federal securities laws in relation to its executive compensation awards.

The company didn't provide details about the probe. In its earnings release Thursday, it said the investigation was "in connection with concerns raised by a former employee."
Symantec said the audit committee has hired independent advisers to help, and that it has been in touch with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
KPMG is Symantec's independent accountant. KPMG has come under criticism because it is also the accountant for two blue-chip companies with major financial headaches — GE (GE)and Wells Fargo 

Sunday 6 May 2018

Online trading on NYSE,NASDAQ 2018 tricks to earn more

Stock market basics

The stock market is made up of exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. Stocks are listed on a specific exchange, which brings buyers and sellers together and acts as a market for the shares of those stocks. The exchange tracks the supply and demand — and directly related, the price — of each stock. (Need to back up a bit? Read our explainer about the ins and outs of stocks.)
But this isn’t your typical market, and you can’t show up and pick your shares off a shelf the way you select produce at the grocery store. Individual traders are typically represented by a broker — these days, that’s often an online broker. You place your stock trades through the broker, which then deals with the exchange on your behalf.
The NYSE and the Nasdaq are open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern, with premarket and after-hours trading sessions also available, depending on your broker.

Stock market indexes



When people refer to the stock market being up or down, they’re generally referring to one of the major market indexes. A market index tracks the performance of a group of stocks, which either represents the market as a whole or a specific sector of the market, like technology or retail companies.
You’re likely to hear most about the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Nasdaq composite and the Dow Jones industrial average; they are often used as a proxy for the performance of the overall market. Investors use indexes to benchmark the performance of their own portfolios. You can also invest in an entire index through index funds and exchange-traded funds, which track a specific index or sector of the market. 

Algorithmic Trading Strategies

Arbitrage

The first type of algo trading strategy that we'll talk about is an arbitrage strategy. Arbitrage strategies use price differentials to generate risk free profit. Although these price differentials don't appear often, an algorithm will monitor the market for you. It not only saves time but also executes during the short time window that they're available.
One example of an arbitrage opportunity is a differential appearing between the spot price and a futures/option price for a currency pair.

Trend Following

Another type of popular algorithmic trading strategy is a trend following strategy. Trend following strategies involves algorithms monitoring the market for indicators to execute trades. These trades normally use technical analysis with chart patterns and indicators to make decisions. These algorithms are popular because of their relative ease of design and use compared to other algo trading strategies.
Some of the technical analysis that this strategy might use can be anything from oscillators and indicators, to using moving averages and mean reversion.

Execution Based Strategies

The last type of algorithmic trading strategy is related to execution-based strategies. These are the type of strategies that institutional investors make when executing large quantity orders. These types of strategies use various methods in order to make the most stable purchase possible. For example, you can break up the purchase in terms of volume or time.

Bull markets vs. bear markets

Neither is an animal you’d want to run into on a hike, but the market has picked the bear as the true symbol of fear: A bear market means stock prices are falling — thresholds vary, but generally to the tune of 20% or more — across several of the indexes referenced earlier.
Younger investors may be familiar with the term bear market but unfamiliar with the experience: We’ve been in a bull market — with rising prices, the opposite of a bear market — for over eight years. That makes it the second-longest bull run in history.
It came out of the Great Recession, however, and that’s how bulls and bears tend to go: Bull markets are followed by bear markets, and vice versa, with both often signaling the start of larger economic patterns. In other words, a bull market typically means investors are confident, which indicates economic growth. A bear market shows investors are pulling back, indicating the economy may do so as well.
The good news is that the average bull market far outlasts the average bear market, which is why over the long term you can grow your money by investing in stocks.

The importance of diversification

The above statement is true about a diversified portfolio — the S&P 500, which holds 500 of the largest stocks in the U.S., has historically returned an average of around 7% annually, when you factor in reinvested dividends and adjust for inflation. That means if you invested $1,000 30 years ago, you could have around $7,600 today.
That long-term growth would have happened despite several bear markets, which you can’t avoid as an investor. What you can avoid is the risk that comes from an undiversified portfolio. Individual stocks frequently fizzle to a lifetime loss of 100%, according to a recent working paper by Arizona State University professor Hendrik Bessembinder.
If you throw all of your money into one company, you’re banking on success that can quickly be halted by regulatory issues, poor leadership or an E. coli outbreak. To smooth out that company-specific risk, investors diversify by pooling multiple stocks together, balancing out the inevitable losers and eliminating the risk that one company’s contaminated beef will wipe out your entire portfolio.
But building a diversified portfolio of individual stocks takes a lot of time, patience and research. The alternative is the aforementioned ETF or index fund. These hold a basket of investments, so you’re automatically diversified. An S&P 500 ETF, for example, would aim to mirror the performance of the S&P 500 by investing in the 500 companies in that index.