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I don't know much about future and options market but I just thought let me check with experts on this forum about this doubt in my mind.

Can futures and options data be used to decide the stock position after few days/weeks/months?

Today after DM announced an acquisition it's price went down.

http://www.legaltechbase.com/community/articles/2532_dolan_media_acquires_majority_interest_in_discoverready.html

I have seen the same thing with HAE stocks in Sep after they acquired a company

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/haemonetics-expands-its-blood-management-product-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-sebra-business-unit-2009-09-08

Is it because traders/market wants to evaluate the acquisition and act based on the anal…

How do you see buying stocks of fundamentally strong companies?

Like RIMM would be buying back 1.2 billion dollar worth of stocks over a year timeframe.

I had a pick in my list for symantech which also declared something similar.

How should i decide which time frames i should choose for evaluating the entry point based on moving average.

If I am a 2 weeks to 3 months holding kind of investor then should i choose 14 days and 90 days?

Default is 21 and 50 i think but I want to know what is the basis for these numbers and how much risk I would be entering if I change these numbers.

Every week one or the other statistics is getting released which is shaking the whole market up and down. This trend is going on past few weeks.

How much do you feel that as an investor we should rely on this?

Today they posted good estimates but still stock is in the low range.

How long should we wait to see this stock giving some good returns if one has entered into the stock at around 24.

I think by next quarter it will touch around 27.

I personally think that market is not only driven by fundamental or technical factors of a particular stock but it also has a big ripple effect of the market conditions and news around the sector or stock worldwide. For example if there are some impact on the oil sector then stocks would start going down for some time until the next positive news for that sector comes.

Again the effect is not same on each and every stock of the same sector but volatility vary according to companies fundamenta…

Hi great investors,

I am very new to this investing world (entered just 2 months back).

I started using Zacks Research Wizard and later started applying technical analysis on the results of the Zacks RW results. I think RW has very good indicators like Zacks Rank 1 or 2 etc but we all know that even if a stock is in Zacks Rank 1 it is not always going to go up.

I think if we combine zacks rw results and stockfetcher.com results based on selecting combination of technical parameters the…