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This is my first year of tax filing with stock income. Oh man it really sucks.... 1/3rd of the money I made by paying so much time and effort is directly taken by uncle Sam.... That does not mean I am going to stop investing but my question here is

Should I keep investing for short term or should I also start looking into long term investments (more than 365 days holding)?

It is difficult to find and predict stock movement after 4 quarters when we know that every quarter can be very effec…

I wanted to check with the experts here about the price movement of a stock once it is declared to be acquired by another company?

Should we wait for some more time for stock price to get fair or sell off?

If a buyer is preferring to buy at a higher price means that stock price will touch those levels?

I am talking about BARE getting acquired by a japnese company.

Does anyone have any good pointers for the tax rules on the profit/loss on the stocks traded during the year. I am specially looking for information on holding of stocks less then 6 months.

Happy Holidays

What is the good way to find stocks which are having sideways pattern?

If we can find those stocks then we can buy them low and sell high easily because they would fit very well on stochastic.

Does stock price really drive based out of DOW or S&P index. I think overall market investors tend to move to one direction based on the index movement but does individual stocks really affected by the indexes?

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?