The 10 Factors That Affect and Predict Stock Prices

This is the most frequent question that most stock/options traders may have in their minds. Stocks price changes due to market forces, i.e. buying and selling of the available stocks in the market.  The following are the factors that affect or even predict the buying or selling of stock that ultimately affects stock prices of companies. ·  Market sentiment .  The price of the stock of a company is affected most of the time by the general market direction during a session.  In a bull market, the stock price of most companies will rise and in a bear market the stock price of most companies will fall.  One can gauge the market sentiment by looking at stock indexes or its future price movement.  The stock indexes are S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Index, Nasdaq (USA), ASX100, ASX (Australia), Nikkei 225 (Japan), Euronext 100, Euronext 150 (Europe Union), DAX, TECDAX (Germany), FTSE 100, FTSE All Shares, FTSE Techmark (United Kingdom.  ·  The performance of the industry.   The performance of the sector or industry that the company is in also plays in part in determining the stock price of the company.  Most of the times, the stock price of the companies in the same industry will move in tandem with each other.  This is because market conditions will generally affects the companies in the same industry the same way.  Of course, there are exceptions to this.  Sometimes, the stock price of a company will benefit from a piece of bad news in its competitor if the companies are competing for the same target market.    ·  The earning results and earning guidance.

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