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Like with most things, there is a lot of background noise around the actions that one actually needs to know when buying stocks.  Although there are several different types of orders to use when buying or selling stocks, most people only need to know one.  As long as they are not buying tiny companies, a market order is the only order they need to know.  A market order says I want this many shares of this stock right now at the current price.  If the company you are buying stock of has a daily average volume of at least 300,000 shares, and you are buying less than 1,000 shares, a market order will get you very close to the current price.  Once you recognize this, you only need to figure how many shares of what company to buy.

We are beginning a new phase at Alpha Equities LLC.  The website AEStocks.com has recently closed to new subscribers.  The site will undergo some changes and improvements, along with subscriptions being limited to a few individuals.  This is all in preparation for the launch of our hedge fund on the 15th of September.  AEStocks.com is moving from the center force behind Alpha Equities, into a satellite aspect.  AEStocks.com will transition into a more powerful informative source about stock and investing.  The recommendations posted to it will no longer be from one system, but will also contain picks from one or two of our other stock systems.  This transition will occur slowly over the next few months.

This week the market certainly appeared to be heading back into bullish territory.  As stated in last week’s posting, the momentum continued from the past two weeks.  We saw a leveling off of the indicators, which looked like investors were gaining confidence but still uncertain about equities.  This week began to look like not only are they gaining confidence, but they also know where to put it (back into equities).

The VIX dropped 3 points, to end up at 20.50.  Gold and oil dropped this week, with gold dropping as much as 6%.  When taking this along side the gains in the DOW and NASDAQ (3.5% and 4.5%), confidence in the market has returned.  The coming weeks will show rather this is just a short term bear bounce, or if we are indeed on the way back up to new heights.  AEStocks finished the week down, with half of our recommendations being right.

This week the market looks like a repeat of the one before.  Oil actually finished with a slight gain, but gold and the VIX finished down.  The DOW and NASDAQ finished the week where they started it.  Investor sentiment continues to be uncertain.  Confidence is ever so slowly moving back into equities, but not yet manifesting in a positive level for the market.

www.aestocks.com finished the week with a 6.5% gain.  There are 13 picks for next week.

Next week expect the bulls to slowly start moving in and we expect the week to finish higher.  One thing that is very plausible is that AEStocks.com will have another double digit week.

Buying and holding, in this market especially, is a risk that should be avoided.  www.aestocks.com has posted consistent and steady returns for the past four years.  Many investors unfortunately think of an active system as risky, and therefore avoid it for something they see as more conservative.  A solid active system like AEStocks.com actually limits exposure to the overall market fluxuations, which proves to be a huge advantage.  If you are running across a minefield; would you rather run the length of a football field, or dash 10 yards and then move to the sidelines?  Short focused efforts, with the properly safeties built in (via limit orders, trailing stops, etc), can greatly reduce your risk when dealing with stocks.  Look closely at your trading strategy to see if your natural sense of risk aversion is actually sending you through a much longer minefield.