Re: How safe is the stock market?
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anyone have any tips on accessing risk for a particular stock, sheerly based on it's numbers?
Like if i were to look at the financial + charts in the span of 1 minute on yahoo or google finance, what would be good indicators for a noob to look at?
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What you want to know is the volatility of a stock.
Generally, stocks with lower market caps are more prone to big swings because it takes less money to move them.
However, to actually quantify that volality is IMO impossible because investor psychology plays such a big factor in price movement.
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