The volume confirms a trend or other types of indicators in technical analysis. If you are monitoring a particular stock closely, watch for high volume trades, because they may be telling you a story that you need to hear. It also confirms a particular trend or breakout that you are monitoring.

If you’re looking for new investment strategies and ideas or if you’re just starting out in developing your portfolio, these are some of the opportunities that investors are taking advantage of. There will be a summary of each investment strategy and subsequent articles that go more in-depth on each of these categories will follow.

The value investing method involves finding undervalued stocks that have good fundamentals. The most famous value investor and arguably the best in the world is Warren Buffett. He finds companies that have a good solid business model and ones with a competitive advantage over others’ in it’s industry.