INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Just about everyone is on social media these days. You can likely use tools like Facebook or Instagram to find the old friend you are looking for. Typing their name into the search area of the social media site may bring up their name and give you a way to get in touch with them. Some people make themselves private on social media, meaning that the general public can’t view their profiles. Still, you should be able to send them a friend request or write a brief message. Joining an alumni association may help you find a friend you went to high school or college with, if they are also a part of the association. Joining may give you access to their contact information, which could allow you to find them.  Go to your school’s website and look for the link to the alumni association. You can also call your school and ask about joining the association. These types of organizations typically have get-togethers that allow you to interact with people you went to school with, giving you the opportunity to find the person you are looking for, as well as others you may have lost contact with. Other people you know may still be in contact with the old friend you are looking for. Reaching out to mutual friends via social media may help you get in touch. You may also be able to reach out to connections to obtain their contact information. Use social media or search engines to find their mutual friends or family members. Make sure you introduce yourself in a way that helps them remember you. If not, they will likely be afraid or hesitant to give you the information you’re looking for. A few different websites are available that help you get in touch with people. These sites are typically a bit more useful than general search engines are, as they often give you more specific information and not as many results. Free sites are helpful, but sites that require payment often give you more contact information. For example, you can try the free sites wink.com, zabasearch.com, and pipl.com to find your friend. Or you can pay to use peoplefinders.com and intelius.com to potentially receive more useful information.

SUMMARY: Use social media. Contact an alumni association. Reach out to other acquaintances. Use a people search website.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Technical analysis is an attempt to understand market psychology or, in other words, what investors as a whole feel about a company as reflected in the stock price. Technical analysts are normally short-term holders, concerned about the timing of their buys and sells.If you can detect a pattern, you might be able to predict when stock prices will fall and drop. This can inform you about when to purchase or sell certain stocks. Technical analysis makes use of moving averages to track security prices. Moving averages measure the average price of the security over a set of period of time. This helps traders more easily identify trends. Patterns identified in a technical analysis include identifiable price boundaries in the market price of a stock. The high boundary, which the stock rarely surpasses, is known as the "resistance." The low boundary, which the stock rarely dips below, is called "support." Identifying these levels can let a trader know when to buy (at resistance) and when to sell (at support).  Some specific patterns are also detectable in stock charts. The most common one is known as "head and shoulders." This is a peak price then drop, followed by a taller peak then drop, and finally followed by a peak similar in height to the first. This pattern signals that an upwards price trend will end. There are also inverse head and shoulders patterns, which signify the end to a downward price trend. An investor seeks to find a company with a competitive advantage in the market place that will provide sales and earning growth over a long period. A trader seeks to find companies with an identifiable price trend that can be exploited in the short-term. Traders typically use technical analysis to identify these price trends. In contrast, investors typically use another type of analysis, fundamental analysis, because of its focus on the long term. Orders are what traders use to specify the trades that they would like their brokers to make for them. There are numerous different types of orders that a trader can make. For example, the simplest type of order is a market order, which purchases or sells a set number of shares of a security at the prevailing market price. In contrast, a limit order buys or sells a security when its price reaches a certain point.  For example, placing a buy limit order on a security would instruct the broker to only purchase the security if the price fell to a certain level. This allows a trader to specify the maximum amount he or she would be willing to pay for the security. In this way, a limit order guarantees the price the trader will pay or be paid, but not that the trade will occur. Similarly, a stop order instructs the broker to buy or sell a security if the price rises above or falls below a certain point. However, the price that the stop order will be filled at is not guaranteed (it is the current market price). There is also a combination of stop and limit orders called a stop-limit order. When the price of the security passes a certain threshold, this order specifies that the order become a limit order rather than a market order (as it does in a regular stop order). Short selling is when a trader sells shares of security that they do not yet own or have borrowed. Short selling is typically done with the hope that the market price of the security will fall, which would result in the trader having the ability to purchase the security shares for a lower price than they sold them for in the short sale. Short selling can be used to make a profit or hedge against risk, however it is very risky. Short selling should only be done by experienced traders who understand the market thoroughly.  For example, imagine that you believe that a stock currently trading at $100 per share is going to decrease in value in the coming weeks. You borrow 10 shares and sell them at the current market price. You are now "short," as you have sold shares that you didn't own and will eventually have to return them to the lender. In a few weeks, the price of the stock has indeed fallen to $90 per share. You purchase your 10 shares back at $90 and return them to the lender. This means that you sold shares, that you didn't have, for $1,000 total and have now replaced them for $900, netting yourself a $100 profit. However, if the price rises, you are still responsible for returning the shares to the lender. This potentially unlimited risk exposure is what makes short selling so risky.

SUMMARY:
Perform a technical analysis. Identify patterns. Understand the difference between a trader and an investor. Learn about different orders traders make. Understand short selling.