Understand Market Trend Before You Trade - NASDAQ and KLCI

If you have no idea what is stock at all, I suggest you read the following first: Stock Market 101: Understand How Stocks Get Started.

To be successful in stock investing, the first thing that you want to do is to analyze the entire stock market as whole and learn how the majority investors behave in the stock market. The stock market index is the indicator to tell you how the market moves. It represent everyone present in the market place. :D

I personally invest in US stock and Malaysia stock market. So 2 stock market indices that I"m interested are Nasdaq Composite Index and KLCI.. The following charts show the 1 year histrory trend.
 

KLCI - FTSE Bursa Malaysia Large 30 Index

KLCI comprises of 30 largest companies in Malaysia with approximately 70% of the total market capitalization of the FTSE Bursa Malaysia 100 Index.

Nasdaq Composite Index


Nasdaq Composite Index comprise of over 4000 innovative and fast growing technology companies in United States of America.

Note: What I like about this chart is when you click on it, it shows you the technical analysis of the chart. You can then perform the "Technical Analysis" on those chart. Basically technical analysis helps you to make investment decisions based on the study of charts rather than the stock fundamental. Interesting isn't it? But this is still something new to me but I will share with you more later on once I"m familiar with it. :)

What I don't like about this chart is only able to display up to 1 year trend. To view more than 1 year trend, you will have to use Yahoo Finance.  But Yahoo doesn't have a way to embed the stock chart in a website or blog.If you know, feel free to share with me.

P/S: What about you? There are lot of stock market indices out there. Which market index do you refer?