In the spirit of April Fools Day here are the ‘Ten Most Foolish Things a Trader Can Do’. In no particular order of foolishness. Try to predict the future movement of a stock, and stay in it no matter what. Risk your entire account on one trade with no stop […]
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Monster stocks are those wonderful beasts that make you look like a genius trader. Shorts think that they are way too expensive and will crash, so they go short and have to cover en-mass after another 10 point run; they create even more buying pressure. Traders that short monster stocks do not understand the momentum
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What happens when you are in the right market at the right time using a trend following system to trade monster stocks? Amazing returns. The best returns of my 13 year trading career by far. Here are the principles that let me seize the opportunity and have an amazing quarter.
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Many traders make the mistake of panic shorting in an up trending bull market or stock at the first sign of weakness, and at other times bottom fishing by buying stocks that are falling in a down trending bear market. The first thing a trader must determine is are they
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The biggest key to winning in trading is not stock picking, trend following, predicting, or a particular method of trading. Whether you are still trading a year from now or you are gone will be based on risk management. I know, boring topic. But the key to everything. The best traders in the world win
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I am having the best year trading that I have ever had, I am currently up 57% year to date on my brokerage account. Of course I am not an overnight success and have been wrestling with the markets for 13 years losing money and paying tuition at the beginning of my trading career and
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What I look for in my trading is the BEST stocks in the stock market, not good, and not pretty good. I want my hard earned capital to be sitting in the very best stocks of the best companies in the world. The best of the best have a few
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As College’s NCAA Final Four teams have made it through their brackets and the games are getting under way to crown a champion. I am reflecting on stock market leaders and the great year to date performances many have had. I have traded a few different stocks this year, some
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There are young people in the market that are really bad traders and there is also old traders that are very good, but there are no old bad traders in the market because they went broke and gave up a long time ago. You might be a bad trader if………. …your primary method is
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William O’Neil is likely one of the greatest traders of our time based on many things. O’Neil made a huge amount of money while he was only in his twenties, enough to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He runs an amazingly successful investment advisory company to big money firms. He
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