When I find a stock that I want to short, how do I trade it? My opinion about a short is not sufficient for a trade, the chart has to agree with me or I have to wait until it does. Here are the charts of four profitable short plays I had this year. While […]
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A down trending market is not the same as a range bound market or a bull market.The loss of the 200 day moving average and it not being retaken by the close is a big red flag for the potential beginning of a bear market. Bear markets do not have defined supports they can fall
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The 200 day is the test of all tests for the bulls, there are many systems used by traders that gives a buy signal for stocks as they move above their 200 day moving average. For the last three years buying THE market leader Apple as it either bounced near or rallied back above the
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The 200 day is the test of all tests for the bulls, there are many systems used by traders that gives a buy signal for stocks as they move above their 200 day moving average. For the last three years buying THE market leader Apple as it either
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I love facebook, I think it had all the potential of being a monster stock. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg and company were able to wait long enough, (8 years) and then to issue enough shares (2.14 Billion) at a high enough price ($38) to leave no money on the table for retail investors. Traditionally a growth company
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Time and again I heard him say, “Well, this is a bull market, you know!” as though he were giving to you a priceless talisman wrapped up in a million-dollar accident-insurance policy. And, of course, I did not get his meaning. (Mr. Partridge from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator) “They say there are two sides
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The pain of losing is something that many traders can not bear. When you get into 10 or 15 straight losses then the lack of risk management will knock a trader out of the game. Even if you have risk management in place many times the mental pain and anguish
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How do I make money in trading? I seek to profit from market trends. I am a short term trend trader. I seek to be long or short a stock or ETF that is in a trend and has the potential to trend for several days or weeks. I will trade anything that is
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When you follow your Trading Plan and allow it to be your boss instead of your ego or emotions, you will relax, confident in your knowledge and understanding. No one trade will have a substantial negative impact, because you know that your strategy will win in end. With a disciplined plan, you will be forced
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Most traders that fail and leave the markets never learn the lessons that the market was trying to teach them. In all likelihood there were four horsemen that rode through the trader’s account, leaving lost battles, pestilence, famine, and destruction in their wake. What brings this doom upon a trader’s account? It is the
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