If you want to make money in the stock market it is crucial that you trade correctly for the market you are in. In up trends buy long and purchase call options. In down trends sell short and buy put options. In range bound markets look for trends in […]
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While I do not predict, I do play the trend and the probabilities in my trading. I am currently long 100 shares of Priceline stock at an average price of $723 a share. Thanks to Expedia’s much better than expected earnings and sales results $PCLN holders got to experience a
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If you have not realized it yet, in trading you are not going to be right every time with your trades. You are not even going to be right the majority of the time. Most of the best traders in the world are only right 50% of the time, many
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While all the Apple bulls where having a celebration party on the move back to $610 today I could not help but wonder if they rode this stock from $644 to $555 and were just celebrating getting back to where they could have gotten out at weeks ago. My
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Here is a video tale of what the Apple bulls went through this year while just simply buying and holding Apple. This video shows the strong move up in the 1st quarter, the sell off before earnings, and finally the earnings announcement. http://youtu.be/6tCtM8UEQv8
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In trading activity alone does not make money, the right activity at the right time is what makes money. Many times the right thing, is to do nothing. In your actual trading you have to do four things very well to make money. You have to know when to get
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Well here we go, Apple earnings on Tuesday. How am I going to play it? From the sidelines. Why? Because for me the money is in the run up to earnings due to earnings expectations which ended abruptly last week. I do not hold through earnings, for me it is
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This year my best three long term trades have been trading long at all time highs and selling short at all time lows. I was the ‘crazy’ guy that traded Apple only long from $390 to $630 never shorting it and only stepping out during draw downs below short term
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Price tops are strange things, they tend to happen when the maximum bullishness is in place and the company underlying the stock is as profitable as ever. What gives? Well many things cause tops, whether they are short term or long term. Here are some examples. Profit taking sets
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What a great day in the markets for traders and investors that were long. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tacks on almost 200 points and gets back over 13,000 with a hundred points to spare. Monsters stocks springing back to life all over the place. You know the ones where
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