Many new traders fail in the stock market simply because they rush in without putting in the proper time and discipline in doing their homework. Trading is a professional endeavor much like any other career, you will only get out of it what you put into it. There is no easy money, you will have […]
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The most important thing you must learn in every market cycle is where the money is flowing. It is flowing into the companies where the earnings are growing. As long as mutual funds have capital in flows instead of net out flows then they must put new money to work investing in stocks. If you
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If you could wager money on the winner of the NCAA tournament at the very beginning of the bracketed tournament, what would be the best strategy? If you could pick ten teams as possible winners would you have a better chance of winning by picking the bottom 10 seeds #55
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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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