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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This blog post could be a book but I will keep it short and to the point. Too have been bearish on Apple this year is simply the worst possible trading method that anyone could possibly have had. They are violating every principle that I know of for successful trading
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Apple: still the same story with a few added chapters. Apple now has protection from plunging with a $10 billion buy back program. At the current price that is about 16 million shares removed from float, which will at the same time drive up earnings per share with less shares publicly available. So that
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After a two hundred point run in Apple since it broke through the 50 day moving average we are now dealing with a brutal 2.5% draw down in the stock after hitting the psychological barrier of $600. Now the bears are out roaring again, “It is over”, “The move was
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Many times, good traders make the right trade but still lose, but it is okay because they will win in the long term because their method is tested, their risk is managed, and their mind set is right for trading. They have skills. Other times a new trader with no
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Insiders say that William J. O’Neil founder of Investor’s Business Daily and William O’Neil and Company Inc, has a better trading record over a 50 year period than even Warren Buffet or George Soros. O’Neil has spent his life trading and studying what really works in the stock market. He made over a quarter
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There are things that make you win in the stock market over the long term and then there are things that make you lose quickly even in the short term. The key to trading success is learning the difference quickly and doing what really works not what you emotions or
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