Apple is at $610 you believe it will go to $680 in a month, instead of buying at $610 you want to buy on a pullback to $600, the pull back never comes and you just watch it go to $680 with no position. Apple is at $675 and you […]
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If you are a longer term trend follower and there is a long term trend, then you make money. If you are a shorter term trend follower and their is a trend in your trade you make money. Swing traders make money in range bound markets. Value investors make
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Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril. Chinese proverb. Stock options are not lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a path to easy street. They are tools for the transference of risk from one person to the other. When trading options you must understand where
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[hr_invisible] Apple: For now still the same old monster stock story with a few added chapters. With Apple proving in court that Android is a copy cat and Samsung being told they must pay $1 billion in patent infringements to Apple , the stock shot up to all time highs in the post market
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“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” ~Warren Buffett “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” -Warren Buffett The biggest thing that trips up many new traders and even more experienced and
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Weekly options are very powerful tools in the hands of a trader that understands them but can do serious damage in the account of a trader that uses them to gamble. Weekly options can be great trading tools if the position size is right and they are used inside of a quantifiable trading system that is
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This interview with master trader Chris Kacher first appeared in Your Trading Edge magazine. Like his colleague Gil Morales, Chris is a protégé of William O’Neil, the legendary investor and author of ‘How to Make Money in Stocks’. Along with Morales, Chris is one of the few to have traded O’Neil’s own funds as an
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While my trading is more following capital flows based on trends that I measure with key moving averages there is one chart pattern that I find very useful and that has high probabilities of success. The cup and handle pattern is a bullish continuation formation, it is one of the newer chart formations and
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The strange thing about trading is the vast majority of traders lose money. Most studies put it at 90% as the amount of traders that are unprofitable in the long term. How can this be? The majority of traders are trading on emotions and predictions instead of what
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