Last week was a wild ride with some of the most destructive action I have ever seen in price after many earnings reports. Then when the majority was bearish and many people were short waiting for the unraveling of Spain with its high bond yields and Greece to leave the […]
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Many traders are very hesitant to short a stock because while a stock you are long can only go to zero a stock you are short can go to infinity. While I have never personally seen a stock go up to infinity Apple’s run this year and the internet stocks of 1999 did make a
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“Mr. Seykota himself has put together a money management track record with returns of roughly +60% net of fees over the three-decade span of his trading career…” -Futures Magazine Ed Seykota, first featured in the book Market Wizards has one of the best records of all time for any trader.
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A common theme I have seen while studying rich traders and I have experienced in my own trading is that more trading is not necessarily the path to making more money. Great traders tend to be patient and pick their trades carefully. Some will go long periods of time with
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If you could ask advice from the world’s most successful hedge fund managers what would they tell you? Jack Schwager has done the work to get us some answers, here are some of the best tips garnered from the top traders in the hedge fund industry. The following quotes are from Jack Schwagers book Hedge
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What a week we have had with earnings, many plunges. Even for the markets beloved Apple. When talking heads on CNBC straight talking about “buying opportunities” and “investors” start trying to put an earnings miss into “perspective” we are generally in trouble. What many of the big call option bettors
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If you still wonder what the dividing line is between an up trending market and a down trending market is here are some charts to look at. In the Apple chart you will see the powerful trend that exploded after Apple over took the 50 day line this year. Also
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Even though Apple is THE monster stock of the last 10 years and I love the fundamentals and I love the company story, I still have a rule in my trading plan: I do not hold through earnings. Why? I could catch a $40 pop after
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Their is one huge difference between the winners and the losers in the market. New traders tend to go ‘all in’ on trades they are just sure will be winners. If a new trader wants to be around long enough to be a rich trader they better manage their risk per trade. Here is a
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