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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As College’s NCAA Final Four teams have made it through their brackets and the games are getting under way to crown a champion. I am reflecting on stock market leaders and the great year to date performances many have had. I have traded a few different stocks this year, some
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There are young people in the market that are really bad traders and there is also old traders that are very good, but there are no old bad traders in the market because they went broke and gave up a long time ago. You might be a bad trader if………. …your primary method is
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William O’Neil is likely one of the greatest traders of our time based on many things. O’Neil made a huge amount of money while he was only in his twenties, enough to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He runs an amazingly successful investment advisory company to big money firms. He
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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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If you are interested in trading options the first place you must start is having a basic understanding of what determines there price. Understanding what determines their value and how they move in step with the underlying stock is the first crucial step before you start trading them. Not understanding what can cause sudden drops and spikes in
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In 2012 as a recent example I was able to trade the price action in Apple stock from an all time breakout over $390 to $700 and return over 51% on my total trading capital in one quarter. The strange thing was that in 2012 when I was heavily trading the price of the stock I never
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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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What an amazing year so far for the markets beloved Apple stock. Many factors are working together to drive this stock up to amazing levels day after day. Apple is the leader of this market and will continue to trend up until this story changes. The story is not changing,
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