If you want to know how to identify and buy a really fast moving stock and also how to hold it for the big wins then I would strongly urge you to buy How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil. At the beginning of this book there are over one hundred […]
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In trading there are things that cause you to win in the long term and things that cause you to even lose your account in the short term. There are ways to manage risk and there are ways to purely gamble. There are ways to think that will make you
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In trading we must be able to do two things: manage our winners and manage our losers. If we can’t play both good offense and defense then we will not win over the long term in trading no matter how well we do with one but then fail at the
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For me, author, teacher, and full time trader Alexander Elder really brought my trading together in a way no other author had. He gave me the framework to build my entire trading plan around: THE THREE M’s: Mind (psychology), Method (a trading edge) and Money (risk or money management). But what does each of those
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For anyone interested in trading the currency markets I believe this is the perfect book as a starting place. Carley Garner has created the perfect book for anyone interested in getting started in currency trading. Whether you are an experienced trader of stocks or options looking to diversify markets you
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My thoughts on how to take another bite out of our favorite stock. In reviewing the IBD 50 yesterday for the criteria for CAN SLIM stocks I could not help but notice the incredible fundamentals for Apple. While I trade the charts and believe they tell the story better than
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If one of the greatest traders in the world told you how to buy and sell the best stocks for the most profits would you listen? Well we have a chance to do just that with Bill O’Neil’s book “How to Make Money in Stocks”. His lifetime of research on how the market actually works
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The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or the stock picking. It is dealing with the emotions that arise with trading itself. From the stress of actually entering a trade, to the fear of losing the paper profits that you are holding in a winning trade, how you deal with those
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As one of the top trading book reviewers at Amazon.com, I am frequently asked “What books would you recommend for a new stock trader?” Below is a list of the top trading books from my library. Trading is about more than simply making bets, picking stocks, or even trading a system. Your success
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Trend Followers make money in the market not becasue they predict anything but becasue they buy what is going up and they sell what is going down. They discover ways to measure and react to trends based on history. Trend traders identify a trend and enter a trade with predefined risk for the trade and
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This is the final part of a three-part interview series in which trader John Ward sat down with Dr. Christian Kacher, former portfolio manager for William O’Neil + Co., managing director of VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com, and chief investment strategist for MoKa Investors, LLC. Ward: What were some of the stocks you played in the 90’s when you
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This is the second part of a three-part interview series in which trader John Ward sat down with Dr. Christian Kacher, former portfolio manager for William O’Neil + Co., managing director of VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com, and chief investment strategist for MoKa Investors, LLC. Ward: Going from being a trader who was using O’Neil’s system on his
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In my reading of over 200 books on trading and my endless web surfing I have come across many quotes from rich traders that I have truly liked. Here are my favorite ten that I not only love but have made huge impacts on my trading plan and profits. Some of these capture principles in
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Before William O’Neil and Nicolas Darvas there was Jesse Livermore. Livermore was considered to be one of the greatest traders to ever live. He is said to have made over $100 million shorting the 1929 crash, an unthinkable amount in his time. He made and lost millions on several occasions, he was a master of
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A big thing that trips up new traders is they get an entry signal at a breakout or a bounce off a key moving average like the 50 day simple moving average but have trouble quantifying how to let the it run if it is a winner or cut the loser short if it goes
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We all know Apple is the stock of the century but do we just buy or do we wait? Well with all monster stocks if we are traders then we wait until an opportunity to enter arises. Entering at the wrong time can lead to buying the right stock but
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I have been trading for over a decade. I have had streaks where I won for many straight years in a row with minimum draw downs, it was as if I completely understood the markets and just could not lose. But I have also had years where nothing I did
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Okay, Apple is the monster stock of the last decade. It continues to dominate many tech sectors and even leaving the destruction of whole industries in its wake. One example is the compact disk as a product and the company Tower Records that was made obsolete with iPods and iTunes.
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IBD’s 20 Rules For Investment Success aren’t based on our personal opinion or those of Wall Street experts. IBD® built models of the most successful stocks each year from 1880 to 2010. IBD studied what common factors that existed before these great winners had large advances and how they changed when the stocks topped. So these rules
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A book review for Brent Penfold’s book ‘ The Universal Principles of Successful Trading: Essential Knowledge for All Traders in All Markets” This book is excellent for traders that are ready for it. You need a foundation in trading to understand its importance and take the principles seriously. Once you are through the rainbow and
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