In trading fear can be good or bad, if you let fear control you it is bad if you control fear it can cause you to have positive behaviors. Here are the proper uses of fear in trading. GOOD FEAR Be afraid of losing more than 1% of your […]
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If you want to make money in the stock market it is crucial that you trade correctly for the market you are in. In up trends buy long and purchase call options. In down trends sell short and buy put options. In range bound markets look for trends in
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In trading most new traders allow hope and fear to dictate their trading. They have a losing trade and instead of selling it and getting out they instead hope it will come back to even allowing the loss to grow. Another error for new traders is that when they have
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While I do not predict, I do play the trend and the probabilities in my trading. I am currently long 100 shares of Priceline stock at an average price of $723 a share. Thanks to Expedia’s much better than expected earnings and sales results $PCLN holders got to experience a
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If you have not realized it yet, in trading you are not going to be right every time with your trades. You are not even going to be right the majority of the time. Most of the best traders in the world are only right 50% of the time, many
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Trading is not all about just stock picking, it is not just about a winning system. Yes, first you have to understand how to trade and put the odds in your favor of winning, but that is not enough. You must also add in risk management so when you lose ten times in a
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In trading activity alone does not make money, the right activity at the right time is what makes money. Many times the right thing, is to do nothing. In your actual trading you have to do four things very well to make money. You have to know when to get in. Only enter trades that
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My trading consists of trading existing trends wherever they are. There is nothing I like better than to find a stock or ETF breaking out to all time highs or breaking down to all time lows after being range bound. I also like to buy off key supports in longer term trends like the
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With the market in correction and with many of my favorite monster stocks like Apple and Price Line stopping me out a week ago after losing their 5 day ema and then after I was out even falling back to their 20 day simple moving averages. I had
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The forward written by Jeff Pierce for my new book “Show Me Your Options!” Steve Burns and I met by chance, however it was inevitable that we would bump into each other given our similar trading styles and how active we are on Twitter in our niche. I was looking for someone to contribute
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On Friday the 13th our heightened sense of awareness probably labels many things as unlucky when the odds are they are normal things but we notice them more today than ever on this ‘unlucky’ day. The same thing happens in trading when we get purely lucky and think we are
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In trading the money is not in opinions it is in following the actual price action and going where it takes you. The long term money is not in the big bets it is in controlling your risk so you can keep some profits. The money is not in being
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People lose money shorting stocks because they do it wrong. Easy money is made in bull markets by being long monster stocks not trying to bet when they will stop going up. This kind of shorting does not put the odds in your favor, shorting is not even worth the
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Just like members of the US Army Special Forces stand out as being special for their green berets, stocks that have green prices on days when the majority of the market is in correction are very special also. These are ones to add to watch lists, study charts, look at
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Just about every new trader who launches into trading before doing the proper homework ends up ‘blowing up their account’ which is generally considered suffering a 50% or greater draw down from their original equity starting point. Some of the signs of being in danger is just trading your opinion
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Most new traders generally go looking for the holy grail of trading. That system that just prints money, they believe it exists and will look relentlessly for it. However there is no holy grail of trading. The closest thing a trader can get to a holy grail in trading is a robust mechanical trend following
Many new traders fail in the stock market simply because they rush in without putting in the proper time and discipline in doing their homework. Trading is a professional endeavor much like any other career, you will only get out of it what you put into it. There is no easy money, you will have
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The most important thing you must learn in every market cycle is where the money is flowing. It is flowing into the companies where the earnings are growing. As long as mutual funds have capital in flows instead of net out flows then they must put new money to work investing in stocks. If you
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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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