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Don’t be a Trading Hero

Posted By: Steve Burnson: May 01, 2012

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 opti... Read more

Using Hope & Fear Correctly in Trading

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 30, 2012

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... Read more

Top Ten Reasons $PCLN could go to $800

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 29, 2012

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... Read more

Van Tharp On Risk Management

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 28, 2012

These is one of the key trading lessons that really helped me understand risk management long ago. This is one of the keys to successful trading, viewing risk as your metric for trading. This article was originally published on the Van Th... Read more

Batting .500 in Trading

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 27, 2012

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... Read more

How Many Dimensions Do You Trade in? 1, 2, or 3?

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 26, 2012

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... Read more

Saving your Emotional Capital $AAPL Earnings

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 25, 2012

While all the Apple bulls where having a celebration party on the move back to $610 today I could not help but wonder if they rode this stock from $644 to $555 and were just celebrating getting back to w... Read more

A video tale of the $AAPL bulls journey this year

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 24, 2012

Here is a video tale of what the Apple bulls went through this year while just simply buying and holding Apple. This video shows the strong move up in the 1st quarter, the sell off before earnings, and finally... Read more

To Trade or Not to Trade: The Most Important Question

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 23, 2012

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... Read more

Apple Earnings: Gambling?

Posted By: Steve Burnson: April 22, 2012

Well here we go, Apple earnings on Tuesday. How am I going to play it? From the sidelines. Why? Because for me the money is in the run up to earnings due to earnings expectations which ended abruptly last week.... Read more

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