Picky Traders are Good Traders
In trading focus is crucial. You have to know who you are as a trader and exactly what your method and trading plan is, and you must follow it. In trading discipline makes money, focus makes money, monster sto... Read more
Unholy Grails
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... Read more
Trading: Doing the Homework
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, yo... Read more
The 7 Best Ways to Exit a Trade
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The Secret to Trading Success
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 inste... Read more
The NCAA Tournament and stock picking
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... Read more
The Ten Most Foolish Things a Trader Can Do
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 matte... Read more
Find a Monster Stock in 15 steps
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 b... Read more
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 princi... Read more
To Short or Not to Short
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... Read more