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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There are some universal principles that the vast majority of Rich Traders follow. Rich Traders manage risk, they do not bet their entire account on one trade, they risk 1% to 2% of their trading capital per trade. Rich Traders do not try to prove they are right about a
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When I look for the best stocks to trend trade in the stock market I look at the Monday edition of Investor’s Business Daily. The IBD 50 published in each Monday edition of Investor’s Business Daily is a must have for every serious investor and trader. With this edition we
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In bull markets there are two types of stocks rocketing up in value. There are monster stocks that increase in price, doubling and then doubling again. Monster stocks have real earnings, real sales increases, world changing products, technology or services. Monster stocks have reasonable fundamental valuations based on their growth
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In my reading of over 200 books on trading and the stock market I think ten stand above the rest for their ability to compress trading wisdom into an easy to digest formula that anyone can read and understand. I also reviewed all of the trading books I read on Amazon here is a
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I like stocks that I am considering to buy to have these ten characteristics. I find that stocks that perform the best from me are usually ten percent or less from the its all time high. I don’t like my stocks to have overhead selling resistance from past buyers that are waiting to
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Many new traders and new investors make the mistake of looking for and buying cheap stocks. Do not fall into the cheapskate trader trap, instead just pay for quality. Cheap stocks are cheap for a reason, they are junk. Quality stocks rarely if ever trade for under $15 and the
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Where is cash flowing in the huge travel industry? One of the doors most travelers are now entering is PriceLine.com to get the best deal. Once again this monster stock is not hiding under a rock, William Shatner’s Price Line Negotiator commercials have really made this company memorable. However it was not the
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If Bruce Lee was a trader I believe this would be his advice: If you let the market show you the way you will win. Do not trade your opinions about what the market will do next, instead always ask the questions: What is the chart saying? Where is support
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I have been a huge Apple Bull since before it broke out above the 50 day moving average and ran 160 points in 2012. I have been in the stock with call options all but five days in 2012 each day fully leveraging my account capital to return the whole up
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As I was looking through some of my favorite trading books this weekend many quotes that I have highlighted in the past reminded me what Apple bulls have done correctly during this epic run up in 2012. Congratulations on all your profits and here are some quotes that might explain
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When I trade stocks, I am trying to find where capital is flowing to. The charts generally show traders what stocks are being bought the most by their continuous uptrend. Institutions are buying stocks that have the best earnings growth prospects, because as earnings flow into the company, the stock price is adjusted upwards
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I was fortunate enough this year to catch the majority of the Apple move, not because I was lucky but because I have spent many years studying the greatest stocks in history and how they behave and also how the greatest traders of all time traded them. I have
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We just finished day 26 of Apple closing above the 5 day exponential moving average, only once did it go as far down as the 10 day simple moving average and even then it bounced back rapidly. Congratulations to all long Apple traders, investors, put writers, and call option buyers,
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Apple stock has given me the best monthly return of my entire 13 year trading career in February. (28.17% in February my trades are all called on twitter). Amazingly For the last 150 points in movement for Apple I have been inundated with bears on twitter and facebook telling me
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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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I have had a great year trading thanks to my choice to trade Apple stock. I knew that it had the potential to trend in 2012 with it being such a dominating company in its industry. While fundamentals are good for building a watch list I believe that the charts
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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