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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This 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 Tharp Institute’s Web Site. Risk and R-Multiples Knowing when you’re going to exit a trade
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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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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 where they could have gotten out at weeks ago. My
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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 the earnings announcement. http://youtu.be/6tCtM8UEQv8
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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
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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. I do not hold through earnings, for me it is
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This year my best three long term trades have been trading long at all time highs and selling short at all time lows. I was the ‘crazy’ guy that traded Apple only long from $390 to $630 never shorting it and only stepping out during draw downs below short term
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Not Managing Your Risk in Trading is like…… a fisherman putting all his bait on one hook and casting it out. an NBA star betting his career on on 3 point shot from half court. an NFL quarterback betting his pro contact on one 40 yard pass. a pro golfer on tour betting his
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Price tops are strange things, they tend to happen when the maximum bullishness is in place and the company underlying the stock is as profitable as ever. What gives? Well many things cause tops, whether they are short term or long term. Here are some examples. Profit taking sets
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The Perfect Trader is patient with entries and exits, they are focused on what works not personal opinions. They do not worry about missed trades, the Perfect Trader does not boast while winning and does not become depressed while losing. They are never too proud to admit when they are wrong and exit their trade.
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What a great day in the markets for traders and investors that were long. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tacks on almost 200 points and gets back over 13,000 with a hundred points to spare. Monsters stocks springing back to life all over the place. You know the ones where
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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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I have been trading successfully for thirteen years, I have studied trading intensely for seven years. I have read and reviewed hundreds of trading books on Amazon.com. and I have also used most trading styles along with option strategies. I even had three books published on trading. What have I
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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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