They pursue realistic goals as their returns. They take decisive and immediate action when their buy or sell signal is hit. They focus on winning trades and not quantity of trades. They make logical, informed trading decisions within their system, based on the probabilities. They avoid the trap of trying to make perfect trades, and […]
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If you want to come out as the winner in your trading adventure let the charts be your guide. For me the charts biggest translator is the moving average. It works so well because it is based on the one thing that matters the most: PRICE. But it smooths all the price noise into an
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One thing that trips up new traders is that they are surprised at the emotions that flood into them when they begin the process of trading with real money. Their ego engages and they do not want to be wrong and they sure don’t want to lose money. The negative downward emotional spiral takes down
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My trade going into the Greek elections is to stay in cash as I have been almost all week. I am not disappointed this week I will let the day traders make their money in this market and watch the bears get mauled by central bank interventions while I sit
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Ever have that day when you were a new trader and you were 100% sure about a trade. You just could not lose, the stock was a real buy it had already fallen a great deal and it could not possibly fall any farther. So you waited and then plunged in, you couldn’t
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The S & P 500 has been range bound for a week holding at the 10 day moving average as support. The problem is that it can run the full range and back in 48 hours. The market is currently range bound in a $131/$134 $SPY price box. A price break out from here
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U.S. Investing Champion Mark Minervini, who was featured in Jack Schwager’s book Stock Market Wizards, was generous enough to grant me this interview. Read on and learn from the man who has returned consistent triple digit returns in the stock market. Jack Schwager wrote in the book Stock Market Wizards; Interviews with America’s
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Two of the biggest obstacles in trading is managing risk and using a winning method. However, even if you control your risk on every trade and have a methodology that is a winner in the long term you can still
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With the powerful reversal off the $SPY 200 day and then the comeback after the reversal day I am ready to go long. The European Union headline risk was hanging over the market causing a lot of uncertainty and confusion but with the loan to the Spanish banks approved much of this will
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The free markets do not give up profits easily. The vast majority of all traders lose money over the long term. Many studies say it is as much as 90% that are net losers after all their trading. Even investors can work very hard to end up at even after a brutal bear markets takes
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In trading while we have zero control over the long term moves in the markets we have 100% control over our own actions. It is not the market movements that will ultimately decide whether we win or lose but our own decisions. It is not a matter of what the
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It is easy to become obsessed with adding to our trading arsenal with knowledge, books, chart patterns, indicators, moving averages, and gurus, that we forget to analyze what we need to remove from our plan. One of the largest determining factors as to whether a new trader ends up as a winning trader, is how
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Do you know what the biggest secret is for the rich trader? The big secret is that they were not born a brilliant trader. They did not just trade and become instantly profitable. No, they are just like any one else. Except for one thing… they never quit. When they blew out their first account
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When I find a stock that I want to short, how do I trade it? My opinion about a short is not sufficient for a trade, the chart has to agree with me or I have to wait until it does. Here are the charts of four profitable short plays I had this year. While
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A down trending market is not the same as a range bound market or a bull market.The loss of the 200 day moving average and it not being retaken by the close is a big red flag for the potential beginning of a bear market. Bear markets do not have defined supports they can fall
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The 200 day is the test of all tests for the bulls, there are many systems used by traders that gives a buy signal for stocks as they move above their 200 day moving average. For the last three years buying THE market leader Apple as it either bounced near or rallied back above the
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The 200 day is the test of all tests for the bulls, there are many systems used by traders that gives a buy signal for stocks as they move above their 200 day moving average. For the last three years buying THE market leader Apple as it either
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I love facebook, I think it had all the potential of being a monster stock. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg and company were able to wait long enough, (8 years) and then to issue enough shares (2.14 Billion) at a high enough price ($38) to leave no money on the table for retail investors. Traditionally a growth company
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Time and again I heard him say, “Well, this is a bull market, you know!” as though he were giving to you a priceless talisman wrapped up in a million-dollar accident-insurance policy. And, of course, I did not get his meaning. (Mr. Partridge from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator) “They say there are two sides
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The pain of losing is something that many traders can not bear. When you get into 10 or 15 straight losses then the lack of risk management will knock a trader out of the game. Even if you have risk management in place many times the mental pain and anguish
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