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 options. In range bound markets look for trends in […]
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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. Another error for new traders is that when they have
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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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