Stock Market Trading

One Of The Most Shockingly Silly Stock Trading Concepts Of Most Traders

2011-03-25T08:28:00.000-07:00

In stock trading, the saying let your winners ride is much more challenging than a lot of traders believe. To let your winners ride suggests do not freak out over ridiculous stuff. A trader I know, Steve, sold out of a strong uptrending stock for a 3% gain. The next Monday when trading started, the stock continued to go up. Steve was bummed that he did not hold the stock a little longer. Part

Stock Market Outlook For Trading Week Starting March 21 2011

2011-03-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday, I said that bears had a minor advantage starting trading the week of March 14 2011. For the next week, my outlook is similar: bears have got a slight advantage starting trading next week. Take into account that the advantage bears have over bulls is incredibly small. This is not a yahoo strong downtrend rating so let's short this market. The Dow is in a weak downtrend. The Dow

Trading Trolls

2011-03-18T13:29:00.001-07:00

A troll sent me a comment about a previous video clip where I celebrated making 5% in a stock after holding for a month. The troll said, "I don't see why you are so happy making 5% in a stock after holding it for 4 weeks. Ohhhh... big money, don't spend it all in one place." Worn out cliché aside, this troll must understand a critical fact about investing. This is simply not Hollywood. Trading

How To Trade And Win

2011-03-16T12:33:00.001-07:00

Now don't you enjoy it whenever you slam dunk a trade? That's really what we did in FCEL. Within 2 days, we landed a 7% gain. Where did that money originate from? It originated from other traders that put their money in the stock. We took those funds and ran. These other traders had no intention of giving us their money. The reality is, these folks were hoping to take our money. In this

Locating Best Prices For Gas

2011-03-15T06:41:00.001-07:00

A penny saved is a penny earned. Discovering methods to cut costs as a way to put more into your trading account can really explode your trading account balance. A few weeks ago, I did a video regarding how tracking gas futures will let you predict the price of gas in your area by two to three weeks. I predicted that gas prices in my area would cross above the all important $4 per gallon within

Spooky Stock Market Cycles

2010-09-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

Stock market cycles are one of the most astonishing and rewarding studies that can be done. There are numerous categories of cycles that happen in the stock market. The one which I am revealing today is known as the Four-Year Cycle. The stock market has a reliable tendency to bottom every four years going back to the late 1960s. That is really astounding when you see it. Why does this unexpected

Millionaire Day Trader A Excruciating Walk

2010-07-28T17:45:00.000-07:00

Will I still be a millionaire day trader by the time I am 50? At the time I first began investing in 1993, I began in mutual funds. I did not have much. I continued adding a little bit of money each month from my day jobs and night job to my trading account and when I had an adequate amount, I would acquire more of the identical large funds. I brought my trading account up to $10,000 which was

Pair Strategy And A Bit Of Luck

2010-07-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

I have got lots of attention on my pair strategy lesson and the play I took in both Apple and Research In Motion. I went long Apple and short Research In Motion. The tactic of matching a long position with a short position in two stocks of the same sector is called pair trading. This creates a hedge against the industry and the general market that the two stocks are trading in. The hedge made is

Killer Opening Range Trading Tactic Used By Professional Stock Traders

2010-07-26T07:15:00.000-07:00

One of the most well-liked intraday stock trading method practiced by institutional traders is the Opening Range Trading Breakout. Ever since its beginning, the Opening Range Breakout has evolved into a number of different strategies. We are going to define the Opening Range as the initial 30 minutes of stock trading. At the thirty minute mark, we will draw a line on our stock chart or make a

Trade Slow Stochastic Right And Rip Up Other Traders

2010-07-25T12:22:00.000-07:00

Brought into this world via George C. Lane in the late 1950s, the Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum guide that tells us the location of the current close compared to the high/low range over a specific number of periods. George Lane M.D. (1921 to 2004) was a Medical Doctor, securities trader, author, teacher, and technical analyst. He brought into this world and hyped the Stochastic Oscillator,

S and P Trend Bullish Flag Breakout

2010-07-24T16:59:00.000-07:00

Salutations my buddy stock trading warriors. We might be at the birth of a new major S & P trend higher.What?Whose bong am I toking from to say that with so many Americans being jobless, banks being closed down, and housing construction taking a double decline to the downside?Terrific question. It does appear out of the question provided you are a one-dimensional life form living in the here and

Candlestick Trader Tutorial 3 Favorite Patterns

2010-07-23T21:33:00.000-07:00

There are many candlestick patterns but there are just several that you certainly need to learn even though you may not be a candlestick trader.These candlestick patterns are more functional once you know what is occurring in each pattern.Candlesticks have got to be used with other forms of technical analysis to really be useful. For example, when you see one of these candlestick patterns on the

Hot New Pick TSS Downtrend Channel Breakout

2010-07-22T21:09:00.000-07:00

This beautiful chart on Total System Services (TSS) says it all. Bought right before market close today.

Pump and Dump Stocks You Need To Avoid

2010-07-22T20:50:00.000-07:00

Pump and dump stocks are frequently penny stocks, OTCBB stocks, but in reality any low liquidity stock could be used. This is why I don't buy low liquidity stocks and definitely never pink sheet stocks. Those of you long time readers who are acquainted with me on a more individual level understand that I was cleaned out of about $10,000 in just such a pump and dump stocks scam in a company called

Trade The Trend Traders Attacked By Institutions

2010-07-22T17:06:00.000-07:00

Institutional stock traders have targeted trade the trend investors like us. With bitter, evil, fashion, Institutional stock traders are selling into the up swings and covering shorts into the down swings to compact the swing range too narrow for the majority of us to make money in. This has made head fakes both to the upside and to the downside over the last week.Something that has spooked bears

Dangerous Nielsen IPO That Could Put You In Hospital

2010-07-22T08:24:00.000-07:00

At hand is tons of hum on the street about the future Nielsen IPO.Provided you have not heard about it, what rock have you been hiding under?This is what is going down my friend.Nielsen Holdings, best known for its TV ratings business, has operations in roughly 100 countries and yearly revenue of about $4.8 billion. Nielsen, the tv ratings and customer research company, wants to raise $1.9

Downtrend Continues

2010-07-22T07:42:00.000-07:00

I have been receiving emails from subscribers asking me to do an update on the S&P 500.No doubt this is a rough stock market to earn money in while we have the kind of sideways stock trading we have been in this week. However the last thing you want me to do is to play some type of balancing on both sides of the fence slant like John Murphy or Arthur Hill take. You want me to give you my view of

Learn 5 Methods Of Avoiding Losses In Trading

2010-07-21T07:45:00.000-07:00

Your hunt for information on the topic of avoiding losses in trading says to me that your brain is in the correct place. The majority of rookie investors concentrate on materialism or the opposite of risk aversion. Rookies imagine how much money they will make if their stock goes up to xx, and not about how they can minimize stock trading losses.Is it possible to avoid losses in stock trading? No

3 Insane But True Stock Trading Myths That Will Clean You Out

2010-07-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

Even as we've been kept awake at night wetting our sushi night clothes for fear of losing trades and jumping off our house, the majority of losing trades come from misconceptions born inside our heads.This is how most losing trades happen:1 - Double down. Whatever moron thought of this idea had to be a guy with a lot of money. The original hypothesis of doubling down must have come from some

The Real Reason We Are Going Into A Double Dip Recession

2010-07-18T08:28:00.000-07:00

I'm a registered Independent. I need to make that clear right at the start, I'm not a Democrat. I do not care much for Fox News, Sean Hannity, brand of Republicans who place politics in their analysis of gold.I do not feel any trader should let political favoritism to sway their technical analysis. However when two political parties are doing battle over the economy and it is having an effect on

Revenge Is Sweeter When Money Is Involved

2010-07-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

Sweet move mollycoddle! I'm off the bench and back in this stock market on the short side.Come again? What happened to the 5 trading day punishment it's barely been 3 trading days?What could make me fly from off the bench and into the stock market today?Why the stock market itself of course.Today was a gorgeous sell off next to trend channel resistance. The sell off was so relentless that market

Stock Chart Analysis On QQQQ And Why You Should Be On The Sidelines

2010-07-16T07:21:00.000-07:00

I have been reading a lot of talk on today's chart about how the volume on the buy side is really dreadful. This is really not true when applied to the Nasdaq.Buy side volume has been escalating into the upward move. If you see my vids you understand that I totally fancy buy side volume increasing into a up move. This suggests more and more converts are coming over to the bullish side.Another

Stupidity Digest How To Never Be Wrong In Technical Analysis

2010-07-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

There is a stigma with reference to being wrong in technical analyst circles. The dishonor is so prevalent that it leads famed technical analysts like John Murphy, thought of by many to be the grand daddy of modern day technical analysis and inter-market connections, to say he is a reviewer only and will not provide concrete buy or sell recommendations.I beg your pardon?!If you trust in what you

Can Bulls Continue To Screw Bears

2010-07-13T06:46:00.000-07:00

If you watched the weekend update video on SPY then you by now know that I am ready to close my short position for a loss. Provided that happens, it will be my third loss back to back and will kick in my internal stop loss rule of no more stock trading for awhile. Though, to close out my short, bulls have to show they control the trend. In particular, I need to witness the downtrend channel wall

Critical Test Of Channel Week Of July 12 2010

2010-07-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

Stocks have had one of the best up weeks that they have had in almost a year. Short terms traders that listened to last weekends FTV video with any luck were able to take advantage of the upswing. Nevertheless if you are a long term trader then you did not care to buy last week for the reason that we are still in the boundaries of a downtrend channel. That suggests that you have lower swing highs