Slav Fedorov
Full-time stock trader and founder and managing member of TradingZoom, LLC, a provider of timely stock picks to part-time traders. Former banker, stockbroker, financial planner, with over 20 years market experience.
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Investments for High InflationStocks offer the best protection against inflation but short-term they decline when interest rates begin to climb. Nobody can predict which stocks will benefit from inflation but it pays to have some basic investment ideas in case inflation does heat up.
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Stock Market Corrections: Sell, Hold or Buy More?When stocks plunge 50%, an investor looks back and thinks:"Should have sold earlier." Next time when stocks decline 10% the investor sells as a precaution but the decline ends abruptly and stocks turn higher. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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Who Profits From Stock Market Corrections?When investors sell shares in a correction, who is buying? Are the buyers stupid or reckless, or do they know something other don't? Does anyone other than shorts benefit from corrections?
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Fear: The Primary Driver of Market CorrectionsWhen a stock declines to zero, the reasons are always fundamental - business failure - but the primary reason for most market corrections is fear.
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Modified Buy-and-Hold: Why it Still WorksMany believe that buy-and-hold is dead, that it is no longer is a viable investment strategy. They increasingly focus on short-term trading, from day trading to swing and position trading. The arguments in favor of short-term trading are solid:
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Dumb Things Stock Traders DoWe all make mistakes. Stock trading is a never-ending learning experience. But some things traders do are downright dumb, yet some traders keep doing them over and over again, without ever learning.
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How Many Stocks Should You Own?One of the questions new stock investors ask is how many stocks they should own. There are limitations: if you only have $5,000, it's hard to own more than 1 or 2 stocks but if money is not a limiting factor, how many stocks should a portfolio have?
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Opportunistic Asset AllocationAsset allocation has been elevated to a science, although it failed to protect investor portfolios from devastating losses in the 2008-2009 bear market. Yet the basic tenets of asset allocation are sound. How, then, do you do it right?
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How Do I Start Trading Full Time?Quitting your job and trading full time is still a giant leap. What if you fail? But at some point you have to decide what you want to be.
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Should You Quit Your Job to Start Trading?I know several people who want to quit their jobs and start trading for a living full time. Is this a good move?
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How Much Money Do You Need to Start Trading?This is the question I hear most often from new traders, especially those who want to quit their jobs and trade full-time for a living. Obviously, the more money you have the less risk you have to take but the exact amount of capital to start trading...
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Is IBD 50 Better Than IBD 100?On January 3, 2011 (December 31, 2010, online edition) Investor's Business Daily replaced its popular IBD 100 list '" the top 100 small cap growth stocks '" with IBD 50. Is this an improvement? The list is certainly shorter, but is it better?
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First Person: 3 Reasons to Avoid Professional Investment AdviceA retail investment adviser spends just 30 minutes per week managing a client's investment account. How can someone "professionally manage" a portfolio on 30 minutes a week? Can you do better yourself if you spend one hour?
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First Person: Private Equity: Another Bubble in the Making?The new investing mode seems to go from bubble to bubble, so is private equity the next one? I am beginning to see signs.
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Stocks in 2011: Predictions Vs. "Mental Bets"People love predictions. Whenever I see a title like "Best Stocks for 2011" I must check it out. Even if there are 100 stocks on a list, I feel compelled to check them all (I guess I am a list junkie). So, what are the best stocks for 2011?
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Understanding the Role of Volume in Stock TradingIt is important to interpret volume correctly because it helps understand price moves and thereby maximize gains and minimize losses. Volume generally goes with the trend but some cases are not as clear-cut.
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How Much Can You Lose in Bonds?If interest rates rise, bond investors can lose 30-50%, even in seemingly safe and conservative government bonds.
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How to Read an IPO ProspectusAn IPO prospectus is a legal document that accompanies a security offering such as a stock or a mutual fund. It can be up to 200 pages long but you can extract all the pertinent information in five minutes or less by using a few simple shortcuts.Also published on:
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Relationship TradingI recently heard an ad touting a bank in which a sweet female voice was saying that breaking up with the old bank wasn't that difficult, that she was much happier with her new bank. This certainly gives new meaning to "relationship banking"!
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Risks of Investing in IPOsPlaying IPOs can be a lucrative game '" provided you understand the risks.
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Risks of Investing in IPOsPlaying IPOs can be a lucrative game '" provided you understand the risks.
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Stocks and Politics: The Buck Stops HereIn the corporate world, if a company is losing money, the buck stops with the CEO. He has to go. Obama and the Democratic Congress have failed. They have to go.
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How to Play IPOsThe IPO market is heating up again. Here are some suggestions on how to play it: 1) Don't bother to try to get an allocation from an underwriter. Hot IPOs are usually oversubscribed, with most shares going to the underwriters' best clients '" big --
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Stock Trading: Being Nice Can Cost YouModerated stock groups draw people seeking to escape the nastiness of some non-moderated stock message boards for a nice place where they can talk shop and learn without being attacked or derided. But in stock trading, being nice can cost you money.
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Stocks and Politics: The Obama Stock MarketObamanites will point out that on Obama's watch the Dow went from 6,500 in March 2009 to 11,000 in October 2010. But the market actually advanced when it felt that Obama was impotent and declined when it feared that Obama was going to do something.
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The Time Element in Stock Trading - the Most Misunderstood ConceptThe time element is the most misunderstood concept in stock trading. And probably the most important.
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Wall Street Bashing is Popular but Where Has it Got You?Bashing Wall Street has become a popular avocation. But where has that blame got YOU?
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Why Technicians and Non-Technicians Are Both RightTechnicians say that stocks move in trends and that past chart patterns can predict future moves. Non-technicians disagree, saying that stock moves are chaotic and random. Both are right.
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Stock Trading: The Danger of Acting in AnticipationYou find a stock that has formed a great base and is ready to break out so you buy it in anticipation. But it just won't move. You root for it, becoming a message board cheerleader but the stock just refuses to go through the pivot. What do you do?
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Cruising Your Way to ProfitsI like cruising. I pick stocks for a living. Come to think of it, those two have a lot in common.
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Stock Selection CriteriaThere is no magic parameter that will let you consistently pull winners out of a hat. The best you can do is to develop a set of criteria consistent with your method, style and stock group and adjust it as necessary.
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How to Construct a Stock PortfolioIf you want to own a portfolio of individual stocks, you must first set some ground rules, otherwise you run the risk of jumping at every buy list or stock pick that comes your way because there are thousands of "buys" and "strong buys" out there.
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How to Research Corporate BondsThe key question for bond investors is: "Will I get my money back?" The main purpose of bond research is therefore to find out how secure interest payments are '" i.e. evaluate the issuer's ability to continue to make them.
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Stocks Market: 2010 and Beyond '" the New RealityEvery trend comes to an end and every cycle completes when the forces behind them change. What follows is a period of uncertainty while a new set of forces emerge. As the old reality dies, a new one emerges.
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Stocks Market: 2010 and Beyond '" the New RealityEvery trend comes to an end and every cycle completes when the forces behind them change. What follows is a period of uncertainty while a new set of forces emerge. As the old reality dies, a new one emerges.
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Stock Trading: The Majority is Always WrongIf the market is always right, how can the majority always be wrong? Shouldn't the market action be the result of the majority opinion?
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Best Sources of Free Online Investment InformationNot long ago, access to investment information was the edge that gave big institutions an unfair advantage. Now everyone can get the same information at the same time. The problem is: how to find good information online.
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Trading Stocks: Why so Many Stock Picking Predictions Are so WrongI want to know what the future holds as much as the next guy. I diligently check out every stock list I come across. But after 6 or 12 months most of them look pretty bad. Why?
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Yahoo! Stock Message Boards as a Research ToolYahoo! Finance stock message boards are synonymous with online investing. Knowing how to use them can be a great stock research tool.
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Why Are Professionals so Eager to Share Their Stock Picks for Free?If the professionals' stock picks are so profitable, wouldn't you think they'd keep them close to their chest? Yet each time you turn around someone is touting their favorite pick in the media. Why?
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You Won't Learn Much from Simulation TradingSimulation trading, or virtual trading (paper trading before online simulation trading software) is supposed to help you learn to make money without risking capital. It won't.
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Asset Allocation Won't Protect Your Portfolio in a DownturnAsset allocation is supposed to reduce portfolio volatility by spreading your assets across different classes with limited correlation. Then why does your portfolio still drop in a downturn, no matter how much you tweak the percentages?
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Buy Low, Sell High - So Why Don't You?We all know the drill: "buy low, sell high" - so why do so many people fail to do that, and so many do the opposite?
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The Greek Debt Crisis, the Euro, and Your Portfolio: How to Plan for the Next CrisisIf you are wondering about what you should do to protect your portfolio from the Greek/euro crisis, you are using the wrong approach.
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Trading Stocks from Home: How to Get StartedThe biggest misconception about stock trading is that you need a lot of money to get started. You can have all the money in the world but if you don't have a passion for trading and a keen interest in financial markets, you won't get far.
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Professional Traits that Can Hurt You in Stock TradingMany successful professionals are bad traders. While not everybody is cut out for trading, just like not everybody can be an engineer, there are certain traits that, while giving you advantage in your chosen profession, will hurt you in stock trading.
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How to Trade Stocks from HomeWhen someone asks me what I do for a living and I say "Trade stocks," the next question usually is "Like, daytrade?" or "Really? Whom do you work for?" I do neither. I trade from home for my own account.
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The Dow, May 6, 2010: 5 Lessons from the 1,000 Point PlungeThe real question is not "What did you do?" or even "How did you do?" The real question is: "How did you feel?"
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5 Reasons Why Large Cap Stocks May OutperformThere are signs that money may be shifting into large caps. Possible reasons:
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Stock Trading: When You Buy is as Important as What You BuyThe fundamentals look great, the story is terrific, the ratings are top, analysts and Jim Cramer like it - so you buy. And the stock promptly goes down. What went wrong?
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You Won't Get Rich Investing in Mutual FundsDo you know of anybody who got rich investing in mutual funds? Ever wonder why? And how come nobody can ever predict the next big mutual fund winner?
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Growth Vs. Value: How to Profit from BothGrowth and value periodically take turns claiming out-performance. There is no need to agonize over which is better. You can profit from both. Here is how:
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"Spreading the Wealth Around" - a Stock Trader's PerspectiveAs promised, President Obama is out to "fundamentally transform" America by "spreading the wealth around." But the market debunks his socialist ideals.
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Stock Traders' Worst EnemiesThere are many subtle enemies lurking just beneath the surface that can prevent traders from reaching their full profit potential.
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If Stock Symbols Could TalkI spend so much time watching stocks that after a while they begin to talk to me. Or, rather, I find myself talking in stock symbols:
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Stock Trading: The Only Thing that Matters is the Right Here, Right NowThe Internet is brimming with free investment information and in-depth analysis but most of what's out there is focused either on what has happened or what someone thinks is going to happen, whereas what really matters is the right here, right now.
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Chinese Stocks: Too Late to Jump on the Bandwagon?Chinese stocks are hot - is it too late to jump on the bandwagon?
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Stock Trading: Are "Strong Buys" Worth "Strong Buying"?Analysts don't work for you. Their job is NOT to make you money; it is to keep their masters happy by making their biggest clients - corporations and institutional money managers - happy.
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Stock Market Correction: How Bad Will it Get?Nobody knows. Predictions are based on extrapolating current trends into the future. As flawed as this process may be, it can still work in some instances. But not in the stock market.
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Stock Trading: Consolidation, Correction, Pullback - What's the Difference?Have you ever bought a stock "on a dip" only to be told later that it was a bad time because it was correcting? How do you tell the difference between a correction, a consolidation, a pullback and a dip? And what do you do in each instance?
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How to Buy BondsBrokers like Schwab or Fidelity make a huge inventory of third party bonds available to their retail clients. You can search by type, industry/sector, price, amount, maturity, credit rating and yield. The markup (commission) is pretty low.
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Stock Trading: How to Make 50% in a Correction with Little or No RiskBelieve it or not, the easiest way to make 50% in a correction with little or no risk is by staying in cash, even if your money only earns 1%. How? Simple.
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Stock Trading: 10 Things to Do in a CorrectionBest to sit out a correction in cash, especially if you've booked sizable gains from last year's rally. Other sensible moves include:
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How to Construct Your Own Bond PortfolioBonds have a place in many portfolios: safety, income, even capital appreciation. Here are some techniques you can utilize to construct your own bond portfolio:
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Bond Funds: Do Professional Management and Diversification Matter?Bond funds tout professional management and diversification as their advantages over buying individual bonds. Do those really matter?
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Bond Funds Are a Bad InvestmentIf you buy $1,000 of a 10 year 4% bond at par, you will collect $40.00 in interest annually for the next 10 years and get your $1,000 principal back at maturity. Now look at what happens if you buy a bond fund:
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What Happened to the H1N1 Pandemic? a Stock Trader's PerspectiveWhat happened to the H1N1 pandemic that was supposed to wipe out tens of millions of people worldwide? Why are there now truckloads of unused vaccine and H1N1 ads that look like they will run into July?
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Trader's Musings on Stock Market LogicSome random year-end thoughts and observations:
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Stock Trader's New Year's ResolutionsStock trading is a never-ending learning process. I have been doing it full-time for almost 7 years now, and I am still learning new tricks. Here are the latest which I intend on focusing in the new year:
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Financial Planning: Smart and Not-So-Smart Year-End MovesAround this time, stock brokers and financial planners call their clients with year-end moves: rebalance the portfolio, sell the losers for tax purposes, review the financial plan. Should you take the bait?
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A Christmas Guide to Stock PickingWouldn't it be nice if you could pick winning stocks while unwrapping Christmas presents? You can. All you need is a frame of mind, an attitude: keep your eyes and ears open. What you are looking for is broad strokes, a big trend.
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How to Lose the Most Trading Stocks and Retire PoorIf you follow these simple steps, you are guaranteed to lose money even in a rising market, and retire poor.
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Cash Management and Dynamic Asset Allocation for Active Stock TradersCash is the lifeblood of trading. Lose your cash and you lose your chance to participate in any future opportunities. As Alexander Elder put it: "If you take care of the losses, profits will take care of themselves."
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7 Steps to Becoming a Better Stock TraderTrading is an entirely learned skill. Anyone can learn the nuts and bolts of the trade: bases, breakouts, trendlines. Yet the results vary dramatically. What sets great traders apart from the rest?
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How to Trade Stocks - Profitable Trading SituationsThere are profitable trading situations that occur regularly regardless of your trading method/strategy. Anyone can profit from them - provided you know how they work.
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How to Trade Stocks - Basic Technical AnalysisFundamental analysis helps you select which stock to buy. Technical analysis (TA) helps you determine when to buy it. You won't become a pro overnight but knowing the basics can materially improve your returns and/or save you from financial disaster.
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How to Trade Stocks: Profiting from Companies' Transactions with Their Own StockKnowing what happens in the most typical situations can be profitable.
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How to Trade Stocks: Stocks to Trade and Stocks to AvoidLimit your trading the best stocks while avoiding the most common pitfalls designed to help you part with your money.
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How to Trade Stocks - Fundamental and Technical AnalysisTo pick winning stocks, use fundamental and technical analysis.
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How to Trade Stocks - Online Order BasicsThere are several different types of orders you can use when trading stocks. Each serves its purpose.
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How to Trade Stocks - Active Trading Platforms and SystemsMost online brokers offer some version of an active trader platform. The features are more or less standard but each broker visualizes them differently. You will need to select a trading system first to determine what features to use.
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Stock Market: A Look Back - Learning from Personal ExperiencesIf you don't learn from your experiences, no amount of books or seminars will help you improve your returns. Let's take a look back at the latest bear market.
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How to Trade Stocks - MarginIt's a good idea to get approved for margin. Margin lets you borrow money from your broker using securities in your account as collateral. Here's how it works:
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Turning Personal Experiences into Profits With the Stock MarketThe concept was first popularized by Peter Lynch in "One Up On Wall Street." I'd like to share some recent personal experiences: Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL). I like cruising. I like RCL: modern ships, well-run operations, interesting itineraries.
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How to Trade Stocks - Choosing a BrokerThe only thing you need to start trading online is a brokerage account. There are plenty of online brokers to choose from. Most offer a standard menu of services. There is no one best thing, no one size fits all. Here's how to get what you need.
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Chinese Stocks Are Hot: How to Profit from ThemI wouldn't be too far off in saying that the US recovery has been led by Chinese stocks, many of which present amazing profit opportunities.
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How to Trade Stocks - Types of TradingNow that you know who the major participants are, you see what you are up against. These guys can move the markets, and they can eat you alive if you don't know what you are doing or take things lightly. You need to know how to beat them.
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How to Trade Stocks - Types of Accounts and Major PlayersIt's important to know who the major market players are - whom you are up against.
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Stocks Vs. Mutual Funds: Which is Better?Are you aware of anybody who got rich investing in mutual funds? No? How about by advising others to invest in mutual funds?
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How to Trade Stocks: Packaged ProductsMutual funds, annuities, ETFs and CEFs can all invest in stocks. As a stock trader, you need to know how they operate.
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How Profitable is CANSLIM?I believe CANSLIM is the best tool for making money in stocks but it's only as good as you make it.
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How to Trade Stocks - Financial Instruments and Market ParticipantsBonds, option, futures, and derivatives are all financial instruments whose trading can impact you as a stock trader.
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How to Trade Stocks - Financial Instruments and Market ParticipantsThere are three things you need to know before you start trading: who, what, and how - who the major players are, what they trade, and how.
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Weight TaxI have a solution for our healthcare problem - a weight tax. Don't laugh. Look:
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13 Stocks for the Coming "Obamaconomy"Mixing stocks and politics is always risky. But heck, in stock trading, what isn't? If you can't have some fun while picking stocks...
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How to Trade StocksWhatever your reason for wanting to trade, you should know the basics before taking the plunge. After all, nobody cares about your money more than you do.
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How to Gain an Edge in Stock TradingIn stock trading, you are up against the sharpest minds on Wall Street. To get ahead, you need an edge.
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How Much Money Can You Make Trading Stocks?There are no hard-wired rules but applying these baseline numbers to your situation will give you some idea.
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Knowing How to Read Charts Gives You an Edge in Stock TradingCharts are a graphic representation of the participants' collective actions in the market. The predictive value of charting is in applying past patterns to current situations on the premise that they are likely to repeat themselves.
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IBD 100 - How to Get the Most Out of ItIBD 100 is probably the most coveted list of growth stocks out there. But you need to know how to use it.
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Stock Trading as a BusinessStock trading is the greatest business one can get into. It's a level playing field. The market does not care who or what you are. It's an endless opportunity that nobody can take away. You truly are your own boss.
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Trading Zoomers - Bases, Breakouts and PivotsStocks do not advance in a straight line. They move in a succession of spurts and consolidations resembling a staircase. The goal of trading is to capture these zoomers at the beginning of the advance and sell when it stalls. -
How to Beat the Market Trading ZoomersInvestors have been conditioned to believe they can't beat the market. The truth is: the market cannot make you rich. But every year it produces enough zoomers to create serious wealth. All you need to do is find them ahead of the crowd. How?
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Trading Zoomers - What to ExpectNovices expect trading to pay monthly bills. If you are under pressure to produce by a deadline, you will take above average risks. If those result in losses, you will take even more risk to recover and still make the quota. This is a death spiral.
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Home Office Setup for Stock TradingThe most important thing is how robust your broker's platform is. You don't want it to go down on the busiest trading day. What difference will it make whether you are paying $3.00 or $10.95 per trade when an execution delay is costing you thousands?
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Lifestyle of a Stock TraderI've been trading for a living since 2003 but my passion has always been stocks. For a while, I tried to balance consulting with trading - to the detriment of both. Then, in 2003, I took the plunge and started trading full time. The hardest part?
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5 Traits of a Successful Stock TraderStock trading is a learned skill. Having passion for the markets is most important. But I believe there are other traits that are vital for achieving trading success.