Tweet This week’s Trading Lesson Few Make Money; Most Lose: People frequently ask me, “How much money can you make trading stocks?” I understand why people ask the question but it is a question that does not have one easy answer because there are so many variables. It is like...
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Category Archives: Best Trading Tips
Don’t Do it for the Money
Tweet This Week’s Trading Lesson “Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.” - Gordon Gecko, Wall Street Does Money Motivate? Depends on The Task It is generally accepted that money is a motivator; if you link pay to performance, performance will improve. For that reason, many people’s salaries vary...
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Focus on The Best Ideas
Tweet Maintain a High Trading Standard 06.03.13 There are approximately 15,000 actively traded stocks on the major North American stock markets. That gives investors looking for a stock to trade a lot of choices. Good traders respond to these varied alternatives by being selective and taking the best of the...
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8 Trading Mistakes You Must Avoid
Tweet 8 Trading Mistakes You Must Avoid This Week’s Trading Lesson Here is a list of eight mistakes that most of us do as we work our way through the learning process it takes to be a successful stock trader. Avoid these and you will be well on your way....
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Apple & Netflix Case Study: Technicals Lead, Fundamentals Lag
Tweet Conclusion: Technicals Lead, Fundamentals Lag. The following two case studies illustrate a very important point: The market and individual stocks (i.e. technicals) move months BEFORE the fundamentals move (up or down). The reasons “why” are lengthy and outside the scope of this article. Instead of discussing the “why” we shall focus...
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7 Trading/Investing Problems, 7 Solutions
Tweet This Week’s Trading Lesson I have often said that making money trading stocks is simple, but not easy. Once you learn basic technical analysis techniques, have good tools to identify opportunities and gain some experience at identifying good trading opportunities, the actual job of picking stocks is relatively straightforward....
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Valuable vs Invaluable Information
Tweet Conclusion: The Most Valuable Information is Price Action: In theory, information should make the stock market’s world go round. Information about companies and their ability to make money in the future is what should determine share price. As the market learns of new information, price is adjusted up and...
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Separate Your Emotions From Your Decisions: Ron Johnson & Jon Corzine Lesson
Tweet Our longstanding readers and clients know that we are big fans of removing your emotions from the decision making process, in life and in the market. This is yet another lesson of what it is paramount for investors to remain objective, analyze the facts and always listen to what...
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10 Important Trading Lessons
Tweet This Week’s Trading Lesson I believe that making money in the market requires doing what is hard. Often, when your emotions are telling you to take one course of action, you have to go the other way. Here are 10 hard, but necessary, things to do if you want...
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Know What People Do, Not What they Say They Are Doing
Tweet Know What People Do, Not What they Say They Are Doing Source: Stockscores.com Perspectives for the week ending March 20, 2013 This week’s Trading Lesson Investors have many choices on how to analyze the stock market. Most use some form of fundamental analysis, looking at company information to determine...
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