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Tag: trading
- June 25, 2010Swing Baby! And Keep Swinging!
Ken at Top Breakout Stocks recently made a comment here about this WSJ article. What did he say? “Replace the word ‘strikeout’ with ‘taking a loss’ and ‘runs’ with ‘profits’ and it’s…
- June 19, 2010Bernard Drury: “An Intrinsic Part of Trading”
Bernard Drury of Drury Capital writes in his May 10 newsletter: “While trading losses are never welcome, we know that encountering price corrections is an intrinsic part of trading these markets. As…
- May 10, 2010The Markets as ‘The Truman Show’
An excerpt I like: “The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy-drama…The film chronicles the life of a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality soap opera, televised 24/7…
- April 19, 2010What is StockTwits: It it of Use or Just a Bunch of Twits?
Howard Lindzon has said some very nice things about my books. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way: what in the world is the purpose of StockTwits? For example, from…
- February 2, 2010Timeless Trend Trading Wisdom
In the 1954 work ‘New Blueprints for Gains in Stocks and Grains’ William Dunnigan stated: “We think that “forecasting” should be thought of in the light of measuring the direction of today’s…
- January 22, 2010Thomas Stridsman on Trend Following Trading
A good article on trend following trading (PDF): “…being a systematic trend follower also induces some pain from time to time, but overall results move slowly in the right direction. Trend followers…
- November 30, 2009Money Management Advice
Trading mentor Van Tharp once stated: Perhaps the greatest secret to top trading and investing success is appropriate money management. I call it a ‘secret’ because few people seem to understand it,…