Trading Tips No 5: Stock Trading Curve Drawdown and Commitment
All stock trading and investing methods must deal with the inevitable drawdown from the most recent peak in one's stock trading curve to a bottom before reversing and making a new high. Seasoned systems traders are well familiar with the drawdown phenomenon and the importance of drawdown as a percentage... Read More
NASDAQ 800?
In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at 3000 I wrote in this column that the NASDAQ Index would fall to 1500 and I got lots of heat for saying it. Microsoft had fallen from $129 to $60 per share. You know where they are today.The talking heads... Read More
Losses, not Profits, will Stop You from Trading in the Market
Should the market turn against you, it is important that you design a system that will produce as much loss as you are prepared to take. This loss, known as drawdown, is the maximum amount by which your trading float will temporarily drop at anytime. Doing this in advance, will... Read More
How to Pick Winning Stocks
There is nothing more exciting than finding an undervalued stock and seeing it explode out of nowhere rising in value 100% or more in a few weeks. Some stocks can move as much as 1000% in a year and?. Even after the stock market crashed in 2000, some stocks still... Read More
Time Out
Are you paying any attention to your retirement savings? Do you have it in cash or an account with a broker? Maybe you have a professional manager who is investing your money as you add to it every month.Is your account increasing in value every year? If it isn't why... Read More
Does Japan Matter?
For the last 12 years we have seen the Japanese stock market slowly sinking from a high of 38,000 to about 8,000, more than a 75% loss and very close to the price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Why should we care about their stock market?Please understand that the... Read More
Trading For A Living - Part 1
There can't be many traders who haven't at least considered the idea of telling the boss what they think of him, throwing it all in and going off to trade the stock market for a living. It's a big risk financially, and that uncertainty is what stops most from jumping... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolios Returns
Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds for their stock investments often lose out on opportunities to increase the reward potential of their portfolios. This article looks at two methods investors may use to enhance the performance of their portfolio of diversifed, no load mutual funds.Diversify, diversify,... Read More
How to Make Big Money Safely in Stock Market
(1) Stock Market is Tough Place to Make Any Money ConsistentlyNASDAQ or SP&500 averaged about -6% per year for 5 years between 1999 and 2003. Many individual investors who made killing in the internet bubble period got wiped out during those 5 years. Many who trusted Wall Street experts by... Read More
The 1% Solution
You probably know the story of Sherlock Holmes and the 7% solution. He had a drug addiction. He needed the drug. He was able to control his addiction by taking the drug in a 7% concentration. Anyone with common sense knows you cannot survive on 7%. It is a slow... Read More
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Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical... Read More
Lemmings Are Gathering
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The Three Little Pigs Went to the Stock Market
Three little pigs went to the market to stock up... Read More
Some Good News for A Change
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Right now there doesn't seem to be any "gold fever".... Read More
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Every day on CNBC-TV they show a 200-day moving average... Read More
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I have watched my cat play with a bag of... Read More
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I was recently interviewed for a press release through a... Read More
VIX
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When you invest in the stock market for ever-increasing cash... Read More
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Most stock traders know that momentum trading can be a... Read More
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Peer Groups
Whenever I see mutual fund comparisons in the trade publications... Read More
What Does it Take to be a Stock Trader?
It takes a total mental commitment to the task. It... Read More
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Intervention. Now don't let that big word scare you. The... Read More
Perfect Storm
Having lived aboard a sailboat for 2 years I was... Read More
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For years investors have been taught to look into the... Read More
How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns
When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of... Read More
Index Fund Trading Using Technical Analysis and Swing Trading Strategies
Index Fund Trading can be one of the most profitable...or... Read More
The Surgeon General
The Surgeon General of the United States says that smoking... Read More
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TOO OFTEN, INVESTORS SIMPLY CHOOSE TO follow the crowd. This... Read More
Never Fall In Love!
Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More
This Market Is Different
All of the talking heads have been telling us that... Read More
Economists #2
Economists know more about how the fragments of society work... Read More
The Stock Market - How Just One Question Will Tell You All You Need To Know About Your Stock Broker
Last time we looked at the real performance of the... Read More
Wall Street Paradigm
In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in... Read More
What is the Most Important Indicator of All?
Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one... Read More
A Triple Dipper: How to Make 3 Profits on 1 Stock Trade
This is a rather simple strategy with which I am... Read More
Robert Rodriguez Weathers the Stock Market
Robert Rodriguez likes to buy stocks at their lows. When... Read More
My Neighbor Got A New Car
I don't know what kind it is, but I saw... Read More
When Should I Sell?
People are always asking me when should I sell my... Read More
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You may have wondered why your mutual funds have been... Read More
Trading as a Business
What can I expect to make my first year of... Read More
Trading For A Living
How many times have you said to yourself, "I'd like... Read More
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Stock Market
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Mousetrap
The spring-loaded rat catcher is the ultimate low-tech device invented... Read More
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The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in... Read More
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One Saturday morning, while he was sitting at his computer... Read More
Analyzing Growth Stocks: An Important Focus For Any Investor
Analyzing growth stocks is an important focus for any investor.... Read More
What Can Model Airplanes Teach You About Trading?
I was devastated!I just couldn't believe it. I was 10... Read More
Investment Capital Gains
Have you bought any mutual funds this year or late... Read More
Financial Crime
Congress recently passed another new law that is supposed to... Read More
Stock Market Investments
If there is one term over-used when talking about making... Read More
How To Buy And Hold
One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from... Read More
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Shorting Stocks ? The Basics, Part I of II
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Where Is The Rabbit?
We need a rabbit!This was a pretty horrible week for... Read More
Peer Groups
Whenever I see mutual fund comparisons in the trade publications... Read More
Some Good News for A Change
Before we get into all the good news out there,... Read More
Dont Ask Your Broker
Unfortunately, most of you who are reading my column are... Read More
Never Fall In Love!
Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More
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If you have not back tested your trading system, you... Read More
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Hold Em and Fold Em
When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try... Read More
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The higher the market goes the more confusing are the... Read More
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