Posted on June 28th, 2008 by david
Below we have listed a few common investor mistakes. Try to avoid making these mistakes with your investments.
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Falling in love with a position. An account has limited capital, so ask yourself if the position is the best one to be in here. Are you tying up capital that can be put to better use elsewhere? [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by david
After you have found a profitable stock trading system that you already back tested, how can you be sure that this system will produce the same gains in future?
Nobody can predict the future, your system can easily make losses in next years or can be no tradable.
There are some tests you must do [...]
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Posted on June 20th, 2008 by david
Most stocks are traded on exchanges, which are places where buyers and sellers meet and decide on a price. Some exchanges are physical locations where transactions are carried out on a trading floor. You’ve probably seen pictures of a trading floor, in which traders are wildly throwing their arms up, waving, yelling, and signaling to [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by david
Let me share a story with you -
This story is about two young men. Both of them graduated from the college on the same day. Both of them have a passion towards stock trading, both were intelligent, both of them were full of aspirations and wanted to become successful in the stock market.
Both of them [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by david
It is said that stock trading is 85% psychological and 15% methodological. Does this then imply that regardless of Stock trading method, a trader that has control over their emotional issues will thus be a profitable trader, or will it be impossible to ever control emotions without the proficient implementation of method? The stock trading [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by david
Remove the loser and keep the winner
For many it is worse than having a tooth pulled to sell a stock for a price lower than what they paid for it. If you buy a stock for $20 and it drops to $10, so long as you don’t sell, then it can be referred to as [...]
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