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Stock Trading Tips Mind of a Successful Trader
Disclaimer Trading stocks, especially low-priced stocks, is VERY risky. You are on your own, no warranties. Check with a qualified investment professional. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose. This is not investment advice.
www.investing-performance.com In talking with people who want to learn how to trade with great profits, or who ask me to evaluate stocks for them, I notice that there is a difference in the mindset, in addition to the procedures that we use to evaluate trades.
www.investing-performance.com This will focus on the difference in the mindset that let's you pick the best stocks, and not the stock scams.
First, the successful stock trader thinks only of the future. Stock traders, stock pickers, are in the business of prediction.
Those who invest successfully are not excited that the company has just made a big announcement - they want to find a company that is about to make a big announcement.
www.investing-performance.com Thus, the old saying, “buy on the rumor, sell on the news.� Anticipate. Predict.
Or another old one, buy straw hats in January. You buy in advance of the demand if you want to take full advantage of the hottest stocks.
www.investing-performance.com If the stock is trading in a dull, lackluster fashion, the question is will it go up? Most traders ignore such stocks because there is no "action" in them.
www.investing-performance.com In fact, Wall Street is the only business where to get more buyers, you increase the price. In the retail business, if you are selling straw hats, you lower the price and announce a sale.
www.investing-performance.com Stock manipulators, on the other hand, use increases in price and volume to get buyers. If you are buying only the most active stocks, you are probably losing money.
www.investing-performance.com If you are buying only those that hit new highs, you are probably losing money.
www.investing-performance.com One of my favorite hunting grounds is the list of new lows (Note, however, I know that stocks move in trends and I do not get in front of moving trains that are going down.)
www.investing-performance.com Second, I instinctively go against the crowd. You want to buy cheap and sell high, right?
www.investing-performance.com Well, stocks are cheap when nobody is buying, duh. And stocks are high when everyone is buying. Enough said.
www.investing-performance.com When I was telling people to buy the day after the crash in 1987, nobody wanted to listen but you could have bought blue chips names below almost below their cash per share and certainly below their liquidation value.
www.investing-performance.com I got on a financial radio show in Miami and told people "mortgage your houses and buy, you will never see these prices again!"
www.investing-performance.com Only one person called and he didn't buy anything. Yet the market never saw these prices ever again.
www.investing-performance.com There is an indicator out there called the consensus and it tells you what percentage of folks are bullish and bearish. We also note that contrarian investors are successful but not wildly so. There is more to learn.
www.investing-performance.com Start thinking of the future. What has happened now, what you know now, is only your starting point. What will happen next? Is there a trend or is this move the first leg of a reversal pattern?
www.investing-performance.com Buy value and look for the cheap stocks that have a good future of ahead of them. Anticipate and predict.
www.investing-performance.com Third, the successful trader, while he wants to know everything before he buys, does not wait to know why to sell.
www.investing-performance.com If the price declines sharply and suddenly, the up trend is broke and the trader does not know why, it means something is wrong and he sells as a knee-jerk reflex action.
www.investing-performance.com He knows that about six weeks from now, when the price is much lower, he and the world will know, but right now the trader knows that he must sell to save his skin.
www.investing-performance.com Fourth, the successful trader is a professional and he is constantly looking to keep up with the latest techniques, to learn more, and he spares no effort in his quest for more knowledge. Yet he knows that it is the basic principles that are the most powerful.
www.investing-performance.com He focuses on the application of these principles by learning, learning, learning. He invests in learning, even knowing that some of this might be wasted. He is always looking for the latest improvement, the secrets of trading.
www.investing-performance.com Finally, the successful trader deals in action. He makes decisions. Once he has enough to make a decision, he acts or not.
In the stock market, it is action that makes you money!
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www.investing-performance.com John Lux is a former OTC Market Maker, venture capitalist, investment banker and attorney.
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