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Market Truisms and Axioms

  
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• Commandment #1: “Thou Shall Not Trade Against the Trend.”

• Portfolios heavy with underperforming stocks rarely outperform the stock market!

• There is nothing new on Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again, mostly due to human nature.

• Sell when you can, not when you have to.

• Bulls make money, bears make money, and “pigs” get slaughtered.

• We can’t control the stock market. The very best we can do is to try to understand what the stock market is trying to tell us.

• Understanding mass psychology is just as important as understanding fundamentals and economics.

• Learn to take losses quickly, don’t expect to be right all the time, and learn from your mistakes. (more…)

11 Simple One Liner Rules For Trading

  
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11RULES
 
 In every market, you control what matters most (your behavior).
• Risk is a permanent loss of capital.
• Start now. Start again tomorrow.
• Trouble is opportunity.
• “Diversified” does not mean “never going to go down.”
• Do less than you think you should.
• Get rich quick and get poor quick are sides of the same coin.
•  If it’s exciting then it’s probably a bad idea.
• This time isn’t different (and neither are you).
• Excess is never permanent.
• Your life is the best benchmark.
 

Trading Secret

  
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My SecretI feel certain that my discipline in executing each and every trade according to my trading methodology is the secret to my success. If you want to improve your trading, what you need to do is very simple. Before you enter any trade, imagine that you will have to explain this trade to a panel of your peers, by explaining to them the reason for your entry, your money, trade, and risk management guidelines, and why you exited the trade. Imagine having to explain why you chose this particular market and this particular time frame, along with how you set objectives for the trade, and how you determined where your initial protection would be. If you can truly do this, I strongly believe that you can be successful.

14 Meaningless Stock Market Phrases

  
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14 Meaningless Phrases That Will Make You Sound Like A Stock-Market Wizard

“The easy money has been made.”
“I’m cautiously optimistic.”
“It’s a stockpicker’s market.”
“It’s not a stock market. It’s a market of stocks.”
“We’re constructive on the market.”
“Stocks are down on ‘profit taking.’”
“The trend is your friend.”
“More buyers than sellers.”
“There’s lots of cash on the sidelines.”
“We’re in a bottoming process.”
“Overbought.”
“Buy on weakness.”
“Take a wait-and-see approach.”
“It’s a show-me stock.”

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