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How to Use Accumulation/Distribution Divergence to Detect Reversals

Accumulation/Distribution is a momentum indicator that displays the direction in which the stock price is headed.  It determines whether the investors are Accumulating (buying) or Distributing (selling) the stock by looking at the stock price and its volume. Now Accumulation/Distribution line alone will not serve too much benefit to the interpreters other than whether the [...]

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How to Use Limit Orders to Your Advantage and Save $ Over Time

So you’re new to investing.  Or maybe you’re an intermediate or perhaps even an advanced trader.  Regardless of where you are in your investing career, there’s one trick that I’ve learned through the course of my investing experiences that really helps me gain a slight edge every time I trade.  Over time, this strategy leads [...]

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Top Investing Mistakes – Investing Based on Past Trend and Performance With Confidence

Have you ever looked at a historical chart and determined with absolute assertion that there is a certain pattern to a particular stock?  I certainly have.  Here’s the scoop, you can never assume that history will repeat itself even if there is evidence strong enough to suggest that such a pattern exists.  It becomes especially [...]

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Top Investing Mistakes – Using Too Much Leverage to Trade

One beauty of the investing market is the ability to borrow money from your broker at a reasonable rate and trade stocks with the money you normally wouldn’t have.  For example, if you put $30,000 into a “margin account” with broker X, you actually may gain the ability to trade $50,000 worth of stocks by [...]

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Top Investing Mistakes – Holding Stocks Too Long or Too Short

You often hear experts and articles suggesting you not to get too greedy because it will always bite you with force.  While there is a lot of truth in that statement, I believe the opposite is true under certain circumstances. People have the tendency to hold onto their losses too long while holding onto their [...]

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Top Investing Mistakes – Investing Against The Trend

For the next few days I’ll be posting some of the top investing mistakes investors make using the learnings from my readings, my observation, and from my own personal learnings.  At the end of the series, I’ll consolidate the articles into one giant reading for a more complete article.  In the meantime,  I’d love to [...]

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5 Steps to Successful Swing Trading

Swing trading is certainly no easy task.  Over the course of the few years, I’ve learned several important factors investors should employ when swing trading.  One thing everyone should know before anyone else is that it is almost impossible to time the market perfectly.  No matter who you are or what tools you have, there’s [...]

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IPO Performance…Now?

Rosetta Stone (RST) just IPOed this Thursday. Is it attractive? Kindda. I’ve seen IPOs perform pretty well for the first week, so I’m tempted to make a quick scalp trade. On the other hand, I looked up how IPOs are really doing in the last 12 months. Think twice before you get into IPOs. Top [...]

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