Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Learn Online Trading Fast
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part10 (The Last Part).
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
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8. Using Risk Capital to Trade
Finally, great traders use risk capital. This should be obvious. They trade with money they can lose. So, if I had a 150K trading account and tomorrow I do something where I completely mess up and I loose it all, of course I won't be happy, but I won't be on food stamps either. It's not all the money I have in the world. This frees your mind up. It lets you trade and not worry. You just focus on trading correctly. They say scared money never wins, well, I have yet to see a person who had no other job or source of income, thus needing to live off their 5K trading account,make it... sorry. So trade with risk capital, not student loan money, not the rent, not the food... You get the picture. It makes life easier.
My hope today is that by reading through some of these characteristics, you can help keep yourself on track for success. It has been said that the majority of successful people in the world became successful by following in the footsteps of others, usually their mentors. Even if you do not have one specific person in mind, familiarizing yourself with the traits of those who have succeeded before you is a very rewarding experience.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part9
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
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7. Accepting Personal Responsibility
Great traders accept personal responsibility for everything they do, even to an extreme. If I loan you $100 and you never pay me back, yes you're a jerk, but I'm also an idiot because there is something I should have been able to pick up and if I didn't know you well enough, I shouldn't have loaned you money. I loaned the money. I made a choice and now I am paying for it, so it's on me. The same deal goes in a trade. I don't care who may have told you ABC or whatever was a great buy, whether you heard it in a chat room, message board, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC or just from your local mailman. No one holds a gun to your head while you are trading, telling you what you have to take or not take. You're the one pulling the trigger. Great traders know that all trades they take, good or bad, it's on them.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part8
The sixth trait of great traders is that they are comfortable with risk. Let's face it, trading is certainly risky and if you are afraid of the risk you won't last. If you are afraid you will lose money, then I can almost say with certainty that you will. They are comfortable trading a pattern that is not a 100% sure thing because none of them are. They go into an individual trade not knowing what the end result will be. Many new traders have a terrible time with this: the uncertainty of a trade, but you must over come it. Many new traders allow themselves to be frozen with fear over the risks and uncertainties of trading. Great traders get beyond it.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part7
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
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5. Being a Great Money Manager
Great traders are also great risk managers. They respect the risks they are taking and on each trade they risk a small amount of capital. Usually this is 1/4% to 1% per position (and no more than 2%). The idea is that you can't trade tomorrow if you blow out today and if you can't trade you won't be a great trader now will you? Great traders protect their accounts. It's their baby. Each position is so small they don't really give a damn what happens with it. It's just a nick... win, lose, or draw. So, if they have a 200K account and are risking 1/4% on each trade, that means if they take a stop they are out $500. That's a very small amount of money compared to the account. It doesn't matter too much if they take a stop. One or even a series of stops won't be the end of their career.
Now, not all traders have this large of an account, but the basic principal is the same no matter what size of account you have. Mathematically speaking, 2% is the most you can risk and still be able to survive the strings of stops that can and often will occur on occasion. So if you have a 25K account and you risk 2%, you can also risk $500 a trade. Once your account is larger, however, it is advisable to risk less and with experience, you can also learn which types of situations can allow for greater risk compared to others.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part6
Another trait of great traders is that they usually focus on just a few techniques, usually 1 to 3. The reason for this is simple: The jack of all trades, master of none is usually a low paid unskilled worker. Put another way, examine college students. What kind of people major in general studies? Unless they go on to focus on a specific occupation in graduate school or law school, etc., well-paying jobs will be hard to find for most upon graduation. Instead, for those who focus their studies in one field, and more specially, one subdivision of that field, demand for their skills will be much higher. If you focus on just a few techniques, it allows you to really become an expert on the technique you are using. Great traders have one to three things that work and they use them over and over and over and over again for as long as they are profitable.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part5
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
So many times I will call a person that tells me they have been having a hard time and one of the first questions I ask them is" What have you been trading?" If they can't tell me that, it's hard to move forward. It's hard for me and it's hard for them. Keep a journal of all the trades you take. Include the time you got in, out, the prices, why you took the trade, what was going on in the market, how did the stock act, what did you do well, what could you have done better, etc... It seems like a lot but once you get into it, it's really very easy and just becomes second nature. Read this a few times a month and just look at what you are doing and have been doing. It will really key you in on your weak areas. It let's you know what you need to work on and, just as importantly, it will let you know what you are good at. So, keep a journal.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part4
Next, successful traders have a business plan. Trading is a business and it should be treated as such. Would you open a restaurant with out a plan? No, or at least I hope you wouldn't or you're not liable to get very far. Restaurant owners need to have a plan. What type of food to serve, start up costs, hours, etc. are just a few of the questions they must address from the start. Trading should be looked at in much the same way. Trading is also a business and you need a plan. In your business plan you should list any number of things:
When you will work? What techniques you will focus on? What your expenses will be? What is your max. loss? What are your objectives? etc...Make it as comprehensive as possible. It will help you out more than you might think.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part3
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
You're probably wondering away just what do I mean by that? You know the guys you see where if they take a loss of $100 the whole world sucks and if they make $1000 they are on top of the world? Well, they definitely are not neutral. They let the market control their emotions. The professionals don't let the day to day oscillations in their accounts phase them. The results in one week don't matter much, and the results even in a month. It's just a small blip of time in their career, so the day to day oscillations don't really matter. It's the average over time which is important. With great traders, it's hard to tell their good days from their bad days as their attitude remains for the most part unchanged. They don't go touting to every message board and chat room they can find how they just doubled their account and should be worshiped for their success. Nor do they whine about how the market makers or specialists have it out for them and they can never catch a break. While no one is a robot, completely devoid of emotional response, successful traders generally have learned to control the swings, thus leading to more objective trading.
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part2
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Keys to Successful Day Trading.Part1
By Toni Hansen and Brandon Fredrickson
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The market is an ever-changing entity, presenting us every day with different and unique scenarios. Nevertheless, the market is more or less a reflection of people's ideas and attitudes and while it is also true that no two people are alike, each and every one of us has something in common with someone else, whether it be the way we get out of bed in the morning or the foods we prefer to eat. Additionally, we tend to repeat actions such as preferring to brush our teeth at a certain time of day or making sure we try to catch the Thursday night prime time television shows. No matter which angle you look at it from, humans are creatures of habit and this tendency gets reflected in stock movement. It's what makes technical analysis a reliable and profitable way to trade.
Unfortunately, technical analysis is not always cut and dry. The same core pattern does not work the same in every market environment. For instance, one of the setups I often look for on a daily chart is a 3-5 day pullback in an up trending stock for buying opportunities. Where newer traders tend to get in trouble, however, is taking such a setup to mean that every time an up trending stock pulls back 3-5 days and then breaks the previous day's highs that means they enter long. In reality, there are always exceptions and it's learning what these are that can be the dividing line between those traders who are successful and those who fail. In this example, how a stocks pulls back in a primary uptrend as well as overall market conditions will greatly influence whether taking such a pullback as a long is really worth the risk to reward. In some cases it is not.
How Online Trading Works

What made Kennedy sell? According to the story, he got a stock tip from a shoeshine boy. In the 1920s, the stock market was the realm of the rich and powerful. Kennedy thought that if a shoeshine boy could own stock, something must have gone terribly wrong.
Now, plenty of "common" people own stock. Online trading has given anyone who has a computer, enough money to open an account and a reasonably good financial history the ability to invest in the market. You don't have to have a personal broker or a disposable fortune to do it, and most analysts agree that average people trading stock is no longer a sign of impending doom.
The market has become more accessible, but that doesn't mean you should take online trading lightly. In this article, we'll look at the different types of online trading accounts, as well as how to choose an online brokerage, make trades and protect yourself from fraud.
Review of Stocks & MarketsBefore we look at the world of online trading, let's take a quick look at the basics of the stock market. If you've already read How Stocks and the Stock Market Work, you can go on to the next section.
A share of stock is basically a tiny piece of a corporation. Shareholders -- people who buy stock -- are investing in the future of a company for as long as they own their shares. The price of a share varies according to economic conditions, the performance of the company and investors' attitudes. The first time a company offers its stock for public sale is called an initial public offering (IPO), also known as "going public."
When a business makes a profit, it can share that money with its stockholders by issuing a dividend. A business can also save its profit or re-invest it by making improvements to the business or hiring new people. Stocks that issue frequent dividends are income stocks. Stocks in companies that re-invest their profits are growth stocks.
Brokers buy and sell stocks through an exchange, charging a commission to do so. A broker is simply a person who is licensed to trade stocks through the exchange. A broker can be on the trading floor or can make trades by phone or electronically
Basic Strategies For Successful With Stock Market Investing

Trading stock market has become big business, and the Internet has helped many businesses achieve a great deal of success. Stock trading has unlocked the secrets of the trading floor for budding investors worldwide. Online trading is the process of exchanging financial instruments stocks and bonds through the Internet.
Invest in stock market allows you to conduct investment transactions over the internet. It can be distinguished from wireless trading, a nascent area of service where brokerage customers can trade via cell phones, pagers, and hand-held organizers. Online trading investors have the ability to view their account and execute trade orders through the NetEx Client Select online investment center. Online trading gives both beginners who've just had a single day trading course and advanced traders an opportunity to trade stocks, options, forex and futures all over the world without physical presence of a broker and with much lower commissions, because everything is done online. We can say, online stock trading is simple, secure, cost-effective, flexible and liquid. Online trading levels the playing field for the private investor and gives you the opportunity to take on and possibly beat the professionals for a fraction of the cost. It also lets brokerage firms automate their order placement process, thereby economizing on personnel time and effort
Online stock trading is an explosive growth market. It gives investor an immediate chance to participate in a market that was limited to only a few in the past. It also gives the investor the opportunity to place a trade that previously had to be done by a broker, but trading fees can be more complicated and expensive then they appear.
Online investment services offer consumers the opportunity to invest with lower commissions and fees which means you bring more of the money home when all is said and done and spend far less on fees and expenses associated with investing. Online trading involves large volumes of data being transacted everyday. It is the investment activity that takes place over the Internet without the physical inclusion of the broker. Online trading is an easy way to play the game.
Stocks, bonds, options, futures and currencies can all be traded online. Stock online trading is based on buying and selling stocks. Stock option online trading is based on buying and selling options and very perspective financial products. Stock broking has become a rather brutal business. Stock market is still a great place to invest, however not all types of stock is suitable for this.
Brokers buy and sell stocks through an exchange, charging a commission to do so. A broker is simply a person who is licensed to trade stocks through the exchange. An exchange is like a warehouse in which people buy and sell stocks. You still use real money, but instead of talking to someone about investments, you decide which stocks to buy and sell, and you request your trades yourself. With a click of mouse, you can buy and sell stocks from more than 100 online brokers offering executions as low as $5 per transaction. To avoid buying or selling a stock at a price higher or lower than you wanted, you need to place a limit order rather than a market order.
Online stock trading has given anyone who has a computer, enough money to open an account and a reasonably good financial history the ability to invest in the market. Find out which online trading sites are doing the best job. But as anyone who has ever seriously attempted online trading will probably tell you, it's just not as easy as it sounds. Although online trading saves investors time and money, it does not take the homework out of making investment decisions. Online trading is not something you should enter into lightly. Online trading is great but you will find that it lacks the personal service you can expect from a financial advisor or a stockbroker.
The Ten Errors Of Online Trading

To avoid losses of Online Trading
Therefore, the financial experts in this area believe that the investor is not in the ten errors in electronic trading on the Internet to avoid losses; namely
1 - Adoption of the investor entirely on the Internet in the process of circulation, and may not be available when needed him; due to the interruption of communication lines, or defects in the organs of the mediator, and here the investor must ensure that they have an alternative means of buying and selling through other routes when needed.
In this context, Ahmed Ibrahim - one dealing with one of the companies of "mediation" in the United States of America -: respectable companies often provide alternatives to complete the sale and purchase in the event of network failure, or inability of the investor access to the Internet, including The provision of the so-called "Cook Center" or call centers that receive direct instructions or requests by telephone and by the investor directly, in addition to other alternatives sending faxes. Indeed, Ibrahim indicates that some brokerage firms have the proportion of the U.S. commission if the delay in the implementation of the purchase order or sell the stock at the market price for one minute; which shows how companies try to maintain clients through unsustainable errors that could lead, which is not By the investor.
2 - the lack of a brokerage company in both the safety of information or complete transactions through the site; must therefore ensure that the communication medium is through a secure, through the use of browser has the ability to communicate safe, and to ensure that the mediator to secure the service.
And Captain Mohamed - expert in the field of insurance networks in one of the Egyptian information technology companies - many of the positions assigned to the commercial and financial operations are obliged to modernize and develop and secure their networks largely to keep its customers. He added that the development of the Syndicate of several laws, particularly as regards the electronic signature contributed significantly to a kind of confidence in completing transactions via the Internet.
Many intermediaries.
3 - the large number of electronic intermediaries, which makes the process of selecting the mediator and the follow-up by regulators is very difficult than before.
Here the investor in equities across the web to make sure the fact that the broker will deal with in terms of credibility and the transparency and integrity of the implementation of those orders, must be the broker of the global brokerage houses, which is known by the good reputation; In some cases, brokers and no ghost, all their Is the site on the Internet, and what prices they give is also a placebo.
Here, the customer may be subjected to the process of fraud, and discovers that the broker told him to reveal the electronic account over time to account for at least a loss suffered by the depletion of the account until after 3 days of opening the latest, and sends the balance sheet until the process seems logical, and the broker has rules Work, the most serious customer loss suffered by them; so that the broker placebo convince some new victims to join him so that the extortion and seizure of their money.
4 - there is a way to defraud must have noticed the investor, known as the "road hierarchy", which depends on the cooperation of a large number of people in the broadcast information or collect a certain amount, and should be avoided.
In this vein investor should be wary of the many information broadcast by many Internet forums, and not to forget to highlight the problems of the Internet lies in the many sources of information, and therefore difficult to assess the credibility of what appears on the screen of information.
We must not forget that some investors book online forums may try to promote the shares, or recommend the purchase or sale decision; either self-interest or enthusiasm is not supported by the expertise or information. The economists here on the importance of a motivated decisions buying and selling stocks based on reading and aware of the data market, and a technical analysis of the methods of governing the performance of the stock market.
Therefore, investors must not forget the three golden rules of investment:
First: to know what to buy or sell?
Second: to know on what basis is to buy or sell stocks.
The third rule is to know the level of risk and determined.
The temptation to rush profit
5 - the possibility of error or speed up the introduction of investor buying and selling orders, which has the lowest median responsibility towards them. Often the surprise result of the error quickly the sudden activity and the stock market; because the market is changing rapidly is very high, and must take the necessary reserves to the investor does not pay More than was intended, or more than his content.
Can avoid an experimental circulation at the outset by portfolio (Portfolio) can be illusory to follow through the Internet to find out how to move the stock and its impact on the proposed stock portfolio, should be done to stop dealing point is then, an end to the speculation in the event of adverse market trends.
6 - There are attractive offers to enter into certain investments of those who claim their access to unreasonable returns, which investors must avoid. In this regard, the investor diversification and investment vehicles; so the person does not depend to leave its capital in a small number of companies, and not Depends on one sector in particular.
As generally prefer not to be speculative (sales and purchase) the use of capital in full, but it is by 10%; so that the remaining capital of an insurance market trends reverse, is entering the full capital of gambling.
It is wrong to put every owner in the shares of one company; that the loss of landing the company or its share prices in the market for whatever reason may go all or any part of the owner; but you select shares of good companies in the market, and tried to contribute to the classification of companies into three categories (large, medium Small), as the total market value for their shares, then you better focus on medium-sized companies they are exceeded by the establishment phase, and growth are rising, and profits often semi-stable and uncertain.
Risk not without foundation
7 - did not fully trust the computer programs designed to analyze market trends, particularly as the stock market is sensitive, and improve use in the event that employ solely as information only help. You here to learn how to examine the legal and financial situation of companies by contributing to the purchase of shares, and to So you analyze two important aspects:
I: technical analysis of shares and trading volume, and track the movement of share prices during a specified period, the index tracking stock, and compared to the index-General of the shares, and the demand for buying in the market.
II: the fundamentalist analysis of the company you have selected, in terms of property, production, sales and profits through a number of years, as well as the market value of the shares of the company, and the strength of its rival in the market, and the Governing Council, and the quality of decisions it made.
8 - Some stock investors handle the margin, do not know the risks involved in this matter. In the tense market finds investor who bought the sidelines of an initial payment of the same shares as required to provide additional cash margin maintenance, if the stock price fell after that, and if money were not paid time required ; Commission, the company has the right to sell securities, and investors bear the loss.
9 - the tradition of how some professional traders and risk, and prefer to look at the stock market for investment, not only for circulation; Kaltdol daily operations include high-risk, and thus the investor to be able to bear the loss, preferably a long-term investment rather than minutes or hours.
10 - err when the investor thinks that there is a protected both in local banks or in the CMA State concerned, when manipulated by some Basttmarath, if what has been paid to the occurrence of one of the nine previous mistakes; not expected to punish the stock market caused the error.
Perhaps Khaled Abu flames - a managing director of brokerage companies in Egypt - a different view of the capital market a major role in maintaining the funds investors as long as it was a failure by the brokerage firms, adding that the mechanisms of the free market model is also a deterrent to the work of companies, especially in light of Many of the alternatives to the investor to choose the mediator, who wishes to deal with it.
Information on Online Trading

However, there are challenges to trade stocks via the Web, and often the lives of the investor; either to circumstances beyond his control, such as: exposure to electronic trading system failure or a sudden malfunction, or a lack of safety in the sites of banks or brokerage firms (brokers), which provide service Online trading of shares to investors, or the lack of investor the same basic rules of investment; which exposed him to realized losses.
Hence arose the question marks about the reliability of the electronic trading system has contributed through the Internet, and the face hazards caused by this type of deliberation, and practical alternatives and the rapid be provided by banks and brokerage firms if the failure of the trading system via the Internet in the management of selling and purchasing operations .
