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Invest in Stocks With the Trend
By Dr. Winton Felt · 8 years ago
Always try to invest with the trend. Doing so is like paddling a boat downstream. Making progress is easy. It is very difficult to make progress when you paddle upstream. How do you determine what ...
Selling Stocks That Don't Rise Can Get Bigger Gains
By Dr. Winton Felt · 8 years ago
Selling stocks that have declined and stocks that do not rise as expected accomplishes several things. It frees up resources that can be used to buy other stocks more likely to rise in value. It ...
Use Stop Losses To Keep Losses Small
By Dr. Winton Felt · 8 years ago
Two portfolio managers recently discussed their orientation toward investing on national television. The one we'll call the "lesser light" made a self-assured proclamation that he always invests for the "long-term." He has an intended holding ...
To Trade Stocks for a Living
By Dr. Winton Felt · 12 years ago
People typically underestimate the amount of work that is necessary to learn how to trade stocks for a living. They seem to think stock trading can be learned in a few simple lessons. After all, ...
Where to Put a Stop Loss
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
It is virtually a "law" of trading in the stock market that wherever you place your stop loss, it will occasionally be triggered by a stock just before it resumes its climb to higher levels. ...
The Advantage of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) which can be traded like stock at any time during market hours, have low expense ratios, have less risk than individual stocks, do not have some of the tax disadvantages of a ...
Stock Market Investing: Long-Term or Short-Term?
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
To have a pre-disposition to buy and hold stocks for the long-term can be an extremely expensive frame of mind. The long-term market trend is up, but in a volatile stock market, the long-term gain ...
The Fundamental vs. the Technical in Stock Buy and Sell Decisions
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
Positive technical signals tend to precede good financial reports from a company. That is, the technical patterns precede and anticipate the fundamental reports. Stock price patterns reflect the buying and selling of all the people ...
What does Timing the Market or Market Timing Really Mean?
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
"Timing the market" is considered by many to be a foolish exercise. Timing the market is indeed foolish if it is done the way many seem to think it is done. However, it is really ...
The Triple Moving Average Crossover System
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
The triple moving average crossover system is used to generate buy and sell signals. Its buy signals come early in the development of a trend, and its sell signals are generated early when a trend ...
Stocks Cycle Through Four General Phases
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
Stocks cycle, going through a pattern of advance, consolidation, decline, base-building, and advance again. To buy right and to sell right, it helps to know where a stock is in its general cyclical pattern.
There ...
Stop Losses the Right Way, Where, and How
By Dr. Winton Felt · 15 years ago
When volatility is high and stocks whipsaw up and down, how do you know where to place a stop loss? Is there a right distance from the stock's price to place the stop loss? Is ...