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1) Trading Wisdom: A collection of quotes and aphorisms on the topic of trading.

2) Why Paper Trading Is Counter Productive: Paper trading is the biggest mistake that new traders can make. This is the most counterproductive way to learn how to trade properly. When paper trading, every single trading decision is based on zero emotions.

3) Creating Your Watch List (Universe of Stocks): Once the trader masters trading one stock, it is time to move on to the next level: creating a watch list of approximately 30 stocks. You can also create a smaller list of say five stocks; then add five more stocks every month until you are comfortable with a list of approximately thirty.

4) Trading High Priced Stocks: Many people have a hard time sticking to their stop-loss on stocks priced above the $60 to $70 range. These stocks can suddenly move 25 cents or more in a few seconds, triggering and speeding beyond the stop-loss. Because the stock’s price can jump so quickly, the trader thinks that he will take his stop-loss when the price moves back a bit, which never happens.

5) Stop Loss: This is the point where you admit you were wrong. No one can pick winning stocks 100% of the time. Accept this fact. You can only play the odds.

6) Too Much Time Trading: Some traders dedicate all of their time to reading fundamentals, checking the news, and looking at charts. Every trader needs to do these things, but you must allocate a small portion of your time to these matters, not all your time.

7) The Weather Man and the Stock Market Speculator: You should view speculating in the stock market as similar to predicting the weather. To make accurate price-move predictions, you cannot make decisions based on a single piece of data.

8) Accountability in Trading: Ways of increasing trading discipline as a personal skill .It seems that the difference when trading alone, is that the trader suddenly has no accountability. If they have someone looking over their shoulder keeping them in check, everything is fine.

9) How to Analyze the Veracity of Investment Newsletters: When trying to analyze whether a promotional ad for an investment newsletter or a market timing investment trading system is worthy of investigation, the following questions should be asked:

10) Basics of the Stock Market: Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices and decreasing operational expenses incurred by the participants of the market.

11) The Realities Of Market Timing: Every system that you are likely to hear about works well when it is applied to historical data. If it didn’t work historically, you would never hear about it. But patterns change, and the future is always the great unknown.

12) Choosing A Forex Broker: With currency trading becoming ever more popular, the number of brokers is growing at a rapid rate. What should one look at when deciding which broker to open an account with? These are the important points to consider.

13) Mutual Funds: What Investors Need to Know About Morningstar Mutual Fund Fiduciary Grades: Mutual fund investors use Morningstar Rating™ as a sign post of mutual fund performance. These ratings have proved to be a valuable tool for objectively comparing the performances of different mutual funds.

14) Trading For A Living - Part 1: The dream. Work at home. The bad news. Considerations. Living expenses. Trading capital.

15) Trading For A Living - Part 2: More costs. Computer equipment. Internet connections. Earnings. Data feeds. Other considerations. Trading part-time. Your family.

16) Day Trading – The Ultimate Work-From-Home Job?: The advantages of day trading as a job are numerous to say the least; there is no boss to answer to, no customers to satisfy, no suppliers to let you down, no waiting for invoices to be paid, I could go on. In fact, I will:

17) Defining a Long-Term Investment in the Stock Market: Securities should be purchased with the intent of providing dividend income to help ends meet during retirement, with the understanding that no one can successfully retire without financial freedom.

18) 10 Tips For Creating Wealth From The Stock Market: Diversification but not over-diversification. Commissions. Dividends. Dollar-cost averaging. Focus on income, not profits. A lower stock price may be a blessing in disguise. More.

19) Google IPO and its effect on the Venture Capital Industry: 32 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors were asked for their opinions on the Google IPO, and gave a variety of answers.

20) Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory: The Dow Theory has withstood the test of time. Here's a summary of its history, the people behind it, and how it works.

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