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Today I want to show you how I create overnight positions in trending stocks. Like in every investment you first have to choose an initial risk stop that doesn’t threaten your account, but unlike intraday trades it is important for overnight positions to stretch the trading range.

On Thursday I discovered an interesting Article in the Wall Street Journal: “Transport Stocks Blaze a Path”

Suppose you would know a stock price is heading up. In that case it would be easy to allocate  the bigger portion of your portfolio to that stock alone and ride the wave. Unfortunately knowing where a stock is heading is everybody´s guess. Nobody really knows but there is

They have been out there for a long time, but almost no one of our customers or any other investor we have asked ever attends a conference call. But if you call yourself a serious investor or trader you should attend one and see for yourself whether you gain valuable information about a company. Therefore today we have an interesting conference call for you

Today we start our series on financial formulas. Throughout this series over time we will look at all sides of the financial business and try to clarify the mathematics behind the concepts. Our first entry deals with a simple one the Dividend Yield

Investing in the markets is hard work, at least if you want to be profitable in the long run. It does not help to be lucky on your next trade, you need to be “lucky” on your next 100 trades. In order to achieve a goal that lofty you need to make sure that you keep your losses small. Idealy you always hit the exit button just below zero.

In the real world this doesn´t happen to often, sometimes because the trader is emotional, hopes that the stock comes back or just wants to keep the stock for sentimental reasons.

If you want to improve your trading substantially, then make sure that your losses are tamed. For that i have put together the 10 most important steps to do this:

Up to now it was a tedious process that required skills and knowledge. Well, the bad news is, it still does, but the task got easier.

Risk management dictates to start with small positions as long as your account is not substantially in the green. But what if you knew what other traders hold and where the money is flowing. If you had that kind of information, it ´d be easier to stock up on your position and

The Moneymanagement process is one the two main topics we deal with on this website. If you want to have success trading or investing there is just no way around the money management process. You need to do it and you need to know what you are doing. Since it is not always easy to make the right decisions involving your own money here is a primer on how to start your own money management process.

Listen to this:

“Stock rally continued from yesterday afternoon. Market opened firm, bears attempted attacks early, particularly on US Steel based on recent drop in steel product prices. Attack quickly failed, Steel gradually gained, and gains spread through other leading industrials, many of which had large gains from recent lows.”

Take a wild guess at when this message was printed? “Gains in leading industrials. The market opened firm.” Is this message from last week or