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There are millions of News sites on the web but a lot of them just repeat content from other sites, so which one is original and comes up with ideas that can really be traded? Here are a few we like a lot since these websites all have something we need for our trading style.

Overtrading is one of the most overlooked mistakes you can make while trading. As a trader you want to make money any minute the market is open, this is understandable, but it doesn`t mean that you need to trade every opportunity that comes across your screen. Trade the most profitable ones and forget the rest. Here are 5 tips on how to spot and avoid overtrading.

Every trader who wants to be successful needs a set of rules he acts on – a system. Most build their system over years with growing experience, others buy one. To discover what works and what doesn’t most traders test different systems during their trading career, till they find or develop one that fits them and brings the consistent success they searched for. But it is not easy to test a system, because there is one problematic factor involved in it – the trader himself.

Equity markets have come a long way in 2009. And now everybody wants in on the move and everybody wants to own stocks since they are moving up. That describes the same situation we faced at the start of the century after Dotcom stocks moved over the edge. Sure this time the situation is different, we are in the middle of one of the worst crisis we have seen so far and it is an event felt worldwide. But that doesn´t mean stocks can go up forever.

The economy is not following nearly as quickly as markets suggest. The stock market has outperformed the real economy by far. So what do we need to do

Most of the times finding the right trading opportunity can be a difficult task to do. It is even more difficult when considering the correct risk level. When you jump between different stocks, most of the times you will lose not win. The reason being is, you only jump in on an “opportunity” when it presents itself to you. Most of the times the real opportunity is gone when we jump in.

So what is the solution? There are several possibilities, i have chosen four of them that proved to be profitable in the past