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The stock market should present us with a wide variety of NEW hot stocks in 2009. Many of them are going to be new technology stocks that come from the nanotech, biotech, financial, energy, healthcare & communications sectors.

Most of them might seem promising, but the truth is that a good number of these trading & investing opportunities could be extremely risky, while others are simply not as good as they look. That’s why it’s very important to know how to choose among the best especially if you want to day trade them.

When you know how to pick and approach the best hot stock trading opportunities, you are able to generate a consistent and respectable amount of money in a very short period of time.

Experienced day traders recognize that trading hot stocks on momentum can be the fastest way to make money in the stock market, especially on uncertain times like these.

You don’t necessarily have to trade momentum hot stocks all the time. But you can learn how to take advantage of them when you encounter the best opportunities for going long or for shorting them to make money when they are poised to fall down.

If You decide to day trade stocks just keep always in mind that for a trader to survive and be consistently profitable, its necessary to keep things as simple as possible. To much confusion and technical indicators will most of the time make you slow in your decisions and froze you up when a good opportunity is right in front of your screen.

In the end, stock market day trading is all about picking the best daily stock opportunities and following your buy and sell signals with ease and simplicity. Once you learn to master your trading decisions, you can aspire to produce consistent profitable results.



By: Stock Market Tips

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Welcome back, this week in part four of my ten part series on how to successfully trade stock options I will discuss how to enter the trade at the right. Obviously this is one of the most important aspects of trading, no matter if you are trading stocks, options or any other financial instrument.

This, however, is easier said than done! When entering a trade if you get in too early you may lose some time value of your option. If you get in too late you may miss out on a move in the stock you are trading the options on. The best way to time your entry point is to use good technical analysis. Technical analysis is the technique of reading and analyzing stock charts. Institutional investors are investing millions and millions of dollars in the stock market every day. However they are still human and because it takes a long time for them move that much money predictable patterns emerge in the stock charts. From those patterns future price moves in the stock can be predicted.

Technical analysis is a mix between an art and a science and can be quite complicated. Although the patterns are predictable, of course the stock does not always follow the pattern it should so it is important to use other indicators in conjunction with technical analysis, such as fundamental analysis (discussed in the last article), company news and political and economic events. Because of the complexity of technical analysis I will not go into the how it is performed, there are several good books that I would recommend you read that do that:

“Technical Analysis and the Financial Markets” by John Murphy.

“Getting Started in Technical analysis” by Jack Schwager.

“Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians” by Charles Kirkpatrick II.

Some of the main technical indicators in charts to watch for are the support and resistance levels, breakouts on volume, moving average crossovers and oversold/overbought conditions. Using and understanding technical analysis is a key component to entering the trade. Next week I will discuss the next step which is, quite aptly, how to decide when to exit the trade.

US Government required disclaimer: Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Prior to buying or selling an option, a person must receive a copy of the Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options. Copies of this document may be obtained from your broker, from any exchange on which options are traded or by contacting The Options Clearing Corporation, One North Wacker Dr., Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60606 (1-800-678-4667).



By: Roger Cox

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Technical Analysis for Stocks

Trading using stock index trading systems has become increasingly popular in recent years, as they offer traders a great speculative vehicle to seek above average profits.

There are plenty of stock index trading systems, but which is the best?

Stock Index Trading Systems – Catch and Follow the Trends!

For profitable stock index trading, you need to be able to lock into, and run the big profitable trends, and the best way to do this is by using technical analysis to spot, and act, on these trends.

The best way to do this is to find a stock index trading system that has stood the test of time.

Stock Index Trading Systems and Gann’s Methods for Profit

W D Gann was a trader and legend in his own lifetime. Even today, a half a century after his death, he remains one of the most influential traders of all time.

Gann had an astounding trading record and amassed a fortune of over $50 million dollars in his trading career. Many of his recommendations are on record, for example:

Each year Gann published a forecast for the following year. In 1928 he published a forecast, which predicted the date of the September 1929 US Stock Market high, and that a black Friday would occur, a year in advance of the actual events.

In 1932, he recommended buying stocks at the all time low in the Dow in June and July.

History repeats itself allowing us to Predict the Future Gann’s major contention was that certain laws governed not only the markets, but nature as well, and were universal in scope.

He argued that human nature repeated itself and that by looking at the past we could make predictions about the future.

In “Wall Street Stock Selector” Gann said.

“Just remember one thing, whatever has happened in the past in the stock market and Wall Street will happen again. Advances in bull markets will come in the future, and panics will come in the future, just as they have in the past. This is the working out of a natural law …” and, “It is action in one direction and reaction in the opposite direction. In order to make profits, you must learn to follow the trend and change when the trend changes.”

How Gann Can Help You Become a Better Trader

If you are looking at stock index trading systems, then Gann is one of the best traders to consider. While Gann wrote much of his work at the turn of the century, it still is as significant today as it was then.

Gann was aware that human behaviour repeats itself repeatedly. Since price patterns reflect shifts in human psychology, one can assume that certain patterns, cycles and trends, will repeat themselves again. A simple formula reinforces this concept

PRICE + TIME = VALUE

We all associate value with a certain price that we are accustomed to paying over time and Gann developed this concept.

Gann combined price and time to generate signals to trade the market. Gann believed crucial price movements happened when price and time converged. These points usually indicated an important trend change was imminent. If however, price and time were not coordinated, or did not converge, time always held priority over price.

Time was therefore considered by Gann as the ultimate indicator, because time governs all of nature.

Exploring Gann’s Methods

There are many stock index-trading systems, but Gann, with his unique methods and insight into trader psychology, makes his work as relevant today as when he first wrote it.



By: Stephen Todd

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