Great Companies Great Charts - stock scanning, trailing stops, and portfolio risk reductionScan for the best stocks, enter trades with buy stops and exit with sell stops. Protect equity with trailing stops and reduce risk with portfolio allocation.How To Continue An Investing Education- April 28, 2006 Learn More Secrets We've reached the last chapter in my reader's digest version of Great Companies, Great Charts. I'm continually impressed with the information that can be found in "books". If you're going to become a solid trader, you need...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/how_to_continue.html Three Tricks To Improve Investor Skills- April 28, 2006 Points Vs Percent I pull my hair out whenever I turn on the financial news and hear "Dow up 70 points today." I scream "so what!". Points or dollar values, like "IBM up $1" has no meaning in the grand...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/three_tricks_to.html Why I Don't Believe in Stock Timing, Market Randomness, and PE Ratio- April 28, 2006 Timing, Randomness, PE I believe strongly in not timing the market. No one can predict the market in the short run; in the long run it has historically increased about 10% a year. Hopping in and out of the market...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/why_i_dont_beli.html Easier Ways To Invest In The Stock Market- April 28, 2006 Easier Ways To Invest Not everyone is comfortable with picking individual stocks; they don't want to spend time or energy developing a trading plan. There are a couple of good alternative ways to invest in the market that offer above...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/easier_ways_to_.html Why Are Stocks Often a Good Investment- April 28, 2006 Why the Stock Market There are many investment choices that we all must decide upon: Bonds CDs Stocks Futures Real Estate Small Business Venture Capital Lottery Gambling etc... My favorite two are "small business" and "stocks'. I also like futures...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/why_are_stocks_.html Up, Down and Flat Markets- April 28, 2006 Up, Down, and Flat Markets The market goes through periods of up, down and flat trends. Up markets are the most fun and easiest to trade since the vast majority of stocks are going up. I was researching "investment clubs"...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/up_down_and_fla.html Reducing Risk With Portfolio Allocation- April 28, 2006 Risk Reduction With Allocation Every stock is unique and trades in its own unique range. Let me make up a simple example with a three stock portfolio to show how risk can be distributed more fairly. Stock A is tradiing...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/reducing_risk_w.html Three Trailing Stop Orders- April 28, 2006 Three Trailing Stops Here are three trailing stops that are simple and effective: Trading Range Overall Percent Pro-Level Percent In my book I go into greater detail than I will here today but the general description to follow will give...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/three_trailing_.html Entering A Stock Trade With A Buy Stop- April 28, 2006 Entering With Buy StopsHere is one of the stocks I am watching and have an order in to purchase it if it breaks upward, out of the current 90 day trading range: VNBC Now this is not a pretty chart...http://www.greatcompaniesgreatcharts.com/2006/04/entering_a_stoc.html |