So it is the middle of the trading day and the stock that you have been stalking finally makes the move you have been waiting for and breaks out of that textbook basing pattern. But how do you know whether volume is likely to end the day at least 40% or 50% above average? This …
Money management: Position sizing
In order to mitigate risk, it is important to put on a junior starter position of 1/2 of a normal-sized position or less. This can be added on to should the position move in the correct direction. As far as actual position size goes as a percent of your account, that is a matter of …
November 2, 2018
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General market: Long-term signpost No. 1
When I began investing years ago, I followed a number of different general market indicators. During the Bubble Era of the ‘Nineties, I narrowed my long-term indicators down to two. Since then, I have never seen the need to alter that. In this post, we will look at one of them — breadth. When stocks …