Friday, May 2, 2008

ADVISES TO INVESTORS OR TRADERS

1. BE CONSISTENT:

Do not be a fundamentalist one week and technician next week. If you are a fundamentalist do not use one ratio on week and next the next week. If you are technician do not use one pattern or indicator one week and the next pattern next week.

2. LEARN WHAT MOST INVESTORS NEVER DO:

You can not make money by reading today's fundamentals in the newspaper. What you read from the textbooks are only one aspect and very known aspect of investing. Technicians can see what the biggest and most informed investors (e.g. institutions) are duing by looking at the trading volume.

Fundamental or technical analysis are not a crsytal ball to the financial independenc. Markets are very complex it is not possible to make proper fundamental forecast by collectioning all the information. Technical analysis provides a simple way in comparision to fundamental analysis. But do not forget that markets are not simple to understand. You can make failures. It is ok to make failures. If you have a system with positive expantancy you can make money even if you are less than 50% of the time right.

3. TRADING IS NOT ABOUT KNOWING, IT IS ABOUT DOING image

Trading is not about knowing it. It is all about doing. All the trades know higher highs, higher lows. And such strategies. But trading is all about doing. Trading is a verb not a noun. "being a good trader is not about making money(paper trading). Making money is about being a good trader(real trading=doing)."[1]

[1] The Kirk Report : http://www.thekirkreport.com/2007/03/learning_how_to.html

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