“Short term, the market is a voting machine, letting whim, fear, and greed dictate how it votes. Bul long term, the market is a weighing machine that values a company according to the weight of its intrinsic value.”
Benjamin Graham
“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.”
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
“Since the profits that companies can earn are finite, the price that investors should be willing to pay for Stocks must also be finite”.
Benjamin Graham
Market Wizard Linda Reschke's 12 Technical Trading Rules: @SJosephBurns
1. Buy the first pullback after a new high. Sell the first rally after a new low.
2. Afternoon strength or weakness should have follow through the next day.
3. The best trading reversals occur in the morning, not the afternoon.
4. The larger the market gaps, the greater the odds of continuation and a trend.
5. The way the market trades around the previous day’s high or low is a good indicator of the market’s technical strength or weakness.
6. The previous day’s high and low are two very important “pivot” points, for this was the definitive point where buyers or sellers came in the day before. Look for the market to either test and reverse off these points, or push through and show signs of continuation.
7. The last hour often tells the truth about how strong a trend truly is. “Smart” money shows their hand in the last hour, continuing to mark positions in their favor. As long as a market is having consecutive strong closes, look for up-trend to continue. The up trend is most likely to end when there is a morning rally first, followed by a weak close.
8. High volume on the close implies continuity the next morning in the direction of the last half-hour. In a strongly trending market, look for resumption of the trend in the last hour.
9. The first hour’s range establishes the framework for the rest of the trading day.
10. A greater percentage of the day’s range occurs in the first hour then was the case in the past, and thus it has become increasingly important to trade aggressively if there are early signs of a strong trend for the day.
11. There are four basic principles of price behavior which have held up over time. Confidence that a type of price action is a true principle is what allows a trader to develop a systematic approach.
The following four principles can be modeled and quantified and hold true for all time frames, all markets. The majority of patterns or systems that have a demonstrable edge are based on one of these four enduring principles of price behavior.
Charles Dow was one of the first to touch on them in his writings. Principle One:
A Trend Has a Higher Probability of Continuation than Reversal Principle Two:
Momentum Precedes Price Principle Three:
Trends End in a Climax Principle Four:
The Market Alternates between Range Expansion and Range Contraction!
12. In the world of money, which is a world shaped by human behavior, nobody has the foggiest notion of what will happen in the future. Mark that word –
Nobody! Thus the successful trader does not base moves on what supposedly will happen but reacts instead to what does happen.
The news that hypes you up to buy a stock isn’t really news anymore - it’s just a trap to turn you into a bagholder. News only matters before it’s public. Once it’s out, it’s already priced in. Don’t be foolish - think smart and play smart.
Monday morning I am investing $20,000 into this Data Center stock.
If you do not know, Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla, and Apple have invested over 100 BILLION DOLLARS combined into AI and now the Data Center Race has started.
I will tell you right now that 99% of investors will miss out on the next Nvidia like mover. I WILL NOT and my followers will not as well.
I am only sending this stock to the people who LIKE/RETWEET this post.
I will only alert the stocks I personally will invest into myself! That’s the way it works, I do not alert plays if I don’t have skin in the game.
What stock do you think it is?
I think the best way to practice is to focus on 1 thing till you don't have to think about it anymore. It becomes natural/default.
Then move on to the next thing.
Most traders (golfers, etc.) are trying to get better at everything at once, never getting good at anything.