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Playing Market Odds – understand investing odds
Portfolio Counts and Sizes – basic portfolio management
Portfolio Management – investment management lessons
Position Size – managing the size of investments
Pyramid Portfolio – an …

Introduction to short story shorting stocks

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9 Short seller facts align for experienced, knowledgeable short sellers to target a company. Stock market and company facts favoring shorts raise the odds of an attack.

Making money selling shortLesson 5
Making money selling short needs the right timing, target, and technique built on exceptional research and analytics to develop trades that …

3 Yeses or no investment

… of economic growth. That puts the odds in our favor and gives us a reason to buy.
Consider the upside of down trends
Investors riding quality dividend-paying stocks don’t sell in downtrends. Rather, as quality companies continue paying during such times, they see stock prices going on sale! They wait to buy more …

Benjamin Graham market mix

… market mix and other lessons to become a confident investor.
That knowledge makes you a more formidable investor. Knowing of Benjamin Graham, investors, myths and mind games adds to your ability. It helps you know and understand markets.
Used well it can make you a more profitable investor. Knowing turns common market behavior to your …

Markets, technology, and laws respond to high frequency trading

… introduced its first trading venue in 2013 and launched the Investors Exchange (IEX), an independent U.S. stock exchange, in 2016.”
“IEX exceeded 3.3% of intraday market share in U.S. equities on November 1, 2018 and averaged approximately $11 billion in U.S. equity trading per day for the month of October. IEX …

Short selling has rules

… be orchestrated.
Fees due to brokers can be a significant continuing cost.
Long term markets trends up run against short timing and contrarian moves.
Shorts are short term active plays that make mistakes more likely.
Shorts are high-stress plays requiring constant attention.
Researching, monitoring and playing shorts is a huge time commitment.
Short …

Investing factors time and knowledge

… years.
Build income then look for growth
When the investing factors, time and knowledge allow, investors can add a growth layer on their income paying investment base. Although growth stocks offer an attractive upside is comes with challenges. The big challenge is picking the best growth stocks. In contrast, picking the best dividend paying …