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Momentum Investing trading plays

Momentum investing the trading play

… prices, volumes and investors charge ahead!
At a minimum, momentum trades need both an increasing price for the stock and an increasing volume of shares traded. Simple basic trading of a momentum play means buying a rising stock that on most days continues rising or trending to ever higher prices.
Profitable momentum play execution requires …

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5 Money making strategies

5 Money making investment strategies

Use 5 Money making investment strategies, income, value, growth, trading and speculation to build wealth. Financial security and retirement comfort comes with investing success.
Money strategies – planning & managing wealth, Lesson 8, covers the basic strategies available to any investor. Using those strategies investors can grow wealth and retirement comfort. Links at the lesson end guide …

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Weeding your investment portfolio

Weeding your investment portfolio

… money for you!
Every 6 months, poor performers must be sold. Don’t hesitate, sell them as soon as you realize they are not performing. That is basic to weeding your investment portfolio. Each day you hold a poor performer, you tie up funds puts off your financial progress and independence.
Any holding that does …

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Portfolio measurements size positions

Portfolio measurements size up new stock positions

… they go the wrong way, I quickly sell to redeploy the resources. We simply move on.
In part, the reason for buying a small position is very basic. It forces me to pay attention. To keep focused I need some skin in the game. Then I really do pay attention.
However, when the small position …

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Check market direction trends

Investors check trends for market direction

… stock markets. Buy up trends sell down trends.
Digging deeper into economic data can refine the results but there is little practical reason to do so. The basic approach works well. Trending up produces a rising stock market; tending down produces a falling stock market.
Market direction tend indicators

This lesson 8 of the Monitor …

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3 Risk or opportunity signals

3 Risk or opportunity signals guide stock market investors

… predictive functionUp or down, the trend is your friendUp, go long, down hold, get out or shortPart 1 of 4: White Top View, Market Direction seriesUsing those basic guidelines you can replace 10, 100 or 1,000’s of economic studies, reports and opinions. Investors check the 3 guides signal stock market risk or opportunity …

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Stock market dip opportunities

Stock market dip opportunities

… Rumor – true or false

Opinion – analysts or large investor

Fatigue – shareholders tire or give up

Trading – indifferent, sloppy or emotional

Most price dips have one of three basic causes. Dips can happen when news, an analyst or large investor goes negative on a stock. The facts or comments and selling can trigger a price dip …

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Distracted investing misses profits

Distracted investing misses profits

… your wealth. Even with a financial advisor, paying attention pays you big time!
Do all you can to become an informed and knowledgeable investor and client. Avoiding basic investing misses like, write offs, wrecks and not watching puts you ahead. The results will show up on your personal bottom-line.
Earn the highest hourly rates …

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Daily buyer-seller battles

Daily buyer-seller battles

… the deal. And they also must disagree! One has to think buying is the best idea, the other disagrees and thinks selling is the best idea.
The basic “that’s what makes a market” refrain heard in marketplaces means we can’t all agree. For a deal or transaction to happen, someone must want the …

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Cash flows money goes!

Cash flow money goes shows where the money went!

… cash flow statements form a powerful information team. And like any other team they have to be used together to get the best reporting result. Having a basic understanding of those reports gives you a way to look at and understand the financial matters of a company.
Financial notes are rich sources of valuable information …

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