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June 13, 2014 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

24 Best Jesse Livermore Trading Rules & Quotes

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Jesse Livermore, aka the Boy Plunger, aka the Great Bear of Wall Street, is one of the great American stock traders. He made (and lost) several million dollar fortunes buying and short selling stocks in the early 20th century and traded through the great Wall Street crashes of 1907 and 1929. His book ‘Reminiscences of […]

Filed Under: Legends, Lists, Stocks Tagged With: jesse livermore, share market, stock market, stocks, trading

June 11, 2014 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

5 Cheapest Stock Markets In The World Right Now

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How this was created With US stock markets at all time highs, traders and investors are becoming nervous about the steepening valuation of US equities. Everybody is talking about volatility and volume right now and both of these conditions suggest that a significant market correction could be near. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has long […]

Filed Under: Picks, Stocks Tagged With: investing, shares, stock market, stocks, trading

June 10, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Time To Buy 3D Systems?

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Last November, at a price of $80 a share, I wrote an article for Seeking Alpha saying 3D Systems (DDD) had entered an extremely overbought state which could only end in a significant share price correction. Although the share price proceeded to fall around 13% after I made the claim, 3D Systems ended up going […]

Filed Under: Picks, Stocks Tagged With: 3D printing, 3D Systems, Picks, shares, stock market, stocks

June 6, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How to play China like Jim Rogers

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If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]

Filed Under: How to, Legends Tagged With: china, investing, investment, jim rogers, Picks, share market, shares, stock market, stocks

June 5, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Finding the Next Starbucks by Michael Moe Review

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Just picked up ‘Finding the Next Starbucks: How to identify and invest in the hot stocks of tomorrow’ by Michael Moe. It’s not a very new book, it was actually published in 2006 but I’m finding it pretty good so far. As you might guess, the gist of the book is to try and find […]

Filed Under: Books, Stocks Tagged With: finance books, investing books, investment, penny stocks, share market, stock market, stocks, trading books

May 29, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows

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US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Picks, Update Tagged With: finance, investment, share market, shares, stock market, stocks, trading, volatility

May 6, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Is Apple stock still a good buy?

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US stock markets reversed losses on Monday after ISM non-manufacturing numbers came out and Billionaire investor Warren Buffett spoke enthusiastically about the state of American business. A contraction in Chinese manufacturing, and continuing violence in Ukraine, caused markets to open lower but stock markets were not in the red for too long and managed to […]

Filed Under: Picks, Stocks Tagged With: investing, Picks, shares, stock market, stocks

February 8, 2014 By Joe Marwood 15 Comments

How to buy penny stocks like Tim Grittani (and lose your shirt)

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Penny stocks. We have all heard of them. But very few of us know exactly what they are or where to buy them. The very thought of them conjures up different images for different people. For some its huge wealth and for others its huge risk. For me, its huge spreads. i.e. the costs of […]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: finance, penny stocks, shares, stock market, stocks, trading

January 28, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

8-Rule Fundamental Trading Strategy

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The best way to eliminate emotion and subjectivity from trading is to bring in rules that can be used to identify the best times to enter and exit from trading positions. The difficulty when implementing fundamental trading strategies is that obtaining historical, fundamental data for stocks is particularly expensive. Fortunately, using the models at portfolio123.com […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: finance, investing, Picks, stock market, stocks, trading, trading systems

January 27, 2014 By Joe Marwood 6 Comments

An 11-Rule Share Trading Strategy With A 15% Annual Return

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Profitable investing can be stressful so a share trading strategy with rules is often preferable to one that is based on hunch or analyst advice. Using rules to trade has a number of advantages. For one, we can trade completely unbiased and objectively. This means we can backtest our trading rules over many years of […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, investment, Picks, stock market, stocks, trading, trading systems

January 22, 2014 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

29 Rules for Trend Following Stocks

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Trend following is an investment strategy based on the technical analysis of market prices, rather than on the fundamental strengths of the companies. Wikipedia My own view is that trend following is not necessarily based on technical analysis, which can sometimes have a bad name. I believe trend following is more about the philosophy that […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Trend Following Tagged With: investing, shares, stock market, stocks, trading, trading systems, Trend Following, trends

January 13, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares Review

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I Just finished reading Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares by Nigel McCarter, a New Zealand investor who has managed to capture returns of over 20% a year since 1997 using a strategy based on rules for selecting and selling shares on the Australian and New Zealand share market. At just over […]

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