Weekend Reading For Traders (Oct 1-2)
Welcome to the latest edition of our new feature, “Weekend Reading For Traders”. We kick things off this week with an article covering the surprise news on Wednesday that the Bank of England would buy long-dated U.K. government bonds “on whatever scale is necessary”...
How To Seize The Opportunities Created In Bear (And Otherwise Corrective) Markets
When I first started trading, my account was too small for me to do much beyond utilizing a “single-buy, single-sell” approach. However, as I gained experience and my account grew, by far, the biggest advance I made in my skill as a trader was when I started focusing...
Weekend Reading For Traders (Sept 24-25)
Welcome to the latest edition of “Weekend Reading For Traders”. We kick off this week’s collection of notable reads with coverage of the FOMC’s latest rate hike and pair that up with an article highlighting recent comments from one of Wall Street’s most respected...
What It Means (And Takes) To Be A “Real” Trader
As the pandemic took shape in early 2020, the market saw the largest influx of new traders in over two decades. Much of that was driven by furloughs, stimulus payments, and a desire to join in on what quickly became the hottest action since the dotcom bubble days. As...
Stock of the Week – Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE)
Our Stock of the Week is Eos Energy Enterprises, EOSE. EOSE develops and sells low-cost battery storage systems for use by the electric utility industry. It describes itself as follows: Our breakthrough Znyth™ aqueous zinc battery was designed to overcome the...
Weekend Reading For Traders (Sept 17-18)
Welcome to the latest edition of our new feature, “Weekend Reading For Traders”. As we mentioned last week, the goal for this column isn’t to simply be just another “market update” that fills our inboxes on a daily basis, but rather a collection of articles that we’ve...
Why Investors Should Focus More On Reacting To Pricing Action Rather Than Trying To Predict It
If there’s one change that the majority of individual investors could make that would vastly improve their effectiveness when it comes to navigating the market, it would be to focus more on reacting to price action in a decisive manner rather than trying to predict...
Stock of the Week – Aehr Test Systems (AEHR)
Our Stock of the Week is Aehr Test Systems (AEHR). On August 1, we named AEHR our Stock of the Week, and it moved nicely from the low $11’s to close to $19 in the next two weeks. Subsequently, it pulled all the way back to the $13 levels when the market corrected, and...
Weekend Reading For Traders (Sept 10-11)
For traders (as well as for individual investors who might not think of themselves as "traders" but nonetheless actively monitor their investment account and make adjustments based on prevailing market conditions), there's a never-ending onslaught of market-related...
Successful Traders Share These Key Traits
I’ve had many jobs over the course of my life. I’ve been an accountant and tax attorney, I’ve bussed tables at a restaurant, delivered papers as a kid, and I even worked as a janitor at one point. The best job I’ve ever had, however, is as a trader. Trading is...