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Still Waiting on the Sidelines to Start Paper-Trading Portfolio Number 3
Note: Click on the charts to obtain a slightly larger and sharper image S&P 500 June 12 – 6 months Not what we want but technically, but we did the right thing regarding a market entry, we stayed on the sidelines, waiting for the right signal that is yet to come Look at the S&P [...]
Continue reading...A Simple Exercise: What Would You Do, if Anything?
30 May 2011 – 8:43 pm PST
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Based on the Stock Charts for MO, MPEL, STX, shown below The charts below show three stocks in which I hold a long position and the chart patterns, as I read them, tempt me to make a trade at this point if nothing changes after the first hour of trading when the market opens on [...]
Continue reading...What the S&P 500 Chart Shows as of May 27, 2011 and a Review of New Trading Candidates
28 May 2011 – 4:44 pm PST
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See below the stock charts of the S&P 500 Index and the stocks HAL, MPEL, and HOLX Here we are in Late May of 2000 and still waiting for the right chart pattern signal to initiate our purchases for our proposed stock market basics paper trading portfolio No. 3, first mentioned more than a month [...]
Continue reading...What Today’s S&P 500 Chart Shows
28 May 2011 – 11:50 am PST
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Today’s end-of-day chart of the S&P 500 Here we are in Late May of 2000 and still waiting for the right chart pattern signal to initiate our purchases for our proposed stock market basics paper trading portfolio No. 3, first mentioned more than a month ago. It depends on the right kind of S&P 500 [...]
Continue reading...Waiting On The Sidelines for an S&P 500 Buy Signal
17 May 2011 – 11:06 pm PST
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Please Note: Click on the chart to obtain a slightly larger and sharper view S&P 500 May 16 May 16, 2011 It’s harder to make money when the market is moving down The chart of the S&P 500 Index, shown above, does not look too promising for those of us now on the sidelines, watchingĂ‚Â [...]
Continue reading...Selling, When to Exit a Stock Position
10 May 2011 – 9:48 pm PST
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After choosing the stocks to buy you have to know when to sell them In a previous post we outlined the stock market basics approach to Buying Stocks now it is time to consider how to exit a stock position based on a stock chart signal or some other logical reason to do so. Knowing [...]
Continue reading...The Stock Market Basics Approach to Buying Stocks
9 May 2011 – 2:31 pm PST
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Buying stocks After having qualified a stock as a suitable candidate for trading, the primary entry signals used in the stock market basics approach to trading is to look for a confirmed breakout of the stock price from an existing confining stock trading pattern. For an example, as illustrated in the chart below, a confining [...]
Continue reading...The S&P 500 Index Breakout We’ve Been Waiting For To Begin Paper Trading
28 April 2011 – 10:04 pm PST
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The S&P 500 Chart and the Stock Market Basics Portfolio 3 Watch List are shown below At last, today’s close of the S&P 500 Stock Index seems to confirm that we now have the breakout above 1344 that we’ve been waiting for, meaning we can begin to populate our 3 versions of our proposed Stock [...]
Continue reading...Watch List as of April 21 Close of Trading
26 April 2011 – 3:33 am PST
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See Watch List below We assembled the Watch List for the Stock Market Basics Paper Trade Portfolio No. 3 on April 12, as reported in the article of that date and since April 25 have tracked it using the Yahoo Live Portfolio facility. This enables us to now and henceforth gain some idea of whether [...]
Continue reading...Portfolio 3 — Getting Ready for Paper Trades
25 April 2011 – 4:00 am PST
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Chart suggests QPSA might be worth adding to our paper trading Portfolio 3 In keeping with method described in an earlier post on this website about Finding Stocks, I made a brief online search and in a few minutes found the names and symbols of about 20 possible stocks. After screening them in the customary [...]
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13 June 2011 – 9:12 pm PST
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