| Once your stock broker has lost half of your money, | | | | stocks to buy and look for two distinct prices -- the |
| it's time to start thinking of buying stocks yourself. | | | | price you are going to buy at and the price you are |
| Afterall, don't you think you are qualified to lose | | | | going to sell at. Doing that is easier than you think |
| money on your own? Why do you need a | | | | but it's an art not a science. What that means is that |
| professional telling you how to do that? | | | | the skill doesn't come without practice. |
| Wall Street has gone out of it's way to make it easy | | | | To do this, you need one important tool and that's a |
| to buy stocks but at the same time convince you | | | | stock chart that shows the price and volume action |
| that the market is way too sophisticated for the | | | | for the stock over period of time. What you are |
| average investor. They promote the professionals | | | | looking for is identifying when the stock is being |
| while promoting a buy and hold strategy. | | | | bought by institutional investors which are the driving |
| I think the main reason that they recommend buying | | | | force behind pushing a stocks price higher. You do |
| and holding your stocks is because they don't know | | | | that by noticing when a stocks price is closing higher |
| when to sell. Since they don't know when to sell, | | | | on higher than average volume. How can you tell |
| they promote never selling. What an easy out. The | | | | when to sell, by looking at the exact opposite. When |
| time to buy is always right now and the time to sell | | | | a stock price closes lower on higher volume, that's |
| is long term. | | | | your cue to exit the stock. By observing these clues |
| If you really want to make money buying stocks you | | | | to who is buying the stock, with practice you can |
| can't adopt that philosophy. You've got to study the | | | | pick when to buy and sell stocks like a professional. |