Point To Buy Or Sell

By Author: Anthony Green
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There is an old saying Never put all of your eggs in one basket And in the stock market it is a very good rule to follow. If you are in position to do so select as many as four or five stocks one from each of the different groups. Buy or sell in equal amounts.

If you get into the market right and with a reason, records show that it very seldom occurs that you would get the stops caught on all of your stocks. You may not always make as much profit as you would to trade in one or two of the active, fast moving stocks, but you will be safer. That is my aim: To teach you safety; help you protect yourself and cut short your losses in every possible way and let your profits run

FIXING A PRICE OR POINT TO BUY OR SELL

The majority of people have a habit when they buy or sell a stock, of fixing in their minds a certain figure at which they expect to take profits. There is no reason or cause for this. It is simply a bad habit based on hope. When you make a trade, your object should be to make profits and there is no way that you can determine in advance how much profits you can expect on any one particular trade. ...
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The market itself determines the amount of your profit, and the thing that you must do is to be ready to get out and accept a profit whenever the trend changes and not before. Remember the market is not going to act to please you or go to certain figures just because you want to buy or sell at those figures. Many traders lose big profits by fixing the price at which they intend to sell.

Stocks sometimes go within 2, 3 or 4 points of their selling price and start to decline. They hold on and hope. Just because it does not reach the point that they have fixed in their minds, they often hold on and hope until they lose all the profits and take a loss, refusing to see that the trend has changed. Hope will ruin any man who follows it in the stock market.

To succeed you must face facts, and facts are often cold and stubborn and do not agree with your hope but you must accept them for your own good. In nearly every bull or bear campaign in the market the general public gets certain fixed points in their heads where stocks are going to make tops or bottoms. The newspapers talk about certain favorite stocks going to 100, 125, 150 or 175. Everybody gets the idea that these prices are going to be made and they become hope prices, but are never realized. The man who tries to get the last point or the top or bottom eighth generally loses all his profits.

You do not have to get in at the bottom and out at the top to make big money. All you have to do is to look over the list of the active leading stocks and you will find that they make moves of from 50 to 150 points between bottom and top every few years. Then, if you can get in after the stock has advanced 10 points from the bottom, and sell out within 10 points of the top, you certainly will be able to accumulate plenty of profits.

Never get the idea in your head that you can or will hold a stock until it goes your way. This is nothing but pure stubbornness and is not based on any sound logic or reasoning. In case of doubt get out. Do not hesitate. Delays are always dangerous. Do as the insiders do: If they can not get what they want, they take what they can get; if the market will not take what they have to offer, they offer what it will take; if the market will not go their way, they go its way. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.