Having a set of principles to abide by when trading is critical. I get a lot of emails from traders asking me if I do this or that, and how do I react in “ABC” Scenario and so forth. As a result, I thought it would be helpful to you [...]

I am in the process of implementing some new charting software over the course of the next few months. Currently I use a myriad of services for screening my stocks, from Stockcharts, to some stuff that Microsoft has, to a few low-profile software providers you’ve probably never heard of before. [...]

Market sentiment is nervous to say the least, even bulls are starting to realize this could be too much too fast. Economic conditions are still bad (take a look at retail and job reports), yet traders continue to stick their hand in the cookie jar in order to get every [...]

Last couple of weeks – I’ve been some-what break-even on my trading. Not the best of performance, however, like last week there is a number of lessons and observations to take from this week in trading. My trades for the most part were good trades with good entries, only one [...]

So I wasn’t suppose to trade today, but I did anyway – not what I had in the plans. However, a great trade in (ICE) presented itself, and I couldn’t resist – the type of setup I should have patiently awaited for more throughout this past week, but didn’t. Nonetheless, [...]

Let’s face it, you are not going to have a good day trading stocks every day. It just doesn’t happen, and those who say it does are nothing but a bunch of frauds. Every day is its own riddle to unravel and mystery to solve, and sometimes you just aren’t [...]

A popular question that I get quite a bit from the traders who follow this blog, is what brokerage firm do we use for our trading and why. SharePlanner trades with thinkorswim (short name is TOS). And I have to say that I am very pleased with their service. They [...]

The year 2008 has come and gone, and with it a lot of fortunes, retirements, companies, and hedge funds. It will be a year that will go down as one of the worst ever in the financial and housing markets. SharePlanner was able to weather the storm like no other [...]

Rough year for about 99.9 of investors, and while Shareplanner managed to finish the year well in the green unlike most of its competitors, it still had challenges of its own (we’ll be publishing soon, Shareplanner’s 2008 Trading Results). In a year where losses for Wall Street ran out of [...]