This post was contributed by a guest author, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Richard or MovetheMarkets.com
To the uninitiated, the unfamiliar, and the untrained, you may be thinking, “Sure, any joe blow can post a winning trade hours after it’s been made - how about posting a trade in real-time ??”
In other words, instead of posting our trades (way) after the fact, why don’t we post our trades in real-time, or minutes after we’ve entered them?
If you’re interested in peering over the shoulders of the traders here so that you can see what stocks they’re looking at, then what you’re really after is knowledge on building up your own watchlist. In that case, then look no further than MtM’s own handy dandy, home-brewed market scan as a starting point for building up your own watchlist. Pick and choose from that list as you wish, and use your own technical criteria to filter it down to a manageable size of your own choosing.
If you’re interested in peering over the shoulders of the traders here so that you can learn how to trade, and understand why the trade was made, and figure out what to look for in a trade, then may I humbly suggest that you review the posts in the “Trades” category in this blog. And then go back and re-review the posts again, but this time, treat them as free lessons in trading which can be applied to the very stock that you’re looking at right now. We all try to discuss our rationale for taking the trades that we made, so by learning about why did what we did, you are getting the equivalent knowledge to watching us trade in real-time. In other words, learn about how/why we did what we did, and then you too can do what we do - without having to peer over our shoulders in real-time.
And, don’t be afraid to ask questions. After all, we are all here to learn, and one of the better ways to learn is to ask questions. And we won’t bite - at least most of us will try not to !!
This post was contributed by a guest author, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Richard or MovetheMarkets.com