Trading Strategies?

Question

probably a long shot.

Where would I find basic, proven trading strategies to work with?

Answer 1

Trading? The essentials are: (1) which direction is the stock going?; (2) how fast is it going?; (3) are there a lot of sales for that direction?; and (4) what are you waiting for? When the direction turns, more than just a little (things always flop around), then you turn (sell what you bought, then sell it short, if you can, to ride it down).

Investing? The essentials are: (1) does the company make money?; (2) does the company look like it will continue to make money?; (3) does the company do something better than its competitions?; (4) what are you waiting for? It will flop around, but ignore the ups and downs, because an investment is for the long run. In the long run profitable companies rise (and companies that make more profits than their competition tend to rise more).

Answer 2

First, let me say something about how how I interpret your question.

To me an investment strategy is not the same thing as a trading strategy.

I consider an investment strategy a larger, overall strategy for protecting and increasing your financial assets. I consider investing to be holding assets I expect to appreciate in value for longer time periods, without doing a lot of trading.

I consider a trading strategy to be a technique for trying to make money by buying and selling assets over a shorter time period.

Buying and selling stocks can be part of both strategies.

I consider the Motley Fool

http://www.fool.com/

one of the best sites for information on buying and selling stock, but their emphasis is certainly more on investing than trading.

Almost all of my trading strategies include option trading. If you want to know what resources I recommend to learn option trading, see my response to the question at

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsIQ6DaptAsQ6kAizYNQQLqvxQt.?qid=20070310101436AAaVtB7

If you want more about strategies for stock trading without using options, I hope someone else can supply you with some good resources. My knowledge on the subject is too limited for me to make a recommendation.

Answer 3

One strategy I like is to see what the best traders are buying and selling, and then use their good ideas. You can find this information at http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors. You can read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas. There is a charting feature, so you can see how your portfolio performs compared to the S&P 500. Also, you can create your own "group" so that you can see how you are doing compared to your friends.

Here are this month's best traders:

http://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

trading or investing? i feel that trading on the stock market works as well picking stocks with a dart board

Answer 5

try tradersnotebook.com they have a stategy thats free and its close to the way i trade if thats not to your liking ill send you how i trade its very simple and quite effective just e-mail me back

Answer 6

read tips on investing and stocks to help you better on this site