First of all, this is NOT a prediction post. I used to post them for fun in the past, but that's all they were...for fun. I'm not a big fan of predictions because 1) NO ONE knows where the market it going and 2) We are all allowed to change our minds based on the information [...]
I've been trading for 18 years. The beautiful part about it is that I am ALWAYS learning. The second you think you know everything and have the stock market all figured out, you're dead! The lesson I am about to share is not a "new" lesson, but rather, one that has been reinforced this year. [...]
Back on August 23rd, I filmed 4 videos for Yahoo Finance. Here are the topic titles and video links: Do Not Buy The Ballmer Bounce: Fahmy No Fed Taper Until New Year Means New Highs: Fahmy 5 Growth Stocks Poised to Profit in the Fourth Quarter: Fahmy Scared By the Nasdaq Flash Freeze? Get Over [...]
This is an open letter to @jack, @biz, @ev, @dickc, Twitter executives, @fredwilson, and all other Twitter investors. I originally joined Twitter for the porn and free iPad offers (they say start every speech with a joke, right?). I immediately found tremendous business advantages from it. Through @howardlindzon's StockTwits platform, he allows me to share my [...]
Back in the late 1990's, my friends LOVED the stock market. We weren't elite, we didn't have much money, but we loved talking about stocks. I had friends who were obsessed with $CSCO $DELL $MFST $INTC etc. They would watch their growth stocks go up, talk about how hot Maria was (and still is), and [...]
In the past week, I received 3 unsolicited emails from people who attended my seminars. By the way, this is not a plug for them, as I don't plan on running one any time soon. I am writing this to make a point. During my seminars, I constantly stress the importance of watching price action [...]
Last week, I wrote a blog post titled: Two Reasons The Market Will Make New Highs Later This Year. I positioned myself for a move to the upside, but I certainly didn't expect new highs in a week!!! As my good friend @ZorTrades says: Strong markets and strong stocks don't give people time to get [...]
REASON #1 As many of you know, I use the price action of leading stocks to help me determine the overall health of the market. Everything else is just noise. When the market corrected in June, I thought we could be heading into a deeper correction...but something interesting happened. As I did my nightly screening work [...]
Jesse Livermore was one of the greatest traders who ever lived. You can read more about him here. He has so many great quotes, but here are a few of my favorites: 1) The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time. 2) Play the market [...]
On Tuesday night (5/28/13), I wrote a blog post about how I lightened up my stock positions and reduced my market exposure. At the time, the S&P 500 was at 1660 and proceeded to drop over 60 points into last Thursday (6/6/13). I began to increase my exposure around these levels for the following reasons: [...]