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innovest_11
 

Registered: Oct 2006
Posts: 226

 

04-01-07 09:00 AM

Having been scanning and looking at thousands of charts for some months already, keeping track of at least 500 stocks, but hold only 4 or more stocks. Always keep scanning for other better stocks,

but find it very tedious, but at the same time, don't want to lose track of any good stock, so any good advise u can give?

Also have been switching strategy from 5 days play to 20 days play, and picking bottom, each strategy has its weakness and strength, so i pick stocks based on these strategies, but in the end, find myself back to square one, no profit and no loss, what's the point of wasting so much energy?!

Sometime, u buy today, then it drop tomorrow, cut loss, then jump up the next day, some time u will win, some stocks u lose big on some news, cut loss again, some u win based on general market up, earning result, then sell to keep profit, to find it some months later, it gone up by 40% from the point u sell.

The winner is only the stock market operator. And find the only strategy to win is time. Meaning don't cut loss at all, hold forever. Buy above 3bn stocks, bigger company. Then will not get whipsawed and in out so many times to find myself back to same spot. Not to repeat anything but this is my story.

Sick n tired, maybe should only trade during uptrend market, but who knows when is uptrend or downtrend market, till downtrend happen, and one can say, play shorting, but shorting is too fast, by then time u want to short, too late

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99atlantic
 

Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 380

 

04-01-07 09:03 AM

Cut down the number you watch to a more manageable amount. Having hundreds/thousands eggs in the pot doesn't necessarily amount to better opportunities if there are too many to monitor.

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james_gsx
 

Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 36

 

04-01-07 09:27 AM

Sit down and make an achievable, measurable goal. Then put together a clear method that you can trade by. Sit out, and practice your method paper-trading. Don't worry if you miss any stocks, the market will always be there presenting new opportunities.

Do your best to avoid the losers, risk management is the name of the game. And of course limit the amount of stocks you want to watch. But the best advice I can give you is to just sit down and put together a clear method you understand. Figure out what works and what doesn't, then make your method and write it on paper and keep it near you. Make sure the goal is achievable and measurable, it will help when you create your method.

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nazzdack
 

Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 5007

 

04-01-07 07:09 PM

Develop reasonable guidelines for stocks that you want to trade in terms of volume, price, volatility and trend position. That should go a long way towards getting you better focused.

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blast19
 

Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 877

 

04-01-07 07:26 PM

Take a look at Trade Ideas. It's a bit pricey I guess but if you are looking for really good candidates triggered by technicals or volume or any combination thereof, it's a wonderful package. I don't use it right now because I have some other things I'm working on, but I used to use the "Short Trader's Paradise" preset and always found great plays. They also have a "Up 5 days in a row and..." that's fairly good.

It's all customizable and I think it's a great way to get candidates to look at that meet really strict criteria without just poring over chart after chart. You can totally customize new or existing indicators.

Cheers.

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ak15
 

Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 888

 

04-01-07 07:41 PM

You might want to limit yourself to daytrading. If you have good discipline and money management skills it could work for you. You don't have to worry about extraneous factors such as market conditions, dishonest analysts, stupid TV commentators who don't know what they are talking about, shady hedge funds and the list goes on ad nauseum.

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