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Stock Trading Basics & Strategy

• Trading Psychology, The 14 Stages of Investor Emotions
• How to Make a Stock Trade Online
• 5 Best Free Stock Screeners
• Investment Guide to Proper Portfolio Allocation
• Top 10 Best Finance iPhone Applications
• How to Setup a Profit vs Loss Ratio
• CANSLIM Trading Broken Down
• 5 Easy Steps to Navigate Earnings Season better than the pros
• How to Find Future Big Winner Stocks in a Losing Market
• 9 Simple Tips For Successful Margin Trading
• 6 William O’Neil Short Selling Rules
• 10 Tips to Detect an Investment Scam
• 6 Tips to Having a Productive Financial Morning Routine
• 8 Ways to Fight Stock Market Stress
• How to Sell a Stock You Love
• 3 Essential Steps to Successful Investing Online
• Understanding Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
• 5 Traits of a Successful Investor
• How to Stay Calm While Trading
• 7 Online Stock Trading Strategies
• 13 Questions That Will Boost Your Investment Portfolio
• 5 Smart Tips For Trading Part Time
• Understanding Mutual Fund Fees
• The Scam Behind Mutual Fund Loads
• Stock Splits, A Investors Dream or Worst Nightmare?
• 5 Tips For Avoiding Wicked Bull Traps
• How to Manage Investment Risk with Add-on Buys
• An Investor’s Guide to ADRs
• Robo-Advisors vs Online Brokers vs RIAs – Which is Best?

Post Trade Analysis

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• The 3 Phases of Trade Analysis & The Big Secret Few Know
• 11 Key Variables for Successful Trade Analysis
• 5 Key Ways Tagging Your Trades Improves Your Performance
• Why Defining Investment Risk as “R” is Critical to Successful Investing
• Investors Guide to Conducting Post-Trade Analysis

Bear Markets

• 25 Essential Bear Market Stock Tips For All Investors
• 37 Tips, Facts, and Rules for Trading Stocks in a Bear Market
• Investors Guide for Market Crash Strategy

ETFs

Explore and search our new ETFs Directory with 1,602 different ETFs to find the right ETF for the strategy you’d like to trade.

• Exchange Traded Funds Basics
• 40 Inverse ETFs For Bearish Investors
• 24 Ultra Long ETFs For Bullish Investors
• ETFs vs ETNs, the Difference
  
• Currency ETFs
• Water ETFs
• Alternative Energy ETFs
  
• US Treasury ETFs
• US Dollar ETFs
  

Stock Orders

• Market Orders and How They Work
• Stock Limit Orders and How They Work
• Investors Guide to Stop Loss Orders
• 10 Stop Loss Order Tips for Success
• Using Trailing Stop Orders With Your Online Broker
• Advanced Short Selling Order Placements

Stock Trading Computers

• The Dream Multi Monitor Trading Station
• The Ultimate Trading Station, 24 Monitors
• Are 20 Trading Monitors Enough For You?
• 7 Monitor Trading Station

Technical Analysis

Learn Stock Charts: Read my 156 page interactive course, The Interactive Guide to Technical Analysis, and learn to read stock charts like the pros.

• View all Technical Analysis articles (40 total)
• A Breakdown of Stock Chart Basics
• Top 5 best Free Stock Chart Websites
• 5 Stock Chart Patterns Every Investor Should Know
• Trading Psychology, The 14 Stages of Investor Emotions
• The 5 Most Common Spots Where the Market Finds Support & Resistance
• Understanding Stock Chart Higher Highs
  
• Understanding Stock Price Gaps
• How Stock Gap Breakouts Yield 100%+ Returns
• Investors Guide to Bullish Engulfments
• 3 Shorting Strategies Using Technical Analysis
• Volume Interpretation Quiz (Answers)
• Stock Chart Education Test (Answers)

Stock Chart Examples:

• A Great Example of a “Clean” Breakout Yielding 50%+ Returns
• Spot this Setup for 100%+ Returns
• How to Spot Bull Flags that Return Huge Profits
• 6 Lessons / Reminders From My 23% Profit in EZCH
• A Closer Look at SINA’s 2010 Breakout and 200%+ Run
• Dryships Stock Offers 5 Valuable Lessons For All Investors
• How Akami’s (AKAM) Stock Chart Foretold its Earnings Miss
• A Closer Look at Chipotle’s (CMG) 150%+ Run this Year

Options

• View all Options Trading articles (28 total)
• New investors, What is an option?
• Understanding Stock and Options Differences
• 9 Options Terms every investor should know
• 12 Intermedia Option Terms to know
• 7 Reasons Investors Trade Options
• 6 Great Options Strategies for new investors
• 10 Great Tips for Trading Covered Calls
• Understanding the Black Scholes Model