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Abstract (ver. 05): My personal, unusual view on profitable stock and commodity trading
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Table of Contents
1. Disclaimer ..................................................................................................................................... 1
2. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 2
3. Why to trade stocks (and commodities)? .............................................................................. 3
4. Introduction to my trading strategy ....................................................................................... 3
5. The fundaments of profitable trading .................................................................................... 4
6. My daily fundamental analysis routine .................................................................................. 5
7. The “common sense” strategy with an example .................................................................. 7
8. Letter Grade Rating .................................................................................................................... 9
9. Charts, charts, charts ................................................................................................................ 11
10. The power of averaging ....................................................................................................... 12
11. The power of dividend ......................................................................................................... 13
12. The power of leverage ......................................................................................................... 15
13. How to profit from ‘craze’ ................................................................................................... 17
14. Spread your chances ............................................................................................................ 18
15. When to exit the market? .................................................................................................... 19
16. New trading opportunities ................................................................................................. 19
17. My open trades (real-time overview) ............................................................................... 20
18. Brokers ..................................................................................................................................... 20
19. Conclusions ............................................................................................................................ 21
20. Do you need help with trading? ........................................................................................ 22
21. My track record (real money €1000 test account with 140% profit) ......................... 26
1. Disclaimer Before you engage in transactions using an electronic system, you should carefully review the rules
and regulations of the exchanges offering the system and/or listing the instruments you intend to
trade. Online trading has inherent risk due to system response and access times that may vary due to
market conditions, system performance, and other factors. You should understand these and
additional risks before trading.
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Leverage allows traders the ability to enter into a position worth many times the account value with a relatively small amount of money. This leverage can work with you as well as against you. Even though the Forex market offers traders the ability to use a high degree of leverage, trading with high leverage may increase the losses suffered. Please use caution when using leverage in trading or investing.
All investments involve risk, and the past performance of a security, industry, sector, market, financial product, trading strategy, or individual’s trading does not guarantee future results or returns. Investors are fully responsible for any investment decisions they make. Such decisions should be based solely on an evaluation of their financial circumstances, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs.
Any opinions, trading methods, research, analyses, prices, or other information offered by coensio.com is provided as general market commentary, and does not constitute investment advice. Coensio.com will not accept liability for any loss or damage, including without limitation any loss of profit, which may arise directly or indirectly from use of or reliance on such information.
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2. Introduction
This short eBook is meant as a general introduction to stock (and commodity)
trading. It is based on my personal view on trading and should be used only as a
good start point for your future education. This eBook covers the following
items:
• The reasons why to trade stock market and commodities
• My own view on trading including the strategies and resources I use for
my daily trading
• Introduction to basic stock trading terms and concepts
• Few examples of trading ideas and new trading opportunities
So why I am in a position to teach you about trading? Several reasons:
• I love to share my knowledge and insights with other traders
• After 6 years of FX trading I can say I’m experienced currency trader, forex
blog owner and strategy programmer, visit my blog at: www.coensio.com
• In the last several months my test account (real money on a real broker)
grew more than 140%. So, I must have been doing something right ;) An
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example of my last trading results is here: see chapter 21. See also my
newest update on my YouTube channel.
You can always disagree with me on several points, this document is not meant
to prove or disprove anything, it just summarizes all the things I do to trade
stock market with a decent profitability. I hope you will enjoy this lecture. If you
have any questions you can always contact me on my email address.
I wish you all the best,
Chris,
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3. Why to trade stocks (and commodities)?
There are several reasons for that, so for example I trade stocks because:
• I love trading and everything about it
• I want to grow my capital over time
• I learned that it is much easier to become profitable in trading stocks than
become profitable in Forex trading (I will explain it later)
• I do understand the risk of trading and I trade very carefully
• Most of the stocks come with a nice dividend, a simple concept that can
boost my long term results
4. Introduction to my trading strategy
In my daily and professional life, I always adapt this one simple motto, which
says:
Keep it simple!
And so far, it works quite well for me. Thus, also in case of trading, I do not make
things too complicated. Since this eBook is only a very short introduction to
stock trading, I will try to explain my strategy using a simple example:
Imagine you are collecting stamps. You are a real “stamps” lover (philatelist) and
you always wanted to have as many beautiful stamps as possible in your
personal collection. Let’s say your favorite stamps are rare stamps from
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Switzerland. You love everything about those small pieces of paper, their colors,
beautiful designs and their diversity. You also know that:
• there are many other people like you, that are collecting rare Swiss stamps
• their value is fluctuating over time but in general it is expected that the
value will rise due to low supply/demand ratio and many other factors
• the chance that the value of rare Swiss stamps will drop to 0 is extremely
low
So what do you do it this case??? Here is what I would do:
I WOULD BUY RARE SWISS STAMPS AT THE BEST POSSIBLE PRICE,
AND I WOULD BUY AS MANY STAMPS AS I COULD GET!
This kind of thinking, together with some basic trading knowledge, is the only
thing you need to learn, in order to become successful in stock trading. And it is
not based on some tool or indicator or some holy grail push button software to
make you rich overnight. It is based on the best concept you can learn in your
life:
THE COMMON SENSE!
I hope you will remember this simple advice, it can really transform your life…
5. The fundaments of profitable trading
Few years ago (in 2010) when I started my trading adventure I was completely
focused on currency trading (Forex). Since I’m an engineer, the first thing I’ve
discovered, was automated algorithmic trading. And I must admit, I had some
successes in doing that (I still have!). However, there is a small problem with
algorithmic trading: it is based only on chart indicators (technical analysis), and
all these indicators are based on the past price action. In other words, like one
wise trader used to say:
“Trading using chart indicators, is like driving a car using rear-view
mirror only”
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So to be specific, at some point in time, I have discovered the concept of
fundamental trading. This concept is more based on “price prediction” than on
past “price action”. For example, when looking at my previous “stamps” analogy,
I buy stamps only in case when I have a good fundamental reason to do so,
examples:
• I expect that a price will rise because of an upcoming (or present)
economic event
• I have few strong reasons (that are backed by some kind of investigation)
to believe that this is a good investment and a right time to enter market
• I can “jump in” and follow a confirmed trend
• (optionally) I personally believe in something, e.g.: I believe that Swiss
stamps are the best and most beautiful stamps in the whole world, and if
their value will drop to 0, then the world will end ;)
So how this all applies to my daily trading?
I ALWAYS do my HOMEWORK before entering the market.
6. My daily fundamental analysis routine
It is all about doing some simple, basic internet research. In this case Google is
our biggest friend!
READING is 95% of success in trading!
I read all the time and everywhere. While eating my lunch, while traveling or
before going to bed. Reading is the key to success! It gives me an insight in
current market moods, future market predictions and new trading ideas. It is
also very important to keep it all limited in some way, otherwise there is a risk of
information overload. In order to deal with this problem, I simply selected few
places I like to visit online and I stick to them. Below a list of places, I visit on
regular basis to do my trading research:
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TipRanks.com
By far…the best place to find the best stocks to buy, simply by following the best
professional traders out there. If you do not know how to select stocks, go and
start there!
Investorsplace.com
The best source of free information, great trading ideas and reliable fundamental
predictions. Very simple to read and understand.
flipboard.com
By far the best smartphone based magazine and free source of real time
information (on any topic). Note: you need to subscribe to the following
categories: News, Finance, Forbes, Investor, Business, Gold & Silver
Investing.com
The second best place to do your homework. Source of real-time market news.
bullionvault.com
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A great place for gold and silver price predictions, news and analysis.
bloomberg.com
Tons of free market and commodities insights. Real time market news, also used
by professionals.
seekingalpha.com
Tons of free market and commodities insights. Real time market news, also used
by professionals. Free smartphone App.
7. The “common sense” strategy with an example
After reading I always summarize the information and I always ask myself few
basic questions:
• Did I read something interesting?
• Do I need to investigate something in more detail?
• Is there any possible trading opportunity?
In the answer to all those question is ‘NO’. I do not trade, I close my laptop and I
go and do other things, like enjoying my life ;) But, if the answer to one of those
questions is ‘YES’, then I go back to my online research and I ‘dive’ deeper in to a
specific topic.
A real-life example:
Few day ago, during my lunch I’ve read a nice article about upcoming “driverless
car” technology. It was an article provided by Investor magazine on Flipboard.
Since in my daily life I’m an engineer, I found this very interesting. The author of
this article pointed out, that there are some strong evidences, that this
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technology will soon become available (…a real sci-fi dream that will come true!).
As we speak, all big international companies like: Tesla, Mercedes, Volkswagen,
BWM are already investing billions in this new technology. Even the giants like
Google and Apple (yes, yes the same guys that made the iPhone) are investing
huge amount of cash to make this all happen.
The wise conclusion of this article was: do not try to invest in car manufacturing
companies, but rather in the companies that are pushing the limits of
technology, that is required to make it all work. Obviously, the author of this
article was promoting his own commercial newsletter with a nice monthly
subscription of $99 ;) He did not disclose any more information about what kind
of companies he meant. So, I could not sleep after that day, thinking about the
future possibilities and gains this simple innovation can lead to. The very next
day I spent on Google, and here is what I found:
• It was all true…apparently in coming years we will have driverless cars!
• Huge companies are investing huge amount of money in this technology!
• It is the biggest technological innovation since smartphone!
• It is a huge opportunity for traders!
So here is why I’ve invested in company named NVIDIA Corporation (Ticker:
NVDA). Apparently NVIDA is one of the fastest upcoming producers of the CPU
units (the processors) that are needed for processing of huge amount of data
inside of each ‘driverless’ car. Below a quote from an article I’ve found while
googling on businessinsider.com:
“The Nvidia's Tegra X1 processor, which powers its Drive CX cockpit visualization computer, is
capable of delivering one trillion floating-point operations per second (flops) – the same amount of
power as a 1,600 square foot supercomputer 15 years ago.”
For people like me, who appreciate technological advancement, it sounds like
music to my ears, it’s mind-blowing! And here are the latest gains of NVDA
(September-2016):
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Figure 7-1: NVIDA stock price 09-2016
So summarized:
• Did I have a fundamental reason to think that investing money in
company as NVIDIA will result in gains in the near future? YES!
• Was there any possibility to follow a confirmed trend YES!
• Do I have a strong believe this was a good investment decision? YES!
8. Letter Grade Rating
There are many different ways to get an additional confirmation w.r.t. the
selected stock. Personally I use a simple “letter grade stock screener” provided
by: thestreet.com. So let’s check if my NVIDIA stock was a right choice and what
are the experts saying about this stock:
Figure 8-1: Stock screener results of Nvidia company
In this particular example I did a good choice! The letter rating equal to A = Buy
signal! There are several different letter grades:
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Table 8-1: The “next big thing” keywords
A & B Ratings - Are considered to be ‘buy signal’ confirmation.
B.T.W.: there are many more stock ratings, that you can use to validate if a given
stock is worth investing your money. Two commonly used examples are: P/E
ratio and asset class. So, if you really like to dive into advanced stock screening,
the best tool I know is the finviz stock screener.
Figure 8-1: Advanced stock screener
However, do not fall into a trap of making your trading decision based on
technical analysis/screening only. Your stock choice should always have a strong
fundamental reasons.
Letter Grade Definition (source: thestreet.com)
A (Excellent) The stock has an excellent track record for maximizing performance while minimizing risk, thus delivering the best possible combination of total return on investment and reduced volatility.
B (Good) The stock has a good track record for balancing performance with risk. Compared to other stocks, it has achieved above-average returns given the level of risk in its underlying investments.
C (Fair) In the trade-off between performance and risk, the stock has a track record which is about average. It is neither significantly better nor significantly worse than most other stocks.
D (Weak) The stock has underperformed the universe of other funds given the level of risk in its underlying investments, resulting in a weak risk-adjusted performance.
E E (Very Weak) - The stock has significantly underperformed most other funds given the level of risk in its underlying investments, resulting in a very weak risk-adjusted performance.
U (Unrated) - The stock is unrated because it is too new to make a reliable assessment of its risk-adjusted performance. Typically, a fund must be established for at least three years before it is eligible to receive an Investment Rating.
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9. Charts, charts, charts
Note that in the majority of cases, I already know what to trade and why, before I
look at my charts. The situation on the charts (with or without the indicators),
only gives me an additional confirmation that my trading decision was right. In
all cases, I use price charting to find a good entry where the price is relatively
“cheap”. So what kind of magic indicators do I use for my decision making?
• I use simple stochastic indicator (Setting 5,3,3) to see when a price of a
given instrument is ‘oversold’ (70)
• Moving average of 100 to determine the long term market trends
• I use simple chart lines to determine resistance, support and trend
breakouts.
What is the best charting software? Honestly I do not know;) I’m using a free
version of freestockcharts (Update 2017: freestockcharts does not work anymore
on most browsers so I’ve switched to TradingView.com platform!). Furthermore, I
only look at Daily (D1) & Weekly (W1) charts. For example:
Figure 9-1: NVIDIA chart reading example
SR line
bounce
RSI in mid-
range, not
‘overbought’
yet
Strong
up-trend
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In this particular example: buying NVIDIA stock in September (2016) was a
simple no brainer. The future will show us if I was right about this stock pick;)
10. The power of averaging
As already mentioned before I am a ‘buyer’. I always base my strategy on a
bullish sentiment. I (almost) never ‘go short’. I think it is easier to believe in a
success of a given company, than to wait for this company to ‘fail’. And moreover
I only want to invest my money in big and healthy companies with proven
positive stock gains. However, it does not always work out as planned…so what
to do in that case?
The power of AVERAGING.
Entry point averaging is a very powerful, but also a risky concept. It can help you
to double or triple your gains or recover your losses, however it needs to be
done with some level carefulness. So for example let’s look at the Microsoft:
Figure 10-1: Entry point averaging
Let’s analyze what happened:
A. After doing fundamental analysis, I decided to invest some of my money
into Microsoft company. If you do your homework you will find out, there
A
B
C
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are many different reasons to be ‘bullish’ about this company. Point A was
a reasonable entry point (at $54.52/share). I bought 4 shares.
B. At this point in time the price ($52.78/share) went down and up again, but
my position was still losing money! However:
o When going back to the fundamental analysis there was no reason
to think something has changed. The mid-term prediction of
Microsoft stock price is still very positive. There was no reason for
panic!
o Analogically, thinking about my first example with Swiss stamps, at
this moment in time I was able to purchase more stamps at a much
lower better price! So I did! I purchased 4 Microsoft stocks again at
a lower price.
C. At this point the market price was $54.18/share and my average price was
equal to: AveragePricePOINT_C =(A+B) / 2 = ($54.52+$52.78)/2 =
$53.65/share. This still results in a $54.18 - $53.65 = ~$0.5/share in profit!
One very important thing to mention, is that this trading technique is allowed
only in case the fundamental picture has not changed and is still positive. In case
you have doubts in fundamentals, always close your positions to minimize the
total risk.
If something you want to own drops in price = BUY IT!
11. The power of dividend
A great scientist Albert Einstein once said:
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The nicest thing about trading stocks is the DIVIDEND. According to
Investopedia:
“A dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by
the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders. Dividends can be issued as
cash payments, as shares of stock, or other property.”
This basically means that the fact of owning shares of a given company gives you
right to receive a small piece of percentage of company’s earnings. So for
example if I would have stocks of General Motors Company (Ticker: GM) I would
receive a nice dividend yield of ~4%/share/year distributed over several dividend
payout periods. Usually, this is determined quarterly after a company finalizes its
income statement. We can easily calculate how this will impact our gains over
time, using:
RULE OF 72!
Imagine you own $100 in shares of a company that pays out 10% dividend
annually. Imagine you would re-invest this dividend each year in additional
company shares. It that case we can apply a simple rule of 72. This simple rule
allows us to estimate the period in which our initial investment will double. The
calculation is as follow:
Years to double initial investment = 72 / Interest Rate (or dividend)
In this example the initial investment would double every ~7.2 years. Since
72/10=7.2
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Figure 11-1: Dividend based growth
Assuming that the average price of a given share will only go up or in worst case
will stay flat, the dividend based growth is a powerful way of growing wealth on
the long term!
12. The power of leverage
The concept of leverage is a very powerful but also very dangerous thing. As
great Archimedes said:
“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the earth”
Figure 12-1: Leverage
In simple words, this mechanism allows you to invest a small amount of money
and trade with the number multiplied by the leverage. For example, with a
leverage of x100, you can invest $1000 and trade like you have $100000.
Normally when a given instrument rises with 10% your profit is $100 (10% of
$1000), but with a leverage of x100, the profit is calculated from the leveraged
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amount thus 10% of $100000 = $10000! This can multiply your income, but also
your losses! What the most people do not know, there are few brokers that
allow to trade stock shares with a small leverage (so called: margin account).
WARNING: In theory, while trading with a high leverage you can lose more
funds than the initial deposit into your margin account!
Few other brokers provide the possibility of trading leveraged financial
instruments. Most of those instruments are provided by banks, and have many
different names like: CFD’s, boosters, speeders, turbo’s. Those instruments are
financially coupled to a given share or commodity and in most cases their price
follow the market movements 1-on-1. An example of good broker that allows
CFD trading is markets.com (Since begin 2017 I am also using this broker, it has a
nice and simple web interface and also a MT4 platform!). Leveraged instruments
come always with an implemented StopLoss mechanism, that helps in managing
the risk of trading. However, it is still very risky and only meant for more
experienced traders.
Tip: I have learned, that it is much better to invest more money in an instrument
with a smaller leverage (< x10) and a ‘wider’ StopLoss level, than invest less
money in a trade with high leverage and StopLoss very close to the market price.
The reason for that is obvious, wider StopLoss level give you more ‘room’ to
survive volatile market events. This approach works very well for unpredictable
and volatile commodities like gold. 1.Buy, 2. hold it for a while, 3. wait for profit
and 4. cash out.
An example of how to combine leverage with the common-sense strategy and
minimize the total risk of trading. Let’s consider trading the gold market, using a
leveraged instrument. So first we do our fundamental analysis by reading
information we can find the internet and we can conclude the following:
1. Gold price goes continuously up and down, it is very volatile and sensitive
to all different market events like FED decisions, rate hikes, risk on/risk off
market moods, etc.…
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2. We can all agree on one thing: if the price of gold will drop to 0, the world
as we know it will end ;) Note: gold has no intrinsic value (it is just a piece
of metal) however it has stabilized and helped to rule human civilizations
for last few thousands of years. People always will be interested in gold!
3. We can also find out that the production price of 1 ounce of gold lies
somewhere around $1000/oz. In the near future it is also very unlikely that
the price of gold will drop below $1000/oz. Since this would mean that
gold mining is not more profitable In that case, most of the gold mines
would be forced to close this would impact supply/demand ratio
gold price would rise again.
4. So using a simple common logic we can conclude that the ‘FAIR PRICE’ of
gold lies somewhere above $1000/oz … $1150/oz.
This all gives us an imaginary range in which we can trade gold, while minimizing
our risk as much as possible. In this particular example I would personally try buy
leveraged gold shares with a small leverage of x10 and StopLoss level around
$1150/oz. If the price of gold would significantly drop below $1150/oz, I would
carefully buy more leveraged shares with a much lower StopLoss lever, while
carefully monitoring the fundamental reasons behind the gold price decrease.
That’s it, that’s my simple reasoning, this is how I trade.
13. How to profit from ‘craze’
Here is my little secret strategy I want to share with you. The most important
thing about stock trading is to have your eyes wide open. What I mean is that
the world around us gives us many different opportunities to profit from and the
one I like the most is: craze. For this example, let’s look closely what happened
recently with Nintendo (Ticker: NTDOY) stocks and how easy it was to detect the
‘Pokemon Go’ craze. You have probably heard about it on daily news, ‘Pokemon
Go’ is a new computer game, that can be installed on every smartphone. The
thing is, that in this case the game action takes place in the real world, and the
game uses Augmented Reality based software. So let’s see what happened. Let’s
align and compare two different graphs: Google Trends and Nintendo stock
price.
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Figure 13-1: Pokemon Go craze example
This example shows how slow the market reacts to the new opportunities in
some cases. After 6 July, every single trader could go on internet and check if
there is a positive correlation between the new internet trend and the reaction of
the stock market. Even after 2 days it would still be very interesting to follow that
trend and make money from it!
TREND is your friend! Learn how to detect new trends!
14. Spread your chances
This last rule is very simple:
Never put your all eggs in one basket! Spread the risk over multiple trades!
On 6 July Pokemon
Go showed up in
the news = internet
exploded, it became
a trending topic
On 6 July still no
one was interested
in NTDOY shares =
excellent
opportunity to BUY!
Even one or two
days later, it would
be still a great
moment to enter!
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Figure 14-1: Eggs in the basket
As a simple rule of thumb, I never invest more than 20% of my entire portfolio in
one trade. I usually start with 2%...5% and scale it up to 20%, while averaging my
entry price over a longer period of time. See chapter 10.
15. When to exit the market?
In general, I have only few rules for closing my trades:
1. When the fundamental picture for given stock/commodity has changed or
became unclear. Or when there is an upcoming earnings report event, the
risk of holding given stock (especially when trading with a leverage) is too
high.
2. To pay yourself! In case you are happy with the current gain, close your
position to cash your profit!
3. When the market doesn’t move for a long time.
4. When the current floating loss is too high and there is no reason to think
the stock price will rise in the near future.
Since I trade using small leverage, most of my trades are mid-term swing trades,
ranging from few days to few weeks.
16. New trading opportunities
We are living in a fast changing world that is full of new opportunities we can
profit from. In the past few months I did my own investigation and I already
know where to invest my money. Because I personally think, that it is much
better to “teach a man how to fish” instead of “give a man one fish”, I will live you
here with a small homework. Below a list of “keywords” you can do your own
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search on, using nothing else than Google. And I can promise you that behind
every single keyword there is hidden path to wealth.
Table 16-1: The “next big thing” keywords
17. My open trades (overview)
If you want to know where I’m investing my money at this specific moment, you
can visit my blog here: My Open Stock Trades.
18. Brokers
Below a short selection of good and cost effective Stock (CFDs) and Forex brokers.
For European residents: www.markets.com
This broker has a simple web-based trading platform, but also allows trading using
MT4 software (for more experienced traders). I am also using this broker for my
daily trading so I can recommend this one.
For other countries (US/Canada etc.): www.optionshouse.com
I have no experience with this broker but this is one of the biggest online broker
out there.
# Keywords Companies
1 autonomous cars Nvidia, Tesla, Mercedes, VW, TI, Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, BMW
2 virtual reality Facebook, Google, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, WorldViz
3 augmented reality Microsoft, Google, Nintendo
4 hololens Microsoft
5 magic leap Google
6 artificial intelligence Google, Amazon, Apple, Intel, IBM, Nvidia
7 online shopping Amazon, Akamai Technologies, Digital River Inc
8 internet of things Amazon, Microsoft
9 cyber security Akamai Technologies
10 robotics Yaskawa Electric, Google, ABB Ltd
11 3D printing 3D Systems, Materialise, ExOne, Voxeljet
12 biotech Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Abbvie Inc, China Biologic Products Inc
13 digital content NetFlix, Disney, Cinemark Holdings
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19. Conclusions
1. The following figure represent my decision making flow while trading
stocks. You can use it as a guideline, change and improve. This is only an
example of what I’m doing and what works for me in my daily trading.
Figure 19-1: Stock trading decision flow diagram
2. Fundamental stock/commodity trading is much more simple to
understand and follow than forex trading. There is no need to fully
understand and follow the logic behind the policy of central banks or
understand complex world economics.
3. Entry price averaging is a powerful tool to manage your losses and
increase chances of profit, however it is risky and should be only used by
experienced traders.
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4. Dividend is a reliable and powerful tool for long term capital growth.
5. Leverage (CFD trading) can boost your profits and minimize the amount
of required trading capital. I do trade with leveraged instruments, since it
gives me a possibility to trade with €100 and control €1000 in the markets.
With only €2000 on my account and average leverage of x10, I can trade
like I’ve invested €20000. However, I am aware of all risks involved in
trading leveraged products, and I am accepting the possible losses.
6. Always keep your eyes open, try to detect new trends and learn how to
profit from them.
7. There are many commercially available tools that can help you find a
reliable market entry. One of the professional solutions that is worth
mentioning is the: TradeMiner. Click HERE to find out more about this
software.
Other recommendations are the DailyInsider newsletter and TipRanks
service. See the next chapter for more information about those solutions.
8. Always spread your chances, and do not bet all your money on one stock!
On average, a standard portfolio should have between 10 and 15 different
stocks.
9. Always keep educating yourself! This small eBook covers only the basics of
stock trading…and there is so much more. Stock trading, if done properly,
is a great hobby that pays very well;) Keep learning and be patient and you
will get ‘there’.
10. If you like my eBook, or just want to add a comment post your reply HERE.
11. DO NOT FORGET to sign up to my special stock trading mailing list HERE.
If you already downloaded this eBook from this link then you are already
fine, if not then please subscribe to get my future updates and additional
tips.
20. Do you need help with trading?
For some people the information from this eBook can be a little bit
overwhelming and it will be not easy to get it all going. If you want to learn how
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to buy only the best stocks that are selected by the best professional traders, I
recommend you to visit my blog to see how:
CLICK HERE TO GO TO MY WEBSITE
Also, I can imagine that stock trading can be very confusing for a beginner. Or
that there are many people with full-time job and families with small kids, that
do not have time for continuous reading, watching market news and doing
market analysis. Therefore, I have personally selected two options that you can
use for your daily trading, when your trading time is very limited:
The DailyInsider
This is a professional, daily news letter which covers the best investing
opportunities every single day.
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Automated algorithmic stock recommendations:
TipRanks
This is a professional portal (a search engine like google) which evaluates public
stock recommendations made by professional financial analysts and bloggers.
The search results are ranked by experts based on their accuracy and
performance from their past predictions. Below a simple example of how a
typical TipRanks search result looks like:
For each single stock you a considering to buy this great tool can tell you the
following:
• The current ‘buy/sell or hold’ recommendation of the best market analysts
• The mid/long term price range prediction
• The insider buy/sell actions (extremely strong buy or sell signals)
• Financial bloggers recommendations
• The current recommendation of all experts who have already successfully
predicted price movement in the past for a given stock
• Currently trending stocks
• Many, many more….
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21. My track record (real money €1000 test account with 140% profit) See also my newest updates on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petqAU30zF0&t=6s
Date Product Symbol/ISIN Transaction ID Buy/Sell Amount Price Value Profit:
11/17/2015 GOLD SL 971.00 HB 3.46 FN 951.62 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Turbo Long
N034N / NL0006527392 62552280 Bought 7 13.77 -96.39
02/11/2016 GOLD SL 971.00 HB 3.46 FN 951.62 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Turbo Long
N034N / NL0006527392 65616948 Sold -7 23.91 167.37 70.98
11/17/2015 GOLD SL 1010.68 HB 4.06 FN 1010.68 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long AP13B / NL0010897153 62552281 Bought 10 9.3 -93
02/11/2016 GOLD SL 1010.68 HB 4.06 FN 1010.68 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long AP13B / NL0010897153 65616952 Sold -10 19.49 194.9 101.9
12/14/2015 BNP Paribas Booster Long / WTI OIL / Stop Loss 34.400000 / Hefb. 19.201100 / Fin Niv. 34.400000 / Ratio 1.000000
DU42B / NL0011266424 63502847 Bought 55 1.69 -92.95
12/15/2015 BNP Paribas Booster Long / WTI OIL / Stop Loss 34.400000 / Hefb. 19.201100 / Fin Niv. 34.400000 / Ratio 1.000000
DU42B / NL0011266424 63558068 Sold -55 2.45 134.75 41.8
12/21/2015 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 63808701 Bought 1 54.6 -54.6
12/21/2015 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 63808712 Bought 1 54.56 -54.56
12/21/2015 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 63809048 Bought 1 54.52 -54.52
12/21/2015 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 63809065 Bought 1 54.52 -54.52
02/22/2016 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 66055876 Bought 4 52.78 -211.12
07/18/2016 MICROSOFT CORPORATION MSFT / US5949181045 72058508 Sold -8 54.18 433.44 4.12
02/08/2016 APPLE SL 86.91 HB 4.01 FN 86.91 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long DU99B / NL0011266994 65433136 Bought 22 8.27 -181.94
04/27/2016 APPLE SL 86.91 HB 4.01 FN 86.91 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long DU99B / NL0011266994 68698323 Sold -22 9.93 218.46 36.52
03/14/2016 BNP Paribas Turbo Long / AMAZON / Stop Loss 541.200000 / Hefb. 6.647400 / Fin Niv. 503.580000 / Ratio 10.000000
HH61B / NL0011656665 66981829 Bought 17 5.58 -94.86
03/29/2016 BNP Paribas Turbo Long / AMAZON / Stop Loss 541.200000 / Hefb. 6.647400 / Fin Niv. 503.580000 / Ratio 10.000000
HH61B / NL0011656665 67564675 Sold -17 3.26 55.42 -39.44
04/13/2016 AMAZON SL 532.78 HB 2.96 FN 532.78 R 100.00 Citi BEST Turbo Long U359C / DE000CX00PZ8 68108382 Bought 35 0.84 -29.4
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04/13/2016 AMAZON SL 532.78 HB 2.96 FN 532.78 R 100.00 Citi BEST Turbo Long U359C / DE000CX00PZ8 68108406 Bought 15 0.84 -12.6
04/13/2016 AMAZON SL 532.78 HB 2.96 FN 532.78 R 100.00 Citi BEST Turbo Long U359C / DE000CX00PZ8 68108430 Bought 5 0.84 -4.2
05/10/2016 AMAZON SL 532.78 HB 2.96 FN 532.78 R 100.00 Citi BEST Turbo Long U359C / DE000CX00PZ8 69122133 Sold -55 1.43 78.65 32.45
04/27/2016 DRAGONWAVE INC DRWI / CA26144M4002 68707397 Bought 10 6.67 -66.7
04/28/2016 DRAGONWAVE INC DRWI / CA26144M4002 68773465 Bought 10 6.4 -64
07/15/2016 DRAGONWAVE INC DRWI / CA26144M4002 71975048 Sold -20 4.85 97 -33.7
04/18/2016 WTI OIL SL 33.63 HB 3.61 FN 33.63 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long
GD01B / NL0011531124 68221602 Bought 19 9.39 -178.41
05/17/2016 WTI OIL SL 33.63 HB 3.61 FN 33.63 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long
GD01B / NL0011531124 69363569 Sold -19 16.68 316.92 138.51
05/23/2016 MGT CAPITAL INVESTMENTS INC MGT / US55302P2020 69638575 Bought 30 3.1 -93
05/24/2016 MGT CAPITAL INVESTMENTS INC MGT / US55302P2020 69699589 Sold -30 2.92 87.6 -5.4
06/03/2016 GOLD SL 1194.56 HB 9.16 FN 1194.56 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long GZ04B / NL0011648092 70037869 Bought 40 2.83 -113.2
06/27/2016 GOLD SL 1194.56 HB 9.16 FN 1194.56 R 10.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long GZ04B / NL0011648092 71054223 Sold -40 13.13 525.2 412
05/02/2016 APPLE SL 86.91 HB 4.01 FN 86.91 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long DU99B / NL0011266994 68870352 Bought 20 6.8 -136
05/26/2016 APPLE SL 86.91 HB 4.01 FN 86.91 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long DU99B / NL0011266994 69765001 Sold -20 12.48 249.6 113.6
06/28/2016 MICROSOFT SL 41.89 HB 3.58 FN 41.89 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long FL52B / NL0011447529 71138098 Bought 20 6.99 -139.8
04/25/2016 MICROSOFT SL 41.89 HB 3.58 FN 41.89 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long FL52B / NL0011447529 68557566 Bought 10 9.24 -92.4
08/02/2016 MICROSOFT SL 41.89 HB 3.58 FN 41.89 R 1.00 BNP Paribas Booster Long FL52B / NL0011447529 72624427 Sold -30 13.51 405.3 173.1
07/01/2016 GOOGLE SL 625.00 HB 5.36 FN 625.00 R 100.00 Citi Turbo Long 3240C / DE000CX093L2 71352205 Bought 400 0.66 -264
08/08/2016 GOOGLE SL 625.00 HB 5.36 FN 625.00 R 100.00 Citi Turbo Long 3240C / DE000CX093L2 72908836 Sold -400 1.43 572 308
05/10/2016 PARAGON SHIPPING INC-CLASS A PRGN / MHY6728Q1456 69164091 Bought 40 2.06 -82.4
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08/24/2016 PARAGON SHIPPING INC-CLASS A PRGN / MHY6728Q1456 73496288 Sold -40 0.4731 18.92 -63.48
08/24/2016 SILVER SL 17.88 HB 10.07 FN 17.88 R 1.00 ING BEST Sprinter Long IC71G / NL0011845607 73489653 Bought 200 0.97 -194
09/22/2016 SILVER SL 17.88 HB 10.07 FN 17.88 R 1.00 ING BEST Sprinter Long IC71G / NL0011845607 74677799 Sold -100 1.77 177
09/22/2016 SILVER SL 17.88 HB 10.07 FN 17.88 R 1.00 ING BEST Sprinter Long IC71G / NL0011845607 74696481 Sold -100 1.77 177 160
03/14/2016 HP INC HPQ / US40434L1052 66981599 Bought 9 11.6 -104.4
08/02/2016 HP INC HPQ / US40434L1052 72677779 Sold -9 13.96 125.64 21.24
Total Profit
€1472.2
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1. Disclaimer2. Introduction3. Why to trade stocks (and commodities)?4. Introduction to my trading strategy5. The fundaments of profitable trading6. My daily fundamental analysis routine7. The “common sense” strategy with an example8. Letter Grade Rating9. Charts, charts, charts10. The power of averaging11. The power of dividend12. The power of leverage13. How to profit from ‘craze’14. Spread your chances15. When to exit the market?16. New trading opportunities17. My open trades (overview)18. Brokers19. Conclusions20. Do you need help with trading?21. My track record (real money €1000 test account with 140% profit)