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Introduction to Stock Trading
Why Most Beginners Lose Money

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Stock Trading Is A Business
Without Planning And Strategy, You Can Go Broke
For whatever reason, people think that trading stock is the easy way to wealth.

In fact, the reverse is true. True enough that 70% of stock trader losing money than making it, if they did made it.

Trading stock require a lot of hard work. You need to have a lot of time, commitment and money to be successful, just like you owning a fulltime business.

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Accumulation
Uptrend
Distribution
Downtrend
If you decide to be a stock trader, you better prepare yourself on how the market works with constant study, discipline and thought. Hopefully, you will be able to reveal what is going on in the market you choose in the end of the day.

Most Stock Traders Lose Money

The main reason is that they failed to use sound money management techniques. These techniques are not difficult to learn but are not easy to implement either. Psychological barriers can stand in the way when a trade doesn't go as expected.

Unable to sell when it should is the greatest mistake in trading stock. Small loses can be easily escalated into larger ones, resulting in a destruction of the trading capital. I know that you don't want to lose money but loosing $57,000 is better than losing $650,000 later! This is why you must consider stop loss order if you are serious about stock trading.


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Charting Guide
Reversal
Continuation
So, how should you trade the stock?

Well, you got to understand the first objective is to protect your capital and focus on limiting losses. Understanding risks is the key, after defining your own goal though. From there you should have a blueprint of your very own trading plan.

These are what many novice stock traders don't have. They trade on tips from friends, call from brokers or highlights from analyst without having proper trading plan. And, don't forget to have sufficient capital in place. You can't implement the necessary risk management techniques without sufficient fund to begin with.
You'll end up trading stock emotionally if you only have $500 for living. Obviously, more money is better. You can trade stock successfully with $40,000 to $100,000. Otherwise, saving money should be your priority.

No doubt that you can have bank loans to trade as other business do, but make sure that the interest rate is manageable. Else, don't trade!

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Technical analysis is a method of studying the market activity and the stock price patterns to discover trading opportunities. It is the analysis of historical price data to identify price trends.

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Stock trading chart are widely used for technical analysis. But what beginners should know before they get serious in stock trading?

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