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“Risk is the Possibility of Loss”

31 August 2010

“Risk is the possibility of loss. That is, if we own some stock, and there is a possibility of a price decline, we are at risk. The stock is not the risk, nor is the loss the risk. The possibility of loss is the risk. As long as we own the stock, we are at risk. The only way to control the risk is to buy or sell stock. In the matter of owning stocks, and aiming for profit, risk is fundamentally unavoidable and the best we can do is to manage the risk. To manage is to direct and control. Risk management is to direct and control the possibility of loss. The activities of a risk manager are to measure risk and to increase and decrease risk by buying and selling stock.”

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NOIDA TOLL BRIDGE :JACKPOT for Traders ,Target…

31 August 2010

“Buy :September-October Future “

Pick Up ……….the Delivery of this stock for 2 months

-Forget World Mkts-

Your Stoploss Rs.34

Buy Today………………& Sell this stock in 1st Week of October

Today ,Just watch 35.60

Crossover above this level ………will take to Rs.37.50—38 level in hrs only.

(Yes ,I think in one or two days…..Whole India will run for this stock )

My Target :42—44——48+

(I think it will fall by Rs.2 ……& Sky is Limit )

Chart looking Great ,But think jara hatke………!!

Highway from NOIDA to AGRA :Because there will have a lot of traffic, which currently flows to Agra through the Faridabad route taking this route and this bridge is also very close to the COMMONWEALTH GAMES VILLAGE and may see more activity during the COMMONWEALTH GAMES.

UNLOCKING VALUE

Read Twice or Thrice……

The company’s biggest asset is its land bank

230 acres on either side of the bridge—200 acres on Delhi side and 30 acres on Noida side.

In 2002, it was valued at RS 350 cr

and presently its worth is Rs1000-1200cr =RS 52-63/share

MCAP AT RS 36 =670cr

RECEIVABLES 1700CR from NOIDA AUTHORITY

=Rs 91/share !!

Our Research Team says :Not TODAY…….But this NEWS will be out very soon.Just watch your Blue channels babes………doing BLA BLA for this stock

-Delhi People……Just search ….Who are the Two Leading Brokerage FIRMS and one NETAJI……………why he is buying this stock ????

One or Two more HOT NEWS………….Will Update during trading hrs or Tomorow.

Updated at 7:59/31st August/Baroda/India

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A Bad Teacher

28 August 2010

The World’s Worst Teacher

The market often rewards bad behavior. You exit a stock because your stop is hit. You are okay with this because you followed your plan. The market then immediately reverses. You begin to think, “If only I stayed with the position.” The next time the market goes against you, you decide you are not going to get tricked again. This time though, the market does not reverse and what started out as a small manageable loss is now huge.

The market will give you loss after loss forcing you to abandon a methodology right before it takes off without you. On the flip side, the market will lull you into a false sense of confidence. You trade larger and larger, taking on excessive risk. You print money until your risks become so excessive that one or two bad trades wipe you out.

Learn from the market, but realize that sometimes it can be a lousy instructor.

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During and After the Trade

24 August 2010

1. What’s your game plan if it goes against you and threatens your survival?

2. Will you be able to get out? Did you take that into account in your workout?

3. More typically, what will you do if it goes way against you and then meanders back to give you a breakeven? Or if it immediately goes for you or aginst you?

4. Would you be willing to take a ½% profit if you get it in the first 10 minutes?

5. Did you test whether taking small opportunistic profits turns a winning system into a bad one?

6. How will unexpected cardinal events affect you like the “regrettably,” or the pre-annnouncement of something you expected for the next open? And what happens if you’re trading an individual stock and the market goes up or down a few percent during the day, or what’s the impact of a related move in oil or interest rates?

7. Are you sure that you have to monitor the trade during the day? If you’re using stops, then you probably don’t have to but then your position size would have to be reduced so much that your chances of a reasonable profit taking account of vig are close to zero. If you’re using 10% of your capital on a trade, they you’ll have to monitor it for survival. But, but, but. Are you sure you won’t be called away by phone calls, or the others?

8. Are you at equilibrium in your personal life? You’re not as talented as Tiger Woods, and you probably won’t be able to handle distressed calls for money or leaks on the home front. Are you sure that if you’re losing you won’t get hit on the head with a 7-iron, or berated until you have to give up at the worst possible time?

9. After the trade did you learn anything from the trade?

10. Are you organized sufficiently to have a record of all your trades for your accounting and learning?

11. Should you modify your existing systems based on it?

12. How does recency and frequency and value affect your future?

13. Did you fit your after activities to your mojo?

14. If you made a good profit, did you take some capital out of the fray for a rainy day?

15. Have you learned to say “fair” whenevever anyone asks you how you’re doing and are you sure that you don’t spend a fortune after a good trade, and dissipate your profits with non-economic activities?

16. Is there a better use for your time than monitoring the ticks or the market every minute of the day if you do, and if you don’t, do those who do so and have much faster and better equipment than you have an insurmountable advantage against you?

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DOW Jones :Watch Head & Shoulder

20 August 2010

Above is the Weekly of DOW

Iam looking at Head & Shoulder formation ,Where Left Shoulder is completed.Head is over and now ready to form Right Shoulder.

Height of Head =1250 points.

Breaking Point at 9560

So it means 9560-1250 =8310 level on card ??

Yes ,It is possible …………….If ……If ………….If

DOW is not crossing 10720 level

Yesterday it closed at 10271 level.

Now watch these levels………….very closely and No need to watch Blue channels for whole Night.

Support levels are valid if DOW is not able to cross 10720

10168——-10099

Below 10099 will crash to kiss 9892-9823

Below 9823 watch panic upto 9616–9547 level.

So everything will happen step wise step……..No Hurry at all.

I will Update more about Nasdaq Composite ,S&P500 on Sunday !!

Do u want to know the trend of any Stock traded at US ,Canada…just send me e-mail

Updated at 6:37/20th August/BARODA

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CISCO :Crashes by 7.75% after hours

12 August 2010

Cisco misses and stock drops 7.75%. In the meantime, futures are now plumbing the day’s lows after hours. And the most troubling development from CSCO, worse than the top line miss, is the catch courtesy of Bloomberg’s Adam Johnson that Days Sales Outstanding surge from 27 to 41 days. Customers incrasingly refuse to pay on time. We wonder how that will be spun favorably.

Updated at 5:31/12th August/BARODA

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Trading Your Personality

09 August 2010

It’s been said too many times to count – that you must trade according to your personality. In the movies they might call it “being true to yourself” or something cheesy, but it’s a necessity in this job.

Recently I was asked which chart patterns I prefer to trade, continuation chart patterns or reversal chart patterns. My answer was that while I will actually trade either, I suppose the continuation and breakout type of patterns are the ones I trade more often than reversals or buying on support levels.

I don’t think one setup is superior to the other, they both have their pros and cons, and you have to go with what fits your style best.

Buying on support is an anticipatory play, which may take a few extra days to get moving. It can give you a lower cost basis than another trading strategy, but will require greater patience on your part while you wait for the stock to find traction.

Buying a stock which is breaking out puts you (by definition) in a stock that’s already on the move. This is a confirmation play. You get instant feedback on how your trade is developing and how much momentum the stock has.

The setups you select for your trades need to incorporate your personality tendencies on managing those trades once you are in them. For me, I tend to be a bit impatient and I want to know as soon as possible whether or not I’m right or wrong on a trade. Other traders don’t live in the left lane, and they’re willing to give a stock some time to get moving one way or another. They place their protective stop and turn their attention to something else in the meantime while waiting for their trade to make a move. Personally, I prefer to have my money at risk for the shortest timeframe possible. I really prefer the times when the market conditions are producing breakout plays and continuation patterns like the bull flag or ascending triangle patterns.

So, when you’re doing your homework and looking for quality setups to trade, be sure to consider the ones which fit your personality and your style of trading. Those will be the trades which you ultimately will manage the best.

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Following my Parameters

09 August 2010

1) Relative Strength or Weakness- there’s no reason for me to pick from the mushy middle, as the biggest movers come from the best and worst 5% of the market.

2) Abnormal Volume- it can be abnormally high or abnormally low, but I’m looking for stocks that are doing something different that they’ve done in recent days or weeks.

3) Abnormal Range- again, high or low tells me something…average tells me nothing.

4) Identifiable Support(Longs) or Resistance(Shorts)- I have no need to be the first, that’s for the really brave and really smart(maybe).  If the idea is that good, I’ll have days/weeks/months to milk it…in case you haven’t heard, the second mouse gets the cheese.

4) News Absorption- I like to participate AFTER news events…it gives me a good idea of the temperament of a stock’s owners. It may have broken out from a base.  It may have been crushed but then built a base.  It may have reacted poorly to a “great” report. In any case, I want to see how a stock reacted the last time there was real news, and position myself on the side that has taken control since then.

6) Doubt- this is a tricky one, but our ideas should not be SO obvious that our relatives and neighbors love the idea.  Buy worry, short hope.  Buy after panic, short after euphoria.  I’m not saying to ignore an idea because your Twitter stream agrees with you…haven’t we filtered our list to only those we respect?  But take a second to check your spot on this curve, and where you sit on this idea.

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5 Expensive Words

06 August 2010

Whether it’s been on the winning side of trades where I’ve tried to squeeze the last Rs 2 out of a stock, or it’s a losing position that has been trying to tell me I’m wrong (those numbers are RED for a reason!), I am guilty! 

Oddly enough, as cheap as it is to enter trades with commission structures so affordable, have you ever noticed just how expensive it can be to stay in a trade?

We all know the rules….
• Obey thy stop!
• Never Believe in your stock!
• Don’t let a trade become an investment!

…..yet it is so easy to break them. It’s a solitary job, and the only person to prevent you from compounding your mistakes is the one you see in the mirror.

So, be your own ally. Have a trading plan in place before you login to your account. Do your homework. Set hard stops as soon as your orders are filled, and let those safety nets keep your losses small (we all know how easy it is to blow a mental stop).

Be smart! Trading is about real money, not just flickering numbers on a screen. Be prepared and protect your capital at all costs. That guy in the mirror will hold you accountable the next time you see him!

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Risk is the Possibility of Loss

04 August 2010

“Risk is the possibility of loss. That is, if we own some stock, and there is a possibility of a price decline, we are at risk. The stock is not the risk, nor is the loss the risk. The possibility of loss is the risk. As long as we own the stock, we are at risk. The only way to control the risk is to buy or sell stock. In the matter of owning stocks, and aiming for profit, risk is fundamentally unavoidable and the best we can do is to manage the risk. To manage is to direct and control. Risk management is to direct and control the possibility of loss. The activities of a risk manager are to measure risk and to increase and decrease risk by buying and selling stock.”

Simple?

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