The stock trading strategies you decide to use can be one of the most important factors in your stock trading success.
After you've considered how much time you have that's easily available to spend on trading you can then identify which strategies will fit with your strengths and personality.
What you’ll find here are brief descriptions of particular strategies categorized by the length of time that the stocks are held. Within each category you’ll find specific time commitments, the style or method of the strategy, specific strategies that can be used and a list of recommended books on the topic.
This will help you define the stock trading strategies you feel most comfortable using. The markets are always changing so you will probably want more than one that you are comfortable using for when the
stock market direction
changes or gets into a range-bound zone.
If something is not described to your satisfaction, feel free to look terms up at Investopedia.com.
Day Trade - Opening and Closing Positions in One Day
Day trading is a different animal. Stocks are traded during the day and held from a few seconds to several hours, but all positions are closed out before the end of the day.
Sections of what you’ll find on this site will help you with day trading including
money management, technical indicators, better trades
and
market direction.
However if you’re looking for day trading strategies this really isn’t the site for that. It’s mentioned here simply to put the various stock trading strategies in perspective.
Strategies: Intra-day technical indicators – ADX, Moving Average crossovers (and combined with other indicator – using non-similar indicators – moment, vol), gap Trading, support/resistance, oscillators – MACD, STO, Candlestick formations, long or short positions
ADX Double DI Strategy Other
technical analysis stock trading
based strategies – MA crossovers, RSI, oscillators including MACD, stochastics and combined with other non-similar indicators like – price moment or volume)
Long-Term Investing - Holding a Position for Months to Years
Stock purchases based on fundamentals only or with the additional use of technical indicators to confirm the stock’s trend. (See
How to Invest in Stocks
for more information.)
Time commitment: Small amount of time each week or month or more if desired.
Style: Fundamental analysis, fundamental with technicals
ACTION STEP: Pick one strategy listed above that fits into the time you have for research and trading. Read about the strategy by clicking on any strategies that are linked here or go to Investopedia.com for more information.
If your strategy (growth, value or income/dividend stocks) doesn't already include a technical indicator for reading how price is moving, move on to Action Step 4 of Secrets to Stock Market Strategies:
Technical Analysis Stock Trading. Picking good stock trading strategies is an integral part of a Stock Trading Warrior’s arsenal and a key to stock trading success!
Here are other webpages in the stock market strategy series that you might be interested in:
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How a Simple Line Can Improve Your Trading Success
"How to draw a trendline" is one of the first things people learn when they study technical analysis. Typically, they quickly move on to more advanced topics and too often discard this simplest of all technical tools.
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Time commitment: Approximately one hour a day or less.
