How To Research And Refine Your Trading Techniques For Free

by: Peter Lim

Knowledge is power, and trading is one process that is never to be indulged in without prior study, training or research if you wish to be profitable!

Throughout the many years of my professional experience, I have heard so many sorry and sob tales of the self-trained "trader" who has lost a tremendous amount of money after getting involved in trading. When asked how it happened, the crux of the matter always boiled down to lack of preparation and training.

In almost all cases, the trader started to trade when the market was deemed "hot" and uptrending, a few when the market was "at the lowest" and "has to go up!". None of them had an idea of tracking the market by technical analysis, though a few knew their stocks have to revert to fundamental values into the future. No wonder, they are keen "private students of the market" after getting burned somewhat by the ferocity of a market gone awry.

So for the beginning trader, spend time to learn as much as you can about trading techniques and about share valuations. Depending on your preferences, either you go technical - which means you adopt the technical analysis approach - or you go "fundamental" - which means you start off by learning about share valuations, read about the financial analysis from the standpoint of earnings ratios, liqudity, dividends etc.

Most traders rely heavily on technical analysis or charting to get the "timing" correct, while longer term investors, prefer fundamental analysis.

What are the more popular trading techniques for the "private student of the market" to research into? If I am a new trader, seeking to learn, where should I start?

If you are going to utilize your money or funds and have a shorter time frame for your money to be in the market, you will need to place emphasis on techniques that can uncover market moves in the short term. These include price-volume outbreak trading techniques, momentum trading, price-pattern analysis and even time-price forecasting techniques.

Some investors are able to have their funds or money in the market for long periods of time, for periods exceeding a year to 3 years, and they take on a longer term perspective to their investing. They will look for stocks that are fundamentally strong and "brand names", blue chip companies that pay dividends annually, and cyclical stocks that have just came out off a trough and into newer cycles that take years to develop.

No matter whatever type of trader or investor you are, it pays for you to spend time on "self-education". A D-I-Y education is possible from the many resources available on the internet. Seek out the trading forums, free courses and videos from the brokers ( yes, some of them do provide these to their clients ), and of course, nothing beats getting a mentor who is a successful trader.

Do not be a bunny in the headlights! You can be an educated trader and a winner in the stock markets!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Lim is a Certified Financial Planner and author of "Swing Trading for Gigantic Profits" http://signaldot.poolofwisdom.com/swingbook.phtml. You can get free resources and articles on trading the markets from his Online Guide To Swing Trading http://www.online-guides.info/Swing-Trading/ and his accompanying website, The Complete Guide To Online-Trading http://www.dynamic-resources.info/online-trading/sitemap.html

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Peter Lim is a Certified Financial Planner and the author of the ebook "Swing Trading for Gigantic Profits" (http://signaldot.poolofwisdom.com/swingbook.phtml).You can have free access to a swing trading course and trading articles from his site http://www.online-guides.info/Swing-Trading/

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