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Your Own Stock Trading Strategy - Mike Swanson (06/30/09)

Have you ever stopped to consider all the new technologies in the areas of internet financing, communications, healthcare, energy, emerging markets, nanotech and biotech? On the stock market, with the right stock trading strategies, these are the hot properties of the year.

If you really want to become a successful day-trader, it's vital to know how to pick and choose your stocks to ensure that you are making the best decisions. Though all smack of promise, you have to seriously consider the risks that lie behind many of them. Some may appear better than they really are.

In these tumultuous times, market veterans rely on trading the "happening" stocks, riding their wave to a quick and effortless windfall. By always keeping your eye - and your portfolio - focused on the big new things breaking out on the exchange, you can turn some quick time, and a minor outlay, into a sizable nest-egg in the blink of an eye.

By discovering to benefit from the momentum of stock picks, holding onto them when they are on the rise and abandoning ship when they are about to go down, you can build a money-making portfolio. And then, you can round out your hand with some more stable options, guaranteeing that all of your eggs are not in one precarious basket.

Whatever you do, do not forget the cardinal rule - to "keep it simple." Regular investment returns often depend on you being able to turn a blind eye to all the jargon and indicators which might distract you just long enough to lose out on a fantastically lucrative limited time market offering.

At the end of the day, with its straightforward effortlessness, selecting stock opportunities on a daily basis is the best of common stock trading strategies for turning over a quick buck. A little hands-on practice will show you unfailing results in no time.

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Hello. My name is Mike Swanson. I’m the best-selling author of the book Strategic Stock Trading. In a former life I used to run a hedge fund from 2003 to 2006 that generated a return of over 78% during that time frame. In fact it was ranked in the top 35 out of 5,000 hedge funds in 2005.

After I retired from the hedge fund world I setup this website and blog. If you sign up for my free weekly email list below I’ll send you an update on average about once a week on my views of the current stock market trends and share with you actionable investment ideas.

Now I cannot promise you that every stock I find will go up in value. I can’t promise you endless 100% returns as others claim they do and as all the disclaimers say past performance does not necessarily predict future performance and you can lose all of your money in the stock market.

This is reality.

What I can promise you is my dedication to doing the best I can for you.

You see the key to making money over the long-run in the stock market is to manage your risk. Once you sign up to my newsletter I’ll send you a series of educational videos and writings showing you how I use stop-loss orders to cut any potential losses and how I use my two fold formula system that combines fundamental and technical analysis to pick stocks. My goal is to risk one dollar to try to make at least three dollars in my trades by looking for stocks that are priced cheaply on a valuation basis, have high earnings growth, and have excellent chart patterns.

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