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Wall Street Stock Market Investor Shares his Stock Trading Secrets

Statistics show that only five percent of professional investors make life changing profits in the stock market while half of all investors actually lose money even if the market is going up, because they buy the wrong stocks and ride them down as they drop. What separates the top five percent from everyone else is simple - knowledge and experience.

Most investors do not understand market trends. They simply buy into a stock on a hot rumor or from the recommendation of an expert they have seen on TV without any game plan. They come into the stock market without any knowledge of what really makes a stock go up.

Professional trader Mike Swanson learned this the hard way. He started trading back in the mid-1990's. In his first year of trading he lost half of his money. He learned from that experience and built a trading system that has generated him substantial returns year after year ever since.

In 2002 he won a coveted Robbins Trading Championship Trophy. From 2003 to 2006 he co-managed a hedge fund that generated a return of over 47% and was in the 98th percentile of thousands of hedge funds for posting one of the biggest annual returns on Wall Street in 2005. He has been interviewed by Thestreet.com, Marketwatch, the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared in Barrons.

"Making money is simple," he says, "You buy stocks that are cheap with the best chart patterns, insider buying, and whose earnings are poised to explode to the upside. You buy industry leaders and emerging companies that are going to come out of nowhere and surprise the street. You get in on the ground floor."

This strategy led him to buy health care stocks in the second half of 2000 that went up despite the market drop and led him into commodities beginning in 2002 when he began to recommend gold stocks right at the start of the gold bull market. Mike believes that "the leading commodity stocks are going to double over the next year and the top stocks in mining will do much more than that."

"There are also small developing mining plays poised for even larger returns. Small acorns grow into trees and exploration and junior mining companies that execute can go up 1000% in a bull market. We've seen it before and we are about to see it again,' he says.

The real secret to generating massive returns in the financial markets is to identify the leading companies in sectors that will outperform the rest of the market over the next year.

Often these are sectors totally ignored by the financial press and big brokerage houses. They may be sectors that have been out of favor for years and are about to experience a huge turnaround or newly emerging industries arising out of nowhere thanks to technological innovation.

Whatever the case, the story is always the same. Those who get in early reap the benefits.

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