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forced into saying, " This stock is going up, I better hurry to get my buy order filled!" You feelthe anxiety of seeing all the buying and hope you get in. When that occurs you will clear yourspread most of the time.
MACR Bid 9 3/16 Ask 9 1/4 Vol 433600 High 9 1/4 Low 9 Current 9 3/16
Clearing your spread would mean buying MACR at 9 ¼ and have enough buying occur so as thebid upticks from 9 3/16 to 9 ¼. If you had to sell at this point at 9 ¼ you would get out even withthe only cost being your commission.
You have purchased opportunity, do not fall into the trap I see all the time of predicting the priceit will go through. Deal with the here and now and not with the pie in the sky. You havesucceeded in your trade when the spread is cleared, that is your goal. The minute the buyingstops and the exact opposite begins to occur, I sell! I do not care what the price is. What youhave made is irrelevant. The reason you bought the stock is no longer true when selling starts. I look at selling as purchasing an insurance policy. You can never know how low a stock will go.Never get caught with the following on your lips, "it can't go much lower." Once you learn torecognize lows and highs you will clear your spread most of the time. After you clear yourspread the rest will be determined by the mood of the market concerning your trade. Don't marryyour stocks, some make poor bed fellows.
Golden Rule #2. Trade The Rule Not The Exception.
Once you have adopted rules of trading the stocks that present themselves for a trade MUST fitinto the guidelines of your rules. This is what is meant by a trading model. 20/20 Hindsight is thebiggest cause for breaking rules. 5 Seconds after a stock has started either up or down a traderalways says to himself , "I should have known it would do this!" The more a stock moves up theworse you feel for not "trying" the trade. Many times I have purchased a stock, cleared myspread and sold at the first hint of selling, making 1/4 of a point. The stock would go down as Iexpected and then start up to go another dollar. Unless you know that a large percentage of thetime the trade does that, you will be tempted to stay in stocks that erase your profits and start youlosing.
Some stocks can fall quite rapidly leaving you with huge losses. I have seen traders lose amonths worth of profits in one of these trades. You are purchasing insurance against thathappening by selling as soon as the reason for the purchase is no longer valid. Know how thetrade usually goes by careful tracking. Find the general patterns that occur with every type ofmomentum stock.
Know the rule and let the exception go. An exception will reinforce bad trading habits, especiallyif you make money. Quite often I see traders who make huge one time profits breaking rules,only to be down significantly shortly thereafter. My rules of trading have successfully preserved