Hi Anil,
If you wouldn't mind, can you please tell me how you go about studying these charts and make buy/sell decisions?
Also, what are some good sources for knowing more about your way of analysis? - ofcourse apart from following this thread
Thanks
Dear mindgames,
I when started i mostly traded on daily charts. Results are ok but not on expectations. So while studying what happening, came to conclusion, the charts which in weekly uptrend have given me more returns than downtrend ones.
I maintained my list of stocks which i visit daily they roughly are around 350 or so. I have a feel of them. They are diversified too. So looking at weekly and daily i know where i need to spot on.
My only investing/trading wisdom which i learned is, there is always a accumulation or distribution for the trade to be in profit.Or trend to materialise. There cannot be any trend until accumulation occurs. What are these patterns. They can be any wedges/triangles/double bottom/ cup-handle etc...So i know which stock on my list going on in which phase. Now there are only two ways to trade out it. First on breaking these zones or on retesting of breakout levels, and second ones is trading on lower channel boundaries with 'expectation' of breakout.
I maintain 7-8% Stoploss on my trades and didnt risk more than 3-4% of my capital on any single trade.
I am fan of Schabacker,edwards-maggee books. I try to read these many times, everytime i learned new thing in it.I also read martin pring books. Generally i observed old time classic books have more knowledge than newer ones. Newer ones are just indicator obsessed ones. I also studied Wyckoff, darvas and like minded ones. So what i am today is all a mix of all these, i dont have pinpoint source to tell you from where i follow. Its like learning from own mistakes and correcting the same.
My advice/suggestion is follow method which you are comfortable with and not what others are doing it. Like in this forum or in many forums all threads mostly speak on Intraday to few days strategies. But i learned this badly, and want to tell you, money is made on trading from holding stocks till weeks. Patience is the key. This is my style, if you are comfortable with Short term trading , so be it. There is no right/wrong way in market, everybody is here for money, those who are here for entertainment will vanish and blame markets.