The objective of this stock market basics website is to provide information that will help the stock trading newcomer gain some basic knowledge and an understanding of how the market works, essential for success — where success in the market is measured by profitability.
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Latest Posts: (Click Title to Access) 

After the Breakout, What Next? (Feb 06, 2012)

January Breakout Confirmed – An Update

Still Waiting for the Breakout

Introducing Trading And The Stock Market For Dummies

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List of Other Introductory articles (Click Title to Access)

About Being Successful in the Stock Market — Show Me the Money!

How Much Money is Needed to Start?

The Stock Market Basics Approach to Buying Stocks

It Takes More Than Just Being Able to Pick Good Stocks

Finding Stocks to Trade, the Watchlist, Trade Selection, Setting Objectives

A Case for Buying Options Instead of Buying Stocks
Stock Options Explained – Part 1
Stock Options Explained – Part 2

For the Small Trader, An Alternative to Buying Stocks

Trading the NASDAQ Index with ETFs and Options as an Alternative to Buying Shares
Buying Stocks or Buying an ETF (Exchange Traded Fund)

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With special emphasis on

Short-term Trading in the Stock Market

For the beginning trader, or would-be trader, with the purpose of explaining essential trading guidelines that have been shown in the past to reduce risk, capture maximum gains, and limit losses.

It assumes the beginner is starting out with only a small amount of trading capital to risk, so the simulated paper trades, portfolios, and suggestions referred to on this site do take that into account.

About Articles on this website

Inevitably, since the stock market changes hour by hour and day by day, some of the older articles posted a while ago on this website will become outdated, although the reasonings given for some of the particular activities covered in those posts may not at all be obsolete. For that reason most of them will be left in place for the time being.

Referenced here are guidelines developed by some of the greatest and most successful traders of the past and present. Take advantage of their knowledge and experience. Emulating a successful trader who started out in a small way may be one of the best ways to succeed.

Stock charts are used for illustration and simulated trades of current stock issues are used where possible to track and explain, and for the reader to observe, what happens in the life of an individual stock trade — in real time, as it happens and while it happens.

For a more extensive introductory page, see Stock Market Basics Guide — Our Objectives.

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