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Ok, so I guess I'm a lousy salesman because I can't get into lots of glorious phrases here for how nice it is to have my old QUICK computer back. When I first got my XP computer it was so fast that I told my best friend, "This thing is so powerful I don't know why I'd ever have to upgrade to a more powerful computer."
Then the time factor kicked in. The more time I spent actually using my computer the slower - true, it was little by little but still... - the slower it got.
Took forever to start up. Programs took two or three times longer to load up. Jobs took me longer and longer to complete.
I Wanted My Fast Computer Back and I Got It!
It was really a drag. A drag on my time and a drag on my fun using the computer.
Anyway, for $9.97 - yeah, only Ten Bucks - this guy gives me over twenty pages of instructions on how to clean up the Microsoft Mess that became my computer. Easy stuff. I'm no computer geek but even I could follow his instructions. Some of the stuff I knew but had forgotten. Other stuff was just plain news to me. Even free software I could use to clean up my computer. Oh, and he's not selling addtional stuff there. It's just information.
Anyhow, if your computer sometimes bugs you because it's getting slower or you just want to do some preventive maintenance to keep it fast, I'd say check out this guys help now.(It's not a buy button, it's just information.)
If you know the pitfalls of trading, you can easily avoid them. Small mistakes are inevitable, such as entering the wrong stock symbol or incorrectly setting a buy level. But these are forgivable, and, with luck, even profitable. What you have to avoid, however, are the mistakes due to bad judgment rather than simple errors. These are the “deadly” mistakes which ruin entire trading careers instead of just one or two trades. To avoid these pitfalls, you have to watch yourself closely and stay diligent.
Think of trading mistakes like driving a vehicle on icy roads : if you know that driving on ice is deadly, you can avoid traveling in a snow tempest. But if you do not know about the hazards of ice, you may drive as if there weren’t any threat, only realizing your mistake once you are already off the road.
Too many traders are fixed on only one market. They may trade only the foreign exchange Greenbacks / EUR, or the E-mini Russell, or the E-mini DJX , or merely certain stocks, and so on. While they may feel a certain sense of expertise or mastery over this one market, nobody, regardless of how experienced they are can foretell what will occur all of the time. These folk are setting themselves up for disaster, as there will unavoidably be a time when they will make a screw up. And, with no variety in their trades, they’re going to lose everything they’ve worked so conscientiously to gain.
The key to selecting a market isn’t to search for one you appear to understand better than the others. That will be something of an illusion. There is however one market you can always rely on : the one which is moving. You know that you should buy when the market goes up and sell when the market goes down. A moving market will always be worthwhile, regardless of if you have never traded a single share there before.
Pay close attention to trendlines, both in the markets where you’re already trading and the markets you’re considering. If one of your markets is consistently choppy or just moving sideways, get out of it and move on to another. If you think of successful trading as sticking not with a market but with a trend, no matter which market it’s in, then you’re thinking successfully.
The key, of course, is that you have to keep an eye on markets where you aren’t currently trading. Keeping up with your options is just as important as watching what you’re familiar with. This is where research and experience come into play. Getting to know a number of markets (and how to find out about them) takes time. But don’t let that discourage you. Also, don’t feel like you have to understand every option at the very beginning. Pick a few different markets to actually trade in, but also choose a few just to watch. That way, you’ll see how your own trades work, and you can also compare that activity to markets you may not know much about (yet).
The only real way to find out more about which markets are wrong and right for you is to observe them. Watching a spread of markets will give you the data you will need to use when it is time to change gears and find that slippery moving trend.