I just finished reading William O’Neil’s book ‘How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short‘. I was rather surprised at the approach O’Neil professes. Given that he’s such a proponent of using both technical and fundamental analysis when buying stocks, I expected him to do the same for short selling. That’s not the case at all, [...]
Posted by 2 January 2005
Trading 101: Recommended Reading – ‘How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short’
Posted by 3 October 2004
The (Very) Basics of Short Selling
Posted by 19 August 2004
Trading 101: Recommended Reading – ‘Trend Following’
Posted by 13 June 2004
Trading 101: Recommended Reading – ‘Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques’
Learning how to use candlestick charts was probably the second most important thing I’ve learned (money management is a clear #1) since I started trading for a living. The funny thing is that when I started trading all of the charts in my trading software were defaulted to displaying candlestick charts. At that time I [...]
Posted by 6 June 2004
Trading 101: Recommended Reading – ‘How to Make Money in Stocks’
Whenever anybody asks me for advice on learning about the stock market I immediately ask if they’ve read How to Make Money in Stocks by William O’Neil. In my opinion, if you read only one book on investing it should be this one. I credit this book with changing my whole approach to investing. Before [...]
