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Featured article : Trading Tips That Work

How many people do you know who trade for a living? Or rather, who still trade for a living after trying it for a while? From the outside, it seems so simple to do. Buy low, sell high, cut your losses, run with your winners.

Reality is much different, however. Looking at the history of investing it's obvious that stock trading has never been and will never be that simple. There are two sides to every transaction -- not everyone can be a winner.

Emotional attachment to an investment is a common problem. We're talking about significant amounts of money invested in a stock, fund, option, bond, what have you. Making those investments grow and prosper is very pressuring. There will never be any kind of guarantee that your money will grow.

Yield and returns for investments in stock trading are always at risk. Usually that risk is in the form of volatility, rather than real long-term risk, provided that investments were selected carefully.

General Trading Tips for all Markets

Here are some practical and simple tips that will help you avoid some risk when investing in complex market (and they're all complex).

• Keep up with analysts' and strategists' views. Don't take them as gospel, but a consensus is a good thing. If all reports point to a sell on that stock you just picked up, maybe you should reconsider its value as a contrary pick. Limit your risk -- there are certainly better investments available.
• Buy quality. If you always buy quality, your risk is one of short-term volatility rather than long-term loss in most cases.
• Invest for the long term. Not to say that you can't make money short-term trading. In fact, there's a lot of money to made in the short-term. But if you want to limit your risk, you need to invest for the long-term.
• Reward doers not come without risk. The higher the risk the higher the reward.
• Talk to your broker for advise. Full service brokers are expensive, and many brokers are better salesmen than stock pickers, but they're backed by great research departments. Even solid discount firms like Charles Schwab can offer good research and basic advise.
• Do your due diligence. Don't buy solely on a tip. Review fundamentals and technicals first.
• Diversify: spread your investment across all lucrative and promising sectors.
• Limit mistakes: the key to making money is not losing any. If you can do that, you're ahead of the game.

Risks

Stock trading can be very risky and volatile. Volatility is not just a measure of downside risk, but also upside reward. Your investment could rise significantly over night. It can also drop to massive and great proportions in a couple of hours.

That is why all investments should be based of informed and strategic stock trading research.

To be able to counter such surprising and non-anticipated events, it is important that the stock trading investor set up and put up an effective and efficient strategy to shield his investment from such volatility.

Most importantly, focus on the long-term and try to take emotion out of the equation. Keep in mind that you are there to make your money grow and that you would protect it no matter what. Judgment call is one thing you should always get a hold of.