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Financial insights, commentary, and advice.


Filters I Use to Create My Universe of Tradable Stocks
Posted on September 24th, 2008 on Trader Mike
I was recently asked about how I determine my “universe” of stocks. That is the stocks that I consider fair game to be traded. I...

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How to Use a Stop Limit Order to Cover a Short Position
Posted on June 12th, 2007 on Trader Mike
I got this question the other day: When you short a stock at 30.00 and you want to place a stop limit in case it jumps up past your max loss...

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Secrets of Michelle B Revealed…
Posted on November 2nd, 2006 on Trader Mike
In case you missed it in the links section the other day, be sure to read the interview with Michelle B over on the StockTickr blog. Explore ...

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How I Trail My Stops
Posted on October 9th, 2006 on Trader Mike
The other day Downtown Trader asked me how I handled trailing my stop on that DGX short. I pretty much followed exactly what’s in my post about how I take partial profits. I moved the stop to breakeven...

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ININ, An Anatomy of a Friday Morning Daytrade
Posted on October 6th, 2006 on Trader Mike
(Ed: This is Michelle’s first post. I have to run but I wanted to publish this now. I’ve uploaded some images and will annota...

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Trade-Ideas Pro Usage Tips
Posted on August 19th, 2006 on Trader Mike
It’s come to my attention that some newer Trade-Ideas users don’t know about Trade-Ideas Pro, the version that you download and...

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How I Monitor So Many Stocks for Narrow Candles
Posted on August 17th, 2006 on Trader Mike
I guess I need to keep the “how I trade” post at the top of the site and put in in flashing lights or something. I wrote that po...

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More on Partial Profits
Posted on August 17th, 2006 on Trader Mike
Vince had the following questions about how I trail my stop loss orders and take partial profits: Mike - it is great to see your trades - it helps many of us - great job. Questio...

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August 16, 2006 Stock Market Recap
Posted on August 16th, 2006 on Trader Mike
What a day! If only they could all be like this. This kind of action, a nice steady trend for the whole session, is perfect for my style of...

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Tools of the ‘Trade’ — How I Work
Posted on June 6th, 2006 on Trader Mike
I've had several people ask me for more details about my trading process and the software that i use. Hopefully this post will answer those qu...

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Shorting NYSE Stocks
Posted on June 5th, 2006 on Trader Mike
I just noticed that for the second time in about a week Ugly posted about not getting filled on an order to short an NYSE stock. Last week he...

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