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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly Buy and Sell Set Ups -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chowder who wrote (2055)	1/31/2005 9:00:39 PM
From: Bob V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13449

I am going to increase the percentage of money per trade. To what percent of the total portfolio? I try to risk less than 1% of my portfolio on any one trade. So where I place my stop determines the number of shares I buy. with a $10,000 portfolio 1% = $100 If my stop is $1.00 under my purchase price I can buy 100 shares. If it is 50 Cents away I can buy 200. If I'm buying a 20 dollar stock I might have $2000 invested in a position However if I'm trading a fifty dollar stock I might have 1/2 the portfolio involved. I allow my self to use 50% margin. That is I'll borrow up to 50% of the portfolio. I limit any one position to 33% of the portfolio and at present I limit myself to a maximum of 5 positions. As the portfolio grows so will the size of my positions. And if I have a couple of bad months it will keep me in the game a little longer.

To: chowder who wrote (2055)	2/1/2005 3:21:00 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13449

dabum - COngratulations on nice up numbers in a very nasty month. Normaly, there are 3 -5 day trends in stock prices. I looked an interday chart of some stocks around mid-Jan and I saw 1 1/2 day cycles - rought 4-6 hours of going in one direction, reversing , and being in the starting price 9-10 hours later. The distance between support and resitance has become small. I have one trending stock I've been buying - MSB, Measbi , and iron or royalty trust. I have been buying CCJ Cameco Uranium looking for a short term move up. I have bought puts on Merck MRK - but does it look bad... Again, congratualtions !