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Strategies & Market Trends : Are you considering quitting your dayjob to daytrade?! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kaz who wrote (508)	1/31/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: Dave O.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 611

< Remember, the market is a struggle between bulls and bears. When one is long the other is short > Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point but I disagree with the above. Your last statement would seem to imply that 50% of a company's shares are held long and the other 50% are shorted. Stocks decline not just due to shorts but when people who are long want to sell and there are not enough buyers at that level. Simple supply and demand. < My research shows it's actually possible to make more money by keeping the money in for days or weeks rather than pulling it out after every bounce > I agree with the above, transaction costs are much lower with position trading and if one is disciplined you can do quite well. I've bounced from full time postion trading to day trading and am now back position trading with just a few occasional day trades. Less stress for me. Dave