Sentences with phrase «winning stocks positions»

Alternatively, it could mean selling winning stocks positions in your taxable account and triggering capital gains taxes.

Not exact matches

I have also already closed most of the winning positions in the ETF and stock portfolios of the newsletter by tightening stops to protect profits.

We initially planned to hold the remaining third of the winning position into earnings, but later felt the stock was too extended to take the risk.

Hold winning stocks through earnings season OR close positions ahead of quarterly earnings reports.

Selling your winning stocks too quickly, while holding onto your losing positions too long, is an extremely common mistake among newer traders and investors.

The Anglo - French financier Sir James Goldsmith (who had exited the stock market earlier in the summer) compared his position to «winning a rubber of bridge in the card room of the Titanic.»

As subscribers to our stock picking newsletter for swing traders will note in the «open positions» section of today's report, we plan to sell and take profits on most of our winning positions on today's open, just to lock in some of the solid gains we've been riding over the past few weeks.

In this blog post, I walk through the «before» and «after» stock charts of two winning trades that were recently closed, as well as one open position that is looking good.

the interlude gave players a break away from the pressure cooker environs of the EPL, the managers few days to reassess the positions of their clubs on the table and take stock of what has been a topsy turvy season and it also gave fans a few days to really look at things from a different angle... we still have a slim chance of winning the title, so Watford are in for a beating tomorrow no doubt.....

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

Strangely enough, many investors will sell a winning position to lock in a profit because they are afraid the stock will decline and that profit will evaporate.

You can win big and then you get really confident and you start to trade bigger positions of stock and then you get a major down day or down week.

Despite BVF's failure to remove the board, we continued to maintain our position in AVGN because BVF won a number of important concessions from the board that made AVGN a much more attractive stock than it was when we started following it.