I just finished reading William O’Neil’s book ‘How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short‘. I was rather surprised at the approach O’Neil professes. Given that he’s such a proponent of using both technical and fundamental analysis when buying stocks, I expected him to do the same for short selling. That’s not the [...]

An extremely basic explanation of short selling.

Michael Covel’s ‘Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets’ will certainly be regarded as a classic investment book. Everybody involved in the markets should read this book.

Learning how to use candlestick charts was probably the second most important thing I’ve learned (money management is a clear #1) since I started trading for a living. The funny thing is that when I started trading all of the charts in my trading software were defaulted to displaying candlestick charts. At that [...]

Whenever anybody asks me for advice on learning about the stock market I immediately ask if they’ve read How to Make Money in Stocks by William O’Neil. In my opinion, if you read only one book on investing it should be this one. I credit this book with changing my whole approach [...]