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About the author: , MBA, CMT, is a veteran full-time stock market investor who has traded his own account since 1989 unburdened by the distraction of clients. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA), and is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). After several successful entrepreneurial business ventures, Gatis retired in his early 40s to focus on investing in the financial markets. With consistent success as a stock market trader, he began teaching investments at the post-college level in 2000 and continues to do so today. Learn More

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About the author: is the author of Trading for Dummies and Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery. He is also the Director of Operations at StockCharts.com and the co-founder of Stock Market Mastery. Grayson speaks regularly at investment seminars across the country, including to organizations such as the CMT Association and the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). He holds a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, where he studied Economics and Psychology. Learn More

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Investor Lessons from the World Cup in Qatar

by Gatis Roze

Excellence that we investors can learn from and utilize in our trades is all around us. I encourage you to harness that energy. Here's how to use it to motivate yourself to become better as a trader and investor...Read More 

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The Pearls Of Wisdom I Took Away From ChartCon 2022: Part 2

by Gatis Roze

Gosh, I was pleased that so many of you emailed me with your own pearls of wisdom gleaned from ChartCon 2022. It shows once again that investors can look at the same chart and have vastly different takeaways...Read More 

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The Pearls Of Wisdom I Took Away From ChartCon 2022: Part 1

by Gatis Roze

I'm going to share with you some of the gems and pearls of wisdom that I personally took away from the recent ChartCon 2022 Investor Conference. You may recall some of these nuggets. Others you won't because they occurred in belly-to-belly discussions behind the scenes...Read More 

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Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 3

by Gatis Roze

When I began investing full-time, my methodology's foundation was based on William O'Neil's CANSLIM® approach. It's a deeply researched and proven strategy. The AAII's own ongoing trading models validate that fact...Read More 

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Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 2

by Gatis Roze

To start, I want to make two points. Investing successfully requires that you remain engaged and motivated. Just because you choose to ignore the markets, the markets won't reciprocate and ignore you. Zig Ziglar said, "People often say that motivation doesn't last...Read More 

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Five Decades Of Personal Stock Market Passages, Tools, Lessons And Stories: Part 1

by Gatis Roze

Successful investing calls for much the same prerequisites as those required to become a professional athlete. Fortunately, we investors have a much longer shelf life than pro athletes. Here's how I took advantage of this reality...Read More 

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Portfolio Profits Grow From Your Investment Garden: Here's How to Plant, Water And Weed It

by Gatis Roze

FACT: If investors make money, they remain engaged in the stock market with all its splendor and immense potential. If they lose money, they usually lose interest and move on...Read More 

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How I Combat Disinformation And Prevent It From Corrupting My Portfolio With 5 Essential Tools

by Gatis Roze

Recently, academic researchers have proven and quantified the impact of fake news and how it sways stock prices to the tune of approximately 7% with small-caps, 5% with mid-caps and somewhat less with large-caps. Disinformation and propaganda is all around us...Read More 

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Sushi Investing, Part 3: A Final Chapter Of The Secrets To Selling

by Gatis Roze

For those of you who've been investing for decades, you'll immediately grasp the significance and truth of Market Wizard Stanley Druckenmiller's quote: "Every great money manager I've ever met, all they want to talk about is their mistakes. There's a great humility there...Read More 

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Sushi Investing, Part 2: How To Sell Equities Before The Expiration Date

by Gatis Roze

Within the stock market, selling profitably is considered an art. In the real world, most folks love art and are happy to talk about it. Institutional investors will talk about the "art of the exit" before they buy an equity...Read More