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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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Sushi Investing, Part 1: The Secret To Producing Profits Before The Expiration Date

by Gatis Roze

Profits are the product of practicing a persistent pilgrimage towards perfecting your sell disciplines. To paraphrase a sports cliche, without an exceptional defense you won't win championships...Read More 

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The Evolution And Essential Foundations Of The Stock Market Mastery Methodology

by Gatis Roze

This past week, Grayson and I had the special pleasure of being interviewed by David Keller who, in the video, posed many pithy questions as to the evolution of our Stock Market Mastery methodology...Read More 

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Eight Things You Can Do To Boost The Profitability Of Your Own ChartLists

by Gatis Roze

Yes - believe it! The organization of your ChartLists is an extremely high leverage investing activity that YOU control. It does and will determine your profitability. Hence, it's worthy of your time and effort...Read More 

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The Biggest Update In A Decade - Introducing The Totally New, Totally Revamped "Stock Market Mastery" ChartPack!

by Grayson Roze

It's not often you get to say something is the biggest moment in a decade – the biggest change, the biggest update, the biggest overhaul. But here we are, introducing the most monumental evolution of our "Tensile Trading" ChartPack since the launch of the original version...Read More 

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Supercharge Your Routines With This Simple Yet Powerful Organizational Trick

by Gatis Roze

Academic research has proven that the profitability of investors and traders is directly linked to the quality of their organizational routines and their discipline to follow those routines...Read More 

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The Essential Foundation Of Stock Market Mastery Is Straightforward

by Gatis Roze

The investment press seems to be writing a good deal these days about mindfulness and living in the present. Similarly, a number of sports analysts are preaching the need of a "back to basics" philosophy for certain struggling athletic franchises...Read More 

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How To Rank, Rate And Grade The Stocks In Your Watchlist

by Gatis Roze

We chartists are a dedicated lot, but at the risk of alienating my fellow technicians, we are sometimes too myopically focused just on charts at the expense of profits and have been known to succumb to something I'll label "The Shiny Chart Syndrome"...Read More 

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An 18-Year Living Investment Experiment And Its Most Impactful Conclusions

by Gatis Roze

Last month, Grayson and I had the pleasure of Zooming online to a combined audience of both the Los Angeles and San Diego chapters of the AAII...Read More 

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Your Dashboard To Profits In 2021: Stock Market Mastery ChartPack - Update #31 (Q1 / 2021)

by Gatis Roze, Grayson Roze

Welcome to a virtual SWAT team of elite charts and essential organized routines. This Stock Market Mastery ChartPack is now 15 years in existence. Eight years ago we made it available to the public but prior to that, I used it in my college investment courses...Read More 

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How And When You Should Talk To Your Children About Money - And Why You Should Do It NOW!

by Gatis Roze

A frightening statistic from American Express several years ago found that over 90% of couples consistently defer ever talking about money matters with themselves and their kids...Read More