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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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Tensile Trading: Stage #4 How to Put the Winds at Your Back with Stock Market Analysis

by Gatis Roze

Don’t ever try to stand in front of a fire hydrant to quench your thirst – you’ll hurt yourself! The same holds true if you try to trade the stock market without a clear methodology. Global internet stock markets offer 24/7 temptations to those investors with no control...Read More 

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Tensile Trading: Stage #3 The Real Market You're Trading is the Investor Self

by Gatis Roze

The average investor would be totally discombobulated if they witnessed the effortless manner in which money sometimes just flows into the accounts of exceptional traders. The fact is that these consistently profitable investors are different from most people...Read More 

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Tensile Trading: Stage #2 Finding Probability Points: Investing like a Business

by Gatis Roze

We investors are always searching for extra “probability points” which will increase the likelihood of us trading for profits. Stage #2 is where you have big leverage and garner lots of points...Read More 

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Tensile Trading: Stage #1 is Money Management

by Gatis Roze

Money management is the first step to becoming a consistently profitable investor. It’s all about working wisely and moving the odds in your favor...Read More 

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What a Professional Investor Learned from 4 Professional Race Car Drivers

by Gatis Roze

I just spent a couple of days in Utah at Ford’s Performance Racing School being tutored by four highly accomplished professional race car drivers. I enjoyed the role reversal – the teacher becomes the student...Read More 

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A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: The Last 90 Minutes

by Gatis Roze

The last trading hour in the markets is like “The Hour of Power” television show. It matters! The last hour has a lot going for it. It is when the big institutions (a.k.a...Read More 

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A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader 1:00 - 2:30 PM (NYC Time)

by Gatis Roze

Some battles you stay and fight. Others you best walk away from. This is the part of my day when I decide which is most appropriate. I love a steroidal stock chart as much as the next guy, but one can’t minimize the importance of context and the total market picture...Read More 

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A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: The Midday Pause

by Gatis Roze

Inevitably, there comes a time during the trading day or the trading week that I ask myself, “why am I doing this?” If you’ve already given this critical query serious thought before you encounter the questioning pit, any momentary uneasiness simply creates a brief pause that’s b...Read More 

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A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader: Part III 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (NYC Time)

by Gatis Roze

I actually wear my office during the trading hours. “All work is social,” claims Larry Prusak, director of IBM’s research labs, and that is how I see my work as a stock market trader. My downtown office offers face time with the markets in a manner that working at home does not...Read More 

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A Day in the Life of a Stock Market Trader - Redux

by Gatis Roze

Some people meticulously prepare and perfectly execute a mountain ascent, catching the significance of both the experience and the view from the top. Others just catch a cold...Read More