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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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Chasing Last Year's Winners

by Gatis Roze

Warren Buffett’s partner, Charles Munger, once said “All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there.” There’s a parallel here with stocks. The year in which certain equities top the performance charts more often than not precedes the year in which they die...Read More 

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You Can Talk The Talk But Can You Walk The Talk?

by Gatis Roze

I attend investment seminars as half-monk, half-hit man. My time is a precious commodity, so if you are a speaker and see me in the audience, be prepared...Read More 

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3 Investors, 3 Blind Spots, 3 Solutions

by Gatis Roze

Picture this: I am at a cocktail party chatting with three people about investing. The first person says, “I could be a really successful investor if only I could emotionally tolerate a bit more risk...Read More 

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Blind Spots

by Gatis Roze

I attended a lecture last week given by Dr. Anthony Greenwald, a psychology professor at the University of Washington...Read More 

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How You Know You Are Part Of The Club

by Gatis Roze

Groucho Marx first said it and Woody Allen repeated the famous line “I’d never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member...Read More 

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Personal Productivity & Routines

by Gatis Roze

Have you heard the famous cliché about discipline? “You’ve got to do what you have to do before you can do what you want to do...Read More 

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Staying Atop the Market

by Gatis Roze

The stock market is always one step ahead of you. The sooner you accept this fact, the better for your trading results. It helps to think of the market like the rabbit on the rail at the greyhound racetrack...Read More 

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35 Years and 5 Key Personal Investment Passages

by Gatis Roze

I stumbled into a gift shop full of tchotchkes today. It was one of those retailers with endless trinkets and specialty items that encourage you to revisit your youth and marvel at someone else’s creativity...Read More 

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Money Management: Why Market Wizards Claim It's the Secret Sauce

by Gatis Roze

In his Market Wizards books, Jack Swagger interviews an outstanding collection of renowned investors, traders and money managers. The single most common thread that each mentions as being a major contributor to their success is their money management skills...Read More 

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Pyramid Trading: Greater Profits with Less Risk

by Gatis Roze

No, the pyramids are not a range of mountains between France and Spain. Yes, there are over 80 pyramids in Egypt. There are also triangular, pentagonal and oblique pyramids in math. No doubt you’ve also come across ecological, nutritional and even income pyramids...Read More