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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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Your Canary In the Trading Room

by Gatis Roze

In the sports world, parties debate whether a premiere defense defeats a premier offense or whether great hitters beat great pitchers. Successful long-term investors have no such debate...Read More 

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Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages to Achieving Stock Market Mastery 1st in a Series

by Gatis Roze

Warren Buffett once said, “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong...Read More 

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The Triumph of Catching a Big Move

by Gatis Roze

Big money is made by being on the correct side of a major market move and executing a carefully pre-planned scenario with conviction. I'll share an example...Read More 

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Talk to Your EGO Before You Trade!

by Gatis Roze

Most individual investors seem to feel it isn't cool to talk about exits before even buying an equity. Institutional traders know that it's uncool not to do so. Who is right? As is my norm, I’ve looked to my Trading Journal to answer that question, and the the winner is.....Read More 

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Double Your Money - Buy on Rumors

by Gatis Roze

(Welcome to the debut article of our new blog area called "The Traders Journal" written by our new Educational Evangelist, Gatis Roze...Read More