Just because you have what may be a good strategy for swing trading stocks doesn’t necessarily mean you will make money with it. How can that be you ask? If you are not disciplined and follow a plan with money management you will probably take unnecessary risks or not take risks when the odds are in your favor. There are four main considerations for swing traders, well cover them now. Money Management I consider this the most import consideration in the success of a swing trader. Without proper allocation of your funds you can be right the majority of the time and still lose money. If you get ..read more

Quick Overview: I have been a member of Jason Bond Picks service for just over 3 1/2 years, and will share my experience with his service to help you make a decision whether his service is for you. I will give you an honest overview of his service, the good and the bad. I started with a $10,000 account when I first signed up for his service. I made some pretty big mistakes right off the bat. I think my biggest mistake was that I put far too much money into each trade and when Jason said the trade wasn’t working and to get out, I waited hoping it would turn around. Big mistake. I lost almost ..read more

Quick Overview: I recently signed up for Grant Gigliotti’s “Beat The Market Anaylzer” or BTMA for short. If you have read any of my other reviews you know I have focused mainly on services that “spoon feed” you stock picks. The BTMA is different because its for the DIY person who want help choosing stocks and wants to learn how to do it themselves. Beat The Market Analyzer Review: Grant created the BTMA analyzer after studying the investment methods of the Warren Buffet and Bejamin Graham, arguably the best stock investors of all time. He started out replicating the investment philophosies int ..read more

When you are Swing Trading you want to trade the strongest stocks in the best performing sectors. This is how we make the BIG money that we are looking for. Instead of trying to bottom fish and hoping a cheap stock comes back, doesn’t it make a whole lot more sense to just go with the stocks that are outperforming the market? Seriously; I see many traders losing money because they refuse to do the one thing that would put the odds in their favor. Only buy the strongest stocks in the strongest sectors. Just doing this is going to make your job as a swing trader so much easier. So how to we ..read more

Quick Overview: I have been a member of Microcap Millionaires for over 3 years now and will share my opinion of his service to help you make a decision if his service is for you. I will give you an honest overview of his service, the good and the bad. I signed up for Microcap Millionaires with a pretty small account, $5,000. I was a little nervous about buying penny stocks and you probably are as well. Not all of his picks are penny stocks however; microcap just means a stock with a capitalization of $50 to $300 million. Background: Microcap Millionaires was started by Matt Morris in 2008. Mat ..read more

Quick Overview: I had been a member of Dan Zanger’s Chartpattern.com service for over a year and will try to share my experience with his service to help you make a decision whether his service is for you. I will give you an honest overview of his service, the good and the bad. I had $9,500 in my account when I first started using his service. Unfortunately for me the market was in correction mode and not too many trades were working out. I can’t hold that against him of course. Luckily it didn’t last too long and I was able to recover and got my account up to $10,360 in matter of a few weeks ..read more

Quick Overview: I joined Jeff Kohler‘s – Trading Addicts a few years ago and will give you my impressions and an overview of his service so you can make an educated decision on whether his service is right for you. Trading Addicts is focused on swing trading small to mid size cap stocks and buying inexpensive out of the money options. Background: Jeff Kohler is the founder of www.tradingaddicts.com, a stock, options, and futures trading service that opened its doors back in 2008. Jeff is also a blogger at www.ibankcoin.com, where he writes daily trading ideas and market analysis. Jeff started ..read more

Quick Overview: I had been a member of Harry Boxer’s  – TheTechTrader.com service for over a year and will try to share my experience with his service to help you make a decision whether his service is for you. I will give you my opinion of his service, the good and the bad. I started with a $11,500 in my account when I first subscribed to The Tech Trader. The market was in a solid uptrend so it makes it much easier to pick winning stocks in that type of environment. Perhaps you have heard the expression, “Don’t mistake brains for a bull market”. Well just about anything you bought was go ..read more

Commercials on TV always promote buy and hold investing as the best way to make money in the stock market. You will never find an financial advisor that doesn’t recommend it. This is especially true of baby boomers although younger investors are more open to a new way of managing their money. How Has “Buy and Hold” Worked over the last 2 decades? If you bought the S&P 500 20 years ago you would have suffered through two of the worst bear markets in history! You would have suffered draw downs of 50%! And this is the best way to invest? Using a basic swing trading strategy that went long onl ..read more

The cold hard truth about swing trading is; you wont get rich quick. Sorry to break the news to you but its just not going to happen and unrealistic expectations are one of the biggest killers of traders. Traders who have been successfully swing trading have come to this realization that trading is a long term approach. Any one trade is not going to make you rich but is just one of many profitable trades. Each profitable trade leads to a profitable week, month and year. I cannot stress enough that having unrealistic profit expectations of a small account and trading it full time leads to more ..read more