About Day Trading: Buy and Hold ... and Hold ... and Hold ...
| from Adam Milton This week's day trading newsletter provides some information about buy and hold trading that will benefit all long term stock investors (even non traders). The newsletter includes: - an explanation of how buy and hold should be traded, - MIB and IBEX35 futures market profiles, - and the weekly economic calendar with volatility.
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Buy and Hold ... and Hold ... and Hold ... Buy and hold is the standard stock trading strategy that is used by most non traders when they invest in a stock. Buy and hold gets its name because the strategy consists of buying a stock and then holding the stock indefinitely. Buy and hold trades are always long trades (i.e. entered by buying, and exited by selling), and there is no equivalent short trade, because most non traders believe that over the long term the stock markets only go up. In theory, there is nothing wrong with entering a long stock trade, and holding the trade long term (the equivalent of buy and hold), however, there are a couple of problems with the way that non traders make their buy and hold trades that almost guarantees that the trade will lose money ... find out how to trade buy and hold | | MIB and IBEX35 Futures Market Profiles The MIB futures market is based upon the Milano Italia Borsa stock index, which is the primary stock index of Borsa Italiana in Italy. The MIB index consists of 40 companies that represent the diversity of the stocks that are traded on Borsa Italiana ... read the MIB market profile The IBEX35 futures market is based upon the Iberia Index 35 stock index, which is the primary stock index of Bolsa de Madrid in Spain. The IBEX 35 index consists of the 35 most liquid capitalization weighted stocks that are traded on Bolsa de Madrid ... read the IBEX35 market profile | Economic Calendar with Volatility This week's economic calendar includes a few news releases from the US, and several news releases from Europe and Asia. Each region has a few high volatility news releases, but not very many, so volatility may be slightly lower this week. The most volatility will probably come from the European markets, as Europe has slightly more news releases than the US or Asia ... view the calendar | Sponsored Links | ![]() | | | Advertisement
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