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The simple truth is that novices have trouble limiting their sources of ideas and are then challenged again in how to winnow these infinite choices down to a few promising candidates upon which to focus. *** [Tensile Trading: Stage #6 Stalking for Winning Investment Ideas ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/09/tensile-trading-stage-6-stalking-for-winning-investment-ideas.html)\ Let’s get this out on the table first off. Stock market stalking is analogous to a lion stalking prey, not the... [The Triumph of Catching a Big Move ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2012/04/the-triumph-of-catching-a-big-move.html)\ Big money is made by being on the correct side of a major market move and executing a carefully pre-planned scenario... [Seven Attributes To Give You The Edge ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2012/10/seven-attributes-to-give-you-the-edge.html)\ What do Wayne Gretsky, Coach Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan and William O’Neil have in common? They all... [Chasing Last Year's Winners ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/03/chasing-last-years-winners.html)\ 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... [Trading Secrets from Baseball & the Game of Thrones ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/04/trading-secrets-from-baseball-the-game-of-thrones.html)\ It’s spring and the baseball season is upon the Kingdom. The Mariners are playing at Safeco Field again, and I... [This Could Change Your Life! How You Can Mimic Wall Street's Best & Profit Handsomely: Part 1 ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/06/this-could-change-your-life-how-you-can-mimic-wall-streets-best--profit-handsomely.html)\ This should be illegal. If I was a hedge fund or mutual fund manager, I’d be thoroughly upset, but since I’m... [This Could Change Your Life! How You Can Mimic Wall Street's Best & Profit Handsomely: Part II ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2014/06/this-could-change-your-life-how-you-can-mimic-wall-streets-best---profit-handsomely-part-ii.html)\ This is a continuation of last week’s popular blog about how individual investors can outperform institutional money... [A Big Trading Mistake I Made So You Won't Have To! ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/02/a-big-trading-mistake-i-made--so-you-wont-have-to.html)\ I’ve learned that you have to be very thick-skinned to be a trader or a blogger. Many of my blogs are lifted... [How I Only Trade Stocks Soaked in Positive Probabilities ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/03/how-i-only-trade-stocks-soaked-in-positive-probabilities.html)\ I only trade the strongest and prettiest equities in the market. I’ve written before about how I leave my deep... [Investing: The Probability Tool ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/05/investing--the-probability-tool.html)\ Investing and thinking in probabilities should go hand in hand. Probabilities can be expressed both... [Wall Street's Free Lunch... But Investors Must Still Read the Menu ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/04/wall-streets-free-lunch-but-investors-must-still-read-the-menu.html)\ To paraphrase Bill Murray from the movie “Aloha,” the future is not something that just happens. It’s a brutal... [Stalking the "Best of Breed" Equities ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/05/stalking-the-best-of-breed-equities.html)\ The same investment analysis seldom yields consistent conclusions over a period of time. As much as investors... [The Secret of Making an Investment Methodology Produce Consistent Profits ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2017/03/the-secret-of-making-an-investment-methodology--produce-consistent-profits.html)\ “I have heard many men talk intelligently, even brilliantly, about something – only to see them proven powerless... [Peter Lynch Nailed It; The French Nailed It; Sally Nailed It; You Can Too! ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2018/09/peter-lynch-nailed-it-the-french-nailed-it-sally-nailed-it-you-can-too.html)\ Peter Lynch was the portfolio manager for Fidelity’s Magellan Fund for 13 years. His performance results were... --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. 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