# Stage 7: Buying

[Tensile Trading: Stage #7 Strategic Profitable Buying versus Impulsive Expressive Buying ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/09/tensile-trading-stage-7-strategic-profitable-buying-versus-impulsive-expressive-buying.html)\
When I go to the Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale each year, I get literally glassy-eyed.  Just too...

[Pyramid Trading: Greater Profits with Less Risk ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/01/pyramid-trading-greater-profits-with-less-risk.html)\
No, the pyramids are not a range of mountains between France and Spain.  Yes, there are over 80 pyramids in...

[Investing with a Cleaner Windshield: The Buyer's Checklist ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2013/04/investing-with-a-cleaner-windshield-the-buyers-checklist.html)I\
 have found that if you offer the market your sincere attention – presented on a platter of organized checklists –...

[Here's How Your Buying & Selling RT (Reaction Time) Flows Through to Your Bottom Line ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/04/heres-how-your-buying--selling-rt-reaction-time-flows-through-to-your-bottom-line.html)\
I’ve been told I’m a little unusual in that I rate my trades on a scale of 1 – 5 stars depending on my reaction time...

[What I Learned from 30,874 Trades ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/01/what-i-learned-from-30874-trades.html)\
Thomas Edison said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Real estate experts love to claim that success is...

[Precisely How I Bought the 4 'FANG' Stocks Before Their Run-Up ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2016/06/precisely-how-i-bought-the-4-fang-stocks-before-their-run-up.html)\
Put your hands up if you can remember the big money we made in the ‘Nifty Fifty’ – those stocks from the ‘60s and...

[A Surefire Method to Increase Your Profits and Improve Your Golf Game ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2012/12/a-surefire-method-to-increase-your-profits-and-improve-your-golf-game.html)\
Whether it’s golf or trading, it’s all about stress control.  If you were sitting across the table from me and...

[Evidence-Based Trading for Dummies ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2014/08/evidence-based-trading-for-dummies.html)\
Robin Griffiths, the renowned technical strategist, once opined that “Trading is a traffic light system.  At a...

[How A Fellow Investor Critiqued This Trader ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2015/11/how-a-fellow-investor-critiqued-this-trader-.html)\
My motives in writing these weekly blogs and in teaching investment classes are in part selfish ones.  I write...

[The Paralysis of Perfection: The Investor's Ongoing Challenge ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2014/03/the-paralysis-of-perfection-the-investors-ongoing-challenge.html)\
The brilliant novelist Isabel Allende once wrote, “Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it...

[Invest Like You Drive & Put $$$ in Your Pockets ](https://stockcharts.com/articles/journal/2014/06/invest-like-you-drive--put--in-your-pockets.html)\
I spent the weekend with my friend Dan, a prison chaplain, who always seems to have unique and useful insights...