You are just reading the welcome message for my new Trend Trader blog. This is the start of a journey into uncharted terrain for me and it is also an experiment.
While I do have some experience in creating static web sites, this one will be my first blog and probably the only one I am willing to put energy into. It feels a bit strange to finally become a blogger myself as being sociable is not my very nature. So, I am not sure if social media is the right thing for me. But perhaps I will find my own style for this blog over time.
Otherwise I am a trader, mostly stocks, with a technical inclination. Outside of the markets I am a programmer, physicist, and later in the evening I presume to think that I am also an inventor. Don’t ask now what are you inventing and expect to get an answer other than “excuses to this question”.
What to expect than from trendsignals.net? For one, I plan to write about the usage of the Trend Trader system in conjunction with pinpointing current market chances. Reflections about software and other trading systems may also be possible. Ideally this blog should give its readers some value that is directly translatable into making money in the markets. Ha, you already guessed that, right?
But it is also an experiment. I am absolutely unclear about how publishing trading ideas will affect my own trading. My hope is that an area where I found I could improve my own operations, the longer term investigation of trading candidates, will benefit from this writing. In other words, I expect or hope for a more disciplined and systematic approach in my preselection of stocks to trade. Not that I don’t know already how to find them, I know exactly what I have to do. The problem is more the continuous and thorough work, which is needed to stay connected with the market in the search for stocks with current potential.
Luckily for my blog, this is a problem of so many. Just have a look at which stocks are traded in what situations. All of them are traded all of the time! And every buyer faces a seller. Amazing – most people seem to miss that there are only a few interesting situations. Sure, there are big investors like fonds who have to play a different game. But at least you, the small private trader or trading investor, should concentrate on the current hot spots of the market.
So, how to make use of this site? I am not offering trading signals, but trading ideas. If you want to trade these, you should have a system for finding your entries and exits. This blog puts the focus on stocks with an outlook above average, which should help every trading strategy. Preferably you could use the Trend Trader system, but others may also be adequate. I don’t plan to discuss this system here detailed but piecewise. If you are interested, there is only one way to comprehend it – read the complete trading system manual.
But, whatever you do, keep in mind that this system, site and blog is from the desk of a procyclical trader, someone who is trying to get on board of fast moving targets. That means everything can only work with using tight stops. Embrace stops, and you may become a prospering Trend Trader.
Good luck in the markets,
qT