| By Larry Benedict, editor, The Opportunistic Trader When I started out trading, I wanted to be a master of the universe. I wanted to trade, and beat, every single market sector. The indexes, bonds, currencies, soybeans… you name it. I just wanted to outperform everything and everyone. I bet you can imagine how that turned out. Reality came crashing down… and I learned that it’s just not possible. The main thing I realized was you run into a lot of problems when you have too many positions. It’s common thinking that you should invest a small amount of money into a wide array of assets. But I’m not a buy-and-hold kind of person. I just don’t have that kind of patience. While it would be great to see a 100% return on an investment in 50 years on, let’s say, one out of 40 stocks in your portfolio… I want to see that same overall return, over and over again, in the course of a week. I prefer to see small gains on a frequent basis, rather than big gains I have to wait decades for. This way, I can steadily grow my cash pile and have some of that money to trade now, rather than later. And as I like to say: The bigger your account, the larger your growth opportunity. While I’m usually not putting as much money towards each trade as someone might put towards one long-term investment, my mentality has always been about slowly grinding out profits. It started out slow for me. In my first year, I was trading to earn maybe $100 per position, if I was lucky. But nowadays, I’m trading much bigger lots, and making $1 million here, $4 million there, and another $5 million there… And here’s the thing… those returns are still “small” on a percentage basis. It’s just that my capital pile is much bigger now… and so are my position sizes. | Recommended Link | | Judge Pirro’s Latest Interview Is Going VIRAL One of the top news anchors in America just went on-camera to expose a huge story. When word spreads about what she’s uncovered — it could trigger an equally huge move in the stock market. If you haven't seen her interview... which details a sector of the market that could soar 37x in the months ahead, click this link to watch it now. | | | -- | When long-term investors say they have a portfolio of 40-odd stocks, that looks dangerous to me. Because, what do you do the day all 40 are down? Which one are you going to look at salvaging first? How could someone look at 40 stocks every day or week and have a broad range of exceptional knowledge of each and every one? That answer is they don’t. It’s impossible. For starters, there’s a difference between how many stocks you should become an expert on and how many positions you should put on. It’s wise to become an expert on just a handful of stocks… around five to 10. And when you’re just starting out as a trader, you should have no more than two to five trades going at any given time… Five being your absolute maximum. A trader should know everything about the stock they’re trading. What it means when the stock is weak and the market is strong, or vice versa. When its earnings calls are, how it reacts to certain news stories, the risk profile, etc. So if your stock is performing better than the market, you likely want to be long that stock. If your stock is performing worse than the market, you probably want to be short that stock. This is something I’ve implemented my entire career. | Recommended Link | | Trump’s Gift to Seniors? President Trump has just given a new gift to seniors, that’ll let them live like kings. It's being called “Trump’s Technology.” And he’s set aside December 10th to help roll it out across America. At a recent conference, he said: “No matter where you are, you will have access very quickly to [this technology], and it’s going to be a different life.” But behind this gift to seniors is the true purpose of this technology being spread across the fruited plain. That purpose is to prepare America for her biggest challenge yet! E.B. Tucker, Casey Research’s chief analyst, reveals what that challenge is – and why this tech roll-out could give you a $125,000 windfall… if you’re in before December 10th, 2019. | | | -- | Back in the day, when I was working at different firms, each trader always had one sector. There was an oil trader, a tech trader, a healthcare trader… everyone was an expert on their respective sector. Even in the trading pits, no one traded more than one stock. You would stand in the pit of just one stock and trade it all day. So I wasn’t trading tech because “Steve” was trading tech and it seemed like a winner. I stuck to what I knew. And at the time, that was the top 20–50 blue-chip stocks. I watched them every single day. If I was trading Apple, I’d know every move Apple made. I wouldn’t need a chart to tell me where it was headed. I would know everything, top to bottom, about Apple. Now, knowing those 20–50 stocks like the back of my hand took some time. Even learning everything about Apple took time. So, when you’re starting out as a trader, pick just one stock of one company, and learn everything you can about it. Get to the point where you can anticipate its next move… where it becomes part of your intuition. Then, do it again… and again… until you have a solid repertoire of stocks that you know better than anyone. And once you do, you’ll be leagues ahead of most other traders out there. Regards, Larry Benedict
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