Thursday, April 19, 2012

How To Become A Successful Stock Trader

By Larry Oaks


If you want be a successful penny stock trader, you'll need to be an intelligent trader. There are very few requirements to start trading in penny stocks. These can be broken down to 3 main things.

Money Matters

The money that is sitting in your bank account is not what's being referred to here. It is not the money that you use to pay for your rent, your car or your food. Extremely unpredictable are penny stocks and you may lose everything even though you make a great deal of money, so only use the money you can afford to lose especially when you are starting out. Once you've built up a nice profit, you can snowball your earnings by re-investing your profits from past trades.

Good Knowledge

Whether your career as a penny stocks investor will be a dismal failure or a spectacular triumph, knowledge is no doubt the most important factor. There are various guides you can buy if you're a newcomer to investing and reading several of them before spending any money is always a good idea.

Reading these won't help you in specific decisions such as buying or selling a particular penny stock but you will be given a good background on how it all works and they are invaluable in building a good knowledge base.

Why You Should Make a Plan

Make an investment plan and stick to it at all times before investing any money. Not only will this help become disciplined, but you will also be able to organize your investments and time. Keeping things simple will result in less stress. Your plan should consist of the investments you are going to make and why and how much you are investing in them. This should also include the time you want to allocate your investments for the such as the time it takes to research them, as well as the price you will sell your investment at to take a profit (exit point).

Having all the major elements in place means that you're ready for the world of investing in penny stocks. Just remember that the most important tool you have in order to make your penny stocks success is knowledge, so you better start learning today.




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