Recent content by Alan Au

What about companies with strong fundamentals? Do you think it'd be wiser to just hold through the temporary decline in industry/market condition?

How many times have you traders "panic" sold, only to see your stock go back up in the upcoming weeks/months (maybe not a good waiting time for you but still)? Just a fun question :)

Hi. I'm curious, how do you narrow down your criteria when looking for stocks to trade? Do you search up "high volume stocks" or "52 week highs/lows" or "low p/e ratios" before your interest is peaked on a stock?

Just curious, do most of you day traders even read company financial reports or do you only look at charts?

Thanks everyone for all of the insight!

Hi, I'm pretty new to trading/stocks. I've only traded two stocks but I've made 6% return on one (one day) and 20% return on the other (3 weeks?). Both of these are pretty short-term and I from what I know, value investing typically is held for longer terms based on Benjamin Graham's book "The...