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So what if they do? If you really wanted to prove you could trade, you would have achieved that objective by posting a testable, usable strategy: and I guess if you were already profitable, you didn't need any contributions from anyone, just recognition.

A great way to prove if you can trade or not is to post your strategy. Others can then see whether it's workable or not.

Actually I think in truth it has long been recognised that astronomical occurrences coincide with stock price movements. But what I'd like to know before investing is "How?".

Buying rising stocks when the stock market was downtrending.

".....is a bollock!"?

Hi deaddog - Assuming you're then looking to get long on these?

I could only trade on the basis of an understandable link between indication and price. So, without accepting or denying astrology works, what could be the link between astronomical bodies and stock market prices?

Cheers, thanks for this. I have posted before about my confusion about why some people use traders' forums. They never give out details of their strategies, they don't issue detailed advice to new traders, they don't seek to engage in the details of tactics and strategies with experienced...

If someone else has already figured out the answer to a problem I had, I'd certainly ask him to share it with me. Of course, he might or he might not, that's his choice. But I can't criticise someone for trying to find the easiest and quickest - and therefore smartest - route to the answer to a...

I haven't attacked you personally, I haven't said you shouldn't use a stock scanner and I haven't said you should not ask members if they can recommend one. What I have suggested is that getting a reliable stock scanner is only the first and simplest and easiest and also least useful step on a...

Merely a cautionary message that finding a quick way to select targets isn't the end of the story. It isn't even the beginning. I do want the OP to come back and ask questions and dropped just a tiny number of hints as to what issues need to be considered. I absolutely try to help new traders...

Learning to use a stop-loss.

Sounds like you not only don't want to do the work to scan for stocks to trade, you don't want to do the work to find a scanner that will do this for you. I don't say you need to repeat work others have done, nor that you can't follow a successful route already proven. But suppose you have a...

Good way to prove your profitability is to post your strategy. Meanwhile, in principle its good to be not doing what the majority of losing traders are doing. Of course, you need a clear picture of what that group is doing which is so wrong. I think new and losing traders do one main thing...

The only really effective buy-and-hold means doing so for life, for dividend income. Obviously, with dividends typically living in the single figure % range you probably need a six-figure investment to make it worthwhile. When I say for life, I'm actually thinking until death, at which point...

England's strategy was the same as for years and years now - play to not lose, don't play to win. This means running at your opponent with the ball until he fouls you, then you can try to score form the free kick or penalty. Preferably you get a penalty, because its harder to miss a penalty...

Part of the reason for these recurring stories about crashes and collapses of bull markets is its what we collectively "need" to read about. Media stories in which everyone agrees about something are dull, they tend to not even get published. But if the writer finds just one person who has a...

Or at least practice.

Buying the high every day regardless of market conditions is just a route to random returns. But buying the daily high - in an uptrend - is not crazy. Set a buy order after the close at the set-up day's high: the order triggers if the high is breached the next day. Set a SL at the set-up day's...

I'm going to suggest you only did two things wrong - 1) you're trading short-term, 2) you're trading reversals. Honestly not trying to be smart, just trying to be a smart trader. If you do what the majority of new traders do, you'll end up with the same result as the majority of new traders...