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• Where to Put a Stop Loss - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  Whether you use volatility-based, Fibonacci. Gann, percentage declines, pivot points, or any other method for determining where to put a stop loss, your stop loss will sometimes be triggered just before the stock resumes its climb. Learn to live with it. The alternative can be disastrous.
• Select Stocks by Combining Technical and Fundamental Screens - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  A stock selection strategy designed to find stocks that are likely to appreciate significantly within a relatively short time should include both fundamental and technical screening systems. The technical is useful for identifying setups and in the timing of purchases and sales. Good fundamentals are the fuel that enable sustained flight.
• Be Both a Short-Term Trader and a Long-Term Investor - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  Short-term traders often assume less risk than long-term investors. There is a right time and a wrong time to own the stock of every great company. The smartest investors base their decisions on the balance between risk and reward, not on a pre-determined holding period.
• Short-Term Stock Trends and Risk Control - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  Risk control is more important than being a long-term investor. Stock trends are becoming shorter. Risk is increasing. Riding out all dips in stock price can lead to disaster.
• The Advantage of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  In general, ETFs are less volatile than individual stocks, have many of the benefits of sector and index mutual funds, and a relatively low expense ratio. Fraud, as has occurred with standard mutual funds, is virtually impossible. They are worth considering as alternatives to individual stocks and standard mutual funds.
• Stock Market Investing: Long-Term or Short-Term? - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  To buy and hold stocks for the long-term has been the preferred approach to stock market investing for many decades. However, in a volatile stock market this approach can be very expensive in terms of risk vs. return on investment. The long-term holder may not be taking the wisest course after all.
• The Fundamental vs. the Technical in Stock Buy and Sell Decisions - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  In a volatile market, technical signals tend to precede announcements of change in the fundamentals of a company. Understand how this works and how to use both the technical and the fundamental in your buy and sell decisions.
• What does "Timing the Market" or "Market Timing" Really Mean? - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  As practiced by professionals, "market timing" is about buying and selling in accordance with a predetermined set of conditions and rules. It is about following the buy signals and the sell signals. It is not about investing according to how one "feels" about the market, and it is not about the illegal activities of some mutual fund managers that the media has referred to as "market timing."
• The Best Stop Loss for Long-Term Investors - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  Wherever the stop loss is placed, there is the chance that the stock will reverse course after the stop loss is triggered. We wondered if there was an optimum stop loss placement that would minimize both the loss allowed by the stop loss and the probability of a reversal after the sale.
• Diversification and Stop Loss Placement - By: Dr. Winton Felt
  Some of the most respected names in the investment world (Granville, Weinstein, Dines, Magee, Zweig, Sperandeo, Schwager, O'Neil, Murphy, and others all agree on the necessity of using stop losses. Though they do not seem to agree on how much of a stock decline to allow selling, they are much closer in their thinking than is apparent on the surface.