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10 Percent Compound Theory…

What is the 10% compounding theory?
First I’ll give you an example. When investing in a retirement account, lets say you put 10k into a 401k or a Roth IRA account. Lets also say that over a given period of 20 years, if you contribute 2k annually, with a nice 5% return annually, over the course of 20 years that 10k could be potentially 95,971.48! Not bad for a 10k investment wouldn’t you agree! Many investment advisors use examples such as ones like I just mentioned to get people to investment in the markets for individuals retirement. How does 10k with a annual 2k contribution turn into almost 100k in 20 years? Well it’s the compounding interest theory!

By definition, it is the result of reinvesting interest, rather than paying it out, so that interest in the next period is then earned on the principal sum plus previously-accumulated interest. That is how 10k turns into almost 100k in 20 years’ time frame. Now, here comes the twist. What if you applied this same principle using the number in years as the number of successful trades in the stock market with the same amount of initial funds, and the same amount contributed annually to your personal investment account. For example, you have 10 successful trades a year, with each trade netting you 5% each trade. Now you’ve just accomplished 20 years of work in just 2 years! NOW do I have your attention?!

There’s a saying, “How do you eat an elephant, one bite at a time” translating to the investment world, “How do achieve substantial capital for retirement, one successful investment at a time!” Essentially what people need to realize is the road to a great financial future can be achieved using some of the same principles that have worked for years, however applying them to suite your needs. With the stocks that are provided at Seeking Value Investor, this very same goal can be achieved by investing in the recommended stocks we provide and with a little time and patience, before you know it, you’ve eaten that ENTIRE ELEPHANT (YOUR retirement goal) in the room, one bite at a time!

There are literally hundreds of stocks that move 5% within a month’s time, and that’s being conservative. Let’s bump things up a notch, and apply the same principle however this time, let’s look for a 10% return instead of the 5% return used in the example. The stocks that are provided to here will have the ability to net you a 10% at the very least! Everyone’s investment risk tolerance is different, however this is a principle that can work for the aggressive investor or the passive investor. In the end, you both reach your destinations in almost less than half the time you originally planned for. This does not take into account the tax implications that are involved with whichever account you choose to use for your investing, so we recommend that you contact a tax professional for more information pertaining that subject.

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1 Secret to Improving Chart Reading

Every technical trader (those who make decisions based on price charts, as opposed to fundamentals) trades a slightly different way. Yet the thousands of different strategies that are used can typically be classified into several major categories. There are price action traders, indicator traders and traders who use both price action and indicators. There are also other types of strategies, such as seasonality, order flow or statistical strategies.

Price action trading is one of the simplest forms of trading to learn, and one of the most effective. If you are new to trading, learning price action trading is a great starting point.

What Is Price Action Trading
Price action trading is basing trading decisions on the price movements of an asset. Indicators or other methods of analysis are not used, or given very little weight in the trading decision process.

A price action trader believes that the only true source of information is the price itself. If a stock is going up, that tells the price action trader that people are buying. The trader will then assess, based on how aggressive the buying is, whether it is likely to continue. Price action traders don’t typically concern themselves with “why” something is happen.

Using historical charts and real-time price information (such as bids, offers, volume, velocity and magnitude) the price action trader looks for a favorable entry point.

Types of Price Action Strategies
There are many price action strategies. A very common price action strategy is called a breakout. When the price of an asset has been moving with a certain tendency, when it breaks that tendency it alerts traders to a new possible trading opportunity.

For example, assume a stock is trading between $11 and $10 for the last 20 days. Finally, the price moves above $11. This is a change in tendency, and alerts traders that the sideways movement is possibly over, and that a move higher, possibly to $12 (or higher) is starting. Breakouts occur from many different types of patterns, including ranges (discussed above) triangles, head and shoulders and flag patterns.

A breakout doesn’t mean the price will continue in the anticipated direction, often it doesn’t. This is called a false breakout, and also presents a trading opportunity in the opposite direction of the breakout (see Day Trading False Breakouts).

Breakouts can be small or large. Watching for small consolidations (short periods where the price moves sideways) breakouts during a trend can provide excellent profit potential, as discussed in How to Day Trade Stocks in Two Hours or Less.

There are also price action strategies based on how price bars form on a particular type of chart. For example, when using candlestick charts there candlestick strategies, such as the Engulfing Candle Trend Strategy.

Related to all the above, traders use support and resistance regions that could provide good trading opportunities.

Support and resistance are areas where the price has tended reverse in the past. Such levels may once again be relevant in the future.

Benefits and Drawbacks of Price Action Trading
Once you know a price action strategy there is little research time required. You find an asset with the specific price conditions you need, or you wait for those conditions to develop. Another benefit is that you often get more favorable entries and exits compared to many indicator based methods. The reason is that indicators are based on price, but lag behind it. By simply focusing on price you get the information in real-time, instead of waiting for a lagging indicator to give you information.

A drawback is that price action strategies are typically hard to automate. That means you’ll need to sit and watch for patterns to develop and manually trade them yourself.

This isn’t a problem for most people, but if you had hopes of creating a trading robot that could trade for you, many price action strategies do not lend themselves well to that.

Price action isn’t perfect. Just as you’ll have losing trades with other types of trading strategies, you will have losing trades using price action as well. Even though in theory price action sounds great, we can only know what the price has been doing up till we get into a trade. If price was moving higher, and we buy, the price could start to drop shortly after. Such circumstances are unavoidable. The only thing that matters is that you win more than you lose. Learning to do that takes time and practice.

Final Word on Price Action Trading
Price action trading is something all new traders should learn. Learning to read and interpret how a price chart is moving is a trading system on its own, or can help you if you decide to implement other analysis tools such as statistics, indicators or seasonality. There are many price action strategies, but you only need to learn one to start. Become profitable with it before trying to learn more strategies. Price action trading doesn’t guarantee profits; it is a great trading style, but takes time and practice to learn…this is true of all trading styles though.

This content was created by: Cory Mitchell of The Balance – Updated November 27, 2015

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