After the last video I got plenty of questions (keep them coming, always happy to answer more!) One of these asked if I traded penny stocks. Here’s my answer, in video form.

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Here’s a live trading video, as it’s been a while since I posted one. Biggest trade of the day was Tesla Motors, which only floated yesterday – so nice and volatile.
Apologies for the sound quality, this was recorded outside directly into the laptops internal microphone.
Trading over, now I’m back off to watch Wimbledon – we [...]

Jose asks:
“I was wondering what do you recommend I do with a minimum capital of about 1600 dollars? What should I trade?”
Lots of people have this kind of question, so perhaps my reply will be of use to others:
A budget of $1,600 is quite low, but certainly not uncommon. Given that amount, I suspect most [...]

Someone emailed me today to ask if I thought tick charts offered any advantages over regular charts. Here’s my reply:
In this context a tick is a trade execution. So instead of dividing your chart based on time periods, you’re dividing on number of trades.
A possible advantage of this method is that you will see a [...]

I get asked a lot about stops. So here’s a video explaining my view on when and how they should be used.

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Ok, so enough of the theory, let’s get down to the nuts and bolts. In this video I come up with a simple trading strategy and look at how long it would take to learn, and how much you could make in a year – thus answering those two all time favorite questions!

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In the last video I mentioned that I used online backup to protect my data, and therefore my trading business. I mentioned I would post a link – here’s the one my technical guru recommended: Mozy
This works on Windows as well as Macs. You can get a free version if you don’t want to backup [...]

It’s been far too long since I made a video. The problem, if that’s the right word, is that the markets these last few months have been just fantastic. It’s been too hard to tear myself away from the apparently never-ending supply of easy and profitable trades on the table every day. But tear myself [...]

One of the questions I’m asked frequently, is can I recommend a broker, or a charting package.
The short answer is ‘no’. There are hundreds of brokers and hundreds of charting programs out there for a reason; what’s right for one person isn’t necessarily right for someone else.
To explain this better, and to offer my advice [...]

Been a while since I put up any live trading videos, since I changed the video format. As I’ve had a fair number of folks asking how the markets are behaving these days, I thought it was high time to show you!

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Note: This video [...]