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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Most of you probably know people who thought they had a trading strategy buying technology stocks in the late 1990s.   By the time 1999 came around, they considered themselves market geniuses.   In 2000, however, they probably continued the strategy even as they watched the market type change.   The following chart shows the market type for the QQQ (which is where most people where investing […]

A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. I was very intrigued when I saw a Forbes website piece on the top mistakes even supposedly savvy investors make.   What’s interesting about these types of articles is their general vagueness:  no one ever clearly defines a mistake or states any of their assumptions when they describe  mistakes. I decided to go through the Forbes list of top 10 mistakes and discuss some of the underlying

A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Many of you have heard the story of my first stock purchase at age 16.   Fortune Magazine listed a mobile home manufacturer called Poloron Products as having the greatest increase in earnings per share, so I bought 100 shares at $8.   I watched it go up to $20, and then down to $4.  At that point, I bought another 100 shares and it went

A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. How many shares or contracts should you take per trade? It’s a critical question, one that most traders don’t really know how to answer properly. Position sizing™ strategies are the parts of your trading system that answers this question. They tell you “how much” for each and every trade. Whatever your objectives happen to be, your position sizing™ strategy achieves them. Poor position sizing