Articles by Gary E Kerkow
Understanding Commodity Price Movements For Big Profits -
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Gary E Kerkow
Over time, commodity price movements follow a similar pattern. Let us say wheat has been trending down in price for about 8 months. Then it stops trending down, and the price stays in a sideways trading range of $4.00 to $4.30 per bushel, for 2...
Trading Commodities For Significant Profits -
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Gary E Kerkow
The goal or dream of most market participants, whether they are trading commodities and/or stocks, is to make a lot of money, and possibly trade for a living. This sounds great. You can be your own boss, and make unlimited money. The problem is most...
How The Stock Market Really Works -
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Gary E Kerkow
Many people buy and sell stocks, but few actually know how the stock market works. If you buy shares of stock in a company, you actually own part of that company. You and the other shareholders own the company in common. If the company you...
How to Achieve Great Trading Results -
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Gary E Kerkow
There are many in the academic community who firmly believe in the efficient market theory. Basically, it means they support the idea there is literally no way to beat the general market averages. Since the same people make fortunes year after year trading the various...
Record High Cotton Prices Can Mean Fortunes -
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Gary E Kerkow
Cotton prices are at all-time record high levels. As of this writing, December Cotton is at 142.23 cents per pound. Historically, cotton has averaged 40-50 cents per pound. We are at a record 140 year high in cotton prices. This is not inflation adjusted though....
Stock Market Technical Analysis-Support and Resistance Levels Key to Making a Fortune -
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Gary E Kerkow
It is interesting to watch a stock drop to a certain price level a number of times, then bounce back up in price. The stock is said to have bounced off a support level. It is equally interesting to watch a stock rise to a...
Stock Market Technical Analysis-Volume Will Tell You Secrets -
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Gary E Kerkow
Trading volume is defined as the number of shares or contracts traded during a certain period, for a security or an entire exchange. This is an indication of the interest investors have in a particular security at its current price. Volume is the best...
Stock Market Wisdom-Learning to Trade Like the Legends, Part 4 -
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Gary E Kerkow
Confidence is a characteristic the very best traders and investors seem to have in abundance. They totally believe in their ability to achieve superior trading results in the long run. The reason for this confidence centers around their trading method, and ability to implement proper...
Stock Market Wisdom-Learning to Trade Like the Legends, Part 3 -
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Gary E Kerkow
All the very best traders and investors have a method that will give them an edge. Having an edge means the odds, or probabilities are in your favor each time a trade is initiated. The method implemented depends upon the individual traders philosophy. It can...
Preserve Your Capital With Good Money Management -
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Gary E Kerkow
There is really nothing more important than preserving your trading capital. You need to implement a money management system that will, keep you in the game when great trading opportunities come along, and also defines the risk tolerance level that fits your personality. No two...
Learn the Signs of a Market Top -
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Gary E Kerkow
I would say around 90% or more of all traders and investors, ultimately lose money trading the various markets. What generally happens is that most traders buy a lot of stocks, at or near, market tops, and sell their stocks, at or near, market bottoms....
Trend Following is the Ultimate Method for Great Wealth -
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Gary E Kerkow
Trend following is without a doubt, the most successful trading method. Strategies such as "buy and hold" are inferior, when compared to the amazing success of properly following a trend. Basically, a trend is an overall direction in the market. It can be an up,...
Finding a Commodity to Trade -
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Gary E Kerkow
One of the keys to success in the commodity market is to identify the right market to trade. In this article, I will present the logical process that I use. If you pick a commodity to trade, where the dynamics are wrong, it could well...
My Analysis of the Gold Market -
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Gary E Kerkow
As the story goes, a child finds this shiny rock somewhere in a creek, many thousands of years ago. This could well have been how the human race was introduced to gold for the very first time. Gold eventually became part of every human culture....
Trading Wisdom Can Lead to a Fortune -
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Gary E Kerkow
Nobody becomes a great trader or investor overnight. It takes many years of dedication to learning the proper strategies, techniques, methods, and principles. Even after learning all of these important aspects of trading, one must also understand and implement proper trading psychology. At this point,...
Trading Mistakes To Avoid -
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Gary E Kerkow
Buying an expensive trading system is usually a waste of money. Many are total gimmicks. Some promise fantastic results or a secret indicator that works like magic. The way to become a successful trader or investor is to acquire proper trading knowledge. This can be...
Uncommon Trading Behavior Is How Fortunes Are Made -
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Gary E Kerkow
The stock market and the futures market are set up to fool most of the people most of the time. They work very well in that regard. The crowd is always wrong when its important to be right. This is especially true at critical market...
Trading Legend Gann A Most Amazing Man -
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Gary E Kerkow
William Delbert Gann, better known as W.D.Gann is a true world wide legend of stock and commodity trading. Gann was born in Texas in 1878. He began his amazing 50 year trading career in 1902. In 1933 Gann made 479 trades of which 422 were...
Stock Market Strategy For Big Profits -
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Gary E Kerkow
Buying the best growth stocks at the right time certainly can make you decent money in the stock market. If you want to make really big profits, adding to a winning position at the right time can achieve this for you. First, if you have...
Diversification Guarantees Mediocre Results At Best -
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Gary E Kerkow
Conventional wisdom usually does not work well trading the markets. You might hear something like “Now is the time to buy that stock, it’s been going down, it’s cheap and a great deal now”. Then back in early 2000, some of the so-called stock market...
