How to trade stocks: Don’t try to forecast the market, instead follow the market

There’s a big difference in investing in the future you’ve imagined or guessed at and buying a stock that is right now demonstrating fundamental strength, institutional accumulation and breakout characteristics – or the exact opposite.

The same holds for the overall market too, when it corrects, you don’t hold and hope for gain. Instead, you need to step back, take profits, conserve cash and wait for the market to signal a new uptrend. (see Eicher Motors chart).

This year started with a correction on major indices, the Sensex declined 8.2% till April 5, the day on which market status was changed to Rally. The Nifty declined 3.8% during the same period. Continue reading “How to trade stocks: Don’t try to forecast the market, instead follow the market”