8 Easy Ways to Boost Your Profits

by Teeka Tiwari 08/06/09

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I have eight tips aimed at making you a stronger, more confident and, most importantly, more profitable investor:

1. Focus: You can't trade everything; how gaining focus will help make you money.

2. Position Sizing: How much should you place in a single trade?

3. Mitigating Risk: What is the risk/reward of stocks versus exchange-traded funds (ETFs)?

4. Stop-losses: The importance of using stop-losses.

5. Entering Positions: How to buy on a breakouts and pullbacks.

6. Exiting Positions: How to lock in as much of your profits as possible. How to use option strategies to exit your positions.

7. Shorting: What does it mean to "short" and why should you be doing it?

8. Leverage: The ins and outs of why, how and when to use leverage.

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