Consolidated List of Companies I'm Following

This is simply a list of the companies I am researching, have posted enough about that make me want to track them, saw very attractive charts for, or read enough about that warrants me taking the time to make this consolidated list of tickers to keep all my ducks in a row.  One of the most difficult, and under covered, topics of becoming a succesful investor is to find a way to balance the ability to take in mass amounts of information, retain it, and be able to recall it when the time comes.

Not many gurus are teaching or writing about the ways they were able to become more organized, productive, and efficient in their research and studies to get where they are today.  They always want to teach about what makes them so good and what you can do to be like them.  But what's more important is how they got there, not why they're there now.  I don't understand why I've never read any articles from almost anyone in the blogging side of trading that focuses on this kind of stuff.  It hit me real hard when I started getting serious about my trading logs and trade analysis.  You'd think there should be a ton of great articles out with tips and tricks for this kind of stuff, but there's not.

It's up to you and you alone to recognize this and to seek help.  I've been fortunate enough to have mentors along the way who have been willing to share their secrets with me and help me figure out how I want to do things.  Not literally secrets in that there's some secret sauce to all this, but in that this kind of thing is very personal and it's not something that's super comfortable talking about.

Without further ado, this is why I am posting a consolidated list of tickers after filtering through it all, and only posting about a small fraction of the research I do on a daily basis.  Live, sleep, eat, breathe what we do! Forever a student of the business and always hungry for more!

In no particular order:
$MOMO - China tech
$DUK - clean energy
$PM - tobacco/juul/cannabis
$WDAY - SaaS 
$CRM - SaaS 
$CAMP - Saas
$VRS - paper
$MGA - Canadian auto 
$ACLS - design for semi-conductors
$SMAR - collaboration tools
$GNLN - cannabis/vaporizers
$LSTR - trucking brokerage
$O - monthly dividend REIT
$HZO - boat dealer
$MLR - truck manufacturer
$ALV - automotive safety systems
$WLK - petrochemicals

Further breakdown into groups for portfolio diversification purposes:

• Diamonds in the rough (unfound plays): $LSTR $CAMP $HZO $MLR $ALV

• Software as a Service: $WDAY $CRM $CAMP

•  Others that aren't overly exciting right now, but don't want to lose track of since I like them long-term (although not necessarily as longterm investments):
  $VSH - semiconductor
  $CTST - marijuana
  $RSG - nonhazardous waste
  $TDOC - mobile medicine
  $YINN - China bull ETF
  $HOMZ - housing/real estate ETF
  $LMAT - biotech
  $LEVB - marijuana
  $MJ - marijuana ETF
  $IIPR - marijuana REIT
  $ATOM - semi-conductor
  $SGBX - construction
  $CATS - psychological health
  $IART - biotech
  $TEL - tech
  $TLRD - retail
  $IMMR - biotech
  $BPI - education
  $XLNX - semiconductor / 5G
  $NIO - Tesla's "China competitor"
  $TPB - tobacco, cannabis potentially
  
• All marijuana/cannabis-related, or has potential to be in the future: $PM $GNLN $CTST $LEVB $MJ $IIPR $TPB
  
• China exposure: $MOMO $YINN $NIO
  
• Niche markets: $VRS $LSTR $HZO $CATS
• REIT: $O $IIPR
• ETF: $YINN $HOMZ $MJ
  
•  History of Yielding Dividends: $DUK $PM $MGA $LSTR $O $MLR $ALV $WLK $VSH $RSG $YINN $MOMO $HOMZ $LMAT $MJ $IIPR $TEL $TLRD $TPB $XLNX
  (see here and paste DUK PM MGA LSTR O MLR ALV WLK VSH RSG YINN MOMO HOMZ LMAT MJ IIPR TEL XLNX as symbol list for data)

Check-ups: Uncomfortable, but Necessary

A bit off-topic, but as I'm getting organized today and on the topic of an efficient workflow,  I decided to optimize my setup on my computer again, and this is what I'd recommend:

For my web browsers:

1. WorldBrain's Memex 
2. LastPass
3. OneTab
4. OneNote Web Clipper
5. uBlock Origin, Cookie AutoDelete, & Privacy Badger

For PC productivity: 

1. Ditto (Clipboard manager, saves all things you copy/paste for future reference)
2. ShareX (super useful screenshot tool - simply set a hotkey)
3. OneNote  
4. Tweeten (similar to Tweetdeck, but on steroids)

Good to go!

Never a bad time for a check-up, whether it be financially or otherwise!

FIX: Problem using Discord push-to-talk while using ThinkOrSwim

This is for anyone who runs into the issue (really stupid issue) where your voice chat audio on Discord experiences one of a few problems, a mixture of which I have had the great pleasure (lol, not) of having to troubleshoot in order to figure out:

1. Your voice cuts out while you're talking when you click into ThinkOrSwim while holding down push-to-talk
• This is super irritating, especially when you don't even know your voice cut out on you until someone tells you they only heard half of what you just said...and you realize you were just talking to yourself for like 3 minutes...
2. You cannot use push-to-talk to talk on voice when you're already in ThinkOrSwim before clicking the respective hotkey.
3. Your mic gets "stuck" when you're talking on voice chat and then navigate into ThinkOrSwim while you're still holding down push-to-talk....and when you let go of push-to-talk and your mic should be off....you got yourself a hot mic.
• I could think of a ton of scenarios where this could be really embarrassing, awkward, or just annoying to have this happen...
• Fortunately, I just generally gave the entire 100+ people on our voice chat at the time an ear-full of background noise
• ...besides that one time I got busted yelling at my dog...dammit cooper stop growling at the door to go outside can't you see I'm in the middle of a trade?!

FIXED!

If you're still having it happen, feel free to reach out and I'd be happy to try some other troubleshooting steps with you.  I've done more troubleshooting with my trading platforms (TOS+TWS+Colmex) than I'm happy to admit.

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Taking Big Losses -- my response to a trader reaching out for help

Maintaining anonymity for obvious reasons but this is my response to a trader who reached out regarding a large loss he recently took, so that is the context of where this begins:

I’ll need to have you around in order to have the most effect but I do still want to give you some guidance since I know exactly where you are, and I'll need some perspective on specifics when you get the chance to respond...but I think I have some great advice I highly encourage you to consider applying as “unbreakables” for yourself. at the least, ensure you consider some of it as part of you’re entire plan on each and every play. I respect you reaching out to me and I’m just looking to help you out, but assuming you know me, I don’t beat around the bush since it won’t help you. no judging is involved but you need to consider these things and face it head on in order to succeed through anything.
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 - How much of the account was lost with this 1k loss? how much was already down prior to this 1 play?? I know how this stuff can get so I don't need specifics if you're not comfortable, but both you and I need to put some perspective on this loss and what we'll need to do to get where we need to be

- I need to see the big picture, and you need to face it. without shame. I know I have avoided discussing some of my big picture losses to my account since it's real degrading seeing things in the big picture of things, whether it be a constant downtrend of your account balance, or that you’ve taken huge losses. must be faced.

- I need you to take some time to create strict, UNBREAKABLE rules for yourself. you need to know when the you in the moment isn't really in control anymore. You have to soberly decide when you MUST do something as one of your Golden Rules. I am not chiding you, but you need to tell your subconscious right now that it CANNOT do this again without consequences. it's like the psychology of Pavlov's dogs. All negative actions MUST have consequences in order to learn from them. Trust me, man. This is something you need to do for yourself.

- Do it however you'd like, but to give you an idea of where to start: I created a Golden Rules Manual for myself. In it I created rules I MUST abide by, I created the max loss on each trade I can trade, max # trades in a row I can lose, max cents I can lose per share, and so on. YOU MUST BE CONTROLLED. --- it sounds crazy obvious, but we are no robots. Trade like a robot.

We cannot take $1,000 losses unless our account is $25k or something. (and to tell you truth, I’m just being generous, not even then...risk per trade should realllly be around 1% of your portfolio.

Now, I am saying RISK, not CAPITAL per trade. There's a difference. The RISK is what we can lose......ASSUMING WE ABIDE BY OUR UNBREAKABLE RULES....if we refuse to listen to our pre-determined rules, then our CAPITAL per trade becomes our RISK. --- AKA….we are here to make money
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I don’t want to take away from the genuine power of what I just said, so I will leave it there and wait for you to get back to me when and if you're ready to talk about it a bit. I can be very brief sometimes, but I felt a lesson like this deserved the time to give you what I would've liked to hear when I had taken some of these losses as I was getting on my feet....it needs to be said and appreciated. and once you are able to do that, you will never ever experience another $1,000 loss on a stock like LEDS again unless that $1,000 is something so bearable for you to lose that you couldn't care less about the play since you know that the trade fit your strategy and that the risk/reward was fitting for the play and in relation to your capital size

The "Secret" Law of Attrition in Trading

Thus, most Americans, rather than increasing their means, need to decrease them—in many cases dramatically so. This is the secret law of attrition.

It's a secret not only because most folks don't know about it—but also because they don't want to know about it.

By and large, we have become so attached to our material comforts that we can scarcely imagine living without them. Little do we realize that our possessions have come to possess us, and that our houses are like so many prisons built upon foundations of scarcity and fear.

Although based on compassion, the law of attrition is not about making some difficult and noble sacrifice but about extending the concept of wealth beyond the material realm into the natural, social, artistic and spiritual realms.

It's about shifting from quantity to quality—and from making a living to making a life—along with the time to enjoy it.

Tricks of the Trade: Breaking the Silence

Below are some of the tools/resources that I use on a regular basis to help make my Trading research/due diligence that much simpler.  I don't really know whether I'm really the only one who thinks outside the box with the resources I use (which is possible), or whether others prefer to keep these "secrets" to themselves.  Regardless, I'm breaking the silence.

This is for the hardworking Traders who follow me and my Blog and are hungry to learn in a way that gives you what no one else is willing to....Well, let's eat my friends:

*Please give my StockTwits post a like and comment below/reach out if you have any feedback for me! I would love to hear from you.

1. RSS feeds: these use a file type called .opml, I have spent a considerable amount of time perfecting mine.
• Feedly.com (website+phone app+browser extensions)
• Most popular one out there, not my favorite
• Newsify  (website+iOS app)
• Allows keyword searching on iOS
• Reeder app (iOS app)
• MY FAVORITE, worth the $4.99 (and I hate paid resources, a lot.)
• RSSowl (PC)
• Old program for PC, still worth checking out)
2. Notetaking
• PNotes.net (PC)
• .net version has extra features vs. regualar
• Ability to "dock" window for easy access
• Notability (iOS, well worth the $9.99)
• Evernote (phone app+PC+browser extensions)
• Browser web clippers available
•  OneNote (website+phone app+PC+browser extensions)
3.  Standalone hidden gems:
• Greenshot (PC) - screenshot app
• MUCH easier than using snipping tool + PrtScn keyboard
• Ditto (PC) - keeps track of what you Ctrl+C (copy)
• Paste (iOS app+widget) - keeps track of what you copy on iOS
• Just go to widgets on your phone and click edit > Paste 
• Then simply click on the widget when you want to save copied info
• Gladys (iOS) - send links, files, documents from phone browser
• Found this recently, and I love it. Unlimited version only $.99
• Madscan (PC) - FREE, similar to Trade-Ideas, very low-key scanner
• Office Lens (multiple platforms)
• Take a picture of a whiteboard/document/notes and it will make the picture quality MUCH greater
• Converts pictures of documents into EDITABLE TEXT DOCUMENTS
• Tradingdive - free trial
• Trading journal/log that will convert your ROBINHOOD trades into an excel doc and provide analysis of your trading performance
• Equityfeed - live stocks news stream
• Free trial, NO credit card required
• Prevents you from repeating free trial by detecting you have downloaded it previously
• Benzinga Pro - live stocks news stream
• Free trial, NO credit card required
• Only need to provide unique phone number+email address (Repeating free trial possible, but I'll let you decide if that's something you should do.)
• Scribd - endless ebooks/documents/trading education
•  If you do the free trial from iOS, you can INSTANTLY cancel your trial and use the trial until the end without any risk of getting charged

PHEW! There are honestly other programs/sites that I really like and have used, but this post is a GREAT start.  Remember, it's always okay to think outside the box.  Just since that guy you follow on StockTwits with tons of followers doesn't teach you shit, doesn't mean no one is willing to. 

Please give my StockTwits post a like and comment below/reach out if you have any feedback for me! I would love to hear from you.

There’s No Nobility in Poverty: Words of the Wolf Himself

Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. 

I’ve been a rich man, and I’ve been poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. Cause, At least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo wearing a $2000 suit …and $40,000 gold fuckin’ watch!

Now, if anyone here thinks I’m superficial or materialistic. Go get a job at fucking McDonald’s, because that’s where you fucking belong!

But, before you depart this room full of winners, I want you to take a good look at the person next to you, go on. Because sometime in the not-so-distant future, you’re pullin’ up to a red light in your beat-up old fucking Pinto, and that person’s gonna pull up right alongside you in a brand new Porsche, with their beautiful wife by his side, whose got big voluptuous tits. 

And who will you be next to? Some disgusting wilder beast with three days of razor-stubble in a sleeveless moo-moo, crammed in next to you with a carload full of groceries from the fucking Price Club! That’s who you’re gonna be sitting next to.

Become a Pro with the VZO: the Volume Zone Oscillator (My Favorite Indicator)

Please, give me some feedback when you finish or even just let me know you found value in this post. I know when I used to read blogs, I always assumed they knew how helpful their blogs were or that enough people bother them since they have "so many followers". Trust me,  that number is small and I would love to hear anything you have to say. 

I ALWAYS use VZO in my trading setup.  If you stumbled upon this, you're welcome and I wasted my time trying to find the educational articles/info on the Volume Zone Oscillator too, so I would find solace in knowing no one else has to do that....and that I don't need to keep introducing the VZO to Traders who ask me why I love it so much...here it is all in one place.
Decide for yourself:

Above is my setup using VZO overlayed on my volume subchart.

I won't get too into it since I am no Guru and I don't want to take away from the point that these are all related somehow, and I have chosen to end up at VZO with the understanding this is superior to the rest based on how they are derived, the signals it gives, and all that jazz.  I remove all the lines on the VZO study since there are way too many lines that it just becomes counterintuitive.

Consider as you learn about this technical indicator that the lines I keep on my chart (and I chose based on what I learned) are the ZERO and the -40 lines.  Beyond that, I disable the rest.  This is because I decided that by using these 2 lines I would get the SAFEST signals.  Again, I don't want to misstate a fact and take away from what I'm saying, so I want you to research and study are whether we are using VZO as: entry/exit signals? Overbought/oversold territory? Bullish/bearish? Support/resistance? and how do these relate to each other? (i.e. If we get a strong signal on our VZO, but we may not have much chart support/resistance -- what do we make of that? How do we adjust our trade?)

Lastly, consider that VZO shares a relationship with the following indicators, and that you should be wary about using multiple of these together, and should definitely consider how they are related, what makes one better than the other, etc. Using multiple from this list (which is not all-inclusive, others likely fit in here too) may lead to multicollinearity in your trading setup and contribute to giving you analysis paralysis, which is a FRUSTRATING phase to go through.  Regardless on what you go with,  you want to ensure confluence in your trading setup and understand the reasoning behind what you use and what you do. I have met too many Traders unfamiliar with the indicators they are using, yet struggle to understand why they keep losing.  

- VZO/OBV/CMF/MoneyFlowIndex/AccumDist/VolumeMovAvg/TwiggsMF/VolumeRoC

1. http://www.highgrowthstock.com/wpstorage/pdf/blog-hgsi-davesteckler-vzo-pzo.pdf  
2. http://traders.com/documentation/feedbk_docs/2011/05/TradersTips.html
3. http://tlc.thinkorswim.com/center/reference/Tech-Indicators/studies-library/V-Z/VolumeZoneOscillator.html 
4. http://penguintraders.com/forums/topic/volume-zone-oscillator-discussion/ 

"Note that the Vzo will react to that volume behavior by staying in the lower zone between -40 and zero, indicating more selling pressure than buying pressure. Conversely, on this chart, one can observe the Vzo oscillating in a range between zero and +40 as the market is in the first wave of the up move during the second half of December."

I really hope this serves its purpose and someone out there finds this valuable.  There was not 1 single other resource out there that I could find that has all this valuable info in one place, nor filtered out all the junk I didn't need to know.  

Again, please give me any feedback you may have or notes you took/resources you find. I am not a Guru and would love to hear from you if you made it this far, even just to let me know you read this and found value in me taking the time to put this together.

"Secret" Concepts to $STUDY That "They" Don't Teach You

I'll just leave this here for you guys.  I found this list of concepts I had put together a short while back, and a large amount of these are topics that are seldom-taught in a straightforward way, and I have never found all these "secret" concepts in one place like this before.  Hopefully some of you find value in this, or say "I never really considered that.." because that's the point in why I made this.  When you piece it all together and hone in on what you don't already know, then you can move forward and open your mind to new things....

- HFT algos
- Entry signals..exit signals
- Confluence...multicolinnearity
- Fake gurus...slab city lolz
- Biotech/fda plays
- Chart patterns
- Candlestick logic
- Low floats
- Tape reading
- Screening / scanner
- Truth about paid scanners, rooms, etc
- Analysis paralysis
- Bag holding vs taking losses vs locking profits
- Stop losses
- Divergence, why I suck at it, and why that’s okay
- Using technicals logically and not overthinking it
- Taking entry off alerts - psychology, truth, why it’s good and why it’s bad
- List of blogs to follow/read
- List of resources to refer to
- Why I don’t bullshit, and who I am (I am you)
- Ustocktrade - how it works, how to use it to your benefit, legit advice
- Swing trading vs Day trading
- Moving avgs - 8 and 20 + ema/ama
- SSR
- Sabby management
- Insider trades
- Earnings plays
- Catalysts
- Conferences
- Offerings
- Afterhours/premarket
- Brokers
- Bankruptcy plays
- Reverse split plays
- Playing the runners
- Opening range breakouts
- Why the 100%ers are great
- Mental/psych stoploss DOES NOT WORK
- Psychological resistance/support levels

Mentorship, Teamwork, Trading Psychology: Why United Traders is Above the Rest

I found this old post from before I had any sort of role in United Traders and had joined United Traders after being a part of many other trading chats that just never seemed to help me improve my returns....It would either be one guy feeding you trade alerts, a room of traders all pumping the same stock, or a paid room. I'll let the rest of the articles explain the rest, but I'll leave an invite link to our chat, which is none of the above, at the bottom of this article if you'd like to be a part of what I knew from the start would turn into a utopia for traders like 2017 Ziggy.

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2007/12/virtual-trading-groups-getting-to-next.html?m=1

 

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2010/03/virtual-trading-groups-leveraging.html?m=1

 

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2009/12/value-of-multiple-mentorship-in-trader.html?m=1

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2017/02/group-coaching-powerful-trading-resource.html?m=1

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-teamwork-is-powerful-trading-tool.html?m=1

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2009/07/teamwork-and-trading-success.html?m=1 


http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/05/finding-and-transcending-trading-mentors.html?m=1

 
http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/03/finding-right-trading-mentorship.html?m=1

 

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/05/mentorship-coaching-and-why-traders-fail.html?m=1

 
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