Bob Buran

Trading for a Living, Using Stock Trading Signals

Trader Bob outlines his criteria for establishing the validity of a stock trading signal and demonstrates how a trading signal can be profitably integrated into a stock trading system. What are stock trading signals? The answer is going to depend on wh... Read >

Are Stops Really Necessary in Stock Trading?

It may sound like trading heresy, but I think stops are not as important as many traders think. There is a lot of nonsense written about trading, but one of the more amusing things I have read is about the importance of "loving your stops". Of course... Read >

Simple Stock Trading, it May be Easier than You Think

KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID You have probably heard of KISS, "keep it simple stupid". When it comes to stock trading no advice could be better. In fact I am of the opinion that simple stock trading is the only way you can consistently make money in the stock... Read >

Making Intraday Stock Trading Work

Intraday Stock trading does NOT mean just day trading. Intraday data becomes a tool making it possible to make two and three-day trading systems far more sophisticated than ever before. When most traders hear the phrase Intraday Stock Trading they th... Read >

Stock Trading for a Living, Following a Trading System

It may seem odd, but few people can or want to work at home for five to eight years in order to make one million dollars. Following a trading system is on one hand about the easiest thing a trader can do and on the other hand it becomes almost an impo... Read >

Automated Trading Strategies, a Question of Semantics

How government regulation, over a decade ago, changed trading systems into trading strategies. On the Google search engine nearly 1,000 people per month type in the words "Automated Trading Strategies". For me this phrase brings a smile to my face. Le... Read >

The Boredom of Making 100 % Annual Returns on Your Investments Year after Year

It is March 12, 2010 and I am bored out of my mind. I am a "pajama stock trader" which means I spend six and a half hours every trading day of the year in front of two computer screens trading 96 stock markets on line. I do not get days off; I must do t... Read >

Increase Your Stock Market Profits with Systematic Trading and Beat the Pants off Other Traders

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS I am going to let you in on a dirty little secret. Of all the forces in the economy that have caused people to lose money in the stock market, none have been greater than the advice of financial experts and brokers. Brokers and m... Read >

Finding Hot Stock Markets to Heat up Your Trading Portfolio

UNCONVENTIONAL STYLE OF TRADING STOCKS We do not like day trading stocks, but we are short term traders and we DO like to hit and run in the US stock market. We like to get into positions when they are moving and then get out in two or three days. T... Read >

Become a Do-it-Yourself-Investor and multiply your Assets by Hundreds

Not too long ago I read an article in the New York Times about John McCaffee, the founder of the McCaffee anti virus Software Company. Although no longer associated with that company, Mr. McCaffee was and is a brilliant businessman and entrepreneur who, ... Read >

Turn Your Short Term Stock Trading Hot with Normal Distribution Theory

I have been trading for nearly 20 years and consider any year that I do not make 100% return on my investment a bad year. But I am cautious and I do not take big risks. How can I have my cake and eat it too? Well I have been arguing for some time tha... Read >