Investment Strategies
55 Rules for Successful Investing

A Taipan Publishing Group Strategy Report
by Christian DeHaemer, Senior Research Analyst, Material Profits

These 55 Rules for Success Investing will help you take the first step in achieving a sound, well-rounded portfolio with minimal risk. Think of these rules as a blueprint – a tool you can use to maximize your gains – while keeping your portfolio as safe as possible. Gains like:

• 123% on E*TRADE,
• 259% on MasterCard,
• 122% with FedEx options,
• 233% gains on TLT iShares Treasury Bond Fund, and
• 338% on Evergreen Solar… in less than a month.

Profits like these could be yours! Read on to learn how with 55 Rules for Successful Investing…

Rule #1: The market is always right.

Rule #2: Never buy a company run by a medical doctor. Doctors have a confidence that is great on the operating table but lousy in running a company. Buy companies run by salespeople.

Rule #3: When investing in Canadian resource companies, assume they are scams unless proven otherwise.

Rule #4: When a disaster occurs in an emerging market country, go to www.adr.com, find the company that has sold off the most, and buy it.

Rule #5: It is better not to make money than to lose it.

Rule #6: Always leave money on the table.

Rule #7: Never apologize for a profit.

Rule #8: After you sell a position, take the ticker off your screen.

Rule #9: If you make a certain type of trade and it works, make it again.

Rule #10: Do not hope, act.

Rule #11: Don't take sample opinions on a trade. You've done your research --live or die by it.

Rule #12: It is possible to make money going long a horrific company. I've successfully played dead cat bounces on Enron, Nortel and Lucent.

Rule #13: Never try to catch a falling knife.

Rule #14: Have an investment goal and work toward it.

Rule #15: Use stock screens.

Rule #16: A low P/E, high growth rate, insider buying and no debt make any stock a buy.

Rule #17: Draw trend lines. If a stock is in a downtrend, don't go long, and vice versa.

Rule #18: If you learn only one candlestick pattern, learn doji at the top of a trend.

Rule #19: Never give a stock an even bet. If you don't have an advantage, you will lose.

Rule #20: The market is a ravenous beast. It wants to take your life savings, chew them up and laugh at you as you squirm in the dirt.

Rule #21: Contrarians are correct at turning points in the market, but wrong the rest of the time.

Rule #22: There are four types of traders: momentum, technical, fundamental and insider.

Rule #23: Insider trading is the most lucrative, though illegal.

Rule #24: Momentum traders are correct most of the time but wrong during turning points.

Rule #25: It is against self-interest for technical traders to reveal their buys and sells.

Rule #26: Fundamental traders want the world to know they bought and sold.

Rule #27: When you make a successful trade, take 10% of the profits and buy something tangible, like a new hat. Reinvest the other 90%.

Rule #28: When you hit 100% gains on any equity trade, take your original stake off the table and forget about the remainder. Look it up in 10 years.

Rule #29: Economists are wrong.

Rule #30: The stock market is a leading indicator of the economy, not the other way around.

Rule #31: There is no correlation between consumer confidence and the stock market.

Rule #32: Analysts from brokerage firms have bought and want you to buy.

Rule #33: Analysts from brokerage firms are selling and want you to buy.

Rule #34: Analysts from brokerage firms want you to sell so they can buy.

Rule #35: A Chinese firewall is as useful as a Chinese fire drill.

Rule #36: Watching CNBC has never made anyone any money.

Rule #37: The only sure way to become a millionaire in the markets is to start out a multimillionaire.

Rule #38: You are not Warren Buffett. You will never be Warren Buffett.

Rule #39: Successful options trading is like walking in front of a steamroller picking up dimes.

Rule #40: 80% of options expire worthless. Or so they say.

Rule #41: Visiting companies and talking to CEOs makes me overly optimistic about those companies. The media is the same way.

Rule #42: Sometimes buying a ticker because it is a good ticker is a good idea.

Rule #43: I can be long a company while someone else is short, and we can both make money.

Rule #44: In the back pages of The Economist you will find the Big Mac index and GDP growth figures. Find the country with the most undervalued currency and the highest GDP growth. Buy it.

Rule #45: Monitoring insider buying is the best, easiest way to determine if a tech stock will go up in value.

Rule #46: Small-capitalization stocks always lead the way out of a bear market.

Rule #47: High volatility among small caps signals a top in the market.

Rule #48: Moves after a sideways market go up or down vertically as far as the sideways chart went horizontal.

Rule #49: Fifty-two-week highs are bullish.

Rule #50: High-volume up-days with no news are bullish.

Rule #51: The best times to buy and sell are at 10:30 A.M. and 3:45 P.M.

Rule #52: It always takes longer than you think for a reaction to occur.

Rule #53: Use 20% stop-losses on equities and 35% on options.

Rule #54: Trend lines work better than support and resistance.

Rule #55: The market is always right.

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Originally published March 26, 2008.

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