Stock Market Lesson Plan

Stock Market Lesson Plan – Creating A Realistic Plan For Success.

To do anything of importance correctly, you must have a plan.

Nowhere is that more true than for a beginning trader or investor in the stock market. Without a stock market lesson plan – a strategy of exactly how you’re going to master this monster of a subject – you’re doomed from the start.

Fortunately, you’ll find plenty of resources on this site to kick-start your effort in this area. That is part of my grand goal – to help as many traders and investors get on the right path – and find the appropriate stock market lesson plan for them.

I found a great little article on the basics of how to create a realistic plan for success – whether it’s learning how to master the stock market, or whatever else you want to achieve. The article is reprinted below. Please take a look at the article, and then I’ll present you with a stock market lesson plan that’ll blow you away.

How To Create A Realistic Plan For Success

Every one of us wants to be successful, but we often rely on luck and chance to achieve our goals. The best example in this case is someone who wants to get rich but only has one alternative: playing the Lotto. Of course, there are chances of becoming rich overnight, but how likely is it that this will actually happen? Creating a realistic plan in order to achieve the desired results is vital in any case, no matter how high or low your hopes are.

The safest way to do this is by taking successive steps and gradually increasing your chances of reaching your ideal. Try to think of a metaphor and compare your desires with a professional swimming competition. The first thing you need to do in order to have chances of winning the race is to make sure you are not afraid of the water. Before you even consider entering the race you have to eliminate your fears. They are the ones holding you back, but be careful - some of your fears might save you from getting hurt or failing.

 Once you are convinced that your goal is worth fighting for, you have to start the hardest stage in you plan: preparation. You cannot expect to win a professional swimming race when you don’t even know how to swim. Start with the basics and never skip any steps out of desire of reaching your goal faster. The experience and knowledge you are skipping will probably come back and hurt you later on. Prepare by taking gradually increasing steps. Swim half a lap first, and then move on to a full lap. Your skills will progress each time and you will soon beat your own lap records every time you enter the swimming pool. It might take days, weeks or years to prepare for the “race”, depending on what your goals are. The main thing is to enter the race feeling confident in your own success and having all the skills that would allow you to win.

Taking steps one at a time and keeping your plan realistic gives you two important benefits. The order and precision of a plan brings confidence. You don’t feel like you are reengaging each new issue on a day-to-day basis. Organizing your strategy reduces the chances of making wrong moves or taking less efficient decisions. Secondly, having a sound plan has many psychological benefits and your subconscious mind worries less, giving you more energy to concentrate on what’s important. You are creating a pattern in your awareness that accepts success and integrates it in your plan. When both your conscious and your subconscious mind believe in your chances of reaching a goal, you benefit from a power of concentration and focus that eliminate outside interference and let you follow the shortest path to success.

Even though chance may still play an important role in your quest to reach your ideal, having a realistic plan lets you change the “unlikely” into “possible”.

And now, on to business…

The markets are in a deep blue funk, to put it mildly. The Dow is down another 120 points and the NASDAQ 29. That’s two days in a row of market carnage that started with the Fed’s 16th interest rate increase in a row on Wednesday, with no apparent end in sight.

According to MarketWatch:

“U.S. stocks closed lower on the day and week Friday, with the Nasdaq Composite at its weakest level since mid-February, on concern about rising bond yields and inflation.”

Adding to the misery: “Soaring gasoline prices shattered U.S. consumers' economic confidence in early May.” The U.S. consumer sentiment gauge fell to a 7-month low.

There’s an old stock market adage that says:  “Sell in May and go away.” That stems from the historical fact that most stock market gains occur between October and May of the following year. That sure seems the case judging by the last two days!

But here’s a stock bucking the trend, and one you may want to check out on Monday…

Our Stock For Review today is PPDI – Pharmaceutical Product Development  Inc.

PPDI is continuing nicely from a Bullish Engulfing pattern off the 50-day EMA, on volume 105% above normal.

Any stock making a good move today should be taken note of. PPDI is definitely one of those.

Most Recent Double-Digit Percentage Gainers In One Day…

Here are a few of the DDPG’s since our last update:

IFO – Up 18.27% in the Amazing Amex Movers area.

DIL – Up 10.06% in the ARM area.

NAVI – Up 22.34% in the ARM area.

EMIS  – Up 17.96% in the Einstein Scans area.

BBBB - Up 19.72% in the Stock Fishing Portfolio.

HANS - Up 16.21% on 5/9 and another 14.08% on 5/10 (GTTHI Portfolio and Stock Fishing Portfolio).

ZOLT - Up 14.84% on 5/11 (Magic Green Book Investor area)

ISV - Up 12.79% on 5/12 (Amazing Amex Mover area)

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