Every experienced investor knows about the impact of analysts’ ratings on the stock actions. The next agency or the bank like Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital Markets, Piper Jeffrey issue the stock analysis, and, based on their ratings and recommendations (buy, hold, sell, upgrade, downgrade, overweight, market perform, market underperform, neutral…),

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A few investment lessons were learned by a regular guy. Part III.MY RULES OF TRADING I have a few simple rules so far that outline my trading habits (most of them are well known): I watch the market. When the market is in a confirmed uptrend, I am in buying

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