Trading Traps

• Trading Traps: The Shakeout
  Tricks of the Trade: A market professional may want to accumulate a large position in a stock that is trending strongly...
• The Fakeout
  Tricks of the Trade: If a market professional sits with a large sell order and the stock is consolidating....
• Pump and Dump
  Tricks of the Trade: Also referred to as ramping, this is an old trick often perpetrated by sly old hands who prey on newcomers.
• Stop Loss Traps
  For a market specialist, making money out of stop loss orders is as difficult as hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and telescopic sights.....
• Bull & Bear Traps
  One of the most reliable Point and Figure chart patterns, Bull Traps occur when an upward breakout retreats back below the new support level.