There are many ways to trade and invest in the stock market. In my experience, buying and holding can take advantage of a big move, but it has a number of disadvantages over a nimble approach. To compound and avoid large drawdowns, big consistent returns require turnover.

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— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 16, 2021
Never let a loss exceed 8% changed his trading game for the
The big turning point in my trading came when I made a decision and vowed to NEVER EVER let a loss exceed 8%. During the next 5 years I averaged 220% per year for a total compounded return of 33,500%. It's been 28 years since and I have never broken that discipline not even once!
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) April 26, 2021
Key early decisions to make for your trading
A few key decisions early in my trading career and my financial life completely changed for the better in just a few years.
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 13, 2021
1. No big losses
2. No averaging down
3. No chasing extended stocks
4. No giving back decent profits
5. Always get odds on my money
Never listen to
Only losers discourage dreamers. Only those who never achieved big things discourage those attempting to achieve big things. Only those who think small discourage those who think big. Never believe discourages. The have no credibility! Believe winners. Believe in YOU! \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/JdAhRy3lRJ
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) June 14, 2021
In any performance business the bottom line is winning, hitting the goal, getting the job done. Winners do what they have to do to win. Losers make excuses why they didn't perform. A way to win and a way to lose ALWAYS exists. It's a matter of the quality of the choices we make. pic.twitter.com/RXvu4o4FBC
— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) April 15, 2021
1. Concentrated positions
2. Selective use of Leverage
3. High turnover
4. Super tight risk control
5. Selling into strength
6. Big positions almost exclusively directional
7. De-risking trades and free rolling often
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— Mark Minervini (@markminervini) May 19, 2021
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Under Mr. Patrick’s direction, scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if disseminated by airplane, could cause casualties & sickness over 1000s mi². In a 10,000 mi² range, it had 90% casualty rate & 50% fatality rate

3/x His team explored Q fever, plague, & Venezuelan equine encephalitis, testing more than 20 anthrax strains to discern most lethal variety. Fort Detrick scientists used aerosol spray systems inside fountain pens, walking sticks, light bulbs, & even in 1953 Mercury exhaust pipes

4/x After retiring in 1986, Mr. Patrick remained one of the world’s foremost specialists on biological warfare & was a consultant to the CIA, FBI, & US military. He debriefed Soviet defector Ken Alibek, the deputy chief of the Soviet biowarfare program
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In 1949 the Army created a small team of chemists at "Camp Detrick" called Special Operations Division. Its assignment was to find military uses for toxic bacteria. The coercive use of toxins was a new field, which fascinated Allen Dulles, later head of the CIA
