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I enjoyed that article and found it helpful in that it helped illuminate some of the games the MMs play. It also confirmed my own findings that I need to use the chart as my main guidance, and be wary of information from the Level II ordersheet. At least that's what works better for me.

I started reading the Darvas book online, thank you. I think that many people were inspired by him, so the recommendations I have read probably came from him originally.

Baruch, I haven't read his books but I do feel I have a LOT more to learn so I'll take a look. I guess I don't really do anything spefic to avoid pump and dump, except that I place stops immediately after purchasing shares and I always honor my stops. I prefer stocks with a large percentage...

(Sorry this response is so long) ;) When the market is going up, like the Dow was over the last few weeks, I try to stay mostly long. For long plays, I start by finding the best performing sectors using Prophet.net. Stocks in hot sectors have the support of their peers to fall back on...

Here are some of my rules and they seem to be working for me: 1) Buy stocks in a long steady upward trend in the hottest sectors. 2) Set tight stops every morning, you can always buy it back if you want it. 3) Set tight stops so you never lose more than 5% on any one trade. Protect capital...