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Written by Sidney on July 10, 2009
Welcome to StockTradingHero! My name is Sidney and I started this blog to show that ordinary folks like YOU can profit from the stock market by recognizing and acting on simple, technical patterns on stock charts. Read about my Goal 100!
Who Are We, Really?
Sidney - Yep that’s me! I graduated from Washington University St. Louis with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and completed my full-time MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management in 2009. I’ve been using technical analysis to trade stocks since 2002.
Julius aka Taurus - Full time stock and forex trader since 2006. Julius is currently also a trainer specializing in technical analysis. He has mentored several new traders over the past 2 years. He graduated with a Bachelor of Biomedical Electronic Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Lawrence - PhD in Computational Biology. Lawrence is currently working on developing quantitative methods to augment his stock trading strategies. For the past 5 years, Lawrence has been specializing in seeking high-reward trading opportunities in the stock market while minimizing risks.
Why StockTradingHero?
Because we’re here to help! And like all heroes, we don’t charge a fee! 
Trading Methodology
The main focus of this blog is on Technical Analysis. Technical analysis is the study of historical price movement of a stock (or financial instruments in general) with the goal of predicting future price movements. It is rooted in the believe that the collective behavior of investors do not change over time.
While technical analysis is not a guaranteed, get-rich-quick means of making money, it can help investors understand how supply and demand influence stock prices and trading volume, and to anticipate a likely outcome. Over time, we will compile a comprehensive library of real stock chart patterns on my blog, so that anyone can learn how to recognize these patterns and profit from trading stocks.
But if you need help with technical analysis of any specific US stocks or ETF right now, please do not hesitate to use our Free Technical Analysis service. It is absolutely free, No strings attached, No BS – we are just here to help! 
Please note that technical analysis is only one of the many tools that investors use to trade stocks. At the other end of the scale, we have Fundamental Analysis – the study and evaluation of the true, underlying value of an asset (e.g. a company). We may, at times, point out the underlying fundamentals of a company using some of the resources we have, but such analysis would not be the focus of this blog. If you seriously want to get into that kind of stuff, you could either read analyst reports or better yet, go for a MBA!
All the best for your stock trading adventures!
Warm regards,
Sidney Hsiong
StockTradingHero
September 4, 2009 (Updated)
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09-28-2009
8:16 am
Sidney
Hi Greg, QID looks like a risky bet as the ETF is moving along a downtrend. Immediate resistance stands at its 30-day exponential moving average, currently at about $24.80. I’ll be cautious about holding onto this stock for too long, especially if it fails to break this moving average.
Before you get started with our portfolio, do note that stocks in general are risky and thus, should only constitute a small portion of your investments as you are currently retired. Our portfolio is generally used to track our buy and sell decisions of individual stocks (or ETFs) based on technical analysis, and not a means of asset allocation. Should we make a buy or sell on a stock, we will publish a post to indicate this change to our portfolio.
Hope this helps!
09-27-2009
12:09 am
Greg Jones
I have started trading stocks in June 09 when I retired. So far mixed results.
Currently I have
100 shares each of
QID
DELL
MBI
I picked QID at $22.97 near it’s recent low.
How do I get started with your portifolio? The charts on HSTX do look encouraging.
Thanks,
Greg