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Frequently Asked Questions

• Why use your service?
• How can I get started?
• Can I subscribe at any time or should I start at the beginning of the month?
• Why should I trade frequently?
• What is my risk?
• What is a Stop-Buy or a Stop-Loss order?
• What is papertrading?
• How do I "trail" a stock?
• Why share your stock picks with me?
• What type of brokerage house should I be looking for?
• Why can't I short sell on CDNX?

• Do I buy at the ENTRY price on the list?
• When do I sell?
• What does a SELL on the list mean?
• It seems I am carrying some trades overnight. How do you protect yourself from a large drop in the first minutes on the next days opening?
• Are your recommendations based solely on technical analysis or is there access to other information?
• Are all your sell recommendations available to short?
• On day ONE you recommend a BUY at 5.75 with a STOP at say 5.35. On day TWO you recommend a BUY for the same equity at 5.35 with a STOP at for example 4.85 . If I buy on day ONE's price should I change my stop to the STOP price recommended on day TWO ?
• If I follow your recommendations and short a stock first thing in the morning I have found that I can take a 2% gain in the first hour of trading.  This is however on paper.  How will my short of $ 5,000.00 per stock say on a $2.15 stock effect it generally?
• I was wondering what is the average wait time you expect your customers to wait after your buy signal, before they exit? I know it varies, but i am asking just to get an overall idea.
• I bought BBd.b today for 10.35 as you adviced. Will you be letting me know when to sell and what price to sell this stock or have I got to determine this by my self? How do we determine when to sell and at what price?
• 1.  Should I have tightened the stop and if stopped out, re-enter?  2.  Should I have permitted the price to drop further beyond the posted entry given that this was a reversal (had climbed from $74.56)?  If so, by how much? 
• What are the properties of the stocks that make the shortlist.  What have they been screened for?
• How can I know that you hold, sell or cover your shares? Where can I find that info? Thanks.
• The entry prices  of all the stocks you listed  were not in the  Oct 17  day range. That means if I had placed a limit order for all those stocks they would not have been bought because the entry price you suggested is below the hi and low range. Would it be better to place an any amount order?
• I bought ATY  today and few days back FCP.  They are both down quite a bit.  I don't know if you reply to emails like this , whether  i should hold it or sell it. Please help.
• When were the stocks that generated the numbers in your stats page were sold?
• What does a SELL in your dailylist really mean? If I am holding that stock what do I do?
• If a stock does not hit your entry price is it considered an invalid play by your system? For example aapl was a sell on Dec 2 but did not reach a high of 66.05. It went on to go down anyway. It seems that many stocks do not reach your entry price or gapped up or down and getting the entry price was not really possible. Is also a problem to choose which to play from your picks on any given day when you can't play them all. Sometime is easy though, for example IBM on Nov 26, big positive news came out so was certainly not a good day to short as well as market being strong.
• In your dailylist, there is a BUY/SELL price for each stock and also a STOP price. What do these really mean? If the stock price is different than your listed prices what do we do?
• I really want to  make this my career and be successful at it but it is going to take  time for me to learn to be a better technical trader etc., although I  do believe I posses a lot of the other qualities a successful trader  needs at this time - MY POINT, I need your company ( ATG ) to lead me  forward with your picks for some time to come - will you be around ?? I know you have been but hopefully those are the plans going forward !!
• Hi! I've just become a member and I want to paper trade for practice. How do I start?
• Just bought your service today, looking through your past picks for the month of Nov. All picks seem to be penny stocks, and you play the same ones a lot. I was hoping to get stock picks off the TSX. Do you give any? If so, how often?
• When and where are the exits displayed? Your track record area shows distinctive exit days and amounts, however, I have done some back reading on prior picks and although there are many repeated buy or sell picks on some stocks there never seems to be a sell after a buy and vise-versa.
• I just tried to use the current password and userid but all that I am getting is only the Canadian listings and not any of the US.
• Joined your service for a month, but don't completely understand your method.  The entry points for today are all lower than yesterday's closes.   Does this mean I should wait until the stock falls to the entry point before entering?
• Is it a tacit statement that a particular trade was not a good one if it does not appear again on the following day's trade list? 
• Is there an online broker (Canadian) that will allow you to place an order to sell for profit and (at the same time) place another order (stop loss) to protect you from a big loss (on the same stock)?
• Can you inform me how I can get the performance you have show on your website?
• When it says "entry"  Is that the suggested price that I should pay for the stock?  even if the stock is trading at a higher price.  That means I would need to put in a "limit" order, am I correct?  Please clarify this for me.
• Have tried to open the archive list and not getting anything, only getting cryptic letters,symbols, etc. Computer language I guess??
• When should your subscribers stop trading the daily recommended stock picks on your web site; daily, weekly-what stocks are short term trades?
• I was wondering, how do I trade a stock pick that has the same stop loss as the buy order?  Example: Short Sell ADD at 0.35 Stop loss 0.35; the stock closed the day before at 0.35 and opened again at 0.35
• When examining a short pick, if the current price is well below the entry like, perhaps, JDSU or GLW from Thursday and Friday, do you feel that there is the making of a good long entry pick?  My rationale being that if the confidence is there to believe the stock is going to hit the entry price, the only manner in which it can achieve such is to rise in price and if the spread is wide enough, there is even greater reason to believe there will be an increase.  Look at GLW from yesterday.  In order to hit the short entry, the price needed to climb substantially and, by the bell, it had done so meaning an incredible long opportunity.  However, my mantra has been to follow the posted picks "to the penny".
• I've traditionally leaned towards long picks because I generally believe that a company will increase in value in the long term (though, of course, the picks are based upon daily activity, not long term investment).  As a result, I'm still rather new to the concept of shorting and I generally cover much too soon.  As I noted above, the accuracy of the picks is so spot on that there will always be at least 2 picks that rip, usually 50 cents or better so covering too soon is like a shot to the foot.  My question is, is there any criteria I can follow that will help me decide which stocks are likely to drop further than others?  For example, if the daily chart suggests the stock is "in a channel", I would expect less dramatic price action.  MSFT short on Friday was the big winner just like CSTR was a huge runner earlier on.  Basically, I'm looking for some words of wisdom regarding when to cover quickly (eg MRO at 5 - 10 cent scalps) versus say MSFT yesterday or GM last week.
• Overall, I’m quite impressed with this product. I really appreciate the statistics page as a tool to gauge the odds of success. However it would appear that, in many cases, the results shown require the trader to hold a position well beyond recommended Global stops (50% loss positioning in some cases) prior to rebounding to a profit position. In reality this will most likely not happen as per your own recommendations. It would be useful to have profit/sucess statistics based upon adherence to recommended stops provided by Global. Is this data available?
• Note that your trade entry points are lower than the previous days closing.  Is that just a suggested purchase price? I don't know if I can get the stock for the price you suggest.  I am trading on paper for now. 
• I was wondering if you had any recommendations for an online broker.
• What's a Double U-turn stock, you might ask?  To me, it is a stock wherein the price at the bell is below the posted entry, for a short, or above for a long and therefore we need to wait for the price to perform a "u-turn" and move beyond the posted price then perform another u-turn towards the posted entry.  For a short pick, if the entry price is below the posted price but it rises over and above then begins to fall, how is your confidence in terms of the posted price?  Would you wait for a few extra "confirmation" cents or just enter as usual?  Would you even enter at all?  Reduce your risk (ie cut the share count in half, for example)?
• Using the best possible exit surely makes your numbers look good!  Can you tell me what the average gain of the positions, and what the average number of days held were?
• Canadian picks are Sell positions with just a few Buys.  Why is that?  I would appreciate a reply on this item before I sign up.