David Blair, writer of The Crosshairs Trader blog, has compiled a list of simple, yet very fundamental truths for stock traders based on the letters of the alphabet. David is also the author of the excellent trading e-book, When 10 is Greater than 90.

A wise man chooses to do in the beginning what the fool is forced to do in the end.

Better to be wrong and rich than right and broke.

Create an atmosphere of confidence and you will never choke on the bone of contention.

Develop an edge and stick to it. If you are not living on the edge then you are falling off of one.

Enter the market prepared or you will exit impaired.

Forget the last trade or the market will steal your next one.

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Friday December 12, 2008 Navivest

Unless the stock market chooses to ignore calamitous economic news as it did last week, we are looking for stocks to continue yesterday’s slide and trend lower today.

We have a somewhat active economic calendar and on the slate today, are Producer Price Index numbers from the Department of Labor, which measures the price of manufactured goods at the producer level, Retail Sales numbers from The Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau, which will give us further insight into the deteriorating state of the U.S. consumer’s finances and Business Inventories from The Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau.

These should all serve to send stocks lower today. Unfortunately, we will be getting most of the news before the stock market opens, so if you are not already short the market, you might be missing out on some of the gains.

To the extent that we are looking for

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Here are some more tips relating to the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone, a couple of which are related to the stock quotes. These may be useful to those who have just bought an iPhone and maybe iPhone owners who have had their iPhone for a while but didn't realize these techniques were available. 1. If you are typing in Notes or typing a message in an email, and you need to type a period, instead of clicking the .?123 key then clicking the period, just double-click on the Space Bar and it will automatically put in a period and a space. 2. Need to quickly get to your favorite phone numbers in order to make a phone call, no matter what you are currently looking at (stocks, maps, weather, clock, etc., instead of pressing the Home button (the big indentation at the bottom of your screen), then pressing the Phone icon, then ...