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How To Use The RightLine Report

The RightLine Report is designed to accommodate a relatively wide range of trading styles. From short-term traders to longer-term investors, active market players will find each issue a valuable resource. To make it simple to use, the Report is divided into easy-to-understand sections:

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EDITOR'S NOTES - Here you will find strategic insight to help improve your trading skills. Thoughtful and perceptive commentary for both your money and your mind.

QUICK LIST - The Quick List gives easy access to each stock in the RightLine Report. This valuable reference tool includes Entry & Exit points to help you create your trading plan. Click here for a tutorial on "How To Use The RightLine Quick List."

MARKET SUMMARY - This is the daily market data - the numbers for the day and the week. Here you find the latest closing prices for the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500. In addition, we include important Market Breadth Indicators and brief review of the latest Economic News and Reports.

THE TECHNICAL ANALYST - A technician's perspective on the market. This section is a good place to quickly locate Support and Resistance levels for the major indices, and identify overall Trends in the market as a whole. A great technical resource when trading QQQ, SPY, or DIA!

MARKET CALENDAR - The Calendar area gives you a quick glimpse of coming events that have the potential to move the overall market or stocks in a particular sector. Earnings and economic reports, Federal Reserve meetings, industry conferences, and other significant events are included in the Market Calendar.

STOCKS COVERED IN THIS ISSUE - This is where you find detailed information about the latest picks in the Quick List. This section explains why each stock provides above-average profit potential, and shows you how to trade it.

This section focuses on BOTH sides of the market by providing entry points for buyers AND short sellers. You'll also find suggestions for managing current positions, along with important updates for stop adjustments, and potential support and resistance levels. We eliminate market noise and deliver only the most important news, key dates, political and other vital influences that could impact the price movement of each stock.

~ The following specifics are included in the Stock coverage:

1. Company Name, Ticker Symbol, Most Recent Closing Price, and Option availability.

2. Existing Trade Status - We update any recent positions that are still in play. If we recently recommended an entry in this stock, we'll tell you how the play is progressing and what adjustments should be taken into consideration.

3. Key dates - We review key dates such as earnings announcements, split stages, analyst conference calls, or industry trade shows that may impact the price of the stock in future trading sessions.

4. Entry Price Level - This is the recommended price for traders to take either a long or short position in a security. Ever-changing market conditions usually result in more than one entry target for each stock. When a position has already been established from previous coverage, we often suggest new entry levels at the next pivotal price point. This is extremely useful for those who want to add shares OR for those who have yet to enter for the first time.

Before entering any recommended positions, always use the Risk Control System to determine the level of acceptable risk and the maximum number of shares to buy.

Before entering positions that have gapped through recommended entry levels, always use Gap Adjusted Entries to reset the entry level.

5. Stop Recommendations - This includes initial stops as well as how to manage trailing stops pending future market action. For more information on "Stops" CLICK HERE.

6. News - A quick synopsis of any news likely to affect the price of the stock.

7. Analyst Insight - This is a look through the "mind's eye" of our research team. As time and space permit, our analysts present underlying reasons for why this stock provides a good trading opportunity. They include detail about WHY you might consider trading the stock a particular way and furthermore, how to manage the ongoing position.

8. Educational Information - As appropriate, our research team will attempt to work in examples of trading techniques, charting indicators, useful terminology, or proprietary RightLine software that may benefit our readers. There's a wealth of information on our website. We'll help you use it.

9. Beta - This indicator measures a stock's volatility. Many traders prefer high-beta stocks because they provide maximum price movement in the shortest time possible. Just remember that "the higher the beta, the greater the risk." Click here for more information on beta.

10. Optionable or Not Optionable - This term indicates whether or not the stock has Options available.

TRADER'S TIPS - Trader's Tips provide bite-size pieces of education, experience, and know-how that will improve your trading and investing skills. They cover a wide range of subjects, and reflect the insights and strategies from some of the best traders in the business.

Additional Features In the Weekend Issue of the RightLine Report.

WEEKEND SECTOR WATCH - It certainly pays to keep an eye on sector rotation. Usually by the time a new group is considered "hot," much of the price movement has already taken place. The weekend edition of the RightLine Report offers this valuable section to help traders recognize and track emerging sectors before they've run their course.

SPLIT CANDIDATES, SPLIT CANDIDATE SUMMARY, UPCOMING SPLITS - In this area we look at stocks that are likely to announce a split or have already announced. Trading stock splits can be very profitable, with research showing that splitting stocks outperform the markets. The investing public remains generally unaware of the profitable dynamics behind the stock split phenomenon and how to effectively trade the associated events. For more information Click Here.

TRADER'S CORNER - A special look at specific tools, indicators, trading strategies or other useful information to help readers increase market awareness and enhance their trading skills. Topics cover the whole gamut of trading and investment subjects. If there's something you'd like to see, feel free to drop us a line at feed-back@rightline.net. Many of these articles result from direct reader suggestions, so let us know if there's anything you'd like to see in this section!