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~ IT'S EASIER TO PREACH TEN SERMONS THAN TO LIVE ONE ~

I'm an experienced amateur at swing trading and medium-to-long-term investing. My trades are more often than not swing trades based mostly on technicals, along with weighing in anticipated news, upcoming earnings, sector momentum, market sentiment, etc. .  My investments, on the other hand, are mostly long-term and in what I believe to be fundamentally solid companies.