1. Short trap: you take a small short position, thinking that a stock is going to collapse. If it drops a little, you take small profit; if it spikes, you keep adding because you're confident that it will crash. It is for paid pumps.

2. Dip buying earnings winners at a technical support is a high odds pattern.

3. Buying oil play on the first green day into the close is not good odds.

4. On billionaire plays you can try to buy at the open, and not wait for the dip, cause there can be no dip.

5. Look for breakouts with no near overhead resistance.

6. You don't want to be in a stock when they have conference call, because you can't predict what they're going to say.

7. Overall market position is just a factor explaining why a stock might go up or down, it's not a catalyst to hold a stock overnight.

8. You don't want to buy a stock ahead of earnings. Play the reaction to earnings.

9. You don't want to buy in the  after hours to hold it overnight, you gotta see what it will do at the market open.

10. When you have sympathy plays, you want to have sympathy news too.

11. When too many traders are on the same trade buying, it leads to quick spike and quick fade.

12. When a stock has been uptrending for several days and then spiked, but has multi-month resistance right above its current price, you don't want to buy it. But also no short, because you can't say it won't blow through that resistance.

13. SSR usually creates a wall of sellers on the ask. Even if you want to get short, you have to wait for an uptick, and then when there is one uptick, there is usually multiple upticks, so you risk getting squeezed. It's tough to trade stocks under the SSR.

14. To get confirmed breakout you have to wait for a breakout to come down and then spike again, then it is definitely not a fakeout.