1. Selling pressure is greatest at the open.

2. When all the desperate sellers are filled, there's a bounce coming.

3. It's safer to short a stock that's up multiple days in a row, than the one that's up the first day.

4. Stocks, even pure pumps, usually bounce for more than just a day.

5. Nine times out of 10, there is not going to be a good risk/reward trade even on the interesting stocks. So it's better just to wait.

6. You don't want to buy into spikes, because after spikes normally come dips.

7. Midday breakout are more likely to fail than those in the afternoon.

8. Stocks that move the most are usually not the best companies.

9. Don't short slow grind up moves.

10. The more shorts that are in, the more excited the short sellers are, the harder it is to borrow the stock to short it.

11. A huge jump in stock price on no volume is probably a stock split.

12. Any time you have a split or reverse split on an OTC stock, you get D at the end of the ticker for a couple weeks to indicate it's trading post split.

13. Unless you're going to short for more than a day or two, don't even worry about a borrow rate, because the fees are going to be small.

14. Any time you're long and you have a stock spike a lot a short period of time, you should be selling.

15. If you don't know where to sell, sell half.

16. If a stock is moving on some news, you're gonna need new news coming to keep it going.

17. Any particular piece of news is going to be mush less meaningful than it was the first time the news were issued and the stock had the big move.