When I first started trading stocks, I thought that I knew how to predict the next price movement. I was wrong time and again. It seems all I did know was that stocks went up and down. I had to look for information that I felt I was missing. The information was plenty and apparently it seemed I was the only person who did not have his own first-hand stock market in­formation. The more I searched for this first hand secret information, the more I became a clueless operator who plunged repeatedly in and out of the stock market with losses. I bought stock in all types of companies. What these companies did or where they came from I had no idea. In some of these stocks I bought I developed a special liking for them like pets. This came about for different reasons. Sometimes it was because I liked their trade names or because I had started by making money with them. This led me to prefer these stocks more than others, and before I knew what I was doing I had started to keep pets. I thought of them as something belonging to me, like members of my family. I praised their virtues day and night. I talked about them as one talks about his children. It did not bother me that no one else could see any special virtue in my pet stocks to distinguish them from any other stocks. This state of mind lasted until I realized that my pet stocks were causing me my heaviest losses. The Truth is, a stock is nothing in as long as its not making money to you. Throw it to the dogs.

But seriously though, how then does the stock market work? The truth is that the stock market is a seesaw. At any one particular period, it can either go up or down and it continues in that state until it tells you it has stopped doing so. It's the stock market to tell you what its doing and not you to imagine what it should do. You can repeat this until breakfast tomorrow because if you think otherwise, then you will be in a lot of problems.

Like in a seesaw, the stock market moves in a price path of uptrend and downtrend which are governed by complex dynamics of news, economic growth reports, manipulation, fear and greed. When the uptrend has won in the seesaw, the market will continue being bullish until cumulative market dynamics are provided in sufficient quantity for the supply and demand to go past the equilibrium line of seesaw, otherwise the market will continue with the uptrend. The opposite is also true of the downtrend.