2. Always have stop loss in place for any trade.
3. Never put all eggs in one basket and as a thumb rule do not invest more than 10 percent of your capital in any particular stock.
4. One should also learn the art of exiting a particular stock and one should regularly book profit as none has gone broke booking profit.
5. If one is entering a trade than one must have a plan in hand i.e. at what price one will enter the stock, exit the stock and what is the protective stop loss.
6. One can not beat the market trend and thus one should not fight it to prove one as right.
7. Avoid trading based on the rumours as the news is generally factored in the price. Always remember you will be the last one to come to know about the news if one is a retail investor and do not lend ears to hear say information.
8. Use your discretion while buying any stock and do not follow the rumour mongerers.