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  • The Trend is Your Friend
    We traders have to try to achieve a state of impartiality. We have to accept that we will have losses as readily as we will gains. Reaching a stage where you can comfortably accept losses, in the knowledge that your method of trading will produce profits in the longer term, is the state we have to aspire to. Trading is not an exact science.
  • The Mastery Of Self Trading
    We do everything for a reason. The reason behind any act is, for the most part, unconscious. If we want to change a behaviour we need to identify the reason, the underlying objective, and examine it. We need to examine it to determine whether this objective, this assumption, supports us in what we want to do now.
  • The Joy of Options
    Owning stock has only two, maybe three, possibilities. The stock goes up. Or the stock goes down. Or, as a third possibility, it does a little of both. If you buy a stock, all you want it to do is go up.
  • The Flaw In Our Emotions
    As humans we have a natural tendency to try and influence our surroundings and events we take part in. This is one reason as a species we have succeeded but it is also one of the fundamental flaws we all have when trying to achieve success as a trader.
  • The Dow Theory
    You will hear a lot about the Dow Theory as you travel through your trading career. Dow himself never actually used the phrase. That came later as analysts began to use the term.
  • The Dow Jones Theory and Other Things
    Now that we have had a look at the argument against using some form of technical analysis to help gain an advantage in the market lets have a look on the bright side; the argument for using some form of analysis to help make buy and sell decisions in the market.
  • The Difference Between Cash and Futures Prices
    Futures are normally traded in contracts and are a legally binding agreement between a buyer and a seller. The seller must deliver the specific agreed upon asset at a future date but for the price agreed today.
  • The Cycle Of A Trend
    In this lesson we are going to look at the different stages of a trend and how it can help you position yourself for a trade. It is commonly accepted that there are four stages of a trend. These stages make up a cycle and each cycle has smaller cycles contained within them.
  • The Best Places for a First Date
    The first date is your opportunity to make a positive impression and in order to make a good impression you must be prepared. Perhaps the biggest decision to make beforehand is where to take your date.
  • The Basics of Currency Trading
    Currency, like other commodities, are traded in futures contracts. Simply, these are contracts to deliver a fixed amount of a particular currency, in a given month in the future, at a price agreed upon and paid for today.
  • The Anatomy of an Option
    Any time you read anything about options, it is incumbent upon the author to provide a brief introduction. This article is no exception.
  • The "M" And "W" Trading Pattern
    The "M" and "W" trading pattern is a great little pattern that occurs with enough frequency for you to add it to your trading tool bag.
  • Successful Forex Trading with Pivot Points
    Pivot Points are calculated on the previous days move and trades are entered when the market hits a support or resistance line of the pivot point providing your OB/OS indicator is in agreement.
  • Stopping Yourself on Forex
    I read on a bulletin board a traders comment that on his first outing trading the E-Mini S&P 500 he lost on each of his trades. He noted though, that had he had a wider stop each of his trades would have been profitable and that therefore he would be trading with a wider stop in future.
  • Should I Override the Forex Strategy?
    Today was a perfect day to test your discipline: We went long at 1190.00 and the reversing order was placed at 1192.25. Prices moved up to 1192.00 and reversed. One hour later we tried to reverse at 1191.00. Again prices moved up to 1190.75 and reversed.
  • Rick Redmont Bases Trading on Wyckoff Theories
    Off-floor trader Rick Redmont gained his first experience trading stocks as a college student during the bull market of 1961. "I had $10,000, which turned into $20,000. I followed the Chartcraft point and figure book-but it didn't really matter what you bought.
  • Richard Rhodes' Trading Rules
    I must admit, I am not smart enough to have devised these ridiculously simple trading rules. A great trader gave them to me some 15 years ago. However, I will tell you, they work. The rules are simple. Adherence to the rules is difficult.
  • Responsibility in Forex Trading
    An email in response to my article prompted me to consider the significance of taking responsibility in trading. There is a natural tendency for most people, in any area of life, to not take responsibility for results and behaviours that appear negative.
  • Profitable Trades for Beginner
    Once you are in a profitable trade, the next challenge becomes when to take profit. Optimizing profits is the other main aim of trading, besides limiting losses.
  • Pivot Point Trading
    You are going to love this lesson. Using pivot points as a trading strategy has been around for a long time and was originally used by floor traders. This was a nice simple way for floor traders to have some idea of where the market was heading during the course of the day with only a few simple calculations.
  • Persistence Pays Off for Joe Stowell
    According to independent trader Joe Stowell, persistence and courage are two key characteristics necessary for success in trading. Persistence certainly has paid off for Stowell, who traded part time off and on for 20 years, before leaving his job as a school teacher to trade full time.
  • Option Trading: Thinking "Outside the Box"
    Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn't lose. Well we can't. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread that has a lot of time value left at almost the same price as we can sell one with less time value left.
  • One Simple Thing That Can Improve Your Trading
    I am going to share with you a simple discipline that can really help your trading. This simple little act is often ignored by new traders and overlooked by experienced traders.
  • Naked Options
    Now let's look briefly at the result of selling naked calls. In this scenario, the call writer simply sells the call and does not own any of the underlying stock to cover the short call. If the stock plummets, the call writer is very happy and relieved.
  • Momentum Trading
    One of the most basic and widely used indicators is that of momentum. Before I go on to tell you how we can use the momentum indicator to trade with, I want to explain the difference between a leading and a lagging indictor.
  • Maintain Your Perspective
    Every minute more than 150 Million Dollars change hands in the electronic index futures markets like the e-mini S&P and e-mini NQ. You can win or lose thousands of dollars in a few minutes; the futures markets can make you rich in a few weeks or months or wipe out your account with no mercy.
  • Lost in Forex Loss
    An email prompted me to consider the significance of taking responsibility in trading. There is a natural tendency for most people, in any area of life, to not take responsibility for results and behaviors that appear negative. We want to see ourselves in a good light and it is tempting to try to avoid responsibility for acts that we consider bad.
  • Linda Bradfore Raschke Focuses on Technicals
    After spending six years trading on the floor, first at the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange and then at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Linda Bradford Raschke shifted gears and moved to an off-floor office in 1987. After trading her own money for several years, she moved into the money management side of the business in early 1993. Raschke, along with her partner Rick Genett, manage about $25 million.
  • Lee Gettess Focuses on Controlling Risk
    Trader Lee Gettess focuses on risk control as a major factor in determining his success in the commodity markets. However, it wasn't always that way. Gettess received his introduction to the commodity futures markets via a telephone call from a broker.
  • Larry Williams: Training Key for Trading, Running
    Trader and marathon runner Larry Williams sees parallels between successful trading and successful marathon running. Williams, who recently completed his sixteenth marathon run, pointed to "pain and agony" as being two of the obvious similarities between trading and long-distance running.
  • Key to Day-Trading: Have Your 'Team' in Place
    Day-trading is a very serious business; if you don't have all the right ingredients in place before you begin trading, you're dead. One of the most important aspects of the day-trading business is your "team:"
  • John Murphy's Ten Laws of Technical Trading
    Which way is the market moving? How far up or down will it go? And when will it go the other way? These are the basic concerns of the technical analyst. Behind the charts and graphs and mathematical formulas used to analyze market trends are some basic concepts that apply to most of the theories employed by today's technical analysts.
  • Jake Bernstein: Psychologist Turned Trader
    Jake Bernstein, one of the futures industry's best-known traders, started trading "by accident" he told FWN. Bernstein was a psychologist who responded to an ad in the newspaper regarding "ag futures." A broker started calling him and Bernstein opened an account.
  • Is Forex Investing a Risky Business?
    The spot forex market is unique to any other market in the world, as trading is available 24-hours a day. Somewhere around the world, a financial center is open for business, and banks and other institutions exchange currencies, every hour of the day and night with generally only minor gaps on the weekend.
  • Investment Strategies: Technical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis
    The two fundamental strategies in investing in Forex are Technical Analysis or Fundamental Analysis. Most small and medium sized investors in financial markets use Technical Analysis.
  • Introduction to Technical Analysis
    Here's is where we start to have some fun. Regardless of how you want to trade the markets you need an approach. It might be spinning a bottle, asking your Aunt Jenny what she thinks or just gut feel.

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