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Last Update: Thu Feb 28 08:11:08 2008

- Why Would Anyone Give Workshops if They Can Trade Well? - In a recent article entitled, “Some Will Love You and Some Will Hate You, So What!” I talked about someone on an [...] a Van Tharp workshop. People, who had obviously not attended a workshop or were not students of any of my work,...

- Top 10 Mistakes Traders Make - Achieving success in futures trading requires avoiding numerous pitfalls as much, or more, than it does seeking out and [...] any specific trading methodologies that make traders successful, but instead it's the overall rules to which those...

- Using Contrary Opinion in Trading Markets - I have told my readers that one of the best methods to trade a market is to jump on board when prices "break out" of a ...

- Attention Traders: Making a Trading Checklist - Some traders are reluctant to put on a position because they are torn between what they perceive as conflicting market [...] averages are positive, the market is trending higher, but the RSI shows the market as being way overbought. What...

- Kaufman: Multiple Trading Methods and Market "Noise" - Many traders attempt to find the single-most "robust" trading strategy possible by looking for one set of rules which [...] account the fact that markets can change quickly and dramatically due to a news event, according to Perry Kaufman.

- Trading Lingo: Definitions for the Less-Experienced Trader - Trading futures and stocks involves the use of some of the more arcane terms found in any field of endeavor. Those [...] business are many times even more frustrated by "phraseology" they do not understand and which seems to make no...

- People Think It's All About Prediction -- But It Is NOT! - Your trading style forms a basis for your beliefs about how to enter the market. This is important because you really [...] to trade something that's going up if you believe it is overvalued. Similarly, it's very hard to trade something...

- Too Many Strategies, But Still Frustrated? - It is not too far when the veteran traders got used to draw the trend lines using pencil and paper. Whereas the market [...] was no computer and a trading desk. Were they really wrong by not using super analytical charting platforms? Were...

- Technical Traders: Veteran Traders Share Their Secrets and Strategies - An elite group of traders and technical analysts gathered in Las Vegas last weekend to educate and enlighten several [...] conference. For two and one-half days, these respected market watchers shared their trading secrets and strategies.

- Technical Traders: You should Still Examine Fundamentals - I base the majority of my trading decisions on technical indicators and chart analysis--and also on market psychology. [...] I'm trading. Neither should you. In this feature I'd like to share with you the types of fundamentals in various...

- This Trading "Checklist" Will Help you Execute with Confidence - A lot of email has come in from readers asking me how to improve upon "pulling the trigger" to enter a trade. How many ...

- 11 Fascinating Market Correlations You'll Want to Use - Experienced futures traders know there are many correlations among futures markets - some of which are valuable guides [...] feature will examine some basic correlations among futures markets, and will likely be most beneficial to the...

- One of My Favorite Trading "Set-Ups" - A fellow emailed me recently, asking: "Without giving away any precious secrets, could you tell me a way to improve my [...] nobody wants to share their system." Well, first of all, I don't have any trading "secrets." What I do have is many...

- My Ten Favorite Trading Books - In this tip I want to briefly describe my ten favorite trading books. I'm not going to give them in any particular [...] concisely. However, these are my ten favorites and I've ranked them alphabetically by author, except that three of...

- Newsletter as a Trading System - If you buy a newsletter, you probably get a monthly trading recommendation. And that is usually a recommendation to buy [...] stop rules (those that do have stops). As a result, the newsletter will generate a set of profit and loss statements...

- What Are The "Big Boys" Up To? How use the Commitment of Traders Report in your Trading - I have discussed in past articles how volume and open interest can be used to help identify and confirm market [...] by examining the Commitments of Traders (C.O.T.) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....

- Chase Manhatten Technical Analyst Tirone: "You Need Game Plan" - "When it comes to planning, many traders can be compared to the German army during World War II--in that the invasion [...] Britain was executed, but never planned," said John C. Tirone, senior technical analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank in...

- The Snow Fight Metaphor and Trading, Part II - The first variable in the snow fight metaphor was the wall of snow. If the wall is gone, you have no protection from [...] figured out that the wall stands for the equity in your account. And generally the bigger your equity, the safer you...

- "Why Economists Don't Make Good Traders" and other Nuggets - My ideas for educational feature topics usually come from readers' suggestions or from tidbits I have gleaned from many [...] topic ideas from discussing markets with my peers in the newsletter and trading advisory services industry. For this...

- The Snow Fight Metaphor and Trading - In the trading arena, most people focus on one of these variables, the ratio of white to black snowballs, and ignore [...] a good clue what that variable means. But hopefully, even from the metaphor, you can see the importance of the other...

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