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  • Choosing a Trading System That Actually Works
    I believe a good trading system should be considered for inclusion in one's portfolio in order to potentially enjoy superior returns. Finding a good trading system, however, can be a very difficult process.
  • George Lane Still Trading Off Stochastics at Age 75
    George Lane completed his 47th year of trading in December 1996 and is still going strong. After many years of trading in the grain pits in downtown Chicago, Lane has shifted to screen trading during his "retirement" in a small community about 80 miles south of Chicago.
  • Angelo Reynolds Scalps in the Eurodollar Pit
    As a trader in the Eurodollar futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Angelo Reynolds cites mental toughness and courage as two of the necessary factors to successful pit trading. "I knew I always wanted to be involved in the markets," Reynolds said.
  • Grant Noble Reads Mass Media for Contrarian Signals
    Futures trader and author Grant Noble looks to the mass news media in order to garner signals of major market bottoms or tops. Only, he looks to the media with a contrarian perspective.
  • 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.
  • Walter Bressert Reads Market Via Cycles & Oscillators
    Walter Bressert earned a college degree in economics, which taught him "economists don't know much about the way the world works." An active trader for many years, Bressert relies on cycles and oscillators in his intraday futures trading, in which he primarily focuses on the S&P 500 contract.
  • 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.
  • Day-Trading: Not What You Think
    The day-trader is a cross between an extrovert and an introvert with both characteristics in balance. The introvert aspect is depicted by the disciplined workaholic with a reclusive concentration. The extrovert aspect is depicted by an aggressive, competitive, self-motivated individual striving to be the best in a selective profession.
  • How an Options Specialist Prepares for the Market Opening
    At 6:45 a.m. the traffic already is building on the expressways that feed into downtown Chicago. From inside your car, the only real difference between winter and summer at this time of day is that in summer the sun is already up. In the dead of winter, traders only see the sunshine on vacation.
  • George Angell Keys in on Volatility and Liquidity
    Volatility and liquidity are the two elements independent trader George Angell looks for in a market to trade. Currently, Angell exclusively trades the S&P 500 futures, putting on intraday trades only, never holding positions overnight. "Liquidity and volatility are the two things you have to have. You can't day-trade something like oats--it wouldn't work" Angell said.
  • 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.
  • Gary Wagner Uses Candlesticks to Measure Sentiment
    Japanese candlesticks offer a "mathematical expression of psychological market sentiment" to trader Gary Wagner, who utilizes these Eastern technical indicators in conjunction with Western tools to actively trade for himself.
  • Easy Way to Cut Losses
    I have successfully given up two unhelpful behaviors, one was smoking which I stopped 10 years ago; and the other was drinking alcohol, which I gave up last year. Most people these days agree that smoking is a bad habit, but equally most people still consider drinking to be perfectly healthy in moderation.
  • How To Think Like A Winning Day Trader
    What makes the best traders successful? Are they "lucky"? Have they discovered some "secret" indicator? No. They've learned the truth about trading. Trading success is a simple as 1-2-3.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Why Watch Market Indicators?
    A common and effective way to gain perspective on stock price fluctuations is to compare the movement of your stocks to that of indices or market indicators. About 100 years ago, as the number of individual stocks grew, the need to measure how the stock market performed became obvious.
  • How to Make Money Shorting Stocks in Up and Down Markets
    Now I am very much aware that many market players do not like to short stocks. This bias against the short side of the market is totally understandable, especially given the fact that the widespread reluctance is garnered and perpetuated by the various exchanges and the other powers-that-be.
  • 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.
  • Anticipating the Market and Execution
    I divide trading skills into two distinct elements: anticipating the market and execution. The anticipating part is reading the market, whether through charts, systems, technical indicators or intuition. Anticipating/reading the market is the trading skill that most of us focus all our energy on, and it is the subject covered by most trading books and seminars.
  • 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.
  • Day Trading Strategy
    A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and lower peaks and the majority of bars should have lower lows and lower highs.
  • Exiting a Losing Trade
    A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and lower peaks and the majority of bars should have lower lows and lower highs.
  • 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.
  • Change Over Days - Day Trading
    I read somewhere that when Michael Jordan was making an advert that required him to miss the basketball hoop a number of times; he just couldn't do it, he couldn't not get the ball in the hoop.
  • 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.
  • Fundamental of Technical Analysis
    Chart is lines of graphics that sketch the market movement in a certain period where the x-axis is the time and the y-axis is the price.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Buying and Selling Options
    Now, let's consider stock and stock options for a moment. Consider the ubiquitous XYZ Corp., currently trading at $95 per share on 2/1/03. If you pay $4 per share for a March call on 100 shares of XYZ at the $100 strike price, you have acquired the right to buy 100 shares of XYZ for $100 per share, any time before the third Friday in March.
  • 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.
  • Understanding Options
    Options are one of the oldest trading vehicles man has ever used. Around a 1000 B.C Aristotle Thales predicted by the stars that there would be a bumper olive harvest and bought options on the use of olive presses.
  • 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.
  • What Are the Differences Between Trading and Gambling?
    Many people think that trading is similar to gambling. Is this really the case? For example, let's take a look at Black Jack. If you start with $10,000 gambling capital, placing bets of $100 per hand and play 100 hands per day, how long will you last?
  • 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.
  • Chart Reading Basics
    To be profitable in today's world technology and advancement, one must be proficient and reading and more importantly understanding chart patterns and basic technical indicators. Below is just a few basic points to your understanding the technical analysis of currency chart reading.
  • Introduction to Technical Analysis
    Technical analysis is a method of forecasting price movements by looking at purely market-generated data. Price data from a particular market is most commonly the type of information analyzed by a technician, though most will also keep a close watch on volume and open interest in futures contracts.
  • Standard Day Trading Orders
    To the day trader, using the right price order is just as important as using the right tool for the right job is to the mechanic or carpenter.
  • Using Technical Indicators: Stochastics & RSI
    A good understanding of the basic tenets of technical analysis can vastly improve one's trading skills.
  • Using Indicators to Identify Trends
    Of the many market sayings thrown around by traders, perhaps none is more overused and less understood than the old adage 'the trend is your friend'.
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