Yearly Archives: 2007

The Dancer Who Made $2 Million Trading Stocks

Someone on one of the forums I visit posted a link to an article about Nicolas Darvas …

TPOG

Book Review: The Power of Gold

Tracks the use of gold from a monetary perspective through most of human civilization

New Forex Market Analysis and Information Blog

There’s a new blog covering the forex market that you should check out if foreign exchange is …

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The Trader’s Wish List

Here’s some really good trading and market-related stuff. You don’t even need to wait for a special occassion to reward yourself or pick up a gift for that trader on your shopping list. Books, movies, and more!

Hedging One Forex Pair with Another

The hedging topic often comes up in forex forums. One recent example was a trader who likes to trade GBP/JPY …

Trader Wish List – Twelfth Installment

Well, this is it. The final installment of my Trader’s Wish List is here to wrap up …

Trading Jobs – Making the Transition from a Non-Trading Job

Jobs in trading and the financial markets are the target of many individuals, especially those coming out …

Trader Wish List – Eleventh Installment

I want to shift away from books and videos for this recommendation. Metastock is the charting software …

Trader Wish List – Tenth Installment

Here is the 10th installment of my list of my trader’s gift recommendations. I want to feature …

Trader’s Wish List – Ninth Installment

Here is the ninth installment of my Trader’s Wish List. Consider this the Quantum Fund collection. It …

Trader’s Wish List – Eighth Installment

Here is installment #8 of my list of gift recommendations, for yourself or that special trader in …

Trader’s Wish List – Seventh Installment

Yet another entry on my Trader’s Wish list. I did a review of Markets in Profile when …

Trader’s Wish List – Sixth Installment

Here is today’s installment of my Trader’s Wish List. Today the focus is on trading related films. …

Trader’s Wish List – Fifth Installment

This today’s installment of my wish list recommendations for traders. The featured wish list items for today …

Trader’s Wish List – Fourth Installment

Here’s the next installment of my list of gift recommendations for traders. Actually, today it’s not just one item …

Trader’s Wish List – Third Installment

Here the third installment of my Trader’s Wish. The book I want to talk about today is …

Trader’s Wish List – Second Installment

Here is the next installment in my list of gift recommendations either for yourself or that special …

The Trader’s Wish List – First Installment

I present the first installment of my updated Trader’s Wish List. Today the feature items are the …

TCTT

Book Review: The Complete TurtleTrader

Tells the story of the Turtles from selection to where they are today

How do you Define Trading Success?

Success is a word that gets tossed around alot in the discussion of trading performance and trader …

Investor’s Business Daily – An Old Friend in my Stock Trading

You may or may not be aware of the fact that one of the very first books …

Which Forex Broker/Dealer Should I Use?

A visitor to the site submitted an inquiry the other day: I want to ask you to …

Books on Candlestick Interpretation

I received the following inquiry recently: John, could you recommend a book on candlestick interpretation? It is …

When I trade, where does the money go and come from?

I received an email the other day with some questions that may seem very basic to most …

Absolutes in Trading Often Mean Absolute Disasters

One of the things that I’ve learned along the way is to be very careful when anyone …

Trading in a Fog

I’m glad I don’t have to actually do any trading today. Thanks to a late night watching …

AAHF

Book Review: An American Hedge Fund

An autobiographical look at major trading success and giving it all back.

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Misunderstanding the Bid/Ask Spread in Stock Trading

It’s been my experience that many people don’t really understand how the bid/offer spread plays a part in all markets, including the one for stocks. This post looks to remedy that.

Don’t Swing too Hard

Have you ever seen a baseball player swing so hard at a pitch that he lost his …

A Set of Trading Rules

There’s a post on the Kirk Report blog which offers up 12 Trading Rules. In general terms …

It’s one thing to know what you should do, another to actually do it.

The following quote from an article on the New York Times web site (Can We Turn Off …

Using Bollinger Bands to Identify Reversal Points

I have used Bollinger Bands in my trading and market analysis for a great many years. In …

Make Your Trading Questions Answerable to Get the Most from the Answers

I recently received an email from one of my list members with the following questions: 1.  I …

Millionaire Trader Advice

There’s a new book out which is garnering some attention. It’s title is Millionaire Traders and is …

Commitment of Traders – A Weekly Report Worth Viewing

One of the more interesting tools I use in my work is the weekly Commitment of Traders …

What is Commercial Paper?

Commercial Paper (CP) is something which has been in the news for the last month as the …

Money Management Question

I recieved the following from one of my list members yesterday:  Hi John, The most important question …

LIBOR? What’s that?

If you’ve been paying much attention to the markets of late you probably heard something about LIBOR …

Modeling the Stock Current Market on 1987

One of the things going around the market these days is the idea that the price action …

Understand from Where Expert Opinions Come

The development and growth of the internet has been a fantastic boon for folks everywhere. Never has …

Can I make X each day/week/month in the markets?

I received the following question yesterday: I am looking for a way to make small amounts of …

The Discount Rate and What it’s all About

Some of you out there might not realize that the Federal Reserve actually sets two different rates. …

Liquidity, Fed Action, and all that Stuff

There’s been a ton of talk in the markets recently about liquidity. We heard about the Federal …

Global Daily Trading Schedule

I just had someone point out a really interesting resource. It’s a web page that outlines the …

Excellent New Book from the SFO Magazine Publishers

Just a quick post to let you know about a new book that’s just been released by the …

The Zero Sum Game

The topic of the zero sum game came up recently in a forum discussion in which I …

The value of short-interest

Short interest is an interesting statistic that’s worth understanding. It tells you how many shares of a …

Interest Rates and PE Ratios

The other day I talked about the impact of interest rates on stock prices, and how higher …

Interest Rates and Stock Prices

After last week’s run up in interest rates, it’s worth taking some time to understand the link …

An example of what can really drive the markets

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day in the markets. And I do mean “markets”. Most people will …