Monthly Archives: March 2008

Watch Your Open Orders!

In my ongoing quest to educate traders and help them along the path of trading development, I …

What Type of Trader Are You?

Van Tharp has created a kind of trader personality test which is really interesing. If you aren’t …

Calculating Relative Strength

Yet another trader question! They are coming fast these days, which is fantastic. I enjoyed reading your …

Good, Free Trading Resources

Today’s trader question is in regards to trading resources: I am just trying to be involved in …

How Can Interest Rates Go Below Inflation?

Today’s question focuses on interest rates and the fixed income market. I do not understand how interest …

Choosing the Best Trading Coach

I get trading questions from people all over the world. Here’s one from a trader on the …

What’s Your Opinion of Options Trading?

A reader named Bill asked the following question about options trading by way of leaving a comment the other …

Why Was the Stock Market Closed for Good Friday?

Eddy at Cross Wall Street asked the question on his blog yesterday, “Why Is the Stock Market …

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Book Review: How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

A discussion of the various trades the author made over about 6 years

Commodities Trading: Is it Worth Exploring?

Commodities have been a huge talking point in the market for a while now, and even more …

The Most Important Trading Plan Element – Sticking to It!

Seemingly way back when I started my sequence of posts on creating a personlized trading plan with …

Which Forex Pair Should I Start Trading?

Here’s another question from a trader:  In Ten New Trader Pitfalls you mention that a trader must …

Bear Stearns and Enron – Learn the Lessons of Diversification

Diversification is talked about quite readily in investing discussions. We all know it’s something very worth applying …

How Much Trading Capital is Enough to Start?

I received this trader question rececently: In your Ten New Trader Pitfalls article you mention a trader should start …

Putting Together Your Personal Trading Plan – Part II

Yesterday we started looking at the real details of your trading plan. Today that continues. As has been …

Putting Together Your Personal Trading Plan – Part I

In my last post, The Required Elements for Your Trading Plan, I started taking you into the …

The Required Elements for Your Trading Plan

Now that we’ve gone through the personal trader assessment process as the precursor to developing your trading …

Assessing Your Trading Skills

Here’s the next installment in the trading plan sequence of posts I have been running as excerpted from …

Making Money While Being Wrong Most of the Time

Last week was pretty poor by the standards of the year so far. Among the trading strategies …

Assessing Your Trading Market Knowledge

Here’s the next installment in the trading plan sequence of posts I have been running over the …

Assessing Your Trading Expectations for Your Trading Plan

I took a bit of unexpected hiatus from the trading plan discussion yesterday, but today we get back …

The Difference Between Trading and Investing

In a recent post, Chad at the Periodot Capitalist put up a post which talked about things …

Opportunities and Training at Prop Trading Firms

If you were ever wondering about trading for a prop firm, the training offered by those sorts …

Continuing to Assess Your Trading

Yesterday I started you on the process of working through your Personal Assessment. Today I will continue on that path. Again, this …

Your Personal Trading Assessment

In this post I will continue on the series I started last week relating to developing a strong, …

The Great Manic Depressive: The Markets

The markets are a lot like a manic depressive in that there are moments of incredible euphoria …