Monthly Archives: January 2009

Borrowing to Fund Your Trading or Investing

I’ve recently been thinking about some things related to my own personal finances in regards to taxes, investing, …

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Book Review: The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio

Stuff that’s been said before many times in other places

Exiting Option Trades

In keeping with the recent theme, here’s an option trading question I received over the weekend. Hello John, …

Defending Options Trading Against Blogger Attack

A fellow trading blogger wrote some things which really irked me. I’m not going to say who …

A few useful links

Rob at Quantifiable Edges has posted a really good write-up about how using stops doesn’t always make …

Trading With Pivot Points, MAs and Oscillators

The other day a trader named Sam put the following question to me: I day trade via …

Penny Stock Research

The other day Tim Sykes answered a question he says he often gets: Why Is There So …

Learning Trading from Scratch and Starting Small

Here’s a pair of questions I received recently. They are from a brand new trader and really …

One Trader’s Path – Guest Post

One of my list members answered the call to contribute some thoughts on trading and trader development …

An Inquiry for Active Forex Traders

I need to do a some research for my employer. If you’re an active forex trader, I …

Happy Accidents are Rare in Trading

Brian Shannon at AlphaTrends recently wrote the post Bad Trade Gone Good (with some luck). In it …

Motley Fool Acting the Part

I recently had the opportunity to pick up a free copy of the latest Motley Fool book, …

Choosing Day Trading

Ray Barros, in his post Day Trade?, brings up the subject of why people choose to become …

One Question Before Investing in that Stock

The Jutia Group blog recently suggested the One Question You Need to Ask Before Buying Any Stock Now. That …

Good Trading Goals: Focus on what you can control

Alex at My Trader’s Journal got me thinking about objectives with his 2009 Goals blog post. In …

Dangerous trading myths which aren’t so dangerous

I’ve been receiving a series of emails from a person trying to get me to sign up …

Some Not-So-Great Tips for Using Stop Orders

Stock Trading to Go posted 10 Great Tips For Using Stop Loss Orders Successfully the other day. …

Keeping things simple in your trading

Beanieville posted Don’t Let All Those Technical Analysis Gurus Confuse You on Tuesday with the primary suggestion …

Forex Market Seasonal Patterns – Really!

Much of the time, when the idea of seasonal patterns is brought up in trading and the …

Looking forward to the new year

Welcome to 2009! If last year wasn’t a great one for you, then I hope this one …