Monthly Archives: April 2009

A Reader’s Story About a Stop Getting Hit

A reader named Susan left this comment recently on the Some Not-So-Great Tips for Using Stop Orders …

Big Trading Risk On Small Accounts – Bad Idea

If you’ve been reading my postings here for any length of time you’ll know that one of …

Technical/Fundamental analysis a child’s game

A reader named nikesh posted a comment to yesterday’s Improving the Win Rate of Trend System With …

Improving the Win Rate of Trend System With Oscillators

This question came in over the weekend from a gentleman working on improving his trend trading system. …

Can a Shared Trading Edge Still be Profitable?

Yesterday I wrote Conspiracies, Regulations, and Trader Paranoia in which I tried to clear up some of …

Conspiracies, Regulations, and Trader Paranoia

Last week I posted No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders to discuss the pending NFA rule which effectively …

Some Good Entries From Fellow Members of the Blogosphere

A couple of recent posts by fellow bloggers caught my attention and I wanted to share them …

Three Years Gone, But Just the Start

Time is definitely a funny thing. It was three years ago today that Wiley officially released my …

Shifting from Trade Signal Follower to Trader

Trader Rob from north of the border in Canada (at least that’s north of the border for …

Forex “Hedging” Continued

In yesterday’s No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders post I pointed out a new rule from the …

No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders

The National Futures Association (NFA) has a new ruling which goes into effect on May 15, 2009. …

Help! I Can’t Stick to My Trading Plan

Here’s a question I received over the weekend that I know is one a great many traders …

Stop Getting Hung Up On Stops, Targets, and Risk/Reward

“Is 30 pips a good stop?” “Should I use 50 pips as my target?” “Your risk/reward ratio should be …

5 Things to Do Before Trading

I came across a post on another blog which outlines the 5 things to do before investing …

How can forex brokers provide so much leverage?

Margin and leverage in trading are topics that cause a great deal of confusion to new traders. …

Paying a Prop Trading Shop for Training

Here’s  a trader question that came in over the weekend. Hello John, What do you think of these …

Be careful with mean reversion trading

Mean reversion. That term comes up in trading and investing from time to time. It basically means …

Why are stocks and the dollar trading inversely?

One of the questions that’s come up a few times of late on the discussion boards is …