Monthly Archives: May 2009

Over Two Years Trading and Nothing But Losses

A member of my mailing list – from New Zealand, I believe – wrote in to express …

Forex Volume Figures

I had a question come in overnight regarding volume data and how it can be used for …

Price Movement Causality – Not What You Might Think

I saw the following statement made on the BabyPips site: Forex charts are nothing but a chart …

Minimum Stop Loss

A question came up on Trade2Win that I thought probably was of interest to readers here as …

Futures vs. ETFs Performance Differences

Here’s an interesting, but somewhat complex question about oil trading I had come in by email. Well, …

Where does forex leverage come from?

A question was posted on BabyPips which occured to me as being something readers here might wonder …

Adding to Your Winning Trades

At some point just about every trader starts pondering the question of if, when, and how to …

Only for Advanced Traders?

I had an email over the weekend that came in concerning my price distribution trading methodology course. …

What are your favorite trading websites?

I want to conduct a bit of an informal poll of readers. As you’ve no doubt seen, …

Trading Discipline and Playing to Your Strengths

In my regular scanning of what other bloggers are posting I came across a post on the …

Do You Still Do Trader Coaching?

A student of one of my trading courses sent an email the other day that touches on a couple …

Exploring Automated Trading Systems

Fully automated trading through the use of so-called “robots” or “expert advisors” (EAs) at the retail (meaning …

Los Angeles Traders Expo Reminder

Just a quick reminder that I’ll be at the Los Angeles Traders Expo next month (June 3-6). …

NFA Justifications and Reasoning for Killing Forex Hedging

Marjorie, who has been commenting on the No more hedging for forex traders post, dug up the …

Track Market Sentiment to Understand Price Cause and Effect

I’m willing to bet that a lot of newer traders are having a hard time understanding the …

Failure to Track Your Trading Could Cost You Millions!

There’s a story on the Bloomberg site today with the title MF Global Told to Pay U.K. …

New NFA Rule Impacts More Than Just Forex Hedging

A couple of weeks ago I posted on the new NFA rule which effectively bans the practice …

No Evidence of Stop Hunting by Retail Forex Brokers

The subject of stop hunting continues to come up quite frequently, especially where forex trading is concerned. In …