I realize I’m doing this a little bit early, but I’ve got a lot of work to do over the New Years weekend on the site and other projects, so I wanted to get this posted will I’ve got the time and opportunity to do so.
I’m looking at the 2009 traffic figures for this site. Google tells me there’s been about 106,000 unique visitors and 234,000 page views in the last 12 months. I realize that’s no match for the most popular sites on the web, even in the trading space, but if someone had told me back in 2006 when I started this thing that’s where I’d be, I’d have been quite surprised.
Here’s where it get’s really cool, though. The number of unique visitors was nearly double the 2008 tally (54,000), and page views were about 65% higher (142,000 last year). Very nice growth if I do say so myself. 
Now here are the 10 biggest reasons why the traffic has been up. These are the ten most popular posts from 2009 based on page views, comments, link backs, etc.
- Trader: The Paul Tudor Jones Documentary Video
- No More “Hedging” for Forex Traders
- Most Active Forex Currency Pairs
- Using Unusual Options Activity to Predict Large Stock Moves
- Afraid to Trade? Build Your Trading Confidence
- Volatility, Stops, and Other Topics
- Book Review: The Daily Trading Coach by Brett Steenbarger
- Book Review: The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio
- Trader Tax proposal in Congress
- Forex “Hedging” Continued
I’m a little bit surprised by a couple of the ones which landed in the top 10, especially the book reviews, but I can only report what people have most wanted to read and/or comment about.
Here’s hoping things continue along the same path in 2010. The next blog post will come after a site revamp that I’m doing to improve visitor’s ability to find just what they are looking for on the site. As always, your thoughts and feedback are both welcome and encouraged.
Best wishes for 2010!
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About the Author
John Forman, author of this blog, has traded for more than 20 years, is a professional market analyst, and authored The Essentials of Trading. He is an active participant in trading forums, consults for trading related businesses, as published literally dozens of trading articles, and has been quoted in a number of books and in the media.
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