Yearly Archives: 2010

Got a gift card burning a hole in your pocket?

If you’re anything like me, you received a bookseller gift card over the holidays – perhaps more …

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Book Review: Trading Realities by Jeff Augen

Laying out some option strategies that could be used along with or in place of holding stocks

The Best Forex Market Analysis in the World!

Yesterday, at the FX Week awards event in London, the forex market analysis product I work on within …

OTB

Book Review: On the Brink by Hank Paulson

Basically, a diary of Hank Paulson’s time as Treasury Secretary during the financial crisis

Expanding Margin Rates in Silver

The CME Group yesterday announced that it would be bumping the margin on the silver futures contract …

Retail Forex Trader Profitability and the Death of US Forex Trading

I initially wrote this for the Currensee blog on October 18th. I’m cross posting it here because …

Be Careful Trading Against the Masses

A post on Zero Hedge inspired me to talk about something in the area of contrary indications …

Video Interviews from the Futures & Forex Expo

While I was at the Futures & Forex Expo last month out in Vegas I did a …

Trader Performance May Not Be as Bad as They Say

Here’s an interesting forex broker table posted at Forex Magnates. It lays out the % of profitable …

A Couple of Trading Related Films

Question. Have you seen the new Wall Street film, Money Never Sleeps? If so, what did you …

Addressing Expo and Trading Education Skepticism

A recent post comment left by a reader on the subject of trading conferences begs to be …

Live Webcast of My Futures & Forex Expo Presentation

Improving Your Trading Performance Using Forex Calendar Patterns Saturday, September 25 10:30 am – 11:30 am PDT …

My appearance at next week’s Futures & Forex Expo

Regarding my appearance at the Futures & Forex Expo next week: Futures and forex have emerged as …

Don’t Be Like This Trader

A reader of the market analysis service I work for emailed me after I posted a comment …

What about the Forex Market?

Frequent emailer Rod is back with another worthwhile question. Hi John, I know you are a position …

New CFTC Rules for Retail Forex Trading

Can I say I told you so? The CFTC has finally come through with its new rules …

I’m Floored by Amazing Feedback for the Trading FAQ

I received a pair of emails yesterday from readers of my new Trading FAQ book that blew …

Thinking about trading the months to year-end

It’s almost September. That means the not just an end to the summer doldrums in the forex …

BDH

Book Review: Buy Don’t Hold

A practical text focused on the application of asset allocation looking at the market trend status

Some Trading Links and Observations

I’ve gone off on a rant about poor market analysis before (see this post, and this follow-up), …

Penny Stocks vs. Forex Trading

Tim Sykes seems to be someone people either love or hate. He is upfront and straightforward with his opinions, which …

Five Observations from Successful Traders

Tim Bourquin has an article at TradingMarkets in which he discusses what he calls 5 Uncommon Rules …

It’s not QE 2, QE 1.5, QE Lite or anything like that!

In case this post’s title didn’t tip it off already, I’ll state my position as clearly as …

Making sure you’re up to date

If you haven’t been following the updates on the Facebook page or via Twitter (Why not!?) there have …

Using Other Traders’ Mistakes to Improve Your Trading Performance

During the Swingers, Scalpers, Holders panel discussion I did with Currensee a little while back, fellow panelist …

Subscription Services as Part of Trader Development

During the Swingers, Scalpers, Holders panel discussion I did with Currensee a little while back, a question on …

Seven Deadly Sins of Trading

The idea of the seven deadly sins of trading was tossed my way last week. After giving it …

CFTC expanding its COT reporting this week

I’ve posted on the subject of the Commitment of Traders report a few times on this blog …

Presenting at the Futures & Forex Expo

In September I’m heading to Vegas for the Futures & Forex Expo. I’ll be speaking there on …

It’s gold Jerry!

OK, I don’t normally make old television references, but in this case I couldn’t help myself. A …

Seven Snappy Trading Snippets of Essentials Past

It’s coming up on four and a half years since I did my first post on this …

Working Out Position Size in Forex Trading

I got this (slightly edited) private message inquiry from a Trade2Win member yesterday. It gives me a chance to …

What about all the toxic debt?

I am reading an outlook for the US Economy from a well known forecaster, and he claims …

Resources for Finding a Trading Coach

A question came up during the recent Swingers, Scalpers, Holders panel discussion I did for Currensee which we …

TAFX

Book Review: Technical Analysis in the FX Markets

Interviews on forex analysis with 13 market analysts from around the world

A Peak Inside Professional Level Market Analysis

I want to share something with you that I recieved today in my email from one of …

PandB

Book Review: Popes and Bankers by Jack Cashill

May be of interest to those who like history and/or are interested in how we got where we are

Adding on to The Essentials of Trading

Hi John, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Lee Rush and I’ve just …

ATFBC

Book Review: A Trader’s First Book on Commodities

A pretty solid introduction to futures trading

Reaction to the “worst analysis” post

My post from yesterday, Some of the worst market analysis ever!, generated a bit of a response …

Some of the worst market analysis ever!

I came across an article the other day which got my blood boiling a bit. It basically …

Great Review of the Trader FAQs Book

Fred Elkins from Finance Banter wrote up an excellent review of my new FAQs book. I took …

Professional Multimedia Market News & Information Free

My employer, Thomson Reuters, is making a really big push on a new multimedia content platform that’s …

How Markets Can Fall Without Actually Trading

One of the things many market participants fail to realize is that prices do not require transactions …

The Doctor is Out

For those who may not have heard, Brett Steenbarger has called a halt to his blogging. Brett, …

Is the Japanese Yen a Safe-Haven Currency?

Frequent trading question-asker Rod is back with another one. He sounds worried that he’s asking a foolish …

Entering Trading Positions Around News

Last week I took part in a Currensee panel discussion titled Scalper, Swinger, or Holder. The main …

Do you know a good end of day strategy?

Here’s a question which came in by email from a trader named Adam. Do you know about …

Answering Trading Questions Taken to the Next Level

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you’ll know that I answer a lot …