It’s coming up on four and a half years since I did my first post on this blog back in January 2006. That was First of all, know thyself. It’s a post which in some ways introduced me, but is also one which introduces a big portion of what I try to get at in what I write here and what I tried to make come through in my book, The Essentials of Trading. The blog now has well over 600 posts, a few of which have some value. 
One of the posts I most enjoyed writing was The Secret to Trading Success. I must have done something right with it, as over the last two years and change since it was posted there have been over 10,000 readings.
The best discussion that’s taken place on this blog was around the subject of “hedging” in the retail forex market. When the NFA came out with it’s restriction on that practice I wrote No More “Hedging†for Forex Traders. It generated something like 250 comments, with both sides of the debate covered.
Given how little most retail traders understand about how important and influential the interest rate market is in the grand scheme of the global markets, I think one of the most valuable posts here is An Introduction to the Fixed Income Market. It’s something I wrote in the early days of the blog to provide a basic overview of the rates market, its primary instruments, and what tends to move it around.
One of the best post titles I’ve writen is for How much leverage to use? Wrong question!. Well, at least I think so anyway. Â It was motivated by the repeated questions I’ve seen about leverage ratios in forex trading by newbie members of trading forums. I was trying to make the point that they were fixated on the wrong thing. Can you tell?
A post that’s been read a fair bit, but I think should be right at the top of the most read posts on this blog, is Taking the Trading Long-Term View. So many traders get very fixated on the short-term, and especially on making a quick killing in the market that they fail to realize the potential in a more measured approach, both in terms of their performance and their psyche.
For the seventh entry, I’ll actually point you to Brett Steenbarger’s blog. He wrote a bunch of posts before putting things on hold that I wish I had written. His stuff is a great resource for traders of all levels. He’s got a bunch of very useful “Best of..” posts on his front page which will get you where you’re going.
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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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