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Ten of the leading trader mistakes

Jim Wyckoff has a good article out which looks at the causes of trader failure. Failure to …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-05-19

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Broker rankings for the equity traders out …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-05-12

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: So You Wanna Be A Trader The …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-05-05

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Emotions, Decisions and Discipline Sell in May? …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-04-28

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Do you involve others in your trading? …

iPad3 Drawing in a Couple Days

At the end of the month I will have drawing open to my newsletter subscribers where I’ll …

From the data: One reason traders struggle

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working with the forex trader data I’m going to …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-04-21

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: My first ever market participation was a …

Essentials of Trading 6th Anniversary

Six years ago tomorrow (Saturday) my book The Essentials of Trading was released upon a world of …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-04-14

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Never Buy Stock Again! Here’s a shocker. …

Technical analysis in manipulated markets

This originally went up on the Currensee blog, but I think it’s something that this audience will …

Tips to keep the trading fires burning

Mike Bellafiore at SMB offered up a quintet of suggestions for traders the other day. They were …

Getting ready to start answering some trading questions

Of course I’ve already answered a lot of common trading questions in Trading FAQs, which has received …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-04-07

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Forget that Perfect Trade Five Things I …

Celebrating 6 Years of Trading Essentials

I didn’t post this yesterday for fear of running into April Fools issues. This month of April …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-03-31

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Do Stocks Always Outperform (in the Long …

Doing a PhD to study all you crazy traders

Over the last couple of years I have been researching PhD programs with an eye toward taking …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-03-24

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Be A Trader With A Scientific Mindset …

I told newsletter readers to watch out for falling yields

The theme of my weekly newsletter that went out to subscribers on Monday was the US interest …

CTFFM

Book Review: Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets

I’ve just finished going through by Carley Garner. This is the second of Carley’s books I have …

No Secret is the Real Secret

A recent post on the Winner’s Trading Edge blog tackles the subject of The Secret to Trading …

Trader Psychology is NOT the most important thing

I came across a post on the FXStreet site with the following statement: “The majority of trading …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-03-17

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Citi On The Really Simple Currency Trade …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-03-10

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: I’m sorry, but “..aggressive and misleading marketing …

EUR/USD falling or more Fed QE?

A post went up on Zero Hedge yesterday showing the chart below as proof that the Fed …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-03-03

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Understanding Black Swan Investing I guess greed …

More practice means faster trader development

There’s a post on the Kirk Report blog in which a new trader asks about how he …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-02-25

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: This is one of the reasons I …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-02-18

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Thoughts from one of my FAQ contributors: …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-02-11

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Latest forex volume figures from the NY …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-02-04

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Further evidence that the field of Behavioral …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-28

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: I’ve mentioned attending a Behavioral Finance conference …

The Primary Trade Size Forumla

Position sizing is something that comes up ALL THE TIME in the discussions among new and developing …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-21

Updates from the past week shared via Facebook and Twitter: Greed is the Flip Side of Fear …

Optimize trading performance by time of day selection

Yesterday I shared a link via Facebook and Twitter to an article on the DailyFX site which …

If a system works why share it with the world?

A member of the BabyPips forum asked the other day “If a system works why share it …

What do you trade and why?

A question came up on Trade2Win recently on a new thread. It asked the question of the …

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-14

Why it always makes sense to understand how the ETFs you trade are backed. Careful with the …

Twenty-four Hour Forex Volume Distribution

The question of volume in the forex market is a common one seeing as there is no …

Trader looking for angel investors

A recent site visitor sent me a question via the contact form. It brings up something I’m …

BandH

Book Review: Buy and Hedge

If you are a stock market trader/investor, this book is worth reading to gain perspective on how you can reduce the volatility of your returns.

Update Digest for Week of 2012-01-07

This week’s postings to Facebook and Twitter. Top Trading Reads from 2011: In case you have an …

Has trading ever made you physically ill?

If you’ve been in the markets as long as I’ve been you’re bound to have a collection …

Trading currency crosses direct or through the legs

The following question came in from one of my newsletter subscribers the other day. It asks about …

Top Trading Reads from 2011

In case you have an Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card burning a hole in your …

Update Digest for Week of 2011-12-31

What didn’t you get that you wanted?: I’ve been thinking about doing some fun stuff with my …

The Best of the Essentials of Trading in 2011

The year 2011 is just about over. This will be my last post to the blog, so …

Thin holiday markets and new year volume pick-up

The following two questions came in from one of my newsletter subscribers in regards to comments I …

What didn’t you get that you wanted?

I’ve been thinking about doing some fun stuff with my newsletter subscribers by way of contests and …