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Further Updated US Forex Broker Figures

The other day I wrote about Q4 figures from the US retail forex brokers based on their customer …

Research into Technical Analysis in Forex

Thanks to Adam at Forex Blog, I had the opportunity to read a working paper by a …

Updated Forex Broker Customer Performance Figures

Back in October I posted on the newly released customer profitabily statistics from retail forex brokers. The …

My Tools of the Trade

Trader Mike and Blain at StockToGo both posted recently on the various tools they use in their trading. …

Top 10 Ways New Traders Lose Money

If you frequent trading oriented websites you’ll probably have notice ads from the forex broker Oanda. Those familiar with Oanda …

Learning About Options Trading

I had an email the other day asking me to point the writer in the direction of …

TCTC

Book Review: The Complete Trading Course

A front-to-back approach to applying technical analysis to trading

Interesting Trading and Market Links from December

I follow a large number of trading/markets related blogs and websites. When I find stuff I think …

Trading Binary Options

Recently I’ve seen a couple of other bloggers post about www.startoptions.com in such a similar fashion that I …

Oops! I Did It Again

Sorry to all you Britney Spears fans, but I’m not quite talking about the same sort of …

An All Too Common Trading Tale

There was a new thread started on the BabyPips forum under the title I blew it again. …

8 Ways to Limit Your Trading Education Tuition

Learning to trade is going to cost you in one fashion or another (and remember that your …

What Should I Read on my New Kindle?

Last week I finally gave in and ordered myself a Kindle from Amazon. This is something I’ve …

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Book Review: Harmonic Trading, Volume One

A comprehensive and systematic look at Fibonacci based technical analysis and trading

Investing vs. Trading in Forex

With the advent of the Currensee Trade Leaders program, the idea of investing in the currency market …

The Down Side of Day Trading

I’ve written on several occasions about the considerations involved in trading for a living and trading full-time. Most …

Looking at Random Trading

Every once in a while, the topic of random trading comes up. Normally, it’s part of a …

Kicking Off a More Active 2011!

This tends to be the time of year bloggers and the like offer up their resolutions for …

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 me away. …

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 of Wealthy Traders. …

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 Mike …

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 …