Tag Archives: education

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 …

Should I Become a Chartered Market Technician?

Those looking to become professional traders or market analysts often ask questions related to education and professional …

Professional Trading: How Long to Get There, Are Good Genes Required?

I got a set of questions from a member of my mailing list over the weekend. They …

Which to Choose: CFA or MBA

I got a question via a comment to my Trading Jobs – Making the Transition from a …

Learning Trading from Scratch and Starting Small

Here’s a pair of questions I received recently. They are from a brand new trader and really …

One Trader’s Path – Guest Post

One of my list members answered the call to contribute some thoughts on trading and trader development …

Motley Fool Acting the Part

I recently had the opportunity to pick up a free copy of the latest Motley Fool book, …

Dangerous trading myths which aren’t so dangerous

I’ve been receiving a series of emails from a person trying to get me to sign up …

Some Not-So-Great Tips for Using Stop Orders

Stock Trading to Go posted 10 Great Tips For Using Stop Loss Orders Successfully the other day. …

Efficient Markets: Should you even bother trading?

The question of whether the markets are efficient was broached again by a fellow blogger recently. The …

A few interesting and worthwile trading and finance resources

It’s another crazy day in the markets today, so let me take some time out to offer …

Backtesting isn’t just about evaluating a trading system

Trading via technical analysis is mainly an effort in pattern recognition. Evaluating the price action on a chart …

Why were you in that trade?

I want to ask a question of those who are trading the S&P futures. Since the audience …

Does coaching of trading psychology, require a successful practitioner?

Picking up on the thread from Those Who Can’t Trade Teach, ducati998 authored Selling education and trading methodologies. Actually, he’d entered …

Should you treat trading like a hobby? How’s your discipline?

The Winning Mental Edge blog (thanks to Charles Kirk for the link) speaks on the topic of deciding …

Why I do this trading education thing

I’m going to share with you today a two stories that comes from my volleyball coaching which I think …

Questions about the Following the Quest for Value course

Another trader question came in over email recently: I have a couple of questions for you on your …

Are left brain people better traders than right brain ones?

This question was actually left as a comment to my What type of trading resources would help …

What type of trading resources would help me read charts?

Here’s a question from a relatively new forex trader named Craig which gives me a bit more to …

Those Who Can’t Trade Teach

Spend enough time in the trading arena and you are sure to run across someone saying that …

Your trading success is determined by your trading consistency

Consistency is the key. When I was coaching volleyball I was involved in a discussion with one …

Some interesting posts from fellow bloggers

Here are some very interesting posts by other bloggers which I found interesting. Cross-Talk: Trading Coaches as …

Do I need anything beyond your trading course?

This question came in the other day from a trader named Randy: Should the Essential of Trading …

Choosing between trading education and information alternatives

A little while back I asked for suggestions about things I could do as fundraising activities to …

Trading is All About You

Chris Perunna wrote Focus on You on his blog yesterday. It echos a lot of what I wrote …

Do You Do Trader Coaching John?

Do I do trader coaching? This is a question I get from time to time. I have, …

Watch Your Open Orders!

In my ongoing quest to educate traders and help them along the path of trading development, I …

What Type of Trader Are You?

Van Tharp has created a kind of trader personality test which is really interesing. If you aren’t …

I’ll Take Experience Every Time

When I was a volleyball coach (youth and college) one of the things that was very readily …

Help Me Trade Forex With Candles!

I am a newbie forex trader. My greatest challenge is identifying entry and exit using candlestick. I’ll be …

Recessions and Bear Markets – A Visual Guide

There’s a really neat (to me at least) animated graph which highlights the recessions and stock bear markets …

Trading Education and Trader Development – What You Need to Think About

In response to my Take the Trading Long View post from the other day, Brett Steenbarger has …

Take the Trading Long View

One of the most important keys to success in trading is to take the long-run view of …

Practice, Practice, and Practice Some More

A Trade2Win member going by the moniker of bluetipex made posted the following recently in response to an earlier poster …

Can Anyone Help Me Find a Mentor?

Here’s another question along a subject line which is often brought up by new traders: Hi I …