Tag Archives: trading resources

Top Trading Reads from 2011

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

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Book Review: Trade the Trader

This book suggests that applying basic technical analysis methods is no longer sufficient

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Book Review: Trading on Corporate Earnings News

Stock market traders will definitely want to pick up a copy of this book!

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Book Review: Profiting With Condor Options

Condor option strategies have become popular and this book takes a look.

My Tools of the Trade

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

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Book Review: The Complete Trading Course

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

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 …

Investing vs. Trading in Forex

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

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 …

Addressing Expo and Trading Education Skepticism

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

What about the Forex Market?

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

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 …

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Book Review: Buy Don’t Hold

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

Resources for Finding a Trading Coach

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

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 …

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 …

Is The Essentials Of Trading applicable to trading options?

An emailer by the name of Daniel asked: My question: Is “Essentials Of Trading” applicable to trading …

Find a Trading Mentor

John, I have a question. I am a novice trader who has been trading the emini S&P’s …

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Book Review: Trading From Your Gut by Curtis Faith

Integrating the right-brain instincts and intuition you develop as a trader

Currensee Now Open to Oanda Traders

Word has come out from Currensee that Oanda traders can now become members of the forex social network. …

More Upcoming Book Reviews

The other day I mentioned a pair of books that were new additions to my reading list.  Thanks …

Upcoming Book Reviews

There are a couple of books I will be reading in the near future, the reviews for …

Watching Positioning Figures for Biases and Changes

As you may have gathered from some of my prior posts (like Using COT data to spot …

If You Haven’t Already…

I strongly advise you to check out the 90-minute seminar John Murphy did entitled Applying Technical Methods …

VectorVest and Trading Forex in IRAs

Back in action after nearly a week off leading up to my 40th birthday! It’s nice to …

Entries from the Blogosphere

There have been some good posts recently by fellow bloggers that I wanted to bring to your …

Learning from the Market Wizards

Two books I always recommend to traders are Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards. Both offer a lot …

New Trader FAQ Coming Together Nicely

I’ve been working on a project to bring together the most commonly asked new and developing trader …

Professional Forex Analyst Interview

A short while back I did an interview with one of the Content Editors (a position I …

Using COT data to spot potential big moves

I’ve mentioned the Commitment of Traders data on a few occasions previously in terms of its usefulness …

New Forex Trader Network

If you trade forex and haven’t already done so, you should check out Currensee, which is a …

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Book Review: Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading

A pretty good basic overview and description of the retail forex market

Taking the Trader Positioning Data to the Next Level

Note: This is a cross-post. It was initially put up on the Currensee blog. The Commodity Futures …

Why teach others how to trade?

A question came in this morning from a “fan” of The Essentials of Trading Facebook page. It …

What is your take on this trading software?

Here’s another recent trader inquiry that came in via email. I have done some research on the Fap …

I Want to See the Full Trade Process

This question I received by email from a trader on my mailing list brings up something very …

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Book Review: The Daily Trading Coach by Brett Steenbarger

Pretty much every trader can find useful lessons in this book

Software for Backtesting and Order Generation

I get quite a few questions about trading resources. Since I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of …

Trading Simply and Using the Right Trading Tools

The other day Brett Steenbarger referenced a post by Trader X in which he talks about simplifying …

Using Unusual Options Activity to Predict Large Stock Moves

Options have become an increasingly larger focus among stock market traders of late. Recently a question came …

Another Rogue Trader

If you were completely out of touch Thursday you might have missed the adventures of our latest …

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The Trader’s Wish List

Here’s some really good trading and market-related stuff. You don’t even need to wait for a special occassion to reward yourself or pick up a gift for that trader on your shopping list. Books, movies, and more!

Trader Wish List – Eleventh Installment

I want to shift away from books and videos for this recommendation. Metastock is the charting software …