Coming This Week

Options traders can earn substantial gains--steadily and with limited risk.

But most traders will never master the professional strategies that unlock these kinds of results. They fall prey to the allure of merely buying cheap options--and blow out their accounts within months.

This weekend, Market Wizard Tony Saliba will teach you one of his favorite strategies. One that he has used successfully for years--and continues to use: The Vertical Spread. If you have been a regular follower of his daily column, you already know the power of this strategy from the phenomenal outcomes of opportunities in Cisco and Extreme Networks that Tony recently highlighted. 

In his lesson, Tony will show you exactly how you can nail serious gains if the market moves one particular direction, but with limited risk if the market moves against you. 

Want long-term success as an options trader? Learn how to avoid the pitfalls that the majority succumb to and trade like a professional in Tony Saliba's "An In-depth Look at Vertical Option Spreads, Part I."

Want 2001 to be your best year ever as a trader? At TradingMarkets.com we'll help you get their with--

    new tools, 

        new education, 

            new strategies, 

                new seminars 

                    and new books

Watch for announcements of the great new features we'll be adding over the next couple of months!

You are at a big advantage if you focus on the stocks that are targeted for accumulation by institutions. Loren Fleckenstein will show you how to find stocks with the proper average volume, good liquidity and accumulation patterns from powerful institutional buyers. He'll show you a number of tools that will screen for stocks with these key characteristics in his trading lesson: "Using Volume and Liquidity to Refine Your Daily Hit List."

Get futures trading insights that you can only get from a 20-plus-year veteran of the floor of the CME. A few weeks ago, Marc Dupee spent a few hours chatting with Jim Oliff, Second Vice Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  They touched on a variety of topics ranging from how Jim trades off a 10-minute chart, a 30-minute chart and a daily chart using candlesticks to the CME's recent conversion from being a not-for-profit corporation to a for-profit corporation. If you want to be more plugged in to the futures scene, check out "CME exec and futures trader James E. Oliff chats with Marc Dupee."

Here's some Good News! As you may have already heard, TradingMarkets membership prices are going up on January 1. That is less than two days away! No, this isn't the good news! The good news is that you can still take advantage of the lower current membership prices until the end of the year. Renew your Membership with any of our Annual Packages today, and it will automatically be extended from the expiration date of your current membership. PLUS, YOU WILL SAVE BETWEEN 15%-20% OFF YOUR RENEWAL RATE! But you must take advantage of this extension offer before December 31. Don¹t delay. This offer will expire at the end of the year. Click here http://www.TradingMarkets.com/index.cfm/renew/

Know someone who'd like to learn the first steps toward becoming a successful and confident trader? Would you yourself like to brush up on the basics? BeginningTrader.com is now live. Come in and get an education worth thousands of dollars and lay a strong foundation for your future trading success--all free of charge. 

Yes, there is a "Holy Grail," and the world's top traders will teach you about it in my new book: "The Real Holy Grail: Money-Management Techniques of Top Traders." Just about any successful trader will tell you that the most critical ingredient to their long-lasting success is their ability to keep losses small, while maximizing profits. The "Real Holy Grail" is scheduled for release in mid-January. Order now and get 20% off.

In addition to the Trading Lessons described above, please see our latest Q&A section.  As always, if you'd like your trading questions answered, please send them to questions@tradingmarkets.com. Send any suggestions, recommendations and other input to suggestions@tradingmarkets.com.

Have a happy and prosperous New Year!

Eddie Kwong
Editor-in-Chief
TradingMarkets.com