TradingMarkets Making Great Traders – The Best of This Week’s Trading Lessons

Dear Trader:

TradingMarkets’ mission is “Making Great Traders.” Each week we publish trading strategies and research from many of the best professional traders and educators in the world.

Here are the best of the articles we published this week. We hope you enjoy them and prosper from them!

This Week’s Top Lessons



Learn How to Use Candlesticks to Stay Ahead of the Market From Steve Nison

Learn a new candlestick strategy from the man who first introduced candlestick
charts to the Western world, Steve Nison. In this article Steve will show you
how candlesticks can provide you with a clearer picture of the market’s current
directional bias.



Stock Market Momentum Indicator: A Trading Tool for Tough Markets

All traders want to buy stocks that make strong, sustained moves. In this
article, portfolio manager John Nyaradi teaches you his main tool for
identifying stocks that have this potential.



How to Trade Exchange Traded Funds in a Volatile Market

Let Toni Turner show you how to use ETFs in order to find great trades with
lowered risk in today’s volatile markets.



What to Do With Large Bid/Ask Spreads

What do you do when you want to buy into a great setup in a stock that has a
prohibitive bid/ask spread? Professional trader Chris Fernandez explains the
tactics he uses in order to capture these opportunities.


My Favorite Indicators for Pinpointing Major Market Bottoms

Over the past decade, Tim Ord has been ranked as one of the countries top market
timers. What are some of the key indicators that he combines together to
pinpoint the markets most opportune buying opportunities? You’ll find out by
reading this article.

Popular Past Articles



CANSLIM Star Trader: An Interview with Gil Morales, Part 1

In this Big Saturday Interview, professional money manager Gil Morales tells
the story of how he started out as stockbroker and later became one of the
most successful money managers working for the legendary Bill O’Neil. You’ll
get an inside look at CANSLIM and how Gil learned to buy stocks "fearlessly
and relentlessly" from O’Neil whenever the institutions were buying those
same stocks.



CANSLIM Star Trader: An Interview with Gil Morales, Part 2

In this follow up to

Part 1
of our Big Saturday Interview with Professional Money Manger Gil
Morales, you’ll learn his unique strategy for managing positions — one of
the critical keys to his success. You will find out his criteria for quickly
closing unprofitable positions and allowing winning stocks to making runaway
moves in for outsized gains over a period months. Plus, you’ll enjoy reading
Gil’s personal recollections what it was like to work closely with the
legendary Bill O’Neil.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong

Executive Vice President

TradingMarkets