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

King of the
Quants: A Conversation with Emanuel Derman, Part 2

Here is Part 2 of Larry Connors’ Big Saturday Interview with one
of Wall Street’s most brilliant minds Emanuel Derman. Derman is widely known
on Wall Street for his pioneering work in modeling financial behavior. Find
out what hidden quantitative patterns he sees in the markets.




PowerShares ETFs Make Great Trading and Investing Tools

If you are looking for strong runaway trends there are few better ways to trade than
PowerShares ETFs. In this week’s lesson from trader Toni Turner, you will
learn how to identify high momentum ETFs that you can potentially hold for
weeks or even months at a time.




Do Stops Hurt Your Trading Performance?




If you’re
like most traders, you’ve been taught that you should place a stop on every
stock trade you do. But, is it helping you make money? Or are you constantly
getting stopped out only to see the stock rise sharply right after you were
stopped out of the position. Learn about new research from Larry Connors
which reveals the disadvantages of using stops and how you can overcome them.




Learn the Best Times of the Day for the Best Trades

Whether you day trade stocks or the E-mini, you will find this lesson from
professional trader Kunal Vakil to be a handy reference guide you’ll want to refer
to every day. Regardless of what strategies you use, this article can help
you to deploy them at the times of the day when you’ll have the greatest
edge.




How to Use Options to Replicate a Futures Position

Are you a futures trader who has a strong opinion about the direction of a
market, but fears getting stopped due to high volatility? If so, let Kurt
Eckhardt teach you how to use a synthetic options strategy to replicate a
futures position.

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Should You Trade Mechanically or with Discretion?

There
are two types of traders, discretionary and mechanical. In this article from
professional trader and CEO of


Market Testing Wizards

Rob Davenport explains how to determine which approach could best maximize
your trading results.



David Ryan: CANSLIM Trader Finds Profits in Patterns

David Ryan worked directly with legendary momentum trader William O’Neil
decades ago. Now, in this recent interview you’ll learn how he manages money
by applying the core principles of CANSLIM, an approach which allowed him to
end 2007 up 47%.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong

Executive Vice President

TradingMarkets