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
Still Trading for a Living: A Conversation with Dr. Alexander Elder
Dr. Alexander Elder has been among the more sought after trader coaches and
teachers for well over decade. After helping scores of people to become
successful traders over the years, Dr. Elder now reveals what it takes to be a full-time professional trader.
How to Recognize Market Capitulation
Many traders throughout the course of a prolonged decline ask themselves, “Is this
the bottom?” In this article, professional trader Bennett McDowell guides you
through his thought process as he searches for patterns that can suggest when a
major low is in place.
Using Option Greeks: Implied Volatility and Investor Fear
If you want to improve your ability to time the markets, there are few indicators that are better than implied volatility. Let professional trader John Jagerson teach
you how to use it to improve your ability to time the markets.
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.
Finding Reversals Using Open, High, Low, Close Prices Data
Many traders look at scores of charts each day in search of patterns, Fibonacci
retracements, and other technical information that can help predict tradable
moves. In this article from trader Jayesh Patel, you’ll learn how you can apply
a simple strategy that uses the open, high, low and close of a stock to predict the stock’s short-term direction.
Popular Past Articles
Predicting Stock Direction with the False Break Buy and Sell Pattern
Few traders are as well-known and respected as Larry Williams and this week
we are very pleased that he has become a TradingMarkets contributor. In this
article, Larry will teach you a simple chart pattern that has caught
short-term explosive moves in both stocks and commodities. While the pattern
looks very bearish to most traders, Larry will show how it can lead to
strong runaway reversals to the upside.
Tom
DeMark: Dedication and Discipline:
Marketing Timing with Tom Demark
Tom DeMark has worked with many of the most revered money managers in our industry ranging from George
Soros to Paul Tudor Jones. In this recent Big Saturday Interview, Tom
explains that even though he is known for his technical indicators, his main
area of focus is market timing strategies. Read this article and
gain insights on how Tom determines when the market is ready to make the
next big turn and how this impacts the decision making of every trader and
investor.
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets