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


Bill Kraft
Reveals His Rules on Trading

Bill Kraft was one of those few independent traders who made money both on the
way up in the late 1990s and on the way down after the dot.com implosion. Read
David Penn’s fascinating conversation with full-time trader Bill Kraft and find
how he combines stock and options strategies to make his living.



How To Avoid Big Declines Using Market Timing

Is possible for market timers to avoid catastrophic "Black Swan" type plunges in
the stock market? Some say it’s not possible, but according to Charles LeBeau it
is possible through the simple application of trailing stops.



5 Steps For Trading In Forex Market Volatility

Increased volatility can provide you with more trading opportunities, but at the
same time, it’s important to adjust your position size, leverage, and money
management of you want to avoid taking on more risk. Let professional Forex
trader Richard Lee show you how.



Stock Market Analysis and Fibonacci, Part 3

Fibonacci is most commonly used to identify prices levels at which stocks could
turn. Now, John Jagerson goes one step further by teaching you how to use
Fibonacci to identify the times at which those those turns could take
place.



How To Take Advantage of the Market Afternoon Shift



Stock markets have distinct, predictable habits of behavior.
Learning these repeated patterns is not a intuitive gift, rocket science or
clairvoyance. It’s just a matter of time and observation combined. Learn to find
and apply these patterns to your own trading from professional E-Mini trader
Austin Passamonte.

Popular Past Articles



Living the Dream: Trading Stocks with Charles Kirk of The Kirk Report



Charles Kirk is just like most of us who trade: an average guy
from Middle America with an average life except for one key thing: he trades
stocks for a living every single day. How was Charles Kirk able to become one of
the fortunate few who make their daily bread solely from the sweat of their
stock trading acumen? Find out when you read this week’s Big Saturday Interview.


Around the
World with Forex Trader Kathy Lien!


Kathy Lien is one of the most well-known and widely sought-after experts on
Forex trading and analysis. Learn about her favorite short- and long-term Forex
trading strategies in this Big Saturday Interview with TradingMarkets
Editor-in-Chief David Penn.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong

Executive Vice President

TradingMarkets