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
Trading and Day-Trading Stocks and ETFs with Dave Steckler, Part 3
From swing trading stocks to day-trading ETFs and from stop losses to portfolio
management, our 3-part Big Saturday Interview with Dave Steckler is an engaging,
nuts and bolts discussion on technical trading. If you believe in the chart, the
whole chart and nothing but the chart, you’ll enjoy Trading and Day-Trading
Stocks and ETFs with Dave Steckler.
Trading pullbacks is one of the most popular tactics for swing trading. In this
article, you’ll discover two different approaches that traders with opposite
opinions can use to successfully trade this one setup.
How to Use Average True Range for Short-Term Trading
We all know as a stock moves in a trend, price action can oscillate up and
down, providing multiple opportunities for nimble short-term traders. Here’s a
way to trade these short-lived swings using Average True Range.
5 Steps to Successful Day Trading
To succeed at day trader, you have to know more than just a chart pattern. You
start with the big picture in order to drill down and filter out the very best
stocks to apply your strategy to. Here’s how.
How To Properly Execute Your Trading Strategies
Larry Connors shows how to trust your trading strategies, and then how to
properly execute them. The more impeccable you are in executing your trading
strategy, the more successful you’ll be for many years to come.
Popular Past Articles
Trading and Hedging Risk with Steve Temes of Lincoln Capital, Part 1 and Part 2
Steve Temes has been trading stocks and options successfully for more than 20
years.
In this interview,
Steve talks about what traders need to do in terms of risk management to deal
with the unprecedented levels volatility that has recently hit the markets.
Big Saturday Interview: Andrew Lo of MIT’s Laboratory for
Financial Engineering
Andrew Lo is the director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This weekend, he provides TradingMarkets
with his insights on trading and technical analysis. Perhaps most fascinating is
Andrew Lo’s discussion of what he calls the Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH). Lo
calls his AMH “a new view of financial markets from a biological
perspective…within an evolutionary framework,” and shows how this way of
thinking about market behavior may help to “reconcile many of the apparent
contradictions between efficient markets and behavioral expectations.”
Good luck and successful trading