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
Bennett McDowell of Applied Reality Trading, Part 2
In Part 2 this Big Saturday Interview, Bennett covers everything from the
importance of knowing what risk control is – and is not – to what trading had in
common with landing an airplane safely on the Hudson River.
How I Use the ARMS Index to Identify Major Tops and Bottoms
Find out from award winning market timer Tim Ord,
how you
can pick out lows in the market when the ARMS Index reaches
extreme levels.
How to Using Proper Risk Management in Trading Forex
Are you an equities trader thinking of applying your skills to Forex trading? If
so, find from Sean Lydiard how you can avoid making the most common errors when
traders switch from stocks to currencies.
Using Gann to Trade the Main Trend
Most traders only want to enter trades that follow the major trend, but are
often frustrated when they get whipsawed out of the trade just as it’s about
make it’s big move. James Hyerczyk is a CTA who will show you how he applies
Gann Theory address this issue.
How to Take Advantage of Gap Moves in the E-minis
Based on professional E-mini trader Austin Passamonte’s years of experience, any
gap-open event on an intraday basis has a probability of filling roughly 75% of
the time. Here’s how trades this setup.
Popular Past Articles
Welles Wilder Jr. On Trading, Technical Analysis and the Challenge of Talent
If there were a Mount Rushmore for technical analysts, then there is a good
chance that the visage of J. Welles Wilder Jr. would be among those carved into
that granite mountainside. In this week’s Big Saturday Interview, you’ll learn
first hand from, Welles Wilder Jr., creator of technical indicators ranging from
Average True Range and Directional Movement to Parabolic Stop and Reverse and,
perhaps his most famous and widely used indicator, the Relative Strength Index.
The Key to Longevity and Consistency in Trading the Markets
What must you do to equip yourself for long-term success as a trader? In this
article, Sam Patterson tells you what has kept him going over his past 20 years as a
day trader.
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets