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
When is the right time to exit a trade? Larry Connors shows you the technical
signals to look for, including which time frames to watch for RSI level
breaches.
Listen to What the Market is Telling You
Too often traders and investors place too much weight on what they hear from the
financial news media and the opinions of self-proclaimed gurus. Find out from
portfolio manager and RealMoney columnist Mark Manning how to get some clarity
on what the market is doing and where it could be headed.
Using Moving Averages to Gain a Trading Edge
Most traders are very familiar with what a moving average is. In this article
from Bryan Perry, you’ll learn how they can be applied to trading options.
What You Need to Know Before You Short
Traditional portfolio allocation says to diversify with small caps, big caps,
aggressive growth, domestic markets, foreign markets, emerging markets, income
stocks, and so on. According to Michael Shulman, your portfolio should also
include short candidates that are poised to drop.
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.
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