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


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.


How to Take the Emotion Out of Trading

Practically all professional traders will tell you that the greatest component
to their success is their ability to control their emotions. Nazy Massoud
explains how you can keep your emotions from being a barrier to the perfect
execution of your trading strategy.


Combining Trading Strategies to Improve Your Odds

While most traders would agree that the combination of several indicators can
increase your probability of success, there a right way to do it and a wrong
way. Learn the approach that works consistently well for Austin Passamonte as he
trades the E-minis each day.


How to Automate Forex Trading

Should you use your own skill and knowledge to make trading decisions or depend
on an automated process? More and more Forex traders are facing this decision as
new trading technologies that reduce the need for subjective judgment are
introduced. Here is a report on the latest robotic trading tools from John A.
Taxiarchos.


A 3-Bar Strategy for Trading Support and Resistance

Many times when price action breaks through support or resistance, the breakout
fails and winds up whipsawing many traders were expecting a nice move. Here is a
lesson on how avoid these traps from Robert Hoffman..

Popular Past Articles


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.

How to Manage Market Volatility and Its Effect on Your Porfolio

TradingMarkets contributor Kurt Eckhardt examines popular investment vehicles and how investors can prepare themselves for the volatility that can negatively impact their portfolio.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong

Executive Vice President

TradingMarkets