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
ETF Basics: A Conversation with Lisa Dallmer of NYSE Euronext
This weekend, our Big Saturday Interview features Lisa Dallmer, Senior Vice
President of ETF and Index Services at NYSE Euronext. You’ll learn about the
relationship between stocks, mutual funds and ETFs, what long term investors
need to know about leveraged ETFs, and how the average trader or investor can
learn how to find the ETFs that will help them meet their short and long term
goals.
3 Ways to Indentify a Market Bottom
David Wilder discusses how the behavior of bonds. U.S. Dollar and gold can be
used to predict the short term direction of the S&P 500,
4 Ways to Think Like a Winning Trader
If the vast majority of retail traders lose, would it be equally true that doing
the opposite of retail traders would be immensely profitable? From this thought
provoking question, Kurt Eckhardt derives and then teaches the 4 dominant
thinking patterns of winning traders.
5 Reasons to Trade the New Micro-Sized Currency Futures
Now through the new Micro-Sized Currency Futures Forex traders have an
alternative way to trade price movement in currencies that is regulated and with
lower transaction costs that spot Forex. Read more on the advantages of this new
trading vehicle.
Using Calendar Spreads to Profit from a Bear Market
Using options you can structure a Calendar Spread which is bearishly biased and
yet hedged if the market suddenly moves higher. If you think the market is
headed lower over a period of 2 to 3 months, let John Jagerson teach you a
strategy to consider trading.
Popular Past Articles
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.”
CANSLIM’s Market Wizard: A Conversation with David Ryan
Spend your Saturday reading our profile of CANSLIM trader and Market Wizard
David Ryan in this week’s edition of the Big Saturday Interview. Find out how he
had applied William O’Neil’s CANSLIM to achieve double-digit returns, even in
the midst of severe down markets.
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets