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
Fly Like a Condor: Trading Options and ETFs with Jared Woodard
Independent trader Jared Woodard has specialized in trading options spreads like
iron condors, and in Part 1 of our Big Saturday Interview, he explains what iron
condors are, how they are built and how they are traded. He also dispels many of
the myths about options trading, pointing out how options can be used just as
easily to reduce risk as to increase it.
Managing Candlestick Trades Successfully
Why do candle charts attract so many traders serious about increasing profits
and decreasing risk? TradingMarkets contributing writer Steve Nison details how
candle charts can be used by professional traders.
In this article you will learn how to have confidence in your trading decisions
by using a simple day trading strategy that only relies on two indicators.
2 Ways to Find Reversals Off Support and Resistance
A common question traders have is, what are some good tools for finding support
and resistance levels? In this article you will learn to use 2 of these tools:
Gann Fans and Fibonacci retracements.
How to Identify and Trade Reliable Support and Resistance
In this article, you’ll learn 6 rules for trading support and resistance from a
professional trader.
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.”
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.
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets