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+ Why Would Anyone Give Workshops if They Can Trade Well? + In a recent article entitled, “Some Will Love You and Some Will Hate You, So What!” I talked about someone on an internet forum asking ...

+ Top 10 Mistakes Traders Make + Achieving success in futures trading requires avoiding numerous pitfalls as much, or more, than it does seeking out and executing [...] that it's not any specific trading methodologies that make traders successful, but instead it's the overall rules to which those...

+ Using Contrary Opinion in Trading Markets + I have told my readers that one of the best methods to trade a market is to jump on board when prices "break out" of a congestion or ...

+ Attention Traders: Making a Trading Checklist + Some traders are reluctant to put on a position because they are torn between what they perceive as conflicting market factors. Here's [...] "The moving averages are positive, the market is trending higher, but the RSI shows the market as being way overbought. What...

+ Kaufman: Multiple Trading Methods and Market "Noise" + Many traders attempt to find the single-most "robust" trading strategy possible by looking for one set of rules which works for all ...

+ Trading Lingo: Definitions for the Less-Experienced Trader + Trading futures and stocks involves the use of some of the more arcane terms found in any field of endeavor. Those less-experienced [...] already-difficult business are many times even more frustrated by "phraseology" they do not understand and which seems to make no...

+ People Think It's All About Prediction -- But It Is NOT! + Your trading style forms a basis for your beliefs about how to enter the market. This is important because you really only trade your ...

+ Too Many Strategies, But Still Frustrated? + It is not too far when the veteran traders got used to draw the trend lines using pencil and paper. Whereas the market data sent by ...

+ Technical Traders: Veteran Traders Share Their Secrets and Strategies + An elite group of traders and technical analysts gathered in Las Vegas last weekend to educate and enlighten several hundred attendees [...] Analysis Group) conference. For two and one-half days, these respected market watchers shared their trading secrets and strategies.

+ Technical Traders: You should Still Examine Fundamentals + I base the majority of my trading decisions on technical indicators and chart analysis--and also on market psychology. However, I do [...] impact the markets I'm trading. Neither should you. In this feature I'd like to share with you the types of fundamentals in various...

+ This Trading "Checklist" Will Help you Execute with Confidence + A lot of email has come in from readers asking me how to improve upon "pulling the trigger" to enter a trade. How many traders out ...

+ 11 Fascinating Market Correlations You'll Want to Use + Experienced futures traders know there are many correlations among futures markets - some of which are valuable guides in helping to [...] This educational feature will examine some basic correlations among futures markets, and will likely be most beneficial to the...

+ One of My Favorite Trading "Set-Ups" + A fellow emailed me recently, asking: "Without giving away any precious secrets, could you tell me a way to improve my entries and ...

+ My Ten Favorite Trading Books + In this tip I want to briefly describe my ten favorite trading books. I'm not going to give them in any particular order, because I'm ...

+ Newsletter as a Trading System + If you buy a newsletter, you probably get a monthly trading recommendation. And that is usually a recommendation to buy an investment. ...

+ What Are The "Big Boys" Up To? How use the Commitment of Traders Report in your Trading + I have discussed in past articles how volume and open interest can be used to help identify and confirm market situations and trading [...] in this column by examining the Commitments of Traders (C.O.T.) report, issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)....

+ Chase Manhatten Technical Analyst Tirone: "You Need Game Plan" + "When it comes to planning, many traders can be compared to the German army during World War II--in that the invasion of Britain was [...] the Battle of Britain was executed, but never planned," said John C. Tirone, senior technical analyst for Chase Manhattan Bank in...

+ The Snow Fight Metaphor and Trading, Part II + The first variable in the snow fight metaphor was the wall of snow. If the wall is gone, you have no protection from the snowballs. ...

+ "Why Economists Don't Make Good Traders" and other Nuggets + My ideas for educational feature topics usually come from readers' suggestions or from tidbits I have gleaned from many years of [...] educational topic ideas from discussing markets with my peers in the newsletter and trading advisory services industry. For this...

+ The Snow Fight Metaphor and Trading + In the trading arena, most people focus on one of these variables, the ratio of white to black snowballs, and ignore the rest of them. ...