http://www.esignal.com Compliments of eSignal, these articles contain useful information on the art and science of trading the markets. If you trade for a living (or want to learn how), you'll want to click on the links and read what some of the best and the brightest in the industry have to teach you. en-us Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT Copyright 2010 eSignal. A division of Interactive Data Corporation. All rights reserved. http://www.esignal.com/rss/images/esignal_logo.gif http://www.esignal.com http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/default.aspx What you see shown below is my "poker table". The image shows my July 16, 2010 trading screen. The 45 charts in my trading screen cover futures and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=082710 It's one of the most valuable and most actively traded assets on the planet. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=082010 If I had a dollar for every time I've heard the following excuse over the years, I would be a very wealthy lady: "Oh, I couldn't possibly trade; I'm just a housewife." Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=081310 Trend identification is important to any and all investors and traders. Whether you trade with the trend or against it, you need to be able to identify a current trend properly. One of the most popular ways an investor or trader can identify a trend is by using moving averages. Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=080610 The "privatization" events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, in Paris, France, introduced me to the power of investing and, later on, to real-time trading. I did some quick thinking... Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=073010 Deciding on a definition of "overtrading" is much the same as defining "a lot of money". It is different for everyone. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=072310 In Part I of this series, we looked at controlling Big-Win Dreaming, Revenge Trading and Position Size Envy. Here are 3 more key factors to mentally control your risk. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=071610 Think about these 3 mental risk management concepts when you are trading. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=070910 How often are you blindsided? You are blindsided if you go long when you should go short or short when you should go long. Fri, 9 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=070210 Previously, in an article entitled "Identifying Temporary Tops in an Up Trend with Wyckoff Volume Analysis", I outlined how to find the likely turning points that lead to pull-backs in an up-trending market. In this article, I will discuss how you can find the likely pivot lows in an up-trending market, using only a price and volume chart. Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=062510 Gaps are events that jolt price up or down, leaving an open window to the last bar. Market folklore offers guidance on trading gaps, but classic wisdom such as "gaps get filled" doesn't tell us how to make profitable decisions when a gap suddenly appears on a favorite chart. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=061810 Was the May 6, 2010 intraday crash and recovery just another one of those once-in-a-lifetime anomalies -- a rare confluence of events that formed the "Perfect Storm"? Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=061110 In my years of trading, one thing I have found is that one strategy does not fit all. We all have different risk tolerances and monetary goals. One of my goals in each E-mini Futures class I teach is to show the students a strategy and have them take it home and use it as a foundational starting point for defining their own strategy. Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=060410 Traders have always looked for a way to find out what a security they were interested in would trade during the day. Although pivot points cannot predict what will happen to a security for sure, they can spotlight important trading levels you will need to keep in mind. Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=052810 There is a misconception among some traders that every trade must have a winner and a loser. There is a great deal of misinformation out there and even some books published recently that incorrectly state that Forex trading is a zero-sum game. To clear up the confusion created by these inaccuracies, let's first understand the meaning of that phrase. Fri, 28 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=052110 I have always suggested and firmly believe that learning how to become a consistently profitable market speculator is not that difficult - at least the logic, rules and strategy aren't. The challenge comes in when you actually attempt to execute a consistently profitable strategy. Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=051410 As an active trader, you probably generally attack the market from every direction during the daylight hours but seldom focus on the evening hours of 6:00 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Time. However, trading volume in these evening hours often provides a glimpse into the direction of early morning prices. Fri, 14 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=050710 In pattern trading, it is essential that one be able to identify where the pattern completes and enter as close as possible to the reversal point. This is especially important when you are keeping a tight grip on the amount of your trading capital at risk in any given position. Fri, 7 May 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=043010 My trading approach is mainly based on a method I created more than 20 years ago - integrated pitchfork analysis. I discovered this technique while I was searching for a trading approach that would work primarily in sideways markets but would also perform efficiently in trending markets. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=042310 Technical analysts follow hundreds of well known price patterns, ranging from "classical" bar chart patterns popularized through the writings of Robert Edwards and John Magee, to patterns based uniquely on Japanese candlestick and point-and-figure charts, to more specialized niche patterns, such as the Gartley pattern, Trader Vic 2B pattern and O'Neil's cup-and-handle pattern. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=041610 How do you identify likely intermediate tops in an up-trending market? Actually, it's a very simple concept that is very easy to understand and find on your charts. The originator of this price / volume pattern was Richard D. Wyckoff, a prolific trader in the early 1900s. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=040910 Can you define all of the forms of trading analysis in this article? Does it matter? Yes. The list included in this article is a partial list of the analytical tools that drive global market action on a daily basis and affect your bottom line. Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=040210 I became a chartist a little more than 20 years ago and have been using eSignal day in and day out for more than 16 years, longer than most I suspect. If there is one thing I or anyone else looking at the financial markets wants to know the most, it is the point at which an old trend has finished and a new one has begun -- as big a challenge now as it was back in the early 1990s. Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=032610 Short selling can be risky in the early phases of a correction, and you can't just flip over your long-side strategies and chase a falling market. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=031910 When you hear someone mention the A / D Line, you will probably think he or she is referring to the Advance / Decline Line, which has become a popular barometer of market action on television, as well as radio. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=031210 I'm sure, if you're like me, you have heard all the cliches. "History repeats itself," "Timing is everything," "Time is money," "Everything happens in 3's," and so forth. Well, every one of those statements is true regarding the markets, as well as life in general. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=030510 As human beings, we have certain built-in emotional characteristics. These have evolved - and rightly so - as survival mechanisms. Fear is one of these emotions. Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=022610 I spend most of my time trading and teaching others how to trade by way of my computer. But, I have conducted a multi-day Forex trading conference. My responsibility was to give a one-hour lecture and then lead three, three-hour live trading sessions. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=021910 As of the first writing of this article in September 2009, although the markets had been on the rise, trading volume was on the light side. More specifically, not only had it not kept pace, it continued on its downward descent. This mystified many market participants because it flies in the face of technical analysis. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=021210 Whenever the trader performs any trade, he or she shouldn't ignore the importance of the trading triad: Bollinger bands (BB), Elliott waves and pitchforks. Using these state-of-the-art professional trading tools in association with one another will not only reveal the best trades but will put the trader well ahead of the crowd. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=020510 The recent influx of new speculators in the Forex trading market has been met with a similarly pronounced outflow of existing traders. Extremely volatile market conditions have clearly been detrimental to many participants, and much of this effect relates to popular trading strategies in the market today. Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=012910 Very early on, on the first day of any class I teach, I write on the white board these two words in big bold print: EMBRACE RISK. It would seem that everyone looking to get involved in trading, whether on a full-time or part-time basis, understands that trading is a risky business, so embracing risk would be a given. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=012210 Ever wonder why you hear about so many fortunes being made and lost in the futures markets? Here is the answer "Leverage"! Let's look at this double-edged sword that we all live by each day of our trading careers. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=011510 Investing and trading are two very different activities. When we invest in something, whether property, personal property or some type of security, it is essential that we have a fundamental understanding of the investment. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=010810 Extreme Forex market volatility and major headlines have made Forex trading more popular than ever, but the lightning-quick influx of new traders has been matched by a similarly dramatic outflow of existing traders. Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2010/archive_index.aspx?date=010110 One offshoot of the extreme volatility that came with the global financial crisis is that many private traders are now looking beyond simple strategies, such as buying shares. Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=122509 So, what exactly is the best way to grab profits from the important and often explosive world of commodities? Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=121809 Like so many other things in life -- trading involves progressing through various necessary stages of learning. This happens regardless of whether we are conscious of the process or not. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=121109 Many of us have read through a textbook that has explained how different indicators are categorized and belong to "indicator families", but it is easy to forget how these indicators typically work together. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=120409 I'm going to open the door to a "secret society" for you today. Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=112709 Today, we are going to discuss the law of Physics mentioned in the title of this article and look at a simple application of it in trading. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=112009 Seasonal analysis has long been the domain of professional traders, but over the last decade or so it has slowly been picked up by the private investor. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=111309 Moving averages are perhaps the most popular and widely known of all technical indicators. Virtually every charting software package includes them. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=110609 Learning the intuitive approach, true as ever, in the practice of profitable trading, just might catapult the trader's efficiency well ahead of the crowd's, due to the approach's global discernment or perception. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=103009 Trading success is made up of many factors, well planned and well practiced. Among the most important are the judicious use of stops, the downfall inherent in focusing on short-term performance to the detriment of long-term results, the three crucial factors in risk management and the primacy of risk management in ultimate success. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=102309 This article is written to benefit the individual, independent trader. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=101609 Modern markets support a variety of time-based strategies. At one end of the spectrum, day traders throw money at trends that come and go in minutes. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=100909 Every trader needs limits. Unfortunately, one of the things that attract us to trading in the first place is total control because, when we trade, no one tells us what to do or when to do it. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=100209 I have always suggested and firmly believe that learning how to become a consistently profitable market speculator is not that difficult. The logic, rules and strategy are certainly not rocket science. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=092509 Across the three trading settings (bearish, sideways, bullish) is a simple moving average or a crossover moving average the better indicator of future performance? Most articles describe the effectiveness of using different indicators without discussing the specific trading environment. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=091809 Most traders and investors at one time or other have fallen into the "confidence" trap. Sometimes, it's the result of believing in the infallibility of their research. Other times, it's due to having a presumed "hot" hand -- they think they've finally got the game figured out and can do no wrong. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=091109 Regardless of how good your trading and analytical skills might be, there are going to be times when you are flat out wrong about what the market is going to do next. No trading methodology works all the time. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=090409 In the Part 1 of 2 of this article, I discussed one of my favorite types of trades, the backspread. In this article, I'm going to talk about the other side of that trade, the ratio vertical spread. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=082809 One of my favorite types of trades is called the backspread. It's another one of those trades with which you can make money in several different ways, but like every other trade and strategy that I know, it's not foolproof -- you can also lose money. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=082109 If you had been entrusted to manage a mutual fund and were able to consistently return 15% a year for investors, it is probably accurate to say that you would be widely known on Wall Street and a frequent guest on CNBC. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=081409 Without a precise strategy, there won't be any profitable trades. The trader should be aware that determining trading strategy comes after the other two essential trading stages -- the psychological and risk and money management. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=080709 The other day, I was spending time with a friend of mine I have been close with since we were children. For years, any time my career came up in conversation, he insisted that my trading career is nothing more than gambling. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=073109 Now, we can re-write the ending to the movie Trading Places. Billy Ray and friends find out that the Duke brothers will obtain the Orange Juice Report in advance. Wanting to thwart the Dukes, they chase after the report just as in the original movie. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=072409 If the Accountant is rock as the Analyst is light, then the Trader must be water. In the changing weather of any given trading day, he finds himself immersed alternately in opposing emotional states not of his own making or design, and certainly not of his chosen intent. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=071709 Effective research is the foundation for a good trading plan. To conduct your research, you are going to have to make some assumptions about the best way to trade a market. How does one go about making these initial assumptions? Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=071009 There are numerous approaches to successfully trading the markets. Some methods attempt to capture trends while others seek to capture trend reversals. There is a time and a place for both. Some traders follow carefully scripted trading systems that leave nothing to chance whereas other "free spirits" have varying degrees of discretion within their approach to the market. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=070309 Over the past eight years, I have attended numerous trading workshops and conferences, read dozens of books on trading and many more magazines and newspapers. I've also had the opportunity to spend time with top traders and trading educators in a variety of settings. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=062609 As most of us know, a pitchfork can't be constructed without knowing the exact location of the anchor (P0 pivot) and the P1 and P2 pivots, which will dictate the size and the slope of the P1 - P2 swing. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=061909 Many books and articles have been written on how the right attitude is critical for successful trading and how improving your trading results first requires a shift in awareness. One of the most repeated messages in lectures and seminars on how to change your psychology is to focus on what you want -- because what you focus on is exactly what you will experience more of. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=061209 One of the phenomena that many traders and investors try to avoid, and with good reason, is bear and bull traps. These can best be defined as brief breaks of support / resistance before the market returns to its existing range. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=060509 Portfolio testing is a method of testing a particular strategy (or group of strategies) on a portfolio of symbols, thereby, generating a performance report for that portfolio. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=052909 Looking at a chart of the XLF (the ETF for the financial services sector), we can see that the demand (support) level suggested that this would be a low risk area to buy the XLF for a bounce, not a long-term trade. Fri, 29 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=052209 Although the universe of trading strategies is as wide and varied as the number of traders, orthodox technical analysis can be summarized simply as the forecasting of markets through the study and analysis of data generated exclusively from the buying and selling of financial instruments. Fri, 22 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=051509 We know now what will become of us should the Accountant be left to his own devices. Anything that involves change threatens his comfort. Seeking to end all changes, he will gamble us into bankruptcy; a change to end all changes. And, yet, it is his will to remain the same that builds the repository of our memory. Fri, 15 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=050809 We know what the Analyst is capable of when left to his devices. Seeking to attain glory for its own sake, he will eventually bring us down in ruination. And, yet, without him, that which separates us from all other life, something essential to our very soul, is gone forever. Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=050109 Most traders have an Accountant's belief in an efficient market. They believe that news events and specific fundamentals developments determine the outcome of the market from move to move. Fri, 01 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=042409 Traders are attracted to trading news events because they expect sharp moves in price action that, if traded successfully, can provide the opportunity for quick and sizeable wins. Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=041709 When a novice trader enters the highly competitive field of trading, he or she should be aware that a new trader is up against the finest, sharpest and toughest minds in business. Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=041009 Everyone is a chart reader these days, but this venerable practice isn't as easy as it looks. That's because there are just a few ways to make money and a thousand ways to be wrong. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.aspx?date=040309 The Accountant believes in Efficient Market Theory - that news events, policy changes and fundamental developments push pricing back and forth, and that these things are often unpredictable and the outcome of geo-political contests, lunging first in one direction, then another, stumbling along, blown about by the foibles of democratic man. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=032709 The Analyst's position in the world is that he already knows. He'll never admit not knowing how to do something. It's akin to the phenomenon of refusing to ask for directions. If you worked at a commodity brokerage firm as a broker when the Analyst called you to open an account, and you asked him if he'd ever traded futures before, he'd go off on some tangent about having traded stocks for years. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=032009 The Analyst wants to control your impression of him. He defines himself in the reflection of your eyes. He needs affirmation. Without your acknowledgement of him being right, he isn't right. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=031309 Over the course of my 20 years in the professional trading arena, poker business and sports odds making, I found that certain qualities seem to be common among the successful. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=030609 How many of you out there have heard something about time and price being equivalent? Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=022709 Given the importance of the trigger line, we will dedicate an entire article to this subject. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=022009 What makes you think you have the discipline to be one of the 5% of day traders who succeed? Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=021309 It takes discipline to be a good trader. It also takes courage. Need both? Get a trading coach. Better yet, coach yourself. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=020609 In this current, free-falling market, trending indicators are still sending accurate signals. These continuation patterns perform best in a stormy market because they encourage trading at the onset of a downward trending market by placing lines above as well as below the existing price of an instrument. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=013009 In Part 1 of this article, we outlined some of the distinctions you can look for in a Head and Shoulders pattern beyond the simple higher high and lower high that most retail traders fixate on. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=012309 The Head and Shoulders price pattern is one of the most well known patterns in trading. Its popularity is likely due to its visual simplicity. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=011609 We all dream of the perfect indicator, one that would be the "idiot" camera as far as trading is concerned. This would get us in on a move at the bottom and get us out at the top. However, the cruel reality is that some indicators work very well some of the time, and others work moderately well all of the time. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=010909 Trading may not be rocket science, but the path to success at it may seem just as complicated at times. Fortunately, you can do some things to cut down the considerable learning curve. Start by writing an effective trading plan. Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.esignallearning.com/education/marketmaster/archive/2009/archive_index.asp?date=010209 It's times like these when knowing your risks (Greeks) could save the day. Well, prepared options traders should be able to weather the storms quite well and, in fact, look at the increased volatility as an opportunity. Stock traders just using options for increased leverage may experience a different fate. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT