Strategy: The word implies effective use of knowledge to achieve objectives, right? Especially in today's volatile market, if you want to be successful, you have to have strategies in spades.

So, read on and find out how that all-important word is the theme that runs throughout this fourth issue of Trading 101. From using options to get you through the bear market through strategic use of alerts to keep you abreast of opportunities to mind conditioning techniques to help you keep your head -- let this issue's topics teach you about effective strategies for successful trading.

	Here's what the fourth issue has to offer: In Trading Education, noted, avid investor Bernie Schaeffer, founder of Schaeffer's Investment Research, provides readers with a basic "primer" on options that describes what puts and calls are (with charts), along with a discussion on why investors / traders should consider options in their portfolios. Larry Jacobs' regular feature, Your Trading Office, takes us into the mind of the successful trader by looking at how mind conditioning can influence a trader's decision-making for better or worse. He also explores strategies for using mind conditioning to best advantage. Tips and Tools of the Trade explains how strategic use of alerts is a powerful means to the end of making money in the markets. The last feature, Investor's Library, ties in well with Bernie Schaeffer's article by featuring a review on Options as a Strategic Investment by a recognized expert on options, Lawrence G. McMillan.

Issue 4 of Trading 101 is well worth the time it will take to peruse it. Remember: As Miyamoto Musashi (1584 – 1645) put it, "Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." Take a close look at what this issue reveals; it's on us!

Cynthia Crossland
Publisher

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