Trading Tips & Tutorials For Online Traders

There are quite a number of trading “cons” floating around the internet and people are rightly concerned about getting sucked into one of them.  The Forex market seems to have a high number of “can’t miss” trading systems and the most aggressive marketing While these trading “cons” are so good… Read more

Trading indicators as a form of technical analysis are an important part of the trading system and strategy of many traders.  Whether traders are looking for a way to determine a trend or a buy/sell signal, technical indicators are the first line of offense that they use. I know we… Read more

You know what people are great at?  Talk.  I know you’ve had conversations with someone who rattled on about doing this…doing that…….and they actually were pretty convincing. You know what people are not great at?  Taking action.  I’m talking about the hundreds of hours (10,000??) spent diving headfirst into accomplishing… Read more

You have a trade plan but after years of experience you learn that trades of opportunity do present themselves.  These are trades that set up outside of the parameters of your trading plan and may violate some of your rules: You have completed your “Power of Quitting” trading goals for… Read more

Traders in our trade room took part in a rare Friday session trading Crude Oil futures on Friday July 7, to make up for my “fun in the sun”, earlier in the week. That brings up one of the major benefits of trading for a living:  I didn’t have to… Read more

Trading Crude Oil Futures can can be a challenge for sure but this is one tradeplan I will never miss, so long as I have my computer and an internet connection.  There are many wrong ways to trade crude oil futures but one of the right ways, one of the… Read more

One of the first indicators I ever experimented with was one developed by Gerald Appel in the late 1970s called the MACD indicator, otherwise defined as the moving average convergence divergence indicator. The MACD histogram was added in 1986. Right from the start I used it as a technical analysis tool,… Read more

One of the worst times to day trade is during the time when many traders take lunch and this is a good time for you to stand aside.  To go on further and elaborate a little on why I say this and to make the point, I wanted to focus… Read more

Ever hear that if you want a meaningful answer, you need to ask the right question? Asking questions in a general way will give you an answer that is not actionable. That is what you are looking for though. You want an answer that will give you a way to… Read more

The hard truth is that people are prone to mediocrity. They talk a good game but in the end, they fail to move forward with any plan on attaining what they dream of the most. Even worse, they tend to criticize those that have the guts to take a giant… Read more