Newsletter Archives 2009
December 30, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Don't Be a Blind Donor
- Stocks: Your Friend...The Trend!
- Forex: When a Little Becomes a Lot...
- Options: What is the Accuracy of the January Barometer?
- Commodities: It's All About You
- Real Estate: The Value of Mentorship
- Specialty Skills: Trading to Win
December 22, 2009
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- Feature Article: The Many Ways to Benefit from Proper Supply and Demand Analysis
- Stocks: Keeping an Eye on the Big Boys: Part 2
- Forex: The New Trader's Survival Guide
- Options: Where is the Santa Clause Rally?
- Commodities: Checklist for Successful Trading
- Real Estate: Dubai Real Estate and Its Connection to the U.S.
- Specialty Skills: The Thought is Father to the Deed: Change Your Thinking to Change Your Trading Results
December 15, 2009
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- Feature Article: Out-Thinking Your Competition
- Stocks: Keeping an Eye on the Big Boys!
- Forex: The Flaws in the System
- Options: Look to the Left
- Eminis: A Laissez-faire Approach To Exiting Trades
- Real Estate: Tax Tips and Strategies for 2009 and 2010
- Specialty Skills: Stop Trading from Fools Rules and Reprogram Yourself for Success
December 08, 2009
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- Feature Article: Important Questions Answered on Trading Styles
- Stocks: All I Really Needed to Know About Trading, I Learned in the Boy Scouts!
- Forex: US Dollar Destiny
- Options: Dutiful Delta and the Gamut of Gammas
- Eminis: Buy the Dips, Sell the Rips
- Real Estate: Real Estate Appraisals and the New Rules that Have Shaken Up the Industry
- Specialty Skills: Two Sides of the Trading Coin that Can Bring You Profit
December 02, 2009
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- Feature Article: Three Ways to Speculate the Markets, Which is Best For You?
- Stocks: Global Meltdown Part Two?
- Forex: Do You Predict or Anticipate?
- Options: Powerful Lesson of a Painful Trade: Part II
- Commodities: Things were Going Well Until this Slump
- Real Estate: Habitat for Humanity - It's not a Handout, it's a Hand Up
- Specialty Skills: The Dual Brain, Your First Trading Computer
November 24, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Mixed Feelings
- Stocks: The Big Picture
- Forex: A Day in the Life of a Consistent Forex Trader
- Options: Powerful Lesson of a Painful Trade: Part I
- Eminis: The Trend is Your Friend - But in What Time Frame?
- Real Estate: News on Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension and Expansion
- Specialty Skills: The Power of Habits
November 17, 2009
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- Feature Article: Conventional Technical Analysis Strategies, A Flawed School of Thought
- Forex: When Trading Becomes Gambling
- Options: Vertical Spreads: Part V
- Commodities: Managing Your Trade with ATR
- Real Estate: Have We Seen the Bottom of the Commercial Real Estate Market?
November 10, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Properly Thinking the Forex Market
- Forex: Right Time, Right Market
- Options: Vertical Spreads: Part IV
- Eminis: Your Belief System is Highly Correlated with Your Results
- Real Estate: The Latest Indicators are Out and this Could be an Opportunity of a Lifetime
November 03, 2009
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- Feature Article: The Avocado
- Forex: A Little Something to Take the Emotion Out
- Options: Vertical Spreads: Part III
- Commodities: Handling Varying Types of Trading Days
- Real Estate: What is an REO? I Hear Rumors That They're Missing
October 27, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Market Traps, Novice Traders Beware
- Forex: Start as You Mean to Go On
- Options: Vertical Spreads: Part II
- Eminis: Questions, Responses, and Ruminations
- Real Estate: Basics of Non-conventional Loans and Their Impact
October 20, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Important Resources for Futures Traders
- Forex: Like Minds, Individual Approach
- Options: Vertical Spreads: Part I
- Commodities: Creating a Trading Journal that Speaks to You
- Real Estate: Basics of Conventional Loans and What Do Fannie and Freddie Have to Do With It
October 13, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: A Smart Trading Group, Getting Smarter
- Forex: Forex Fundamentals & News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Options: Scrutinizing an Option Trade
- Eminis: Discipline Transcends Trading
- Real Estate: The Latest Indicators are Out; So Where is the Residential Real Estate Market?
October 06, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Foolsville, Part 2
- Forex: Sun, Sea, Sangria and Hedging
- Options: Vertical Call or Vertical Put?
- Commodities: Components of a Personal Trading Plan
- Real Estate: $8000 Tax Credit for the Purchase of Real Estate – The Who, the How Long and the Why it's Good for Investors
September 29, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Questions and Answers – Things You May Want To Know
- Forex: It's All in Your Head Part 2: The Fear of Loss
- Options: Bad Ticks or Real Ones?
- Eminis: Trading Success Can Only Come from Loving to Lose Small and Win Big
- Real Estate: Savvy Investors Use Self-Directed Retirement Plans to Buy Real Estate
September 22, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Losing To Win, It's All In Your Perception
- Forex: When It's Time to Take a Break from a Great Relationship...
- Options: Verticals and Volatility
- Commodities: Some Tips on Using Average True Range
- Real Estate: TIC - Real Estate Without Daily Management
September 15, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Motion Into Mass
- Forex: It's All In Your Head...
- Options: Naked Chart Reading and Option Trading
- Eminis: One Year Removed
- Real Estate: Its History and Cycles
September 09, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Foolsville, Part 1
- Forex: Great Expectations
- Options: Placing a Horizontal Spread With TradeStation
- Eminis: Buy'em When They're Cry'n - Sell'em When They're Yell'n
- Real Estate: Loan Modification Misconceptions
September 01, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Where Most People Get It Wrong
- Forex: FX Trading as a Business or Hobby...You Decide
- Options: Premium Juice
- Commodities: Being Honest With Yourself
- Broad Market: An Uncomfortable Choice
August 25, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Why the Astute Market Speculator Loves Social Media
- Forex: What to Do If a Breakout Fails
- Options: A Married Put
- E-minis: Common Market Misconceptions Explained and Clarified
- Broad Market: The Statistical Recovery, Part Three
August 18, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Same Tools, Different Thoughts
- Forex: Beware of the Ponzi Trap in Forex
- Options: Placing a Vertical Spread with TradeStation
- Commodities: Exit Strategies
- Broad Market: The Statistical Recovery, Part 2
August 12, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: The Straight Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions
- Forex: Playing the Field When the Trend's Not Your Friend
- Options: Monitoring the I.V.
- Commodities: Timing Your Market Entry
- Broad Market: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
August 04, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Great Reflation Experiment
- Commodities: Selecting a Commodity to Trade
- Options: Interpreting the Option Chain
- Forex: New US-Specific Forex Regulations To Be Aware Of
- Feature Article: Pro-Active Financial Management
July 29, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- E-minis: Summer Fun for Beachgoers, but not so much for E-mini Traders
- Options: Horizontals Gone Wild
- Forex: Strategies For Identifying Potential Breakouts in Low Volatility Forex Markets
- Feature Article: Breakout Entries
July 21, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Europe on the Brink
- Commodities: Handling Trading Pressure
- Options: Option Trading and Alert Setting
- Forex: Tracking Correlations Between Equities, Commodities, and Currencies
- Feature Article: Who Are You?
July 14, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Buddy, Can You Spare $5 Trillion?
- Options: Directional OTM Option Trading?!?
- Forex: Forex Web Resources
- Feature Article: Simple Logic Always Beats Complex Illusion
July 08, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Commodities: Knowing Yourself and Revenge Trading
- Options: Unwinding an Iron Condor
- Forex: More on Intraday Trends
- Feature Article: Demand and Supply and Your Nest Egg
June 30, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The End of the Recession?
- Commodities: Is it Time for a Checkup?
- Options: Still Going Sideways
- Forex: Short Term Forex Trading Tips And Tricks
- Feature Article: Frequently Asked Questions
June 23, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: This Time It's Different*
- E-minis: A Day in the Life of a New Trader
- Options: Horizontals Part II
- Forex: Rule-Based Forex Trading - Mechanical Strategies
- Featured Article: Pay Attention
June 16, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- E-minis: Lower Volatility Should Lead to Lowered Expectations
- Options: Horizontals: Part I
- Forex: The US Dollar Index
- Feature Article: Your Belief System is Your Trading Style
June 09, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The New, New Normal
- Commodities: Does Size Matter?
- Options: Iron Condor on the Quarterlies
- Forex: Types of Entries: Short the Breakdown & Short the Rallies
- Feature Article: A Year Long Journey, Lyndon is on His Way
June 02, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: This Way There Be Dragons
- E-minis: Animal Spirits: Not So Good for Day Trading, or Investing for that Matter
- Options: A Summer of Doji-ing Around
- Forex: Types of Long Entries Breakouts & Pullbacks
- Feature Article: Plan, Execute, and Then Go Do Something Else More Important Than Trading
May 27, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Paradox of Deficits
- Commodities: Commodity Seasonal Patterns
- Options: Spreads with Directional Bias
- Forex: Becoming a Complete Forex Trader
- Feature Article: Governing Dynamics and Trading Psychology
May 19, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Faith-Based Economics
- Commodities: Three Barriers to Prosperity to Be Aware of
- Options: The Extrinsic and Intrinsic Values of Option Premium
- Forex: Understanding Trending and Range Bound Markets
- Feature Article: Governing Dynamics
May 12, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Green Shoots or Dandelion Weeds?
- E-minis: Will the Recession Rally End When the Economy Recovers?
- Options: Disappointment, Discipline, and Domination
- Feature Article: Some Thoughts on Trading Psychology
May 05, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Sell in May and Go Away?
- Commodities: What Just Turned That Market?
- Options: Straddle and Strangles
- Forex: Forex Hedging, R.I.P.
- Feature Article: Advanced Price Action Analysis
April 28, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Back to the Future Recession
- Commodities: More to Trading than the Charts
- Options: Multiple Scenarios of Possible Outcomes
- Forex: Forex Q&A with Ed Ponsi
- Feature Article: Scanning for Opportunity, the Old-Fashioned Way
April 21, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Trend May Not Be Your Friend
- Commodities: Futures Trading Right Now and Where We Might Stop Tomo
- Options: Plan the Exit(s) Beforehand
- Forex: Did Someone Say "Carry Trade"?
- Feature Article: Identifying Turning Points Begins With Proper Focus
April 14, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Is That Recovery We See?
- E-minis: If You Can't Spot It, Don't Trade It
- Options: Reversed Dividends, Maximum Loss and Option Commissions
- Forex: My Name is Ed, and Im a Capitalist
- Feature Article: Potential Pitfalls For the New Trader
April 07, 2009
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- Broad Market: Deep Inside the Dow
- Commodities: Looking for Friends in All the Same Places
- Options: Option Trading and Psychology
- Forex: The Reserve Currency Debate
- Feature Article: News and Price, A Relationship Often Misunderstood
March 31, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Why Bother With Bonds?
- E-minis: The Gap: Fade or Play?
- Options: Bull Put, Right or Wrong?
- Forex: Forex Q&A with Ed Ponsi
- Feature Article: Three Ways to Managing Risk
March 24, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- John Mauldin: Solving the Housing Crisis
- Commodities: A View From the Top and the Bottom
- Options: Prolonging the Pain of a Bad Trade?
- Forex: Swiss Franc Goes Ballistic
- Feature Article: Real World Futures Trading in the Extended Learning Track (XLT)
March 17, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Swiss Start Their Engines
- E-minis: The Daily Loss Limit: A Key to Long-Term Survival
- Options: Bear Call Gone Bad
- Forex: It's Not That Complicated
- Feature Article: Back To Basics with Indicators and Oscillators
March 10, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Law of Unintended Consequences
- E-minis: Using Moving Averages as Trend Filters
- Options: Iron Condor Revisited
- Forex: Yen Suddenly Not So Tough
- Feature Article: Trading vs Gambling, Part 1
March 03, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Buy and Hope Investing
- Commodities: What Style of Trader am I?
- Options: Back to the Weeklies
- Forex: A Ray of Hope for Stocks?
- Feature Article: Q & A With Sam Seiden
February 24, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: While Rome Burns
- E-minis: A Discussion About Exit Strategies
- Options: Back to the Basics: Part 3
- Forex: Using Inter-Market Analysis to Trade Forex
- Feature Article: The Cycle of "IT", Part II
February 18, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Commodities: Pivot Point Analysis
- Options: Back to the Basics, Part 2
- Forex: Is Forex Trading a Zero-Sum Game?
- Feature Article: Gaps, Pro versus Novice
February 10, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Thoughts on the Continuing Crisis
- E-minis: Too Much Information Breeds Indecision
- Options: Back to the Basics
- Forex: Is the Dollar Doomed?
- Feature Article: Four Hundred Years and Still Burning
February 03, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Commodities: Stockpiling the Oil and Selling the Futures
- Options: Some Kind of Colorful Options
- Forex: The Fed and the Fib
- Feature Article: Market Timing in the Extended Learning Track (XLT) Course
January 27, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- E-minis: One Picture Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
- Options: Some Kind of Wonderful (Options)
- Forex: Beat Down on the Pound
- Feature Article: Three Ways To Reduce The Impact Of Emotion When Trading
January 20, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: The Endgame
- Commodities: Spread Trading - Less Risk and Improved Return on Investment
- Options: Iron Condors Versus Condor Spreads
- Forex: The Ruble is Rubble
- Feature Article: Setting the Trap
January 13, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: Forecast 2009: Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect
- Commodities: Goal Setting: As Important as Your Trading Plan
- Options: I.C. Explained
- Forex: Forex Basics and Beyond
- Feature Article: Short-Term Trading Tools
January 07, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Broad Market: 2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP
- Commodities: Helping to Push You Closer to Your "Edge"
- Options: Debit Spreads Versus Credit Spreads
- Forex: What I Did on My Winter Vacation