March 31, 2009

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Three Ways to Managing Risk

By Sam Seiden, Online Trading Academy Instructor

This week, I will cover in detail three important tools to reduce risk. The first is the proper use of protective stop orders, the second is proper position size, and the last but maybe most important tool is to keep losses small. Even the best traders lose from time to time, but what they also have in common is that they keep losses small.
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Spotlight on Forex
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Forex Q&A with Ed Ponsi

By Ed Ponsi, Online Trading Academy Forex Instructor

This week, we will look at two reader questions concerning the rally of the Euro in the past week and the current U.S. debt.
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Spotlight on OPTIONS
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Bull Put, Right or Wrong?

By Josip Causic , Online Trading Academy Options Instructor

This week, I will share one of our student's trades and discuss whether or not this trade is right or wrong.
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Spotlight on FUTURES
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The Gap: Fade or Play?

By Gabe Velazquez, Online Trading Academy E-Mini Instructor

What precisely is a gap? What causes one to happen? And most importantly, how should one trade a gap when it occurs? In this article, I'll answer these questions, and delve into identifying higher probability assessments for trading gaps.
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THE BROAD MARKET
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Why Bother With Bonds?

By John Mauldin, Global Markets Author

This week we look at a brilliantly done paper examining whether or not investors have gotten better returns from stocks over the really long run and not just the last ten years, when stocks have wandered in the wilderness. This will not sit well with the buy and hope crowd, but the data is what the data is. Then we look at how bulls are spinning bad news into good and, if we have time, look at how you should analyze GDP numbers.
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