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September 8, 2010
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Featured Article
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Perception vs Reality - Trade What is Real, Not What You Feel
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By Sam Seiden, Online Trading Academy Director of Education
Sam identifies and removes the veil of illusion from trading and investing in this week's article - he focuses on three major illusions in trading. He demonstrates that in trading and investing, those who view the markets through the eyes of reality, simply get paid from those who don't.
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STOCKS Article
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Making the Trade
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By Brandon Wendell, Online Trading Academy Senior Instructor and Trader Mentor
Brandon discusses how there is a simple and logistical way to sort through the market ebbs and flows and identify the highest probability, lowest risk trading opportunities.
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Forex Article[Back to Top]
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Dealing with the Squeeze
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By Sam Evans, Online Trading Academy XLT-Forex Trading Instructor
Sam talks about one of the most popular and respected technical indicators of all: Bollinger Bands. Specifically, he discusses the "Bollinger Squeeze."
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OPTIONS ARTICLE[Back to Top]
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Huge Swings in Volatility
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By Josip Causic , Online Trading Academy Options Instructor
How can the price of a stock increase and yet the premium on a call decrease? Josip addresses the topic of huge swings in the implied volatility on an individual stock. To show how this happens, he utilizes the CBOE's Option Calculator.
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FUTURES ARTICLE
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Chart Term Misconception & What Price Closes a Gap
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By Don Dawson, Online Trading Academy E-minis and Commodity Futures Instructor
While traveling around to different regions to instruct classes, Don has noticed that a couple of popular chart patterns have been incorrectly identified. Traditional technical analysis has fallen victim to the computer. Today, people can take any indicator or pattern and tweak it just a little bit and then attach another name to it. Unfortunately, this new name rarely makes the pattern or indicator any better, it just serves to confuse traders. Also, he addresses Futures closing prices and how they affect gap traders.
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REAL ESTATE ARTICLE
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Exploring the 10 Top Metro Areas to Buy Real Estate in the Next Few Years, Part II
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By Diana Hill, Real Estate Instructor
This week Diana continues Part II in her series and covers the next five markets that she feels are more likely to have steady, sustained growth.
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SPECIALTY SKILLS ARTICLE
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Turning Down the Noise in your Trading
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By Dr. Woody Johnson, Online Trading Academy Mastering the Mental Game and XLT Instructor
Noise happens all the time, even to seasoned traders; but, the difference between successful traders and the unsuccessful ones is that disciplined traders remain aligned in body, mind and emotions to access and activate internal resources that help them to stay in the now, and focused on what matters most in the trade. Dr. Woody discusses how not to allow the "noise" of the internal voices and the external talking heads to drown out the advice of your "A" Game as a trader.
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