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November 17, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Conventional Technical Analysis Strategies, A Flawed School of Thought
- Spotlight on Forex: When Trading Becomes Gambling...
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Spreads: Part V
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: Right Time, Right Market
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Spreads: Part IV
- Spotlight on Futures: 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 3, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: The Avocado
- Spotlight on Forex: A Little Something to Take the Emotion Out
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Spreads: Part III
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: Start as You Mean to Go On
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Spreads: Part II
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: Like Minds, Individual Approach
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Spreads: Part I
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Fundamentals & News: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Spotlight on Options: Scrutinizing an Option Trade
- Spotlight on Futures: Discipline Transcends Trading
- Real Estate: The Latest Indicators are Out; So Where is the Residential Real Estate Market?
October 6, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Foolsville, Part 2
- Spotlight on Forex: Sun, Sea, Sangria and Hedging
- Spotlight on Options: Vertical Call or Vertical Put?
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: It's All in Your Head Part 2: The Fear of Loss
- Spotlight on Options: Bad Ticks or Real Ones?
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: When It's Time to Take a Break from a Great Relationship...
- Spotlight on Options: Verticals and Volatility
- Spotlight on Futures: 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
- Spotlight on Forex: It's All In Your Head...
- Spotlight on Options: Naked Chart Reading and Option Trading
- Spotlight on Futures: One Year Removed
- Real Estate: Real Estate: Its History and Cycles
September 9, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Foolsville, Part 1
- Spotlight on Forex: Great Expectations
- Spotlight on Options: Placing a Horizontal Spread With TradeStation
- Spotlight on Futures: Buy'em When They're Cry'n - Sell'em When They're Yell'n
- Real Estate: Loan Modification Misconceptions
September 1, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Where Most People Get It Wrong
- Spotlight on Forex: FX Trading as a Business or Hobby...You Decide
- Spotlight on Options: Premium Juice
- Spotlight on Futures: Being Honest With Yourself
- The Broad Market: An Uncomfortable Choice
August 25, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Why the Astute Market Speculator Loves Social Media
- Spotlight on Forex: What to Do If a Breakout Fails
- Spotlight on Options: A Married Put
- Spotlight on Futures: Common Market Misconceptions Explained and Clarified
- The Broad Market: The Statistical Recovery, Part Three
August 18, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Same Tools, Different Thoughts
- Spotlight on Forex: Beware of the Ponzi Trap in Forex
- Spotlight on Options: Placing a Vertical Spread with TradeStation
- Spotlight on Futures: Exit Strategies
- The Broad Market: The Statistical Recovery, Part 2
August 11, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: The Straight Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions
- Spotlight on Forex: Playing the Field When the Trend's Not Your Friend
- Spotlight on Options: Monitoring the I.V.
- Spotlight on Futures: Timing Your Market Entry
- The Broad Market: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
August 4, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Pro-Active Financial Management
- Spotlight on Forex: New US-Specific Forex Regulations To Be Aware Of
- Spotlight on Options: Interpreting the Option Chain
- Spotlight on Futures: Selecting a Commodity to Trade
- The Broad Market: The Great Reflation Experiment
July 28, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Breakout Entries
- Spotlight on Forex: Strategies For Identifying Potential Breakouts in Low Volatility Forex Markets
- Spotlight on Options: Horizontals Gone Wild
- Spotlight on Futures: Summer Fun for Beachgoers, but not so much for E-mini Traders
July 21, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Who Are You?
- Spotlight on Forex: Tracking Correlations Between Equities, Commodities, and Currencies
- Spotlight on Options: Option Trading and Alert Setting
- Spotlight on Futures: Handling Trading Pressure
- The Broad Market: Europe on the Brink
July 14, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Simple Logic Always Beats Complex Illusion
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Web Resources
- Spotlight on Options: Directional OTM Option Trading?!?
- The Broad Market: Buddy, Can You Spare $5 Trillion?
July 8, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Demand and Supply and Your Nest Egg
- Spotlight on Forex: More on Intraday Trends
- Spotlight on Options: Unwinding an Iron Condor
- Spotlight on Futures: Knowing Yourself and Revenge Trading
June 30, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Frequently Asked Questions
- Spotlight on Forex: Short Term Forex Trading Tips And Tricks
- Spotlight on Options: Still Going Sideways
- Spotlight on Futures: Is it Time for a Checkup?
- The Broad Market: The End of the Recession?
June 23, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Pay Attention
- Spotlight on Forex: Rule-Based Forex Trading - Mechanical Strategies
- Spotlight on Options: Horizontals Part II
- Spotlight on Futures: A Day in the Life of a New Trader
- The Broad Market: This Time It's Different*
June 16, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Your Belief System is Your Trading Style
- Spotlight on Forex: The US Dollar Index
- Spotlight on Options: Horizontals: Part I
- Spotlight on Futures: Lower Volatility Should Lead to Lowered Expectations
June 9, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: A Year Long Journey, Lyndon is on His Way
- Spotlight on Forex: Types of Entries: Short the Breakdown & Short the Rallies
- Spotlight on Options: Iron Condor on the Quarterlies
- Spotlight on Futures: Does Size Matter?
- The Broad Market: The New, New Normal
June 2, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Plan, Execute, and Then Go Do Something Else More Important Than Trading
- Spotlight on Forex: Types of Long Entries – Breakouts & Pullbacks
- Spotlight on Options: A Summer of Doji-ing Around
- Spotlight on Futures: Animal Spirits: Not So Good for Day Trading, or Investing for that Matter
- The Broad Market: This Way There Be Dragons
May 27, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Governing Dynamics and Trading Psychology
- Spotlight on Forex: Becoming a Complete Forex Trader
- Spotlight on Options: Spreads with Directional Bias
- Spotlight on Futures: Commodity Seasonal Patterns
- The Broad Market: The Paradox of Deficits
May 19, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Governing Dynamics
- Spotlight on Forex: Understanding Trending and Range Bound Markets
- Spotlight on Options: The Extrinsic and Intrinsic Values of Option Premium
- Spotlight on Futures: Three Barriers to Prosperity to Be Aware of
- The Broad Market: Faith-Based Economics
May 12, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Some Thoughts on Trading Psychology
- Spotlight on Options: Disappointment, Discipline, and Domination
- Spotlight on Futures: Will the Recession Rally End When the Economy Recovers?
- The Broad Market: Green Shoots or Dandelion Weeds?
May 5, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Advanced Price Action Analysis
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Hedging, R.I.P.
- Spotlight on Options: Straddle and Strangles
- Spotlight on Futures: What Just Turned That Market?
- The Broad Market: Sell in May and Go Away?
April 28, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Scanning for Opportunity, the Old-Fashioned Way
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Q&A with Ed Ponsi
- Spotlight on Options: Multiple Scenarios of Possible Outcomes
- Spotlight on Futures: More to Trading than the Charts
- The Broad Market: Back to the Future Recession
April 21, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Identifying Turning Points Begins With Proper Focus
- Spotlight on Forex: Did Someone Say "Carry Trade"?
- Spotlight on Options: Plan the Exit(s) Beforehand
- Spotlight on Futures: Futures Trading Right Now and Where We Might Stop Tomorrow
- The Broad Market: The Trend May Not Be Your Friend
April 14, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Potential Pitfalls For the New Trader
- Spotlight on Forex: My Name is Ed, and I’m a Capitalist
- Spotlight on Options: Reversed Dividends, Maximum Loss and Option Commissions
- Spotlight on Futures: If You Can't Spot It, Don't Trade It
- The Broad Market: Is That Recovery We See?
April 7, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: News and Price, A Relationship Often Misunderstood
- Spotlight on Forex: The Reserve Currency Debate
- Spotlight on Options: Option Trading and Psychology
- Spotlight on Futures: Looking for Friends in All the Same Places
- The Broad Market: Deep Inside the Dow
March 31, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Three Ways to Managing Risk
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Q&A with Ed Ponsi
- Spotlight on Options: Bull Put, Right or Wrong?
- Spotlight on Futures: The Gap: Fade or Play?
- The Broad Market: Why Bother With Bonds?
March 24, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Real World Futures Trading in the Extended Learning Track (XLT)
- Spotlight on Forex: Swiss Franc Goes Ballistic
- Spotlight on Options: Prolonging the Pain of a Bad Trade?
- Spotlight on Futures: A View From the Top and the Bottom
- The Broad Market: Solving the Housing Crisis
March 17, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Back To Basics with Indicators and Oscillators
- Spotlight on Forex: It's Not That Complicated
- Spotlight on Options: Bear Call Gone Bad
- Spotlight on Futures: The Daily Loss Limit: A Key to Long-Term Survival
- The Broad Market: The Swiss Start Their Engines
March 10, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Trading vs Gambling, Part 1
- Spotlight on Forex: Yen Suddenly Not So Tough?
- Spotlight on Options: Iron Condor Revisited
- Spotlight on Futures: Using Moving Averages as Trend Filters
- The Broad Market: The Law of Unintended Consequences
March 3, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Q & A With Sam Seiden
- Spotlight on Forex: A Ray of Hope for Stocks?
- Spotlight on Options: Back to the Weeklies
- Spotlight on Futures: What Style of Trader am I?
- The Broad Market: Buy and Hope Investing
February 24, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: The Cycle of "IT", Part II
- Spotlight on Forex: Using Inter-Market Analysis to Trade Forex
- Spotlight on Options: Back to the Basics: Part 3
- Spotlight on Futures: A Discussion About Exit Strategies
- The Broad Market: While Rome Burns
February 18, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Gaps, Pro versus Novice
- Spotlight on Forex: Is Forex Trading a Zero-Sum Game?
- Spotlight on Options: Back to the Basics, Part 2
- Spotlight on Futures: Pivot Point Analysis
February 10, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Four Hundred Years and Still Burning
- Spotlight on Forex: Is the Dollar Doomed?
- Spotlight on Options: Back to the Basics
- Spotlight on Futures: Too Much Information Breeds Indecision
- The Broad Market: Thoughts on the Continuing Crisis
February 3, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Market Timing in the Extended Learning Track (XLT) Course
- Spotlight on Forex: The Fed and the Fib
- Spotlight on Options: Some Kind of Colorful Options
- Spotlight on Futures: Stockpiling the Oil and Selling the Futures
January 27, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Three Ways To Reduce The Impact Of Emotion When Trading
- Spotlight on Forex: Beat Down on the Pound
- Spotlight on Options: Some Kind of Wonderful (Options)
- Spotlight on Futures: One Picture Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
January 20, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Setting the Trap
- Spotlight on Forex: The Ruble is Rubble
- Spotlight on Options: Iron Condors Versus Condor Spreads
- Spotlight on Futures: Spread Trading - Less Risk and Improved Return on Investment
- The Broad Market: The Endgame
January 13, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Short-Term Trading Tools
- Spotlight on Forex: Forex Basics and Beyond
- Spotlight on Options: I.C. Explained
- Spotlight on Futures: Goal Setting – As Important as Your Trading Plan
- The Broad Market: Forecast 2009: Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect
January 7, 2009
- Issue Home Page
- Feature Article: Conventional Portfolio Diversification: Risk Disguised as Opportunity
- Spotlight on Forex: What I Did on My Winter Vacation
- Spotlight on Options: Debit Spreads Versus Credit Spreads
- Spotlight on Futures: Helping to Push You Closer to Your "Edge"
- The Broad Market: 2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP
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