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Trading Systems - A Complex World with Simple Answers
by Sam Seiden - Nov 17, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.7 (44 ratings)
One of the many recipients of faster and stronger technology is system trading. In the world of professional money...
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Trading on Borrowed Time - Part 2
by Jea Yu - Sep 15, 2008
Avg. Rating: 9.0 (53 ratings)
Part 2 of last weeks article. Most day traders are going to blow out their accounts, they just don’t know it yet. The...
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Trading on Borrowed Time - Part 1
by Jea Yu - Sep 8, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.9 (45 ratings)
Any trader, including you, could at some point find yourself in a proverbial minefield with huge intra day losses. In a...
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Trading Plan Tips
by Sam Seiden - Sep 1, 2008
Avg. Rating: 7.2 (32 ratings)
I can honestly say that I have never met or seen one trader be able to sit down in front of a screen each morning without...
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Top Ten Tips for Traders
by Malcolm Pryor - Aug 4, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.5 (68 ratings)
In order to be a successful trader – and not fall into the trap of so many – it is important to take good advice and...
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Avoid Stress when Managing Exits
by David James Bennett - Jul 21, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.1 (21 ratings)
Traders spend most of their time researching setups for trade entries. However, if finding good entries is the most...
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Break Free of Old Trading Ideas
by Richard Ratchford - Jun 9, 2008
Avg. Rating: 3.5 (13 ratings)
Should old and proven ideas ever be pushed aside? Or are the old 'tried and tested' methods the best? What...
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Trading the Morning Gap
by Sam Seiden - Apr 28, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.1 (69 ratings)
One of the lowest risk and highest reward trades each day is typically the opening gap entry. It can be a fantastic...
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The Objective Filter for an Oscillator
by Sam Seiden - Mar 17, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.1 (50 ratings)
You can spend a lifetime attempting to come up with the perfect set of indicators and oscillators with the perfect set of...
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Trading and Time
by Sam Seiden - Feb 18, 2008
Avg. Rating: 5.0 (22 ratings)
In this article we look at a trade taken on XLF which is the ETF for the financial service sector. Demand (support) level...
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Paper Trading and the Transition to Real Money Trading
by Barry Lutz - Feb 11, 2008
Avg. Rating: 8.4 (52 ratings)
Paper trading is widely discussed regarding its merits, and whether it is of value to a trader as they try to make the...
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How to Develop a Profitable Day Trading Strategy
by Markus Heitkoetter - Dec 31, 2007
Avg. Rating: 7.3 (70 ratings)
In this article Markus looks at five steps that will guide a new trader to develop a day-trading strategy.
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Backtesting and Data Mining
by Scott Percival - Dec 24, 2007
Avg. Rating: 8.0 (20 ratings)
In this article we look at two related practices that are widely used called Backtesting and Data Mining. These are...
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Portfolio Diversification: Truth vs Myth
by Sam Seiden - Dec 17, 2007
Avg. Rating: 8.0 (14 ratings)
Are you like many investors who go to sleep each night feeling safe and secure because their investment portfolios are...
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Objective Rule Based Trading
by Sam Seiden - Nov 19, 2007
Avg. Rating: 8.2 (27 ratings)
Does your trading lack the "trader's edge" needed to be a consistent winner in the markets? Do you find...
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Important Rules to follow
by Sam Seiden - Oct 22, 2007
Avg. Rating: 7.7 (28 ratings)
The most important thing in any type of trading is to have a set of rules and the self control to follow those rules....
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The Parable of Uncle Joe - How the Stock Market Really Works.
by Anna Coulling - Oct 15, 2007
Avg. Rating: 7.6 (30 ratings)
Uncle Joe widget factory does good business until a rival company set up in the neighbourhood selling cheaper widgets....
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Trading Discipline - Do you Have It?
by Richard Ratchford - Sep 24, 2007
Avg. Rating: 7.4 (24 ratings)
What is discipline in trading? Do you have it and are you able to follow a simple set of rules - or do you deviate from...
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What is Expectancy?
by Chris Perruna - Aug 13, 2007
Avg. Rating: 7.9 (15 ratings)
When traders talk about the 'Positive Expectancy' of a strategy or system, what is it that they mean? In this...
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A Day in the Life of a Trader
by Anna Coulling - Jul 30, 2007
Avg. Rating: 5.6 (24 ratings)
So you've decided to start work as a trader. But now you've got all day how should you go about structuring your...



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