Trading With The Specialist: The Smart Money Edge
Christopher Tyler
What is the edge that specialists have and how can you as a trader make use of that edge? TM member and professional trader Chris Tyler explains how. (more)

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How To Use TM's Indicators: TM's Nightly Plan Of Attack For Daytraders
Eddie Kwong
Here is a game plan that will enable you to get a handle on the short-term direction of the overall market, find the best stocks in the best sectors, and the weakest stocks in the worst sectors. (more)

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How To Use TM's Indicators: Strongest And Weakest Sectors Of The Past Five Days
Daniel Beighley
Daytraders, swing traders and intermediate-term traders alike benefit from keeping up to date with sector strength and weakness. Making the analysis part of your trading routine will ensure that nothing slips past you, as you will always be alert to shifts in the market. (more)

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How To Use TM's Indicators: The Market Bias Page
Daniel Beighley
Indicators that identify potential directional bias in the overall market can help traders stay alert to short-time reversals. (more)

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How To Find Stocks With Intraday Momentum In A 'Momentumless' Market
Duke Heberlein
In this lesson I will show you a systematic plan of attack that I use for finding hidden gems when the market is lacking momentum. (more)

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What Historical Market Patterns Can Teach Us About The Present
Daniel Beighley
Nothing is ever a given in the markets. The markets will do whatever they do, but sometimes it is a good idea to take a step back and take a look at the -- really -- big picture. (more)

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How To Tell The Difference Between A Bear Market Rally And A Real Bear Market Bottom
Gary Kaltbaum
Studying bear markets and their transition back to a bullish stance is, I believe the key to telling the difference between fake rallies vs. real ones. Let's go over a few characteristics and then try to put the pieces together for today's market. (more)

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How To Time The Market -- Without Market Timing
Tim Truebenbach
Market timing is often confused with having a sound discipline. In my analysis, market action is only an “all-clear” to buy stocks that fulfill a regimented list of rules. (more)

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In Trending Markets, Use These Candlestick Continuation Patterns
Tsutae Kamada
Continuation candlesticks -- such as the Rising Three and Falling Three Methods -- can help detect when strong or weak stocks are taking a rest. (more)

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The Best Trades Of The Pros
Brice Wightman
What was your best trade ever? Find out how TradingMarkets contributors had to say on this topic. (more)

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How I Stalk And Pounce On Evening Star Formations
Carolyn Lueck
In this lesson, I'd like to share a candlestick pattern that I watch for quite frequently in my trading: the Evening Star formation. (more)

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Hammer And Hanging Man: Two Guys You Want On Your Side
Tsutae Kamada
In this lesson, I show you how effectively "Hammer" and "Hanging Man" candlestick formations can be at providing us with reversal signals -- especially when they appear in important price areas. (more)

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Tails Seldom Fail -- Thoughts On One Of My Favorite Patterns
Goran Yordanoff
As Japanese candlestick method puts great significance on the relationship between opening price and closing price, the tail is an extremely important occurrence when analyzing charts because it reveals an area of price that was visited during the time frame under analysis, but was unsustainable (more)

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What Every Trader Should Know About Economic Indicators
Vincent Mao
Each month the release of key economic data can certainly make an impact on the financial markets. In this lesson, I will introduce you to some of the most important economic indicators and show you how to interpret the data as well as how you can trade off the data. (more)

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Clarifying The Long-Term Outlook Using Candlestick Charts
Tsutae Kamada
Traders can be so busy looking for daytrading opportunities that they become trapped in short-term frames. A bigger picture can be a great help in focusing on your destination. (more)

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Season Of The Swing
Alan Farley
Can you feel the winds of change? (more)

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Sentiment Indicators I Could Not Live Without
Gary Kaltbaum
This is probably a great time to write about some of the other sentiment indicators that I watch. (more)

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Combining ADX with RS to Find Intermediate-Term Trades
Loren Fleckenstein
While I don't use indicators to time trades, I've found them useful in refining my database scans for basing stocks. One useful technique is combining low Average Directional Movement Index (ADX) readings with high RS scores for long trades and low RS scores for shorts (more)

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Entry Patterns At Alert Zones
Kevin Haggerty
The primary purpose of this lesson is to give you something to keep on your desk which illustrates the most common Reversal Bar Patterns that most often precede a move in the opposite direction. (more)

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Prelude to a Bull; Top Indicators to Watch
Tony Crescenzi
Some of most historically reliable indicators are flashing bullish signals. (more)

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My Favorite Warning Signs of Climax Tops
Loren Fleckenstein
You don't need to be an options trader to take advantage of extremes in crowd sentiment. The climax run represents a critical selling stage where the trader can sidestep steep losses and lock in a rare windfall before a highflier breaks apart. (more)

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How I Gauge Market Direction by Watching Individual Stocks
Loren Fleckenstein
Traders first learn to use chart patterns to time buy and sell decisions on individual stocks. But don't miss the forest for the trees. The time you spend combing the charts for trades also can furnish you with an invaluable gauge of the overall market. (more)

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Four Rules For Spotting And Exploiting News Reversals
Daniel P. Delaney
Just turn on the TV or walk up to a magazine rack, and it becomes clear that the business of reporting financial and business news has changed dramatically over the last decade. (more)

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Scaled Buying: How One Professional Hedge Fund Manager Does It
Greg Kuhn
It takes demand, or buying pressure, to move a stock higher. (more)

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The Characteristics Of Opening Reversals
Kevin Haggerty
Many traders wonder if they should trade on the opening, or if there are specific strategies that exploit market activity unique to the opening. Here is one proven approach. (more)

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When Markets Talk To You, Don't Just Sit There
Larry Connors
One of the best trading edges you can get is to listen to the markets when they talk to you. Last Thursday, April 1, was one of those times. (more)

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Cup-and-Handle Trading Techniques For Swing Traders
Dave Landry
The cup-and-handle is a reversal pattern that frequently precedes big rallies. Here, we show you how this pattern is formed, as well as how to enter trades and limit your risk in these situations. (more)

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