10 Simple Rules to Boost Your Trading Performance

There's no denying this market has been tough, brutal even. As I write, the Dow Industrials are down more than 500 points. Congress is holding hearings on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. And even as the President signs a financial rescue package involving hundreds of billions in taxpayer money, problems in financial markets overseas in Europe and elsewhere seem to trump even our most desperate efforts to reverse the economic slowdown.

When it comes to trading, we won't pretend that we haven't taken our share of bruises in the past year. We've found this trading environment to be as tough as any we've faced as traders.

But we've also found something else: our approach to short term stock and ETF trading is working.

We have been profitable for the past five years and - even more gratifying - have been profitable in 2008. Moreover we've been profitable trading stocks in the short term using the same basic techniques and strategies that we've always used - and always shared with the trading public.

If ever there was a time to share what works in the markets, then that time is now.

Over the next two weeks we will focus on TradingMarkets 10 Trading Rules, each day focusing on one of the top 10 ways that short term traders in stocks, options and ETFs can improve their trading results and make more out of each trade - even (if not especially) in markets like these.

Make sure to spend some time with each of our features. The TradingMarkets 10 Trading Rules are at the foundation of our strategy for short term trading, a strategy that has kept us profitable for the past several years including 2008, a year that has proved challenging to the vast majority of traders.

And if you find the TradingMarkets 10 Trading Rules worthwhile, then take the next step and register for our Swing Trading College starting Tuesday, October 21. The Swing Trading College is one of the most popular courses we have ever offered and a variety of traders - from real-world professional money managers to end-of-day part-time traders - have taken advantage of our 14-week course to give their short term trading the extra tools - or major overhaul - they need in order to profit in volatile markets.

Click here to register for the Swing Trading College, starting Tuesday, October 21, 2008.

In the meanwhile, stay tuned for TradingMarkets' first installment of our TradingMarkets 10 Trading Rules: Rule #1: Buy New Lows, Not New Highs! today after the close!

Good luck and good trading!

David Penn is Editor in Chief at TradingMarkets.com.