TradingMarkets Making Great Traders - The Best of This Week's Trading Lessons

TradingMarkets' mission is "Making Great Traders." Each week we publish trading strategies and research from many of the best professional traders and educators in the world.

Here are the best of the articles we published this week. We hope you enjoy them and prosper from them!

This Week's Top Lessons

Tom DeMark: Dedication and Discipline: Marketing Timing with Tom Demark
Tom DeMark has worked with many of the biggest names in our industry ranging from George Soros to Paul Tudor Jones. In this recent Big Saturday Interview, Tom explains that even though he is known for his technical indicators, his main area of focus is market timing strategies. Read this article and gain insights on how Tom determines when the market is ready to make the next big turn and how this impacts the decision making of every trader and investor.

9 Tips to Trading Without Emotion, Part 1
What separates the winners from the losers in the world of trading? Practically all professional traders would agree that success boils down mental discipline and the ability to control one's emotions during the heat of the trading battle. In this in-depth article from professional trader Markus Heitkoetter will teach you the 9 mental attributes of successful traders. You will learn how to develop and trade a system with unrelenting discipline..

How to Use Charts to Make Trading and Investing Decision, Part 1
If you use charts to help make your trading decisions, you'll want to learn from technical analyst Michael Kahn. In this article, Michael takes you through the basics and then leads you to an understand of how to detect quietly ranging markets that are about to explode higher.

A Strategy for Trading and Investing With Less Stress
The most important thing that AJ Monte learned in during his career as a profession trader was to minimize losses when he was wrong. While this is well-known advice, many traders believe that the only way take losses is to "tough it out." In this in-depth article, AJ will show you how position sizing is a far better and less stressful approach to take.

An Introduction to Dow Theory
While the Dow Theory was created at the turn of the 20th Century, it continues to be a far-reaching and influential reference point for today's traders and investors. In this article from David Goodboy, you will learn how the structure of market trends in today's markets continues follow the pattern laid out by the originator of the Dow Theory, Charles Dow.

Popular Past Articles

David Ryan: CANSLIM Trader Finds Profits in Patterns
David Ryan worked directly with legendary momentum trader William O'Neil decades ago. Now, in this recent interview you'll learn how he manages money by applying the core principles of CANSLIM, an approach which allowed him to end 2007 up 47%.

Predicting Stock Direction with the False Break Buy and Sell Pattern
Few traders are as well-known and respected as Larry Williams and this week we are very pleased that he has become a TradingMarkets contributor. In this article, Larry will teach you a simple chart pattern that has caught short-term explosive moves in both stocks and commodities. While the pattern looks very bearish to most traders, Larry will show how it can lead to strong runaway reversals to the upside.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets