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

Dear Trader:

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

Trader Vic Joins TradingMarkets 2008!
Victor "Trader Vic" Sperandeo will be one of the 21 Best Traders in the World talking and working with traders at TradingMarkets 2008 this November. By way of preview, here's the full and complete version of our conversation with the Market Wizard and author of Methods of a Wall Street Master from earlier this year.

Opening and Closing Strategies for Professional Day Traders
With the advent of computers and electronic communication networks, today's pre- and after-hours markets are pulling investor's favor. TradingMarkets Select Contributor Don Bright, discuss strategies to best navigate these extended market hours.

Don Bright will be one of the featured presenters at TradingMarkets 2008 Conference November 14-16 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Don's presentation is titled "How to Trade for a Living in Only 30 Minutes A Day" and will feature his unique approach to arbitrage, pairs trading and other strategies used by professional day traders. For more information on Don Bright and TradingMarkets 2008, click here.

NZD/USD Staging a Legitimate Reversal
Of late, ichimoku analysis is an increasingly talked-about subject among traders, especially in the forex market. TradingMarkets contributor Chris Capre uses this classic analytic tool to understand and explain the curret trend in the NZD/USD.

Fringe Banking and Cash America International (CSH)
Fringe banking has grown substantially with millions of households with no banking relationship. For traders, the volatility within this consumer market, and especially with CSH, is worth taking a look at, says TradingMarkets contributor John Jagerson.

Foreign Exchange: A New Market to Explore
The FX market is proven to have low correlation with bond or equity market returns, making it an increasingly popular asset class for retail traders. So why haven’t more traders caught on to the opportunities in currencies? TradingMarkets Contributor Betsy Waters provides this primer on a market too many traders are missing.

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Some Trends, They Never End
Understanding trends in the marketplace is an important aspect of trading. TradingMarkets Contributor Michael Parness provides some sound advice the kinds of trends and tendencies that traders can count on quarter after quarter.

Determining the Short Term Direction of the Markets
TradingMarkets Contributor Kunal Vakil reminds us that fighting the trend is a quick recipe for losing your money. Become a winning trader by familiarizing yourself with these factors that significantly affect market direction.

Good luck and successful trading!

David Penn
Editor
TradingMarkets