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

Gil Morales Joins TradingMarkets 2008!
Gil Morales will be one of the 21 Best Traders in the World teaching and working with attendees at TradingMarkets 2008 this November. Gil started out as a stockbroker and later became one of the most successful money managers working for the legendary Bill O'Neil. By way of preview, here's the full and complete version of our conversation with Gil from earlier this year.

Candlestick Trading: The Basics of Bearish Engulfing Patterns, Part 1
In this trading lesson, full time trader Steve Palmquist teaches you how he trades downside reversals using the Bearish Engulfing Pattern. Do you want advance warning of potential sudden drops in the stocks you're following? Read and study this detailed lesson and prepare to be alerted of potential shorting opportunities.

What Role Does Gold Play in Your Portfolio?
During economic downturns, investors have traditionally fled to gold. Trader Peter Forth says it's not as simple as the "gold bugs" portray it as being. Read this article for his insights, plus get his take on the inverse correlation between bank stocks and gold stocks.

6 Facts That Give Forex Traders An Edge
Are you considering the possibility of learning how to trade Forex? If so, read this article and Austin Passamonte will teach you practical insights that every Forex trader should know (but which few do). 

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.

Popular Past Articles

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!

Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets