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
Day Trading Options at Expiration with Jeff Augen, Part 1
Jeff Augen's research and trading experience in the world of options provides
traders of stocks, options and ETFs with a new understanding of the market
dynamics that unfold as options expiration day approaches and arrives. What
happens to implied volatility over the course of expiration day? What is the
best way to measure it? And how can traders trading options intraday take
advantage of the market behaviors that the mathematical models miss? These are
just some of the topics of our Big Saturday Interview with Jeff Augen.
What I Learned From the Best Trader I Have Ever Known
Money manager Walter Peters has known many traders over the years. However,
there is one trader that he considers to be the best trader he has ever known.
In his lesson, you will learn the nine things that were most instrumental in
this trader's success.
How I Trade Convertible Securities
With 30 years of experience in stocks and commodities, Steve Weitz I has
developed a methodology for trading convertibles. Find out how he both receives
income and obtains capital gains through an approach to trading that is not
commonly used.
Trades Most Futures Traders Overlook
Even though the E-minis are the dominant trading vehicle among today's futures
traders, some of most tradable opportunities in futures markets are in the
metals, grains and currencies. Here is an overview of where you can the action.
My Framework for Successful Trading
Here is an article by a full time trader which provides structured guidelines on
how to think and act during the heat of the trading battle.
Popular Past Articles
Big Saturday Interview: Andrew Lo of MIT's Laboratory for
Financial Engineering
Andrew Lo is the director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This weekend, he provides TradingMarkets
with his insights on trading and technical analysis. Perhaps most fascinating is
Andrew Lo's discussion of what he calls the Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH). Lo
calls his AMH "a new view of financial markets from a biological
perspective...within an evolutionary framework," and shows how this way of
thinking about market behavior may help to "reconcile many of the apparent
contradictions between efficient markets and behavioral expectations."
ETF Basics: A Conversation with Lisa Dallmer of NYSE Euronext
This weekend, our Big Saturday Interview features Lisa Dallmer, Senior Vice
President of ETF and Index Services at NYSE Euronext. You'll learn about the
relationship between stocks, mutual funds and ETFs, what long term investors
need to know about leveraged ETFs, and how the average trader or investor can
learn how to find the ETFs that will help them meet their short and long term
goals.
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets
