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

Living the Dream: Trading Stocks with Charles Kirk of The Kirk Report


For years the average Joe or Jane Trader has had an advocate and an inspiration
in Charles Kirk, trader, author and publisher of The Kirk Report. How was
Charles Kirk able to become one of the fortunate few who make their daily bread
solely from the sweat of their stock trading acumen? You'll find out in this
week's Big Saturday Interview.

Fighting Your Way Out of A Losing Streak

If you've been trading for awhile, you've probably had to endure the pain of a
bad series of trades. In this article, S&P trader Larry Levin gives you his
personal advice for making a comeback and getting your trading back on track.

Knowing the Real Odds of Successful Options Trading

Many options traders look at the huge leverage that options offer and they allow
their fantasies of instant wealth to cloud their judgment. Here is a sobering
article from Ken Trester which will help you to not go over overboard on your
position size the next time you buy puts or calls.

9 Steps to Avoid Overtrading the Choppy Markets

Overtrading is the most common temptations among traders, even those who are
seasoned professionals. Nazy Massoud shares with you her strategies to prevent
overtrading.

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."

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.

Good luck and successful trading!

Eddie Kwong

Executive Vice President

TradingMarkets