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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
System Trading and Sanity Testing with Trader Michael Boyd
Michael Boyd is a senior equity and options trader who specializes in
quantitative strategies. He has worked for market makers as well as on the NYSE
floor and was among the first traders to help create and use trading algorithms.
In Part One of our conversation with Mike Boyd, we discuss his entry into the
trading world back in the early 1990s, right before the beginning of the
technology boom, and how the financial crises in 1997 and 1998 helped him
develop a healthy respect for quantitative analysis - and caution in the face of
its short-comings.
How to Choose the Best Volatility Trading Strategy for ETFs and Stocks
This lesson from Larry Connors contains the answer to a question that many traders ask him:
What volatility strategy does Larry like best?"
5 Steps to Successful Day Trading, Part 2
To succeed at day trading, you have to know more than just a chart pattern. You
start with the big picture in order to drill down and filter out the very best
stocks to apply your strategy to. Here's how.
How to Stay Objective in Your Trades
One of the greatest challenges that traders have is to not allow emotions to
cloud their judgment. This is especially difficult when live trades move
adversely. Learn a technique from Dr. Doug Hirschorn that can help you keep your
mind clear and so you can reassess every moment objectively.
Intraday Trading High-Quality Stocks, Part 2
If you're looking to maximize the probability of success whenever you trade,
here's a lesson that will help you find stocks with favorable characteristics
that can work in combination with any strategy you're already using.
Popular Past Articles
Trading and Hedging Risk with Steve Temes of Lincoln Capital, Part 1 and
Part 2
Steve Temes has been trading stocks and options successfully for more than 20
years.
In this interview,
Steve talks about what traders need to do in terms of risk management to deal
with the unprecedented levels volatility that has recently hit the markets.
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."
Good luck and successful trading!
Eddie Kwong
Executive Vice President
TradingMarkets
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