How To Reduce Your Risk By Trading With Zones

Todd Gordon

This strategy will keep you from paying "retail" prices and put you on the "wholesale" side of the trade. (more)

How I Trade Reversals

Vincent Mao

In this lesson, I'll present you with a methodology to trade potential trend reversals. This method of identifying and trading potential reversals is nothing new. It's a comprehensive method that incorporates price, pattern, and time. (more)

A Technique For Trapping Pullbacks

Dan Chesler

Trader Dan Chesler teaches you his strategy in which he uses indicators to quickly zero in on short-term pullback patterns. (more)

Trading With The Specialist: The Smart Money Edge

Christopher Tyler

What is the edge that specialists have and how can you as a trader make use of that edge? TM member and professional trader Chris Tyler explains how. (more)

Getting Started In Momentum-Based Swing Trading

Dave Landry

Here are some of the highlights of TraderTalk, a live, interactive workshop conducted for TradingMarkets members by Dave Landry on Jan. 16, 2002. (more)

How To Add A Layer Of Discretion To Your Swing Trading

Dave Landry

The market doesn't always conform to specific rules. This lesson shows you a few ways in which discretion can be used to help improve your swing trading. (more)

Achieve Better Trading Results By Mastering Probability

Don Miller

Success in trading is far more dependent upon the understanding, acceptance and application of probability principles than any other facet. (more)

Learning From A Loss

Dave Landry

A loss is not a total loss, as long as something is learned. (more)

My Strict Buying Criteria For Uncertain Markets

Tim Truebenbach

Having trouble making the kind of money you believe you should be making? Maybe it is time to go back to the beginning. (more)

How To Trade Where The Action Is...Every Day

Brice Wightman

Even if you are successful in predicting direction of a move, unless you get meaningful movement, you won't be getting the most out of your trade. This lesson shows you how to find the most volatile stocks. (more)

A Practical Guide To Developing And Identifying Systems That Work

Dave Landry

Based on some of the more common pitfalls I have encountered in developing systems over the years, this lesson is slanted toward traps associated with researching a “mechanical” edge, but these concepts can (and should) also be applied to more discretionary methods too. (more)

What Historical Market Patterns Can Teach Us About The Present

Daniel Beighley

Nothing is ever a given in the markets. The markets will do whatever they do, but sometimes it is a good idea to take a step back and take a look at the -- really -- big picture. (more)

How To Tell The Difference Between A Bear Market Rally And A Real Bear Market Bottom

Gary Kaltbaum

Studying bear markets and their transition back to a bullish stance is, I believe the key to telling the difference between fake rallies vs. real ones. Let's go over a few characteristics and then try to put the pieces together for today's market. (more)

The Discipline Behind Translating Market Analysis Into Results, Part II

Mark Douglas

Part II explores the limitations of technical indicators and some of the psychological barriers to making better trading decisions. (more)

The Discipline Behind Translating Market Analysis Into Results, Part III

Mark Douglas

Part III explores the consequences of putting too much faith in technical indicators and offers ways out of the psychological morass that can result. (more)

Finding Hidden Setups Using Advanced Divergence Strategies

Vincent Mao

Trading simple divergences has been the cornerstone of many a trader's arsenal. However, when several types are used simultaneously, they can reveal not only changes in direction, but the strength of a stock's trend and whether or not it will continue. (more)

My Most Valuable Trading Lesson

Dave Landry

The shortest trading lesson I’ve every written. It has no charts, patterns, systems or money management techniques but was the most valuable lesson in my trading career. (more)

Trading The FDA, Part I

Paul Ruggieri, MD

The road to getting a new drug approved offers several stops along the way. In Part 1 of this lesson, I show you where these stops are and the opportunities they present for investors to take advantage of potential movement in the biotech sector. (more)

Trading The FDA, Part II

Paul Ruggieri, MD

Once the news is out, enthusiasm for FDA New Drug Applications can be short-lived as investors lose interest. Part II explores choppy patterns as opportunities to plan early entry and exit points, focusing on the biggest prize of all, the FDA approval meeting date. (more)

How To Use Put/Call Ratios To Identify Potential Moves In Individual Stocks

Daniel Beighley

When I make my trading decisions, I like to know everything I can about what I’m getting into. I place a lot of emphasis on my charts, but they don’t always tell the whole story. Using the put and call ratios for options can reveal a lot about the potential price action for common stock. (more)