Author: Jim Wyckoff

I’ve made an effort through the years to try to attend the quality seminars featuring the very best futures traders in the world. This type of trading and markets education allows a class-room type of learning environment,...

In the early part of the 20th century, Jesse Livermore was the most successful (and most feared) stock trader on Wall Street. He called the stock market crash of 1907 and once made $3 million in a single day. In 1929, Livermore...

Stock market and options trader Richard Lees has combined physics, pattern recognition and technical analysis to form several new “pH-Indicators” to guide him in trading. Lees is a money manager and president of...

Achieving success as a futures market trader can be a daunting proposition,most traders will agree. Given that premise, why would a successful, longtime futures trader like Joe DiNapoli reveal his trading secrets to the public?...

Many traders attempt to find the single-most “robust” trading strategy possible by looking for one set of rules which works for all markets. Such systems don’t take into account the fact that markets can change...

  All successful traders have one common, yet very important ingredient in their trading methodologies: a game plan. “When it comes to planning, many traders can be compared to the German army during World War...

No short-term trading system is perfect. However, having and using a system is critical for short-term trading success, say Howard Abell and Bob Koppel. “A successful short-term trading system must be profitable,...

“My work has gotten better due to simplifying my approach,” John J. Murphy, the veteran technical analyst, author and CNBC resident technical analyst, told a group of equities and futures traders attending the...

The S&P 500 futures market is a trading arena unto itself, which can accommodate many different trading styles, according to Linda Bradford Raschke, a well known trader, lecturer and president of LBR Group, Inc. “Not...

At some point in nearly everyone’s trading timelines, they wonder how their trading successes (or failures) compare with those of other traders. Wondering just how well you stack up to other traders in the industry is a...