Free Your Mind…
Hello traders! This week’s topic is, again, on the somewhat difficult side. In every Online Trading Academy class that I teach, the topic of the fundamental strength of world economies comes up. Even though our...
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Futures Markets and Offsetting Price Risk
Futures markets exist for the purposes of price discovery (facilitation of trade) and transferring risk to counterparties (hedgers trading with speculators). The optimal condition for this price discovery is having a central...
Read MoreTo Defer or Not to Defer – That Could Be the Question….
I just finished teaching the Professional Real Estate Investor Class and one of my students had a great interest in learning about 1031 exchanges. I teach the ins and outs of a delayed exchange in the class, but thought I would...
Read MoreChange: Why Does It Have To Be So Difficult?
Debra winced hard as if her skin had been pierced by a deep dull needle…right through her heart. She had sworn over and over that she wouldn’t do it. But here she was, again caught in a web of self-induced seduction...
Read MoreHow Far is Too Far?
Markets often exhibit tendencies that, for the astute trader, may translate into profits. One such tendency is what I refer to as the “rubber band effect.” The fact is that markets tend to overshoot, similar to a...
Read MorePick A Number, Any Number…
If you have been a regular reader of any of these Lessons from the Pros articles, you will without a doubt know that the education provided by Online Trading Academy is based around a consistent, rules-based strategy. We teach...
Read MoreIt’s All In the Charts, If You Know What You’re Looking For
What I always find fascinating are all of the different ways people look at charts and all of the different pieces of information people try to attain from a price chart. With so many different schools of thought on money,...
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A common question I receive while we are planning trades in the Extended Learning Track is whether or not I consider a supply or demand zone to be broken if prices happen to break it during a pre- or post-market trading session....
Read MoreEmotional Pivots: They Can Be a Boon to Your Trading
“It happens every time,” Raymond seethed to himself. “Why do I freeze up just when the set-up is ready?” The price action on the ES E-Mini had just pierced the supply zone and a shooting star candle...
Read MoreI Spent $6 Billion and All I Got Was the Same Government
Sounds like a great T-shirt logo. Except it is the sad truth. Now that the election is over, America begins its next chapter with many of the same problems looming. First and foremost is the “Fiscal Cliff” we are...
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TraderPlanet’s Quick Guide to Candlesticks
