For all the M2 junkies …

Top 30 Trader Under 30 Adam Guren explains how he’s looking at the markets and whether seasonality will affect his decisions.

Gilbert “GMan” Mendez explains Dark Pools, how we should adjust our trading strategy, and gives us a trading example.

The media recently flipped the floodlights on the new black box de jour: High Frequency Trading (HFT). Only a handful of people who work closely with the exchanges truly understand HFT, so I asked for some color from my friend and top pro quant trader Fari Hamzei from Hamzei Analytics. Damien: Fari, why is High [...]

Trader Mark has one of the best analytical finance blogs on the web, Fund My Mutual Fund. Like a great lawyer, he takes time to collect excellent evidence from various sources. Further, his fundamental analysis is second to none. Mark’s site, Fund My Mutual Fund, caught the attention of Barron’s a couple years back as [...]

This post is a guest contribution from professional trader Anne-Marie Baiynd. Consider the following familiar scenario: You’ve been watching a stock for an entry and you’re certain you’ve analyzed it six ways to Sunday.  Oh, it’s a winner — you know it.  So you enter (certain you’re on your way to a buying a Lamborghini) [...]

Steven Place has a gift for making complicated options strategies seem simple. Below is a video tutorial in which Steven explains the basics of using Iron Condors as an options strategy: If you don’t participate in Steven’s StockTwits Brunch on Saturdays at 10 AM EST, you should. Also, if you are interested in an inexpensive [...]

Brian Shannon is one of the best indie traders in the business. I owe a lot of my maturity as a trader to his excellent lessons. Below is a video tutorial in which Brian explains the basics of using Level 2 while trading. If you haven’t already read my review of Brian’s book Technical Analysis [...]

This article was originally printed in the March 2009 Issue of our Premium Newsletter. We may have to wait a while to see bargain valuations in the stock market. However, the market should rise quickly when the next party gets underway because the Boomers are now in a classic position to chase the pot. “Chasing [...]

When we don’t have a plan, our emotions can suck us into strong market action. Unfortunately, most of these entries do not display favorable odds. Instead, we tend to follow Masters Greed or Fear right onto the plastic surgery table where Dr. Market proceeds to give us an expensive face-lift. Last week I made a [...]