Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of  history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows on a stone wall. This made me think of all the false truths fed to self-directed retail… + More

Don’t Overlook the Benefits of having a Good Futures Broker So how do you go about choosing a futures broker? Whether you ultimately decide to go with a full service, discount, or electronic brokerage you should consider more than just… + More

Trading Profits – The Difference between Realized and Unrealized  When discussing profits, there are two different types of profits from making trades. The easiest way to differentiate the two kinds of profits comes down to a simple question – are you making money… + More

What’s the difference between a Weatherman and a Trader? I asked this question in a private user group a little while ago and stumped quite a few people. Do you know the difference? On the surface, they seem the same, but… + More

Like a resolute magician, day trading indicators can help a futures trader or stock investor interpret specific patterns in the market and uncover reasonable future expectations of the market price. Using time-sensitive technical indicators along with understanding price and volume, savvy… + More

Looking at the Markets Through a “Big Picture” Lens The first step to good market analysis is the easiest of the steps to do, yet it is surprising how few traders actually do it. The first step to analyzing a… + More

One of the toughest challenges in trading is “listening” to or identifying market direction. Regularly we are almost convinced to recklessly predict instead of identifying market direction. Or, we suspect we already know what’s going to occur, so we simply… + More

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge It.” –  © 1962 Ludwig Von Mises (1881 – 1973) What makes day traders different is that they are able to participate without bias, without question, and… + More

5 Reasons you Can Take a Break from Trading A day trading holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the 4th of July can make day trading the markets even more challenging than usual.  For whatever reason, the… + More

Are You and Your Trading Systems Ready for Success? If you plan on working with a day trading system, determining whether or not you’re ready to make the leap involves some serious introspection. When you learn day trading, it’s easy to… + More