131. Learning to Trade the E-Mini's: The Vicious Learning Curve
February 27, 2011
I get a chance on a regular basis to work with traders new to e-mini trading and it can sometimes be a frustrating and humiliating experience. Sometimes it's difficult for me, as an experienced trader, to understand why new traders take trades against the trend, straight into resistance, or some tra...
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132. An E-Mini Trade When the Market Won't Breakout or Breakdown
February 26, 2011
My favorite e-mini trades (and my most profitable e-mini trades) are breakouts and breakdowns. These trades tend to perform reliably and are prone to run for very nice gains. Unfortunately, there are days when the market is consolidated into a 20 or 30 point range and every breakout/breakdown fails....
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133. More E-Mini Trading Setups with Support and Resistance
February 23, 2011
It's not unusual to see traders using support and resistance to set up potential trades. The most common trade I see among novice investors is a set up that envisions the price action “bouncing” off an existing support or resistance lines. There are many versions of this particular trade, and it is ...
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134. Can You Really Learn to Trade the E-Mini's and Make Money?
February 18, 2011
Let me say from the onset that this is a difficult question to answer. E-mini traders come in varying degrees of intellect and trading acumen. In reality, the traders that have the highest natural aptitude in trading stand the very best chance of succeeding. That being said, I have trained many succ...
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135. Support and Resistance: The Key to E-Mini Trading
February 16, 2011
There are certainly no shortage of oscillators, proprietary indicators, and specialized trading systems on the market today. While I have not looked at every single trading system on the market, it is my impression that most are a rehash of old principles and the same tired indicators. Even the newe...
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136. Finding the Magic E-Mini Trading Indicator
February 13, 2011
I spend an lot of time in the trading room answering questions about my trading style and giving suggestions on how new traders can hone their e-mini trading skills. Invariably, individuals new to trading ask about secret or proprietary indicators that will open the door to their trading success. Th...
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137. Day Trading: High Probability versus Low Probability Trading
September 11, 2010
There is a natural desire, especially by beginning traders, to want to trade excessively. This is not difficult to understand. A day trader cannot make money unless he or she is in a trade; this is the general outlook of most novice day traders. But this line of thinking has some serious faults, and...
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138. Day Trading: Can You Trade the Heiken Ashi?
September 09, 2010
As a trend trader, one of the real challenges is to identify and stay in a trend. Trend retracements are frequent annoyances in trend trading that can lead to substantial losses. In short, identifying trends is extremely important. Of course, in a high volume markets like the ES e-mini identifying t...
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139. Learning to Make Adjustments and Your Intraday Day Trading
September 08, 2010
It would be very convenient to have a day trading system that worked under all conceivable conditions without fail. Whether the market was consolidating, trending upward, or trending downward the ideal system would churn out profits regardless of prevailing market conditions. Unfortunately, no syste...
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140. A Common Mistake Traders Make When Day Trading
September 06, 2010
Anyone who watches daytime television is well aware of several news networks that broadcast nonstop financial news. Generally speaking, these networks parade a variety of experts in front of the camera who spout all sorts of interesting and apparently insightful information about market conditions d...
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Author: David Adams
