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June 2009
06/26/09 — Fear and Greed in a 'Weather Market': Grain Futures By Jim Wyckoff
06/19/09 — Why Futures May be the Better Choice Over ETFs By Donna Heidkamp
06/12/09 — Stay Afloat in a Sinking Market: Hedging Strategies for Today's Investors By Mitch Fee
06/05/09 — Trading Multiple Market Sectors for Diversification By Chris Morse

January 2009
May 2009
05/29/09 — The Truth About Technical Analysis By Ryan Jones
05/22/09 — Sense a Bull Run in Equities? Trade Futures By Lawrence J. Szczech
05/15/09 — When to Quit Your Day Job to Trade Full-Time By Jim Wyckoff
05/08/09 — Trailing Stops Using Range Bars By John Novak
05/01/09 — Chart Patterns: the Fibonacci Sequence and ABCD Patterns By Vincent Hayes

April 2009
04/24/09 — Taking Control in a Time of Chaos By Ryan Jones
04/17/09 — Options Spreads By William Chieco
04/03/09 — Bear Markets and the Lagging Indicator: Employment Report By Donna Heidkamp

March 2009
03/27/09 — Re-plan Your Retirement Plan with Futures By Lawrence J. Szczech
03/20/09 — The Art of Fibonacci Analysis By John Novak
03/13/09 — Trade the EIA Summary of Weekly Petroleum Data By Erik Voit
03/06/09 — Trading Opportunity with Million Dollar Potential By John Novak

February 2009
02/27/09 — Are Your Trading Skills Recession Proof? By Lawrence J. Szczech
02/20/09 — Four Questions to Ask About Your Futures Broker By Lawrence J. Szczech
02/13/09 — Drawdown, What Separates the Successful from the Unsuccessful By Chris Morse
02/06/09 — The Economic Stimulus Package and the Markets By Sterling Smith

January 2009
01/30/09 — Combating Market Volatility By Bill Borkowski
01/23/09 — The January USDA Crop Report: The Harder They Fall By Vic Lespinasse
01/16/09 — Gold Futures Offer Advantages Over Gold-Specific ETFs By Vincent Hayes
01/09/09 — Using COT Reports By Sterling Smith
01/02/09 — Trading Rules for 2009 By Derek Gilroy

December 2008
12/19/08 — What are Managed Futures? By Michael O'Phelan
12/12/08 — Interest Rate Futures By Sterling Smith
12/05/08 — What is System Trading? By Jim Wyckoff

November 2008
11/21/08 — 10 More Valuable Trading Rules By Jim Wyckoff
11/14/08 — COT and Beyond By Sterling Smith
11/07/08 — When to Quit Your Day Job to Trade Full-Time By Jim Wyckoff

October 2008
10/31/08 — Refining Market Entry Strategies By Jim Wyckoff
10/24/08 — Hangin' With Credit Spreads By Gene Ratti
10/17/08 — Spread Trading in Futures Markets, and Calculating Pivot Points By Jim Wyckoff
10/10/08 — Market Commentary and Trading Tips By Derek Gilroy
10/03/08 — The All-Important Psychological Aspect of Trading, and a Few Valuable Trading Nuggets By Jim Wyckoff

September 2008
09/26/08 — Crude Oil Squeezes and Other Pitfalls By Sterling Smith
09/19/08 — Futures Entry and Exit Strategies By Jim Wyckoff
09/12/08 — Gas Surge! By Phil Flynn
09/05/08 — Top 10 Money Management Rules By Jim Wyckoff

August 2008
08/22/08 — Trading Philosophies and Methods of W.D. Gann By Jim Wyckoff
08/15/08 — Predicting Key Turning Points In Advance Using Fibonacci By John Novak
08/08/08 — Trading Options on Futures By Jim Wyckoff
08/01/08 — The Importance of the Big Trades By Chris Morse

July 2008
07/25/08 — Price "Seasonality" in Agricultural Futures Markets By Jim Wyckoff
07/18/08 — Buying Low Selling High -- A Simple How-To Guide By John Novak
07/11/08 — Markets Experience Correction, but Long-Term Trend Stays Intact By Donna Heidkamp

June 2008
06/27/08 — Seeding Delays and Flooding Have Changed 2008 U.S. Plantings By Jerry Gidel
06/20/08 — Continue Selling Credit Spreads in this High Volatility Environment By Jon Lubow
06/13/08 — Placement and Marketing in Cattle Markets By Scott W. Barrie
06/06/08 — Maximizing Your Profit Potential on Every Trade By John Novak

May 2008
05/30/08 — Corn and Bean Plantings Slow, but Winter Wheat Ratings Recover By Jerry Gidel
05/23/08 — Understanding Market Depth and Trading Volume By Eric Reinholtz
05/16/08 — Self Help For The Discouraged Trader By John Novak
05/09/08 — Market Corrections Could Take Time By Donna Heidkamp
05/02/08 — Indicator Madness By Sterling Smith

April 2008
04/25/08 — Economic Concerns Finally Affecting Crude? By Christy Olin
04/18/08 — Should You Use a Trading System? By Darrell Jobman
04/11/08 — Strong Crude Lifts U.S. January Ethanol Output 36% over 2007 By Jerry Gidel
04/04/08 — Dealing With a New World By Sterling Smith

March 2008
03/28/08 — Economic Worries and Chinese Activity Rock Bean Prices By Jerry Gidel
03/14/08 — Despite Reduced Margins, U.S. Ethanol Output Increased 33% in 2007 By Jerry Gidel
03/07/08 — Whither Will The Grains Go? By Matt Johnson and Vic Lespinasse

February 2008
02/29/08 — Crude Market Shows Inverse Relationship with U.S. Dollar By Christy Olin
02/22/08 — How to Play the Fed's Inflation Game By Drew Klein
02/15/08 — The Advantage of Multiple Systems Trading By Andrey Korchnoy
02/08/08 — How To Buy Trading Software With Confidence By John Novak
02/01/08 — Trade to Win -- Four Cardinal Rules of Trading By Chris Morse

January 2008
01/25/08 — How High Can Gold Go? By Donna Heidkamp
01/18/08 — A Trader's First Decisions By John Novak
01/11/08 — The Future of Electronic Trading By Johnny Khek
01/04/08 — A Trader's Commitment By Chris Morse

December 2007
12/28/07 — Managed Futures Allows Traders to Follow Professionals By Mark Melin
12/14/07 — Multi-Million Dollar Job Opening - Educating Traders to become Millionaires By John Novak
12/07/07 — FOMC Expected to Cut Rates Again Next Week! By Donna Heidkamp

November 2007
11/30/07 — Hedging Price Risk in a Volatile Commodities Environment – Understanding the Process By Norman L. Young
11/16/07 — Trading Options Requires Brains - Straddles and Strangles By Drew Klein
11/09/07 — Keeping an Eye on the British Pound By Adam Szatkowski
11/02/07 — How to Spot a Bad Trading System By Chris Morse

October 2007
10/26/07 — Housing Weakness and a Slowing Economy Could Mean Rate Cuts By Donna Heidkamp
10/19/07 — Trend Trading Commodities By Chris Morse
10/12/07 — Managed Futures By Mark Melin
10/05/07 — Managing Risk By Sterling Smith

September 2007
09/28/07 — Canadian Dollar Trades Past Par By Adam Szatkowski
09/21/07 — A Longer-Term Price Outlook for Selected Futures Markets and Continuing Education: Dealing with Market "Noise." By Jim Wyckoff
09/14/07 — A Diversified Trading Approach for the Commodities Markets By Chris Morse
09/07/07 — The Harvest Cometh By Steven Petillo

August 2007
08/31/07 — Make More Money By Raising Your Level Of Consciousness While Trading By Michael Levin
08/24/07 — Three Keys to Successful Trading By Chris Morse
08/17/07 — HOW TO BECOME A HIGH IMPACT TRADER: and be done trading by lunch By John Novak
08/10/07 — You Don't Have to be Smart to Make Cash Trading By Michael Levin
08/03/07 — The Times Are A Changing By Phil Flynn

July 2007
07/27/07 — Fear, Greed and Opportunity...To Trade or not to Trade, that is the Question By Michael Levin
07/20/07 — Understanding the Cotton Market Rally By Donna Heidkamp
07/13/07 — The Short Options Strangle By John Garrity
07/06/07 — 6 Months Down, 6 To Go... By Michael Levin

June 2007
06/29/07 — How To Improve Your Trading Performance By Refining Your Decision Strategies By Michael Levin
06/22/07 — With The Volitile Markets Of Today You May Want To Learn About Stops By Lee Gaus
06/15/07 — A Technical Analysis of Gold By Chad Butler
06/08/07 — Manage Thy Risk By Sterling Smith
06/01/07 — Option Spreads and Coffee By Sterling Smith

May 2007
05/25/07 — Intermarket Wheat Spreading By Matthew M. Pierce
05/18/07 — Crude Oil - The Long and Short of It By Chad Butler
05/11/07 — ASTRO-TREND EXCERPTS By Norm Winski
05/04/07 — Spread Trading Seldom Used Seldom Understood By Lee Gaus

April 2007
04/27/07 — Strategies to Reduce Risk in Volatile Markets By Chad Butler
04/20/07 — How Markets Absorb Information: Interpreting Price Charts By Daniel M. Gramza
04/13/07 — My Super Secret Trading Technique By Chad Butler

March 2007
03/30/07 — It's COT Day! By Sterling Smith
03/23/07 — Trading Rules to Live By By Chad Butler
03/16/07 — Is it No to the XYZ System? By Zachary Oxman
03/09/07 — Do Spread Traders Have the Biggest Houses? By Drew Klein
03/02/07 — Introduction To Cycle Analysis By Tom Zabroske

February 2007
02/23/07 — Addictions By Ryan Jones
02/16/07 — How Top Traders Increase Profits through Automated Trading, Smart Orders and Trading Systems By Emil van Essen
02/09/07 — How to use Seasonal Volatility to make you a better options trader By George Haralson
02/02/07 — ETHANOL THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE(S)? By Lee Gaus

January 2007
01/26/07 — RSI: What is it? By John Garrity
01/19/07 — The Option Advantage: Why You Should Be Paying Attention! By Ron Ianieri
01/12/07 — The Art of Educating Traders to be Successful By John Novak
01/05/07 — Profiting from Spread Trading By Emil van Essen

December 2006
12/29/06 — 10 Ideas By Sterling Smith
12/22/06 — Christmas Comes Early By Sterling Smith
12/15/06 — The Perfect Storm? By Chad Butler
12/08/06 — Trading Fibonacci Confluence - As Easy as ABC? By John Novak
12/01/06 — Why Spread? By G. Willard Thiessen

November 2006
11/17/06 — Strategies for Trading in "Big" Grain Markets By Joe Vaclavik
11/10/06 — A Look at Option Spreads By Chad Butler
11/03/06 — E-mini stock index futures give you the best market to trade By Afshin Taghechian

October 2006
10/27/06 — How to break market analysis down into a few basic steps that you can use on a daily basis. By John Novak
10/20/06 — The Holy Grail of Trading By Chad Butler
10/13/06 — Maximizing one's potential when buying options By Joseph DiMele
10/06/06 — A Sneak Peek at the Next Bear Market in Stocks By James Flanagan

September 2006
09/29/06 — What are charts and how do you use them? By Jovanka Vukosavljevic
09/22/06 — My Super Secret Trading Technique -- Part III OR, When Trading IS Like Gambling... By Chad Butler
09/15/06 — UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF SHORT SELLING By Lee Gaus
09/08/06 — MARGIN CALLS AND HOW TO GET OUT OF THEM By Richard Jones
09/01/06 — Orange Juice Outlook By Sterling Smith

August 2006
08/25/06 — Ratio Front Spreads on Stocks A Covered Call Position on Steroids By Mike Tosaw
08/11/06 — How I Make Trading Decisions By Jeff Coglianese
08/04/06 — The Art of Educating Traders to be Successful By John Novak

July 2006
07/28/06 — My Biggest Trading Secret By Ryan Jones
07/21/06 — Trend-following the gold market By Chad Butler
07/14/06 — Interpreting the Recent USDA Supply/Demand Report By Walsh Trading Research
07/07/06 — The Coming Explosive Commodity Quarter! By Phil Flynn

June 2006
06/30/06 — Learning and Understanding Options on Futures By Jovanka Vukosavljevic
06/23/06 — 90% Of The Traders Reading This Should Not Trade (Are You One of Them?) By Ryan Jones
06/16/06 — Unlimited profits - myth or reality? By Robert Steelman
06/09/06 — Three Cheers for the Oil Market Speculator! By Phil Flynn
06/02/06 — The COT Myths By Sterling Smith

May 2006
05/26/06 — Managed Futures: Portfolio Diversification By Tom Weber
05/19/06 — Mistakes Made by Most Traders and How to Avoid Them By Jovanka Vukosavljevic
05/12/06 — Using Dojis for Short Term Trading By Scott Hoffman
05/05/06 — A TRADER'S FIRST DECISIONS By John Novak

April 2006
04/28/06 — Using Stop-Loss Orders By Jason Alan Jankovsky
04/21/06 — Got Milk? By Sterling Smith
04/14/06 — Using Option Spread Strategies to Trade Volatile Markets By Chad Butler
04/07/06 — So You Want To Trade For a Living? By Ryan Jones

March 2006
03/31/06 — Call Spreads in a Summertime Grain Market: The Good and Bad By Todd Swenson
03/24/06 — Trading Fibonacci Confluence - As Easy as ABC? By John Novak
03/17/06 — Markets at Extremes: A Look at Long Term Cycles By Tom Zabroske
03/10/06 — Gas Spec Wreck! By Phil Flynn
03/03/06 — Order Types and When To Use Them By Ed Carr

February 2006
02/24/06 — How to Handle Rugged Markets By Sterling Smith
02/17/06 — Should You Learn About Spreading? By Lee Gaus
02/10/06 — Sports -- Medicine -- and Trading Futures By Jake Vrabel
02/03/06 — My Biggest Trading Secret By Ryan Jones

January 2006
01/27/06 — How to Exit Trades By Joe Duffy
01/20/06 — Rely on Research and Experience Rather Than Hope By Robert Schroeder
01/13/06 — Intermarket Analysis Can Uncover Hidden Market Relationships Resulting in Better Trades By Kevin Klombies
01/06/06 — Understanding Options By Sterling Smith