Happy New Year
On behalf of all the staff at INO.com and MarketClub we wish to thank you for your support and business in 2008.
Here’s to a great 2009.
December Drawing Update
You have until the first stroke of 2009 to answer the December MarketClub Trader’s Blog question, “Will the 1st trading day of 2009 be controlled by the bears or by the bulls?” So far the results have shocked me, as I didn’t think the results would be so even. So far 80 people have said bears, 96 said bulls, and well 18 people have either said that it’s too close to call or they danced around an answer… so if you haven’t answered already, what do you think?
If you haven’t already entered, you can click leave a comment for this post giving your answer. It just takes just a 
second, and only 5 key strokes… either B E A R S or B U L L S.
Good luck and I will share the winner with you on Monday the 5th. I hope 2009 is your best year both financially and personally.
Best,
Lindsay Thompson
Director of New Business Development
INO.com & MarketClub
The secret to trading success in 2009
This little trading tip can and will make a difference in your trading results in 2009.
Stops are enormously important part of a traders arsenal of trading tools. Some traders confirm that stops are the most important part of their trading armour.
So here are three ways to use stops to protect your capital and lock in profits from a trade. These three money management techniques can be used in stock, futures and forex trading.
The important rule is that you do use a real stop in the marketplace. A friend of mine joked with me that that he had never seen a “mental stop” filled in the pits.
If the market is good your stop will not be hit. If the market is bad or changing direction then you’ll want to be out of it anyway. That is why stops are so crucial to trading success.
Here are the three most commonly used types of stops. Which one do you use?
(1) Dollar stop.
(2) Percentage stop.
(3) Chart stop.
If you chose (1) you’d be correct, but, you would also be correct if you had chosen 2 or 3. All three are money management stops and are used to either lock in profits or protect capital.
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1) A dollar stop, is when you set a predetermined dollar amount to a trade. Let’s say you want to risk $500 on a grain trade or $750 on a stock trade. Once you get your fill back from your broker or electronically online you simply figure from your fill price where to put your stop.
Pros: Easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can place stops too close in a volatile market
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2) Percentage stop, is a very simple way for you to place a stop on a position. Here’s how it works. Let’s say your trading account is 100,000 dollars and let’s say you only want to risk 1% of your total portfolio on any one trade. You simply take a $1,000 risk which represents 1% of your over all portfolio. This can help enormously in avoiding taking BIG LOSSES. A 1% loss is easy to absorb. A 30% or 40% loss in a trade is an account killer, and should be avoided at all costs.
Pros: Easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can place stops too close.
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3) Chart stop, a chart stop is where you place a stop that is either above or below a crucial chart level. The good thing about a chart stop is that this level is often used by other traders. That can both be a good thing and a bad thing, here’s why. Using either one of our first two examples only you know where the stop is. With a chart stop, a great many traders/brokers know that is where the stops are. In an illiquid market this type of stop should not be used, as many times brokers gun for the stops. In a highly liquid and active market this is a good stop to use.
Pros: Very easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can’t be used in thinly traded markets.
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So there you have it. Now you have all three ways to manage your money and protect your profits in 2009.
Use stops…let them work for you.
Have a great 2009.
Adam Hewison
How to spot winning trades in 2009 (video).
How would you like to learn a winning trading system for stocks in just 90 seconds?
Sound impossible doesn’t it?
But, what if it is possible? Imagine how you could benefit from this knowledge. This is the same knowledge and understanding that took me years to learn and figure out, trading in the pits of Chicago.
So how can years of learning how to trade the right way, be boiled down, and presented in just 90 seconds?
“Saturday Seminars” - Trending Techniques and System Selection Index
The conflict between trending and non-trending markets poses one of the greatest dilemmas for the systems trader. To trade effectively you must decide whether to trade with a trend or against it, or to wait for a better entry position altogether.
In his workshop, Perry presents what he considers the best technique for making these decisions. He combines this trending technique with a System Selection Index to determine which markets exhibit signs of a reversal and which indicate a continuing trend. Based on these concepts, Perry shows you how to improve your entry timing. He explains why profit taking improves results while stop-losses make them worse. Perry also describes some useful programs written for his own use and provides you with TradeStationTM code, easily adaptable for use with other software packages, to illustrate his concepts.
PDF Workbook
Perry J. Kaufman is a market strategist known for his knowledge and experience in computer-based trading systems applied to world futures and financial markets. His publication, The New Commodity Trading Systems and Methods (John Wiley & Sons, 1987), has become the technician’s required reference. In 1984, he published the comprehensive Handbook of Futures Markets (Wiley). An earlier book of research papers, Technical Analysis in Commodities (Wiley, 1980), has been translated into Japanese. Perry founded the Journal of Futures Markets (Columbia University and John Wiley & Sons), a vehicle for gathering academic research on market analysis. He is series editor of Wiley’s Trader’s Advantage, and his latest book, Smarter Trading, was released by McGraw-Hill in 1995. Perry specializes in the application of technical and fundamental (statistical) analysis to the development of trading and risk management programs for both commercial and private investors. Much of this work is based on price theories and techniques he has researched and developed since 1971. He combines the ability to integrate computer technology and strategic allocation with traditional investment approaches in order to achieve realistic objectives. Perry is particularly interested in closing the gap between theoretical and actual results, concentrating on the world’s stock index, foreign exchange, interest rates, and energy markets. Perry is director of research for Kaufman, Diamond, and Yeong, a consulting firm serving the financial industry in the United States and Singapore. In addition to providing risk management, education, and training, the firm publishes Kaufman on Market Analysis, a periodic report on the applications and development of trading strategies. In Singapore, the company provides market-related educational services and is developing trading strategies using new technologies (such as neural nets and artificial intelligence) under a grant from the Singapore government.
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Saturday Seminars are just a taste of the power of INO TV. The web’s only online video and audio library for trading education. So watch four videos in our free version of INO TV click here.
Happy Holidays from 5 brave staff members
Happy Holidays from MarketClub.
We had to bribe these five staff members with eggnog to get them to throw caution to the wind and break out their holiday dancing shoes. Our other staff members are working hard on the production line to finish all the new upgrades and features for the 2009 version of MarketClub. Don’t worry, we are keeping all the features you love and adding some new tools that are going to rock your world.
From the entire staff of MarketClub, including the ones who are not in this video, thank you for all your support in 2008. Here’s to a super profitable 2009.
Happy Holidays,
The MarketClub Team
Something To Remember In The New Year
Finding A Friend In The Trend
“The trend is your friend” is an important trading guideline.
In 2008 we witnessed some massive bear trends in the equity and crude oil markets as well as many other freely traded commodities and currencies.
Because trends persist for long periods of time, a position taken with the trend will more likely be successful than one taken randomly or against the trend. Trading with the trend in a bull market means buying on dips; in a bear market, selling on rallies. Read more here
This is a good lesson to remember on why markets trend. Are we expecting some big trends in 2009? You bet we are. Look for big trends in gold, the dollar and crude oil in the new year.
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Co-Creator, MarketClub
How to make money almost anywhere, even on a desert island.
How to make money almost anywhere, even on a desert island.
It is probably every traders dream to trade from their own personal tropical island and make money, but can it be done? Oh yes, and in this short video I show you how it can be achieved. What you will see can be done from any location… so if you are on your own private island or you are still saving up to make that big purchase, this technique can be applied.
The dollar index, which is receiving a lot of publicity lately, is featured in this educational video. This index has made a major push to the upside. The question is, do you know what catalyst pushed this market higher? The other question is how high can the dollar go?
If you think it all happened just by luck, that this index is headed higher, think again. In my video I explain and show you in detail why this index is gaining upward trajectory and give specific price targets on the upside.
The year is almost over, and it’s time to start thinking about the markets in 2009. Watch this video and see how you can get a leg up on the market in the new year.
There is no need to register to watch this video, just enjoy!
Best,
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Co-Creator, MarketClub
“Saturday Seminars” - Trading the S&P in 3D
Born of a marriage between technical analysis, physics and pattern recognition, the pH-Indicators are elastic and focused on the future, like today’s broadband electronic markets. Static terms such as ‘overbought’ or ‘oversold’ force traders to make decisions with two-dimensional road maps in three-dimensional real time. These new indicators provide equity and forward market traders with tools that accurately reflect the market environment. The indicators help traders construct the appropriate three-dimensional map, showing first where the market itself wants to go and second, how to build a position ahead of and within the trend of those markets. As CAT-SCANs are to X-rays, these indicators offer a brand-new view of market internals. Boundaries imposed upon traditional concepts of momentum are no longer applicable.
In this session, Richard explains his unique outlook on pH-Indicators and how he uses them to achieve financial success. Richard uses these indicators to successfully manage money and he carefully considered the time and place to present them to the public. He chose TAG 20 as the appropriate forum because he felt it is where real traders come together in search of new methods to make real money. Workshop attendees were the very first traders ever to have access to Richard’s unique work; now you can share his insights, as well.
Richard Lees is president of Richard Lees Capital Management, a registered investment advisory in Los Angeles’ Studio City area, where his clients include members of the entertainment industry and other high net-worth individuals. He edits and publishes 21 Forward, a monthly investment newsletter and journal that offers uniquely detailed and unusual discussion of markets. The newsletter also gives specific recommendations for implementation of his proprietary pH-Indicators to profit from those markets. Richard was educated at Stanford, the University of Michigan, and Yale, and he has written about financial analysis for industry publications such as Barron’s, always exhibiting his trademark style of sharp wit and truly contrarian commentary. With a degree in psychology and a career as a professional writer, trading—or turning perception into money—came naturally to him. An active trader since 1982, Richard was one of the first to use sophisticated trading analysis software. His methods have shown consistency and sometimes startling accuracy in the stocks, options, and the forward markets.” alt=”null” />Richard Lees is president of Richard Lees Capital Management, a registered investment advisory in Los Angeles’ Studio City area, where his clients include members of the entertainment industry and other high net-worth individuals. He edits and publishes 21 Forward, a monthly investment newsletter and journal that offers uniquely detailed and unusual discussion of markets. The newsletter also gives specific recommendations for implementation of his proprietary pH-Indicators to profit from those markets. Richard was educated at Stanford, the University of Michigan, and Yale, and he has written about financial analysis for industry publications such as Barron’s, always exhibiting his trademark style of sharp wit and truly contrarian commentary. With a degree in psychology and a career as a professional writer, trading—or turning perception into money—came naturally to him. An active trader since 1982, Richard was one of the first to use sophisticated trading analysis software. His methods have shown consistency and sometimes startling accuracy in the stocks, options, and the forward markets.
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Saturday Seminars are just a taste of the power of INO TV. The web’s only online video and audio library for trading education. So watch four videos in our free version of INO TV click here.
10 free trading lessons that can make a big difference in 2009.
Dear trader,
I really believe that my email trading course which I recently put together, can make a big difference to your bottom line in 2009.
As we are coming to the end of the trading year, and it has been quite a year, I want you to receive this trading course with my complements.
There are 10 trading lessons in all and they are all written in plain everyday language that is easy to understand. Most of the 10 educational trading lessons are illustrated with charts to show how you can benefit from the lesson.
Right after the holidays is the time to begin thinking and preparing for the new trading year. The 10 free trading lessons that I am making available to you, will in my opinion, provide you with the tools and the concepts to make some serious trading decisions in 2009.
I have even prepared a short for you to watch that explains why I an doing this.
Direct link to my 10 free trading lessons.
Enjoy the lessons and the holidays.
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com and Co-Creator, MarketClub
Click here for a direct link to my 10 free trading lessons.
