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Trading Basics by Alastair Morton
Trading Journal, Introduction
Day Trading Primer, Lesson 1
Reading the Markets, Lesson 2
Trends & Pivot Points, Lesson 3
Market Myths - The Moving Average, Lesson 4
Zones of Support & Resistance - Price/Volume Relationships, Lesson 5

The 'Trend and Resistance' and 'More on Trading' sections below have been reproduced with the kind permission of Gary from Trader's Bootcamp

Trends and Resistance:
Your Key to Maximizing the Bang for Your Buck
Stock Reaccumulation
Short-selling - profiting from stock declines
Technical Analysis and Markup

More on Trading:
Contrarian Trading
The Spread
Strategies for Trend Following Markets
Trend Lines
Market Indicators
Market Risks



Triangles and Pyramiding:
Ascending Triangles and Self Deception..
Descending Triangles..
Stock Market Manipulators..
Pyramiding (opposite of Averaging Down):
ATR and how can it help me with Setting Stop Losses
Pyramiding your Positions

Personality Traits:
Emotionless Trading..
Trading Mistakes..

Thoughts from the Frontline - Trader Commentary
Trading Shares for a Living - Full-Time Trader..
My Journey to Becoming a Successful Trader
The Crab Principle
Do not fight the Market - Milk it..
Researching Stocks..
Don't fall in love with a stock, no matter how sexy it is..
Setting Profit Targets is Futile, Setting Trailing Market Orders is Not..
Are you trying to Predict the Market's Direction?
Stop Losses - to use or not to use?
Why would anyone like any sort of Stop Losses?
Where to set the Stop Loss Level...
Unexpected Share Price Declines..
Spreadbetting - when and when not to use it
Options trading and Pizza Coupons
City vs Retail Investors, Small Caps and Number of Holdings
Losing Money Fast
The Credit Crunch and the Current Market Crisis
What is really happening in Retail... 
 Added 12th Jan 2009
Trading for Tough Times - Which Companies fare better in a Recession?

SETS, SEAQ and Level 2
Explaining SETS and SEAQ and WHY you need them
Using the SEAQ Level 2 screen

USA, UK and Japanese Economic Indicators
USA Economic Indicators
UK, Australian and Japanese Economic Indicators

Recommended Books/Mentors:
Forex Falacies Exposed: Bird Watching in Lion Country [forex book review]
Mechanical Price Driven Forex Trading by Avi Frister

Before you even start please take note of the Top 10 Bad Reasons for Becoming a Trader

10. My buddy is a trader, and he's making a boatload of money.

9. I'm good at gambling and video games.

8. Great working hours and lifestyle.

7. I've developed a trading system and know it will work for you (but I haven't tested it).

6. If (Person X) can do it, so can I.

5. I'm young, and it's worth a shot.

4. I'm ballsy and can take big risks to make a lot of money.

3. I'm not ballsy and won't take big risks to make a lot of money.

2. I read books/took seminars by (Writer X, who has never successfully traded) and realized I can do this.

1. I have a passion for trading and the markets (but I've never traded or studied the markets).

Trader's Guide to Building an Effective Trading Strategy

Whether you are building an electronic trading system or fine tuning your strategy as a point-and-click trader, real understanding of the logic and rationale of the strategy is critical to trading with confidence. In this free e-book, internationally recognized trader and educator Daniel Gramza presents the concepts and techniques of his proprietary approach to trading the derivatives markets. He covers how to identify market conditions that lead to the most profitable trades, determine magnitude objectives of different trading techniques, recognize when a trade should become productive, identify when a trade is failing, and decide where to place the risk management stop.



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