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Million Dollar Trading Articles
Stocks, Futures,
Commodities, Options, Forex
"Gain
Insight Into Some Of The
Lesser Known
Areas Of Trading."
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Do Professional Traders Exhibit Loss Realisation
Aversion (140KB) |
| Author: |
Peter R Locke, Steven C Mann |
| Date: |
Nov 2000 |
| Synopsis: |
Recent evidence suggets that investors
and experimental subjects exhibit behaviours
that are comewhat at odds with the predictions
of traditional economic and financial theory.
For example, Odean (1998a and 1999) provides
evidence that small investors trade "too much",
and that while trading, they sell winners and
hold losers. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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The Gamblers' Fallacy (201KB) |
| Author: |
James Montier |
| Date: |
Jan 2003 |
| Synopsis: |
"If the market goes down for four years
in a row, it just has to go up next year!" Have
you heard of this, or perhaps say it yourself?
The gamblers' fallacy is a flawed way of
thinking which is common amongst most traders
and investors. |
| Complexity: |
Easy |
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Essentials of Winning Psychology (39KB) |
| Author: |
Ray Barros |
| Date: |
N/A |
| Synopsis: |
A solid introduction on the essential
elements of winning psychology in the trading
and investing arena. This is a must read for all
levels of traders. |
| Complexity: |
Beginner |
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Psychology of Trading (27KB) |
| Author: |
Walter T Downs |
| Date: |
N/A |
| Synopsis: |
This article attempts to address the
question: "What is the difference between a
winning trader and a losing trader?". This is a
strong article with good solid content, Walter
highlights the difference between the two types
of traders by commenting on his own observations. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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The Secrets to Emotion Free Trading (485KB) |
| Author: |
Larry Levin |
| Date: |
Unknown |
| Synopsis: |
Learn valuable lessons how you can take
emotion out of your trading. A good read for any
trader or investor wanting to learn how to
reduce the effects of negative emotion in
trading. |
| Complexity: |
Easy |
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Who Are You? (169KB) |
| Author: |
Linda Raschke |
| Date: |
2003 |
| Synopsis: |
Success in the markets is 10% knowing the
markets and 90% knowing yourself. Do you know
what kind of person you are? |
| Complexity: |
Easy |
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Managing your Money (280KB) |
| Author: |
Gibbons Burke |
| Date: |
July 2000 |
| Synopsis: |
In this activetradermag article from July
2000 Gibbons Burke goes through the topic of
managing your own money. This is a great
introductory article on the importance of money
management and portfolio management. |
| Complexity: |
Beginner |
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Position Sizing Effects on Trader Performance
(144KB) |
| Author: |
Johan Ginyard |
| Date: |
2001 |
| Synopsis: |
A masters thesis written by the renowned
Johan Ginyard. This thesis discusses at length
the effects of various position sizing models on
traders. A very interesting white paper on the
power of money management and the performance
results obtained when applied to various trading
systems. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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Money Management (1,503KB) |
| Author: |
Ryan Jones |
| Date: |
March 1999 |
| Synopsis: |
Ryan Jones introduces the concept of
money management in this extensive book.
Suitable for all readers this book covers all
the basics with enough here to stimulate the
thought of advanced traders. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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The Math Behind The System (28KB) |
| Author: |
Richard L. Weissman |
| Date: |
Unknown |
| Synopsis: |
This is a three page article which
Richard explains the benefits of various types
of mechanical trading systems and goes into
explaining the mathematical reasons behind his
observations and the benefits of mechanical
trading systems. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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A New Interpretation of Information Rate (101KB) |
| Author: |
J L Kelly |
| Date: |
March 21 1956 |
| Synopsis: |
Read the original AT&T paper submitted by
JL Kelly on signal noise. This spawned the Kelly
Criterion formula described above. This article
contains some pretty advanced maths. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Market Profile Basics (472KB) |
| Author: |
Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan |
| Date: |
2002 |
| Synopsis: |
Perfect article to learn how to master
the Market Profile. |
| Complexity: |
Beginner |
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Introduction to Market Profile (117KB) |
| Author: |
Peter Steidlmayer, Ted Hearne |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Synopsis: |
Learn about market profile and capital
cash flows into the market from the man that
developed Market Profile in the 1980's. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Behavioural Economics (124KB) |
| Author: |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Richard H Thaler |
| Date: |
Unknown |
| Synopsis: |
What is behavioural economics? How do all
market participants behave in the market when
faced with limitations and complications? The
human element to any financial market cannot be
underestimated, human actions in the market can
alter our perceptions about traditional economic
theory. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Behavioural Finance - and the speculative bubble
at the end of the 1990s (482KB) |
| Author: |
Melena Johnson, Henrik Lindblom, Peter
Platan |
| Date: |
January 2002 |
| Synopsis: |
During the late 1990s we saw a
speculative bubble in technology stocks. This is
an article which describes the possible reasons
for a speculative bubble and the impact which
all market participants play in fueling the
bubble. This article draws direct comparison to
the speculative bubble of the late 1990s and
behavioural finance. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Losing to Win (43KB) |
| Author: |
Matt Blackman |
| Date: |
N/A |
| Synopsis: |
The hardest but also the most important
lesson in trading is how to handle losses
gracefully. Matt Blackman talks about managing
the loss and how traders can begin to understand
the importance of being able to handle a loss. |
| Complexity: |
Beginner |
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Winners & Losers of the Zero-Sum Game (81KB) |
| Author: |
Lawrence Harris |
| Date: |
May 7th 1993 |
| Synopsis: |
Trading in commodity and futures markets
is a zero-sum game. In other words no trader can
win without another trader losing. Lawrence
Harris examines this phenomenon a little closer. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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On Technical Analysis (2165KB) |
| Author: |
David P. Brown and Robert H. Jennings |
| Date: |
1989 |
| Synopsis: |
A very High quality technical paper on
Technical analysis i.e. to use past prices to
infer private information.Also look outfor
two-period dynamic model of equilibrium. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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“Fibonacci” The man and the markets (217 KB) |
| Author: |
Alex Douglas and MMS Singapore |
| Date: |
2001 |
| Synopsis: |
Standard and Poor’s paper on Leonardo
Fibonacci, the person who gave Fibonacci numbers
and the significance of these numbers in the
present financial market. A very interesting
reading even for that person who has not much
interest in market. |
| Complexity: |
Beginner |
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Risk Analysis techniques (97 KB) |
| Author: |
Ian Hawkins |
| Date: |
1998 |
| Synopsis: |
A must read for any Risk management
Professional as a very descriptive review of the
technique for risk analysis has been given in
it. There have been numerous number of
references are also given which extends the
concepts much further. |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Ed Seykota Of Technical Tools (103 KB) |
| Author: |
Interview |
| Date: |
N/A |
| Synopsis: |
"Everybody Gets What They
Want"….Interview with legendry Ed Seykota and
know more about his personal life, how he
started and about his views on different topics
like trading systems. |
| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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In Defense of Technical Analysis (1196 KB) |
| Author: |
Jack L. Treynor and Robert Ferguson |
| Date: |
1985 |
| Synopsis: |
A paper dealing with the investors
assessment of the likelihood about the knowledge
of market with some insight information With the
help of propagation model |
| Complexity: |
Advanced |
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Secrets of Today's Top Traders (162 KB) |
| Author: |
Neal Weintraub |
| Date: |
N/A |
| Synopsis: |
A very interesting interview with an
“anonymous” successful person and about his
views on real time quotes and trading systems.
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| Complexity: |
Moderate |
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