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"Volatility Watch" for Better Trades There are rules of thumb in every field of interest. I am referring to certain generalizations and assumptions that people make and observe. In the markets there are many but one that catches my attention lately is the correlation between the directional movement of the market and the volatility that is expressed in option pricing. The rule of thumb is; when markets go up the volatility goes down. Recently there is a glaring inconstancy to this assumption and it needs to be noted. Target Practice for Better Trades I often use analogies to teach principles and I have often said that you can’t throw a pile of lumber off a cliff and have it land in the shape of a house. Stocks, indices and commodities charts can look random and erratic but there is usually a pattern hidden in there. From the right perspective those random and erratic movements can suddenly take on powerfully precise and rhythmic symmetry. "Those Darn Market Makers" and Better Trades I just finished a training session on the internet and I answered a question that I have answered 100 times before or more. It got me a bit worked up because there is far too much mythology out there about the market and how it works and who does what to whom. I am going to attack one of the straw men of trading myths. Option Pricing with BetterTrades Option pricing is a mystery to most traders. They struggle to comprehend terms like implied and historical volatility or intrinsic and time value, or the "Greeks" (Delta, vega, theta, gamma, rho…). These terms are intimidating and my experience suggests that at least half the folks you hear talking about them do not really understand very much about them. It is important to at least be intellectually honest about it and know what you don't know. It is also a good idea to debunk your vocabulary and get what you do know (or think you know) right. And because it is easy to get a head ache from trying to read and comprehend the myriad of equations and models generated from minds of multi-degreed scholars speaking a language only they seem to understand, it is comforting to know you do not have to learn a whole lot about the technical math soup. It is however, mandatory that you gain some working skills in how to recognize and flow with the option prices or you will get whipsawed and shredded by them. Know When to Hold em' from BetterTrades Good Morning, Kenny Rodgers had a popular hit with this title that spoke of the gambler's need to manage risk and stay in control. As a trader you too must control your risk and manage your trades but trading is not gambling, it is more like farming or adding a new product to business's product line. Setting stops must be seen as the limits and tactical tolerances of risk that would go into any new venture. BetterTrades and Market Mind Games The adage goes "If Doctors and Attorneys are so smart, why are they still practicing their professions?" Well, it is a fact that to be good you must always keep honing your skills. The persistent practitioner becomes the consistent performer. Better Trades with "Divergence" I love to teach technical trading but I have an aversion to letting technical indicators get out of hand. A recent check revealed over 120 indicators that were available to use on my charts. This is also not including many economic indicators that can be and are used by folks to overlay charts and predict activity. BetterTrades and "FUNNYDAMENTALS" The end of last month, a broker from New York calls me. He has called several times over the last year to tell me I need to open an account with him because he has such a great buying opportunity. He was armed with a strong list of fundamentals that just had to convince me to give him money to buy this stock. Well I enjoy talking to him because he proves my points about staying neutral and playing the stock not the fundamentals or the news. Big MAC Divergence in BetterTrades Indicators are a powerful tools and they generally have a very specific function. They measure specific aspects of behavior and that behavior is compared to the chart movement. Some indicators are very narrow in focus i.e. only relavent in trends or only in compression patterns while other indicators work well in nearly any market patterns. Some of the more common and respected indicators measure over bought / oversold conditions or trend strength or divergence. I will focus this article on the divergence indicators and how to recognize divergence. Earn To Profit with BetterTrades from Earnings Season We are currently in earnings season - a time when companies announce their earnings results from the past quarter. These much awaited announcements can cause quite a bit of volatility in the markets, especially when the results are something other than expected. But, as a trader you can learn to capitalize from this volatility and profit from some unique trading opportunities. Better Trades Industry Spotlight Part 2 In part I of this article you read how the Internet E-Commerce industry is one of the better performing industries this year. Within that industry we selected three stocks that have good fundamentals and strong trading patterns. Those stocks are eBay (EBAY), the University of Phoenix Online (UOPX) and Getty Images (GYI). Finding the right stocks to trade is half the battle. The other half of the battle is using the right trading system to find the best entries and exits to profit substantially from the price moves of those stocks. Don't Be An Average Trader, Use BetterTrades We are in the midst of earning's season and the market could not be any more crazy. Today, most of the stocks that were reporting posted better than anticipated earnings and the Dow managed to break a 5-day losing streak. This week the housing sector posted good permit applications and sales numbers, two indicators that bode well for a continued strong housing market. Many of the basic economic indicators are weak and the latest rumor on the street is that the Fed MAY cut interest rates another 25 basis points to a 60 year low of 1%. Then, add into the mix an Iraqi dictator whose defiant stance has the whole world wondering when the first bomb will be dropped, by whom and what will be in it? It is all enough to drive the average trader nuts. The Difference for Better Trades When I was an accountant, I was frequently amazed by the choices of my clients. They spent more time choosing a household appliance than they did learning how to handle their investments. When it came to buying an appliance, they spent hours trying to save $50. Would they trust the appliance store salesperson to tell them if they were getting a good deal? Nope, they would do the comparing on their own because the salesperson has a conflict of interest - commissions! However, when faced with investment decisions, they leave the major decisions up to the investment salesperson (broker, insurance agent, banker, etc). A Powerful-Profitable-Cash-Cow: BetterTrades Dear Traders and Friends: Lately I have had many students ask me about the QQQQ's - so much that it merits a rewrite. The QQQQ is an incredible choice for making money in today's market. Taking the time to learn this EXCHANGE TRADED FUND (ETF) could put fun, fast cash into your pockets. Don't let the fact that it is called an ETF scare you away. It is very simple to play. I missed making hundreds of thousands of dollars on this Powerful-Profitable-Cash-Cow because I feared it was complicated. Just remember what FEAR really means FALSE EXPECTATIONS APPEARING REAL! Improving Your Better Trades Success Using Trading Cards In reviewing my last five years of stock market success, I must admit that the most important thing that needs to be learned - is how to pull the plug when a trade goes wrong. As a matter of fact, I am going to quote myself here... "If you can not get good at pulling the plug when a trade goes wrong...then you should not be trading!" Portfolio Sabotage and Better Tardes I am writing this as I am sitting here at the airport in NYC, after an incredible private tour of GROUND ZERO, from someone who experienced it first hand. It is just unbelievable to see what these people have been through and how much it is still effecting them today. It sure makes me grateful for my many blessings and how every day is such an incredible gift to never take for granted. Getting Back What Works for Better Trades In my last newsletter I began my discussion relating to the secret difference between profitable traders and non-profitable traders. I stated that people who consistently win the stock market battle are those individuals who remain focused on "the basics." I promised to continue the discussion in this newsletter. I ended the last article with a "cliff hanger" ending, where I promised to talk about charting patterns, entrances and exits, and more. Staying On Top Of Better Trades It goes without saying that we've been trading a pretty tough market. I believe as well that is really a matter of perspective. Many of those trading today have been trading fewer than 5 years and have no prior experience with this kind of market. Additionally, their relative lack of experience has them running for the "Tums" at almost every negative comment out of New York or Washington! Well, justified or not, it is precisely this kind of market which drives home an important tenet of trading. You have to stay 'on top' of the market at all times if you expect to be a successful trader. I have developed a pretty simple method for doing that. Stay The Course in BetterTrades Today, most of us lead pretty hectic lives. We have four children in college at the present, so if you're not familiar with 'hectic', you are cordially invited to visit the Eldridge household for a while! While we're all being pulled here and tugged there, prudence dictates that someone in our household remain focused enough on the "big picture' to be able to direct the rest of us along our paths. I'm sure we all have similar situations in each of our homes. We can use this to draw an interesting parallel to our trading. Reducing Your Risk in BetterTrades One of the most important aspects of successful trading is not the strategy itself.That will either work or it won't (all things being equal). We have a 50 / 50 chance either way. While perhaps not mathematically accurate, that pretty well captures the spirit of my point; we exercise precious little control (as in NONE) over how our stocks move. We ALL have losses from time to time. It's a fact of trading life! That being a given, one of the most critical aspects of successful trading is to control any LOSSES we might be facing. Obviously, it is in our best interest to minimize those losses as much as we can. Gaps Importance for Better Trades There is general knowledge of gaps but most people do not know enough about the many types of gaps and their respective importance. The understanding of gaps begins with the gap theory. But while the gap theory deserves a thorough discussion, I want to focus on the types and relative importance of the many different gaps and leave a detailed treatise on the Gap Theory to another time. Nonetheless, a quick lesson on the theory is warranted to set the stage. First off the definition of a gap is when the closing price and the following opening price is different. There are true gaps and body gaps just to name a few but a quick run through of the gap theory will serve to set the stage. Every Day Success for Better Trades There has never been anything I've done which hasn't taught me something. Often these 'lessons' are simply reminders of mostly insignificant 'truisms' of life. Occasionally they can call back into focus really useful principles we might have 'packed away' for a season. One of these was vividly placed before me in a trade last week. Better Trades Example and Analysis This week we began with a trade to the upside on QLogic Corporation (QLGC). The stock came from the Dedicated Trader's Key Level Stocks - Channeling Stocks. The research department tagged this as being a stock at or near the bottom of it's channel (not far from support)!. One look at the chart below certainly confirms that! Trading for BetterTrades I think it was Will Rogers who said "I am more concerned with the return of my principle than the return on my principle". How true that rings when it come to trading in the stock market! Yet I find myself receiving emails and being told sad story after sad story about traders who have lost a fortune trading! The emails and comments I love to receive, however, are the ones from students in my classes that are making a fortune because they took the time to learn the SYSTEM I teach in my LIFESTYLE TRADING WITH LEAPS 2 day class. How to Confirm Trades to Make Better Trades I have noticed an AMAZING number of students placing trades that have gone wrong and if they could have done what I call "A ROUND ROBIN" it likely could have prevented the cost. I would like to share what I do in my "ROUND ROBIN" before entering a new trade or deciding to exit an existing trade: Turning Point to Better Trades Recently in a Denver LEAPS class, I was teaching some tips on drawing support and resistance and how to read some basic candlesticks patterns to fine tune an entry into a trade. I was explaining how I get great entries by using the prior days' low (for a down trade) and the prior days' high (for an up trade) to confirm the stock direction. How to Start Doing Better Trades? At first it may appear this newsletter is for new traders, but it is perfect for seasoned traders that are struggling. After trading and teaching students how to trade for over 8 years, I have learned that we can cycle in and out of trading patterns. What seems to happen is we get excited about learning so many new things in the market (such as numerous technical indicators), that we can begin to over-analyze our trades. It is so easy to do. So easy that we forget how simple and important just plain old basics are. BUY LOW - SELL HIGH! Then we start slipping and miss reasonable entries or stay too long in a trade. Whether you are new, or you just need to get back to the basics, this newsletter is intended to help you get back on track. Pay Your Next Holidays with BetterTrades If you visit a mall or retail store these days you will be bombarded by hoards of frantic shoppers. People are expected to pay as much, or more, on gifts this year than they did last year. This creates wonderful opportunites for traders! Find and trade those retail stocks that will see the biggest benefit from holiday shoppers and you can pay for your holiday gifts from these trades. Trading Practice and Better Trades When you are new at this game called the stock market, you will find it necessary to start off with the basics. Milk not meat! If you only knew what we know, after years of trading and teaching students, you would do whatever we tell you and never break a rule. It is so hard to watch students jump before they are ready, but I see it time after time. I call this the READY - FIRE - AIM syndrome. Believe me, I so understand where you are at - I started the exact same way. Timing is Everything for Better Trades Timing is everything! Especially when it comes to trading in the stock market. It amazes me the thought process a lot of students go through when it comes to trading. Selecting BetterTrades Options In the last five newsletters in this series we looked at a series of issues to select the right stock option. This newsletter will cover the final step, Graceful exits, along with a recap of the items previously discussed so you will have an easy reference tool at your disposal. What Works for Bettertrades Before you can play a stock split you must have a stock split candidates list. This is where you have to do a little research. Start with the stocks that you currently are watching and ask the following questions: SEO Your Link Building This article covers a much discussed topic in the SEO community. Also, clients and often site owners come up with questions about what links to get, and how to get them. Note that I will not consider reciprocal links here, because of better alternatives, because of better alternatives, and because their effectiveness only applies to a small number of sites, who use them under 10% of their overall link ratio. I will review the main types you want to get for your site. Let’s start: Intelligent Search Engines Update With all the advances and artificial intelligence applications Google has done in the last years, it is agreed they have set the standard to follow by other companies, in the challenge of developing the smartest search engine. So... What is next? Were do we go from here? The application of new techniques of Artificial Intelligence such as query expansions, object recognitions, and new natural language selections, will definitely impact how searches are performed and the capacity of the retrieval engines of learning even more based on stats info, therefore improving even further the machine learning process. New Linguistic Search Engine Cognition Technologies has launched CognitionSearch, a linguistic search engine supporting synonymy, morphology and ontology, and at the same time, tapping one of the world's largest computational dictionaries known to man. With this approach, Cognition has become the advanced search engine for the LexisNexis Concordance service, a software service that is currently used today on 65,000+ desktops. Search Engine Ranking Components This article will show you the main components for Search Engine Optimization and how they influence any campaign. I review the 5 key components. Search Engune Ranking and Articles This article will guide you through the main reasons you should be using article writing as part of your SEO efforts to gain backlinks and link popularity, or in other words, turning content into links and traffic. Getting targeted traffic is a direct result of this process. This will apply to both new and existing sites, and I am covering here what to do when writing articles. Search Ranking Intelligence In this article I will cover how search engines work, what search engine optimization actually is, and why you should be doing search engine optimization if you are not. 6 Key Areas for Yahoo SEO Yahoo has the second biggest Search Engine Market share. This is why it is important to know the basics of Yahoo SEO. I will review the key areas you should be focusing on if you are targeting their rankings: Search Engine Intelligence and SEO There is a very distinctive focus in the current search engine algos towards AI. Google is the most obvious in the application of such technologies, but is not the only one. Some of the things search engines are utilizing in their machine learning process includes studying user behaviour, recording actions, drawing conclusions. Drop Shipping Defined Drop shipping is the shipping of merchandise from a supplier directly to a retailer's customer. This means that the retailer can ship to their customers directly from the suppliers' warehouses. This process minimizes risk because the retailer does not need to buy the product until it has sold. Suppliers take care of the warehousing, packaging, and shipping of products, saving you a great deal of money. Doba Dropship System Doba connects you to 170 wholesale distributors, manufacturers, and craftsmen in one place. When you sign up, you gain full access to all the drop ship wholesalers and their wholesale product catalogs. Drop Ship Value Time and time again it's said from web store retailers, eBay sellers, online auction gurus, and a host of others: "You can't make any real money with drop shipping. The prices and fees that drop-ship suppliers charge eliminate your profit margins." Link Building Strategies In this article I will review the 3 most important strategies you have to build links to your site at no cost. But there are more ways to get quality one-way links. It is very important to keep in mind the relevancy of these links. A link is considered relevant, when it is coming from a site that contains similar content or services as your site. Could the site linking to your site be in the same category? Keep this in mind for the quality factor of your links. The ones included in this article, are well known to work given their relevancy. Themed Based Relevancy and LSI In the past 2 years, a very important factor in web content writing was keyword density, with the recommended 2 to 7% agreed by most seo experts. Well, that has changed for 2007, at least as far as Google goes. Their new patent clearly indicates the massive role that Latent Semantic Indexing is going to play in how they evaluate the relevancy of any given page and therefore its rank by closely considering co-occurrence rates and semantically related phrases, especially focusing the attention on the first one. The Known Benefits Of Dog Mats When it comes to actually choosing the right pet mat, you may be confused as to which ones to go for. There are several different sizes, making it complicated to tell what to go for. Well, in order to select the right mat for your dog, you will need to take into account a number of elements. These generally include: Google Golden Triangle and Lsi In this article I will explain the importance of this study, and how it does affect natural search engine optimization, in combination with paid search. The Semantic Indexing Project (SEO) Semantic indexing is our name for a family of techniques for searching and organizing large data collections. The goal of semantic indexing is to find patterns in unstructured data (documents without descriptors such as keywords or special tags) and use those patterns to offer more effective search and categorization services. Taking Care Of Your Dog - Doggie Doors A pet door is a small swinging door that, once installed in a door, will allow your pet access to the yard of the house. This allows you to enjoy dinner, or your favorite movie, without being interrupted because your pet is adamant on having a stroll in the backyard. With a dog door, your dog has the freedom to move in an out of the house without someones aid. Search Engine Semantics A Semantic Search Engine could be described as an agent that allows users to search at the topic level. Once a topic of interest is identified, then drill down to the specific document. Semantics is been applied these days by search engines in a few closely related fields. A possible way, is by using statistical analysis to retrieve semantic matches to a query. With this approach, they are capable of providing relational results based on the topics and keywords given by the user. Wireless Containment Systems and Underground Electronic Fence Containment Systems Pet containment systems come in both the wireless fence and the underground fence versions. While both of these are considered to be electronic dog fences there are several differences and benefits to both types of pet containment systems. Lsi and Theme Based Relevancy In the past 2 years, a very important factor in web content writing was keyword density, with the recommended 2 to 7% agreed by most seo experts. Well, that has changed for 2007, at least as far as Google goes. Their new patent clearly indicates the massive role that Latent Semantic Indexing is going to play in how they evaluate the relevancy of any given page and therefore its rank by closely considering co-occurrence rates and semantically related phrases, especially focusing the attention on the first one. Themed Links Quality and Seo This article will explain the importance of link quality, and its application to link building. Everyone may have a different understanding of what "quality" is on terms of links, but essentially that is your decision entirely. If you have an existing site, that you need to build links for, use this as a reference check list to ensure that you are link building properly. I am going to review the key 6 areas. Drop Shipping Basics How does drop shipping work? Drop shipping is the shipping of merchandise from a supplier directly to a retailer's customer. Meaning, you the retailer can ship to your customers directly from the suppliers' warehouses. This process minimizes the risk to you because you do not need to buy the product until it has sold. Suppliers take care of the warehousing, packaging, and shipping of products, saving you a great deal of money.

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