We've all grown up being told that knowledge is power, and rightly so I might add, as long as it's useful information.

A lot of investors are enamored by the all mighty put ? especially buying the shortest-term, or front month, put for protection.

Trading is not an easy business. If it were, every person on the planet would be driving a Rolls Royce.

The footprints of gigantic option trades can easily be discovered on the tape.

You believe that this stock, despite its high price, continues to have tremendous upside potential. What can you do to maximize your money and cash in on the perceived upside?

Let' say that you have a moderately bullish bias toward a stock and the overall market is slightly bullish. Is there a way that you can take advantage of this investing scenario while limiting risk?

So you've analyzed the charts and have decided that your currency pair is trading at the right location for a possible reversal – a clear level of supply or demand. The questions in the back of most traders' minds are, "Will this level hold? Am I too early?"

As traders, we often rely on technical indicators for signals to help identify turning points in the prices of both the markets and our stocks.

So often at Online Trading Academy, I speak with market speculators both new and experienced and realize they are talking about something they think they completely understand when in reality, their perception of the truth is very wrong.

It never ceases to amaze me how "conventional wisdom" about investing and trading is so far removed from the realities of successful speculation

Say you hear a takeover rumor. A $50 stock is rumored to be taken out at $55. Looks like a nice spec trade.

How many banner ads/pop-up ads/trading websites are out there advertising to the new trader a 1 to 3 risk to reward ratio trading system? After a brief internet search, the results were very few and far between.