In all kinds of trading, we have to assess risk and reward on every trade.

Back in July 2013, I wrote an article called, ?Watching the Markets,? that dealt with identifying the leading and lagging market indexes for stocks.

To better understand the concept of profit zone in successful trading, think of profit margins in any other business.

Using the averages can allow you to see if prices are too high or low on a relative basis. This can be extremely useful as an odds enhancer.

In this post, Russ discusses how using option collars can help protect a stock portfolio from market crashes.

In class today we spent a decent amount of time working with one of the most famous of all of the indicators, the Bollinger Bands, and I thought it would be useful to share a snippet from the class in this article.

The majority of investors blindly follow the ?conventional wisdom? and the easiest path to investing. This usually includes placing their money into a 401k and or mutual funds in their IRA. They either don?t know there is a better alternative or worse, they don?t care.

Perhaps the hottest topic in the financial world as well as the general media lately is the subject of High Frequency Trading (HFT).

In this post, I?ll go over some of the strongest inverse market correlations, and their uses to help traders gain an edge.