As we enter earning season once again, I have received several emails about what to do while trading stocks that release earnings. I would like to address one such email.

One of the most important things you need to do to be successful when short term trading for income or long term trading for wealth is to have proper focus.

As a Chartered Market Technician, I get a lot of questions about technical indicators and how they work. In a recent XLT class, I was asked about the Commodity Channel Index (CCI) indicator as some of the students noticed I had it on my charts.

Recently I?ve been writing about exiting an options position. I talked about stops, and also about rolling a position to more favorable strike prices and/or expirations. Today I?ll introduce the idea of position evolution, which is different from either stops or rolling.

Emotions drive prices in the markets. Well to be more exact, emotions motivate people to take certain action in the markets.