Trading in "The Matrix"

Today, on this last day before Adam returns, I wanted to pull back the Trader's Blog vale and show you a little behind the scenes action. I'll get to the great article by Douglas Newberry from The-Market-Toolbox.com, in a second, but first do you know how valuable you are to us? No really, you are our business and without you we have nothing.

Without your support of our site, without you visiting our guest bloggers sites, and without your comments we're dead in the water. So THANK YOU! Second, do you know how many sites, professional traders, and alike want to be guest bloggers?? Over 50 requests A DAY! We screen each one, check their background, and research like crazy just to make sure the content they present to you is great. It's a lot of work, but you are our customers and without you we'd be GM...HA!

Now to Douglas he's a great guy, I've known him forever and he and his partner for the longest time and I can attest to the quality of their site, knowledge, and desire to truly expand your trading knowledge. Please visit The-Market-Toolbox.com, comment below, and enjoy the article on news media  and the financial markets...

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There are many ways to pick stocks to trade and a whole lot more ways to “invest”.

There are some great strategies and indicators that are staples in any good trader’s arsenal and some have been around for decades…even longer.

Most people are looking at stock charts and reading financial statements and supposing how they think a particular stock or market will perform.

Most are looking at chart patterns and calculating odds, managing risk and designing an exit strategy and all of these are important steps in the process.

One way we find traders get “tripped up” is not looking at the open carefully enough. One of the most powerful ideas we have come across is the idea of looking at the market “from the open” as opposed to yesterday’s close.

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Forex Robots: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! Part 1

As forex continues to explode I asked a good friend, Dr. Jeff Wilde from AskJeffWilde.com, to bring us his expert opinions. As the title states he'll be bringing the good, the bad, and the ugly! He's also asked for personal stories (of good, bad, or ugly) to be left in the comments!

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Unless you haven't turned your computer on over the past 12 months you can't help but notice that practically every week another forex robot comes on the market.  My inbox is getting bombarded with offers lately all promising me a life of riches with little or no losses by using these forex robots.  Anyway...  I am blowing the lid off of the robots and taking an in depth look at them.   I have a lot to say about that and will get to it in a moment.

I pretty sure most everyone reading this knows what a forex robot is but for you newbies let me explain briefly...

A forex robot is a computer run program that is designed to analysis the forex markets for trade setups based on a particular trading system.  Whats more they can easily analyze multiple currency pairs at the same time.  In addition they will automatically place the trades for you without you even having to be present.  The most popular forex software to use forex robots with is Meta Trader.

The GOOD things about robots are...

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Short term pops...how do we play them?

We're often asked at MarketClub just how to play short-term pops. Regardless if you are looking at stocks, futures, or the forex market, it's always the same for us in the office and thousands of MarketClub members... MarketClub Alerts.

Today I have a brand new video that looks deeper into the MarketClub Alerts and a couple of Swine Flu moves that MarketClub members really nailed! I also look into the Pork Bellies recent action, and a non-Swine Flu stock that recently made a nice move that the Alerts kept me on the right side of!

You see, no matter what happens, what methods you use, or what markets you trade, the following is always true: If you're the first to know, you're the first to profit!

This applies to our trading strategy, MarketClub Alerts, and the steps we need to take to capture profits and stay on the winning side of those short-term moves.

Please enjoy the video on two Swine Flu plays, a non-Swine Flu pop, and the Pork Bellies! As always its with our compliments.

All comments are welcome and you will need the latest Flash Player to enjoy the video.

The Zen of Wave Trading

Wave trading...what is it and how do we do it? Most of us know the basics but its often the basics we forget and fail to implement! I've invited Troy Flowers from InvestorsUnderground.com to bring us back to basics and give us some advanced tips and tricks to really wave trade with success.

Comments are open so if you have anything to add please feel free to do so. Also please check out InvestorsUnderground.com, it's a great place to connect with other like minded traders and to get a few ideas from people that have already tried a trade or a method.

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Sometimes too much information is just that. There are always reasons why the market is moving one way or another, or at least lots of theories.  But too many indicators makes traders overlook the obvious of wave trading, which is the most simple form of day trading.

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Gold Conspiracy

I'm confident that there are thousands of blog lurking gold bugs who are going to want to comment on this article from Mark Leibovit of VRGoldLetter.com. Mark hits on a number of issues, which include a possible conspiracy theory. Mark will be on PBS tonight talking about Gold, and if you visit VRGoldLetter.com, be sure and use the promo code "INO" for a discount.

But more importantly read the piece below and let the comments fly! It's time for all of those blog lurkers to make their thoughts and opinions known!

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In the short term, the precious metals, especially Gold, are trading counter to the stock market, but we have also seen precious metals rally along with stock market during the 2003 and 2008 bull cycle.  Regardless, in the long-term, precious metals should rally because of currency debasement and the resulting inflation which follows.  I have recently inaugurated the VR Gold Letter (which covers most other metals as well) to focus on the unique opportunity ahead in the natural resource arena.

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