I didn't bungee jump in New Zealand ... I jumped off the tallest building instead.

My business partner Dave Maher, posted this response to my Gone Fishin blog. "If Adam sends me any photos of himself bungee jumping, I’ll be sure to post them to the blog. Ok Adam?"

I didn't get to bungee jump Dave, but I thought that this was the next best thing. The SKYJUMP in Auckland is a 630 ft thrill jump that I highly recommend to anyone who visits New Zealand.

To all MarketClub members and soon to be members, always remember ... You are never too old to learn how to trade or jump off tall buildings.

Have a great day. It's good to be back. Adam

Pulling the Trigger

Last week I asked Jason Fielder from TriadFormula.com (who has 2 webinars tomorrow, 2 times 1pm eastern and 8pm eastern that you should check out) to teach us a little bit about scalping! Everyone seemed to enjoy the article so I asked him if he could come back and break down the always hard 'pulling of the trigger'. Please enjoy the article, comment below, and check out one of his webinars tomorrow!

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Recently I conducted a survey that had the question: “What is your single biggest question about trading?” There were numerous responses, but one that I kept seeing over and over again was…

"When it comes time to place a trade, I just can’t seem to “pull the trigger”.

In my experience, people have trouble “pulling the trigger” for one reason and one reason only: fear. There are three main issues that generate this fear, and all three issues boil down to the trader’s belief about himself, his trading system, or the market. The first is a trader’s psychology. The second is the trader’s confidence in their trading system, and third is position sizing.

Let’s take a look at each one of these factors…

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Did you miss the new MarketClub Minute?

I wanted to make sure that you haven't missed the new MarketClub Minute. A new short video will be posted every Saturday. You can visit the new MarketClub Minute by clicking on the video icon at the top right hand side of this page, you can also bookmark this link and revisit it every Sunday.

http://club.ino.com/trading/index.php?s=%22the+marketclub+minute%22

Enjoy! Adam should be back in the office soon, so look for his video analysis and commentary very soon.

Have a wonderful day,

Lindsay Thompson
Director of New Business Development
INO.com & MarketClub

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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Trader's Blog Contest Winner For April

And the winner is...

The winner of the April contest, where we asked “Do you think the government should nationalize banks?,” is random comment number 222. We had 291 responses, but only 278 eligible comments and the overwhelming response was NO!

Congrats… Ali S. of St. Laurent, QC Canada

I will be sending your books out today and I will add two complimentary months of MarketClub to your account.

Don't forget to enter May’s Contest, we asked our visitors, “Looking back at President Obama's 100th Day in office... How would you describe his economic policies - Good, Bad, or Ugly?″

Thanks for participating... keep it up cause we love to hear from you.

Best,

The MarketClub Team