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Blog for Stock, Options, Forex, and Futures traders
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OnlineTradeBlog.com has just been started. This blog was created to share ideas, experiences, successes, failures, and strategies with all aspects of trading that I've experienced including Forex, stocks, options, and futures trading. I will cover a wide range of topics useful to traders and also share strategies that work for me. I will talk about technical analysis, fundamental analysis, arbitrage, and automated mechanical systems trading. I'll share my thoughts on everything ranging from current market situations to book reviews.
Recent Posts
EURUSD update
This week, the EURUSD had a very incredible move up to approx 1.4700, before falling back to approx 1.3900. I was hoping that the Non-Commercials on the CFTC COT Reports would give the signal to go long. I was a little surprised at the reports. ...
Did the EUR/USD finally turn around?
The EUR/USD made a very impressive bullish move this past week for the first time in a while (1 week move). The EURUSD moved up over 600 pips this week. Technically, the Euro does appear to be bullish, but the question is for how long. Or is this ...
Choosing a Forex broker
Today, I will discuss criteria that I used in choosing Forex brokers. There are literallly hundreds of Forex brokers to choose from, so how did I narrow the list down? First of all, when choosing a Forex broker, I am in the US, so I narrowed it d...
Automated Systems: Comparison of platforms
I have evaluated and used several platforms for automated trading including TradeStation, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader, and RightEdge Systems.  I’d like to share my opinion regarding these. Probably the most popular out there is TradeStation. Â...
Things to consider before trading.
1) Before trading with real money, wait until you have a system or strategy that you’ve backtested and forwarded tested successfully.  If you are trading without a system/strategy, you are just gambling.  I’ll show you examples of s...
Opinion of the current stock market situation as of 11-28-2008
The image above is the SPY (S&P 500) as of the 11-28-2008 close.  As you can see the stock market has had a very nice rebound since hitting a fairly recent new bottom 1 week ago on Friday. The market has had very strong rally.  It may app...

