Learning how to trade along all the associated information that you need to understand such as brokers, trading software, charts etc can be quite a daunting prospect and while there are a number of excellent courses out there (such as the ones from Top Dog Trading) learning everything from a book, DVD or online video can be difficult for some people.

Thats where live trading seminars can be useful as the live format along with the ability to get your personel questions answered, either by the trainer or other students, can be a big help, but there are a few problems and downsides to attending live seminars.

The main ones being:

• The expense
• The time
• Travelling away from home
• Hotel and travelling expenses

If you want to learn more about the problems associated with attending live trading seminars then checkout this site

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The following video from Top Dog Trading will explain the basics of how to use Fibonacci Retracements to improve your trading of stocks, Futures, Forex and Eminis

Can you use Fibonacci Retracement with gaps, what lows and highs do you use?, find the answers in this video

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In this video Barry Burn’s from Top Dog Trading explains more about his favourite day trading setup and what he looks for, this includes trends, momentum, cycles, support and resistance and fractals (or multiple times frames)

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Using a volume indicator when either day trading or swing trading to create a higher probability trade

Did you know that volume is not an indicator like stochastics or MACD?, it’s like price action, it is what it is!, in other words it is not a derivative indicator that has been calculated from some other parameters, this makes it very useful if you know what to look for. Watch this video and learn some more insights from a real trader on how to use volume to improve your trading

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Most experianced traders know that selecting the correct chart time interval is a very important aspect of trading, should it be 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, daily or even weekly charts?

In this video you will learn some very interesting insights into how to select the best trading interval for you and your style of trading, discover which are the most popular time frames and how this effects how you should trade, in particlar your risk tolerance

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Watch the video below and learn the favorite Forex trading setup of Barry Burns from Top Dog Trading

Learn how Barry Burns trades the Forex market using his very simple but very effective trading system. Discover what the most important things are to watch, learn what are the most important indicators to monitor, and it’s not trend but something much more important, it’s momentum and cycles, plus 2 others, this is a very educational video for all traders and not just for Forex but for stocks and futures as well.

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Watch the following video from Top Dog Trading and learn how to trade the Halloween stock market cycle:

Learn more about this trading cycle in which you buy around Halloween and then sell in May, does it work?, is it real?, well the only real way to find out is to back test, watch the video and learn how you might be able to trade this cycle, Barry Burns explains some of the things that you will need to watch for.

It becomes obvious that when back testing a trading strategy or trading system you must test over a number of years to get a realistic picture

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I’ve just been informed that some new posts have been added to the Top Dog Trading Blog

The most recent one is called “Who is Better at Stock Market Trading – Humans or Robots, Part 2″, you can read it here

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Take the opportunity to read some of the other must read trading articles from this experianced trader, Barry Burns, some of the previous blog posts cover important important topics such as:

• Who is Better at Stock Market Trading – Humans or Robots?
• Stop Running for Emini Trading, Forex Day Trading and Stock Market Trading
• Trend Trading Podcast for DayTrading, Emini Trading, and Forex Training
• Free Gift: Keeping Your Cool While Daytrading or Swing Trading
• Day Trading Tips: How to Choose the Best Interval for Charts
• Trading Volume Indicator Used to Improve Odds For Day Trading and Swing Trading
• Financial Independence While Daytrading
• Father’s Day Dedication – To My Dad Who Got Me Started In Trading and Investing
• Forex Training: Forex Currency Broker Answers a Tough List of Questions, Part 2

Top Dog Trading provide a wide range of high class real world trading courses and education, read more on their blog

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These products sell for around $2000 and with a 35% commission of around $700 promoting these products can quickly produce large returns, and even higher if customers pay by installments. In addition there recuring fees for the trading rooms and newsletter which will pay you month after month as long as the member continues their membership

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There are a number of high probability trading strategies available for the active trader. If you want to have consistent high probability trading opportunities then one of the best ways is to use options in your trading.

It is well known that about 85% of stock options, calls and puts, expire each month out of the money so are worthless, and in fact it is even worse than because options that are still in the money at expiration could still be worth less than what the buyer paid for them, so they lost money as well.

So why do traders buy calls and puts if so many of them expire worthless?, the answer is simple, they are looking for the high return trade, maybe 20-100% in a matter of a few days to a few weeks. That sounds great but buying straight puts and calls is a low probability trade, if you want a high probability trade the smart move is to take the other side of these trades by selling the calls and puts.

There are 3 main high probability options trading strategies that can be used to sell options to traders and collect the premium when they expire worthless

Covered Calls

Not my favourite option selling strategy but fairly easy to understand and manage. Basically you buy stock in 100 stock increments then sell out of the money calls using your stock as collateral, you can make about 5% return every 4-6 weeks using this strategy if all goes well

Credit Spreads

A credit spread is an options trade that does not involve the use of any stock so it is a pure options trade. The basic trade is to sell 1 call then buy 1 call that is further out of the money as collateral or protect. Both calls could expire worthless but you make money because you collect more premium on the call that you sold than the call that you bought. You can make anthing from 2-3% to 50% every 4-6 weeks depending on your risk tolerance, but it’s no as simple as that as things can go wrong and you can incurr losses. But the beauty of this trade is that you can decide from the start what level of high probability trading you want with the trade, if you only go for a 3% return then the probability of success will be very high at around 95%. You can use calls or puts when creating a credit spread trade.

For many traders the holy grail of low risk, low stress trading with consistent profits is the Iron Condor Trade

Iron Condor High Probability Trade

The easiest way to describe this trade setup is that it is really made up of two credit spreads, a call credit spread and a put credit spread and so it requires 4 options to be used, 2 are bought and 2 are sold.

Typically you can make about 5-10% every 4-6 weeks using this trade, but there is a downside, if you don’t use good risk and trade management you can lose a large part of your account if the market tanks, so this is not a set and forget trade like many try and make it out to be.

The truth is that there is a lot to learn about the Iron Condor trade before you should start to trade it, once learnt it is fairly easy. Learning how to trade the Iron Condor is outside the scope of this blog even though the author is very familiar with it

To learn more just use Google to do a few searchs such as:

Iron Condor

How to Trade the Iron Condor

Iron Condor Trade Setup

Iron Condor Trade Adjustments