Thursday, June 26, 2008 Trader Profile: Wayne McDonnell Specs: 24 mins, 06 secs | 11.1 MB
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This week we talk with Wayne McDonnell about how he trades the currency markets, how he finds opportunities each day, and the various timeframes he uses for confirmation that it's time to execute. We also discuss why he sets goals in terms of "pips" rather than dollars or percentage gain. A good interview for traders of any market, but especially forex. Find out more about Wayne and his methodology at FXBootcamp.com.
Thursday, June 12, 2008 Trader Profile: Mark Whistler Specs: 32 mins, 50 secs | 15.1 MB
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Mark Whistler is a full-time Forex trader and Senior Market Strategist for TradingMarkets.com. Here we talk about how Mark trades the EUR/USD and looks for "transparency" in the markets, the indicators he uses (including slow stochastics, Bollinger Bands, MACD and longer term moving averages), how he uses "indication of implied volatility," and how he uses macro-economic information and technical analysis together. We also talks about how his un-orthodox way of deciding how much money he wants to make in the markets each day. Finally, he talks about a great trade he had recently and a bad trade as well. Note: the audio on this one is not great - I apologize in advance.
Thursday, June 5, 2008 Trader Profile: Brian Shannon Specs: 24 mins, 37 secs | 11.3 MB
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Brian Shannon is a full-time swing trader and a new author of Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes. In this interview we discuss his background in trading and his overall philosophy of his approach. Brian talks about why he sets a 3-5% gain goal each week for himself each week and how he finds opportunities with "acceptable risk." We also discuss how he uses key levels of support and resistance to find trades. Finally, we discuss how he takes a large basket of stocks each week and whittles them down to about 20-30 he will be watching. He also has a blog at AlphaTrends.net.
