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Learning Resources

There are three kinds of learning resources on the site:

  • Technical Analysis and the way it is applied.
  • The mechanics of trading: Brokers, software, datafeeds, etc. (Link).
  • The psychology of trading and the way it affects your results

Learning technical analysis

From Wikipedia:

"Technical analysis is the study of market action, primarily through the use of charts, for the purpose of forecasting future price trends."

Technical analysis, or TA, is the basis for almost all of Nat's work in the markets. She concentrates on actual price behavior, and tries to identify non-random price patterns and trends that can be exploited for profitable trades..

Technical analysis is widely used among traders and financial professionals, which makes it act as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy: because many traders expect price to pause at a resistance level, for example, they delay entering the market, which causes the price to pause. In other words, it works because so many people expect it to work.

While technicians use various methods and tools, the study of price charts is primary. Technicians especially search for archetypal patterns, such as the well-known head and shoulders reversal pattern, and also study such indicators as price, volume, and moving averages of the price. Many technical analysts also follow indicators of investor psychology (market sentiment).

There are several schools of technical analysis (for example, candlestick charting, Dow Theory, and Elliott wave theory) and many traders -- including Nat -- combine elements from more than one.

The trick is to use judgment gained from experience to decide which pattern a particular market reflects at a given time, and what the interpretation of that pattern should be. There is often wild disagreement among technicians about the proper interpretation of a chart.

Nat is entirely pragmatic in her approach to TA. She is interested in what works, and she bases her calls on the careful observation of price action in many different circumstances over many years of trading.

Nat doesn't teach the fundamentals of technical analysis. There are literally hundreds of places where you can find that kind of information, and it is a waste of her unique talent to repeat what everybody knows. The links on this page will help you get started.

The Psychology of trading

This section is still under construction

Here's an anomaly: a large majority of traders lose money, and eventually stop trading; but almost everyone who "paper trades" in a simulation account is successful.

The difference is emotional control. Paper trading doesn't make your palms sweat and your heart beat faster; trading real money -- your own real money -- does. The difference is like the difference between watch a fight and being in a fight.

The mechanics of Trading

Brokers:

Cannon Trading Co. Inc. (E-Futures.com) offers special reduced day-trading margins and commissions for Naturus members.

Members receive flat round-turn commission rates of $4.60 (and lower for high volume traders) and $400 day-trading margins.

To find out more about this offer, click on the logo below or call 800-454-9572 (Int'l calls +310-859-9572) and ask for Ilan. You must mention Naturus to receive these special rates..

Cannon also has a real-time demo trading platform members can try without charge. Download the demo here.

The company is well-established (since 1988), has a reputation for customer service, charges no software fees, and provides a state-of-the-art trading platform that features rapid order entry, one click trading, one click reverse and flatten and more.