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• Monster Profit, Monster Slip

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SpikeTrade is a group of 20 professional and semipro traders engaged in a weekly competition. Each member submits his or her pick on Sunday, along with the entry, target, and stop. The picks are submitted in private, and then all is revealed on Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week, the Spiker who wins that week’s competition writes up his or her analysis of the trade. In this article I will review the winning trade from the week ended April 23, 2010. The trader is Peter D., one of our international Spikers. A Dutchman living in southern Europe, he is one of the longer-term mem...

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: MAY 2010SUBJECT: Trader's Notebook

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Working Money: Channel Trade Win by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: MAY 2010SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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• The Rubber Band Effect

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SpikeTrade.com is a group of 20 professional and semiprofessional traders involved in a weekly competition. Each member submits his or her pick along with the entry, target, and stop. The picks are submitted in private, and then all is revealed on Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week, the Spiker who wins that week's competition writes up his or her analysis of the trade. In this article I will review the winning trade from the week ended February 19, 2010. The trader is Stephen M., a serious semiprofessional trader who is also an Idaho-based orthodontist. Steve is the newest Spiker, ...

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: MAR 2010SUBJECT: Trader's Notebook

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The Rubber Band Effect by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: JUN 2010SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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Working Money: A Full Cuppa JOE by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: JUL 2010SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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• A Gem In The Junk Pile

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SpikeTrade.com is a group of 20 professional and semiprofessional traders involved in a weekly competition. Each member submits his or her pick along with the entry, target, and stop. The picks are submitted in solitude, and then all are revealed on Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week, the Spiker who wins that week’s competition writes up his or her analysis of the trade....

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: JAN 2010SUBJECT: Trader's Notebook

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Working Money: How I Won My Gold by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: JAN 2010SUBJECT: Trading Diary

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• Channel Trade Win

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SpikeTrade.com is a group of 20 professional and semiprofessional traders involved in a weekly competition. Each member submits his or her pick along with the entry, target, and stop. The picks are submitted in private, and then all is revealed on Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week, the Spiker who wins that week’s competition writes up his or her analysis of the trade....

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: FEB 2010SUBJECT: Trader's Notebook

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Working Money: A Gem In The Junk Pile by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: Bonus Issue 2010SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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Working Money: Monster Profit, Monster Slip by Alexander Elder, MD

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: AUG 2010SUBJECT: Novice Traders' Notebook

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• A Full Cuppa JOE

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...SpikeTrade.com is a group of 20 professional and semiprofessional traders involved in a weekly competition. Each member submits his or her pick along with the entry, target, and stop. The picks are submitted in private, and then all is revealed on Sunday afternoon. At the end of each week, the Spiker who wins that week's competition writes up his or her analysis of the trade....

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: APR 2010SUBJECT: Trader's Notebook

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• How I Won My Gold

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...This is the first in a series of articles analyzing winning trades at SpikeTrade.com. SpikeTrade is a group of 20 professional and semiprofessional traders involved in a weekly competition. This time, we will review the winning trade for the week ended October 10, 2009. The trader is Sergey S., a full-time investment advisor from Toronto, Canada. Here are his comments at the conclusion of his trade....

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: NOV 2009SUBJECT: Trading Diary

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• Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder Author: Stanley Kroll Publisher: Dow Jones-Irwin 1818 Ridge Road Homewood, IL 60430 Contents: 203 pages, hardbound Price: $29.95 Stanley Kroll is reputed to have taken seven-figure profits out of the inflationary markets of the 1970s. He also wrote two good market books in those days: The Commodity Futures Market Guide (with Irwin Shishko) and The Professional Commodity Trader. Kroll spent the next several years traveling in Europe and writing books on sailing. He returned to the U.S. and the futures markets in the mid-1980s. A n...

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: AUG 1988

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• The Big Hitters by Dr. Alexander Elder

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Big Hitters by Dr. Alexander Elder Author: Kevin Koy Publisher: Intermarket Publishing 401 S. La Salle Chicago, IL 60605 Price: $26.95 ""The rich are different from you and me,"" wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald during the Roaring Twenties. At that time, Bernard Baruch was swinging deals on the New York exchange, R.N. Elliott was still keeping railroad accounts in Chile and most of today's big traders had not yet been born. The Great Gatsby's author shared in the common misconception that the rich are a breed apart and have a secret trick for making money....

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: MAY 1987

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• Agricultural Options by Dr. Alexander Elder

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Agricultural Options by Dr. Alexander Elder Agricultural Options George Angell American Management Associates 135 West 50th St. New York, NY 10020 230 pages, $22.95 hardcover It used to be that each new book by George Angell could be counted on to provide fresh insights into the workings of the futures markets and give a few good trading ideas, Agricultural Options, however, is relatively disappointing for anyone who has read Angell's earlier books. This is the author's first major foray into the new and growing field of agricultural options. Buying agricultural options allows market partic...

AUTHOR: Alexander Elder, MDDATE: OCT 1986