First and foremost, I would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year.  This is a time when many people, including traders, re-dedicate themselves to the passions in their lives.  For me, it has always been trading and I look forward to a New Year and trading e-mini contracts.

To a certain degree, your personal dedication to trading will, more or less, determine the kind of success you will enjoy.  While my job is to teach e-mini trading, it is ultimately your dedication and continuing education that will make you a profitable trader.  I remember the very best teachers and mentors that have taken an interest in my career throughout the years, and I learned something from each of them.  But the most important mentor I ever had, lit the fire of becoming a student of trading and consuming, voraciously, all I could find on the topic.

These days there is much more written about trading than in the old days.  The old trading masters were loath to share their secrets with the younger generation.  But with the proliferation of online trading, a slew of books have emerged on e-mini trading.  Some are very good, others are merely infomercials for proprietary software the author is trying to sell, and others are just plain awful.  I try to read a book a week on trading, and this causes me to encounter all sorts of authors.  I guess you take the good with the bad.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing articles in a “series” format, and have completed all I want to write about trend lines.  I am including links to all of the articles below and hope that you may find at least one useful idea in the entire lot.  If you do, my mission has been accomplished.  Like trading, I truly enjoy writing about trading in an unbiased and non-commercial way.

Here are the links to the recent trend line series:

As I mentioned earlier, these are articles are packed with information, facts, and my personal observations.  That being said, my real goal would be spur your interest in further interest in the diminutive trendline.

Again, have a Happy New Year…but it’s back to trading tomorrow.