Extra practice and preparation can create new opportunities for traders who are willing to commit the time.

Everyone, everywhere uses the U.S. dollar as a reference, and a substitute, for wealth. But what are these dollars really worth, and how do you know what anything else is worth?

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for September 21.

As traders, our tools of the trade are watchlists and scanning tools. But how do you assemble a watchlist? How do you decide which securities to trade?

Just when you begin to think that comfy trends are permanent, suddenly, everything changes. All that ‘flation’ in the system explodes...prices soar...or collapse, and markets are hit.

The Fed lowered the Fed Fund and Discount Rate 50bps. There is a likelihood of more cuts down the road, but perhaps not with the same crushing blow.

How do you make a lot of money in this kind of finance-driven economy? Simple. You sell things to rich people.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for September 19.

With September's option expiration only a few days away, it's time to reprise "max pain" theory.

Everyone wants to know what the Maestro was really thinking.