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Investing Tutorials - Active Trading

For many investors a long-term "buy and hold" strategy is the right approach to take. But there is no doubt that a short-term strategy can work for others. This section looks at both the structure of today's markets as well as the strategies that many active traders use to gauge if an investment is worth their time and effort.

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Analyzing the Markets
Option Spread Strategies
Learn why option spreads offer trading opportunities withlimited risk and greater versatility.

Market Breadth
In this feature on internal indicators we will examine the more useful and popular methods of measuring market breadth, from volume to point-and-figure indicators.

Advanced Elliott Wave Analysis
Discover new developments that help you apply this difficult to understand theory to trading.

Electronic Trading Systems
Whether you are a trader or a long-term investor it is important to know how the markets work and how orders are executed.

Detecting Market Strength
Learn several tools that the pros use to predict where the markets are heading.

Top 10 Forex Trading Rules
Get some guidelines on how to survive - and thrive - in a variety of markets.
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