Power Trading Radio

For the last few weeks, Zenobia has been collecting many listener questions from twitter (@traderMerlin, @PowerTradingRD, @TradingAcademy). Tune in to see if your question  was answered by the Power Trading Radio team!

Mike McMahon joins Merlin for a look at all the current market updates and potential trading opportunities. Merlin and Mike start with a look at Leveraged ETF’s and their detrimental attributes when added to long term trading accounts. After a quick talk about gambling tendencies in trading, the duo looks at Tesla and future market direction. Mike has been openly bullish since August of 2010, is he still? Tune in and find out!

Alan Hall of Elliot Wave International joins John O’Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld for a look at how socionomics is impacting our current markets. He shares several charts with viewers which illustrate how the social mood actually leads markets. Later John and Merlin take a look at Gold and its current downtrend. This culminates with the announcement of a new gold coin winner for the week!

Running a High Frequency Trading firm is no walk in the park! It’s even tougher when others are given a competitive advantage! Haim Bodek (former CEO of HFT firm Trading Machines) and Peter Zhang (Head of Risk Management at Sang Lucci Hedge fund), Join Merlin for a look behind the curtain on the HFT world and the mystery of secret order types which allow other firms to jump order cue’s and exploit rules put in place by the SEC. Haim also talks about his recent film “The Wall Street Code” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQJNeQDDHA), which addresses many improprieties in the financial markets.

2 out of the last 3 days have seen sharp selling to end the trading session, prompting some to forecast a broader selloff in the coming weeks. Debbie looks at current markets and shares her thoughts on where things may be headed, as well as shed some light on historical price levels. The duo look at exactly how far back one should look to find significant supply and demand levels which may turn price. They also offer some trading insight on the Aussie Dollar.

Teaching a Market Timing event in Indonesia, Bert Antonik joins Merlin for a look at the current status of the global currency markets and analysis of several currency pairs. Bert and Merlin look at EURUSD, GBPUSD, and the latest entrant in the currency war: Bitcoin!

A bipolar trading started off quite and ended with a wicked selloff. Brandon Tristan joins Merlin for a look at what he and his XLT students were looking at, and the trading opportunities this session provided. Brandon stresses a multiple time frame analysis approach which opened the door to making some great intraday trades in today’s XLT session. Brandon and Merlin offer their insights into trading holidays and what the market may hold going forward.

The weekend edition is chocked full of macro market information! From the relentless surge upward to inflationary pressure, John and Merlin look at things from 30,000 feet! Later, Merlin brings up a great chart which shows the rate hikes and cuts over the last 10 years and points out a very interesting void in fed action which may act as MASSIVE bubble fuel going forward. Finally, the latest gold coin winner is announced!

More attention is pointed at credit scores each day, yet most know little about theirs. Diana Hill joins Merlin for a look at what the average person should know about their credit, and discuss her latest DVD which covers all aspects of credit and illustrates the fastest way to improve your credit score! This evolves into a discussion on the housing markets which have continued to post some significant gains across many US markets. Lastly, the duo look at the fed funds rate on a market chart to show a very disturbing problem in the works!! Tune in and find out what it is!

Steve Moses joins Merlin for a look at his most recent travels to London to teach Options in the UK. He starts out with a look at the unnecessary risks most traders take with regards to trading earnings announcements using options. Later, a quick look at the current market leads to a discussion on spread trading and how to take advantage of sideways markets.