Power Trading Radio

Merlin taps into the brain of Master trader, Jeff Manson to gain some clarity on several topics, including: using volume and open interest in his trade planning, identifying key levels that price has never reached, and the exciting new world of using options on the futures market.

With no studio guest today, Merlin answers many listener questions! Since the airing of the cryptocurrency show last week, may viewers have questions! The first one pertains to block chain and how it works. Merlin elaborates on this and talks about its use well beyond must the currency aspects. He also looks at AMD other traded securities.

For the first time, investors and traders across the nation will be able to get live perspective on the market from experienced professional traders. "Power Trading Radio" is aimed at an audience that wants to improve its edge through active participation whether the market is moving up, down or sideways. In addition to stocks, topics will include foreign exchange, options and wealth management.

So many questions have been coming in regarding Bitcoins, Litecoins, and other crypto currencies that Merlin decided to address the topic by giving a quick overview of the coin differences. Later, he also looks at the current collapse of oil and the flood of IPO’s.

Options master, Eric Ochotnicki joins Merlin to talk about advanced ways to use options to reduce risk, and increase returns. Eric dives deep into specific listener questions offering suggestions on how to deal with major gaps in the market, and points out flaws in just using the Greeks for trading decisions.

Merlin and Master Trader, Sean Reed take a look at some of the issues with the Permanent Portfolio discussed on PTR a couple weeks ago. Sean looks at ways to improve rates of return using market timing and option writing strategies. They also look at the stock Dry Ships per a listener request.

DANIELLE DIMARTINO BOOTH is the founder of Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm. She began her career in New York at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Credit Suisse. After working as a financial columnist at the Dallas Morning News, DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Dr. Richard Ebeling, Austrian Economic Professor at The Citadel University, discusses with John O'Donnell why trade tariffs are historically a very bad economic idea going back 200 years to Adam Smith. From the lumber tariffs in Canada trade by Trump, to the rubber tires from China tariffs by Obama. The consumer is always the net loser, as foreign trade tariffs are nothing but taxes paid by the consumers of said products. Net jobs are not saved for US industries by these tariffs.

Alone on set, Merlin takes answers many listener questions on topics ranging from Greek Banks to Chart time frames, realistic return expectations to French elections, and much more.