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A Trading Interview with my Friend Casey Stubbs

A trading interview with my friend Casey Stubbs happened recently. I wanted to share it again with you here. We hit on a lot of topics important to me all about trading. I hope to do another trading interview like this soon. Check out this trading interview replay with my friend Casey Stubbs One…

March 1, 2021
Strategic Moving Average Trading Techniques

Strategic moving average trading techniques are well worth any trader’s time and effort. There are so many different ways to use them however. The question always comes up — which ones? I would go so far to say that moving averages (MAs) are the most common indicator available to traders. Every charting platform has many…

September 9, 2020
The Best Way to Trade Forex

The best way to trade forex is with a capable trade manager interface that can do everything you want it to do. Most traders are still using MT4 to trade forex. This is such an old platform and hasn’t really kept up over the years. It has many advantages because most brokers still offer it…

August 22, 2020
What’s the Difference Between CPT, CPX2, SPT, SMS and Catapult Trader?

Recently I received an email from an old member trying to make heads or tails out of the many strategies I have created out of the years. In short, he owns some of the below strategies, doesn’t really quite know what he has, and is not wondering what the differences are. Incidentally, I hope he…

August 19, 2020
How to Trade Options with the Powerful CPX2.0

How to trade options with the powerful CPX2.0 is actually easier than one might think. I have created a short, 3 part video series on exactly that. The CPX2 is so versatile that it works virtually the same on swing trade charts as it does on daytrade charts. In this video series I talk about…

August 12, 2020
Live Traderoom Replay Focusing on the CPX2.0

Here’s a live traderoom replay focusing on the CPX2.0. Today we hit all our goals with the Spotlight Master Suite rather quickly. You can see the trades in the video below. Markets like Crude Oil, Unleaded Gas, Russell Emini, Dow Emini all hit their goals with the first or second trade. That is always our…

August 10, 2020
Simple Trading Strategies are the Most Profitable

Simple trade strategies are the most profitable, usually because one could learn them, master them, and execute them without mistakes. The more advanced a strategy, the more likely it is to make mistakes which can really add up. Also, it’s hard to know when a strategy is broken, when too complex. The Counter Punch Xpress…

August 7, 2020
One Big Secret to Trading Success — Dynamic Setups

One big secret to Trading Success can be found in our 12 Powers ebook; “the power of dynamic setups.” All 12 powers are important but in this post I want to focus on this one specific power. As we all know, the world is a forever changing place. Price action reflects what is happening in…

August 4, 2020
Forex Profits Keep Growing Strong

Our Forex Profits are growing strong for our Greatest Hits, Spotlight FX Alerts members. On our one year anniversary we were up over +9000 pips from the same date a year earlier. With all this crazy volatility in the markets, the price movements in the forex markets have made for some excellent swing trades. It…

July 30, 2020
What do you do as a trader when the markets crash?

What do you do as a trader when the markets crash? This week, the market had a historic sell off in reaction to the corona virus headlines. In fact, this sudden reaction became one of the biggest drops in history. Investors worldwide panicked and proceeded to liquidate their positions as pandemic risks soared. Investors are…

March 1, 2020