Jaime Johnson is Chief Technical Strategist for Dynamic Traders Group. Under the instruction of Robert Miner, Jaime developed a top-down approach to trading, looking first at broad market trends and indexes and then deciding which sectors, ETFs and stocks to trade based on that information. He has recently started trading forex using Elliott Wave and Fibonacci levels to find trading opportunies on daily and 60-minute charts. Here we talk about where he sets his stops, what currency pairs he likes to trade and why, and how he enters trades at the end of of various types of corrective patterns.
Kerry Szymaski is the owner of La Canada Capital Management. Kerry is both a daytrader and swing trader who looks for Fibonacci points, harmonic patterns and Gartley patterns to find trading opportunities in the S&P e-mini contract and also Euro currency futures. He also trades the S&P ETF (SPY). Here we discuss what he looks for in the markets including why he monitors TICK divergence as an indicator.
Robert Miner is the author of Dynamic Trading and was named "Market Guru of the Year" in 1997 for his S&P analysis and forecasting. His work, building on Gann and Elliott Wave principles, is widely regarded as cutting edge. Here he talks about how he looks at the markets and analyzes price, time and patterns. His website is at DynamicTraders.com.
Mike Kestler is a true daytrader, trading approximately 500K shares daily - mostly on the Big Board NYSE. Mike's personal trading entails third market arbitrage, news based trading, technical analysis, and tape reading. At Evolution Capital where he is a managing partner, Mike has mentored and trained many successful traders who maintain consistent profitability in changing markets. Here he talks about how he finds opportunities in trades - most of which last between 30 seconds and several minutes. Mike also writes for TigerSharkTrading.com.
John Carter is the author of Mastering The Trade and is the Founder of TradeTheMarkets.com, an online provider of short-term financial market commentary. John puts on intra-day trades 6-8 times per day. Here he talks about why he likes to use tick charts rather than minute charts, and why he likes mini-Dow Futures contracts for daytrading and how he uses the TICK and TRIN to help gauge market direction and mood. He also discusses why he is a better trader when he's not stuck in front of a screen all day and instead walks away after a trade is placed.
Peter Reznicek is co-founder and Chief Equity Strategist for ShadowTrader.net, and advisory firm and intraday and swing trading commentary site. Peter also writes commentary for TigerSharkTrading.com and works with ThinkorSwim.com. Here Peter talks about how he finds opportunities intraday, why he uses only 15-minute charts when daytrading, and what he has found to be an excellent leading indicator for the markets (it's not what you might expect!).
