Richard Peterson is the author of Inside the Investor's Brain. As a former futures trader, Richard knows firsthand how subconcious mistakes and biases can sabotage the financial decision-making of market enthusiasts. Here we talk about how to make changes and what to do to learn your own biases so you can overcome them on your road to consistent success in the markets. Take a free money psychology test Richard's website at MarketPsych.com.
Vitaliy Katsenelson is the author of Active Value Investing: Making Money In Range-Bound Markets. While this interview focuses more on long-term investing rather than trading, it's interesting to hear how Vitaliy uses only fundamental analysis to choose stocks. It's also good information for anyone who has longer term accounts such as retirement 401Ks or IRAs. The book's website is: ActiveValueInvesting.com
Abe Cofnas has been a trader and educator for many years, focusing on the forex markets. He has been the forex trading columnist for Futures magazine since 2001. His new book, The Forex Trading Course: A Self-Study Guide To Becoming a Successful Currency Trader outlines his strategies and offers a realistic view of what it takes to make money with currency trading. His website, Learn4x.com is a central information hub for his methods.
Timothy Sykes is a twenty-six year old trader who freely admits that trading is tough. Yet he turned $12,415 of Bar Mitzvah money into $1.65 million dollars - much of it after the "dot com crash" in 2000. Here we talk about why he focuses on shorting micro cap stocks, why he closed his hedge fund in order to write and trade and why he tells his story in his book, An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator and Created a Hedge Fund. We talk about the challenges in finding enough stock to short and they type of homework he does in the evening to find trading opportunities for the next day. His website is TimothySykes.com and here is a link to his book
Grace Cheng is a popular blogger and trader based in Singapore who primarily trades currency. Here daily commentary on the forex markets is widely read online at GraceCheng.com. Here we talk about her trading style, what charts she likes to monitor and how she balances her day and swing trades. Her website talks about her philosophy for successful trading - the 3 M's - Mind, Method and Money Management. She has also written a book, 7 Winning Strategies for Trading Forex: Real and Actionable Techniques for Profiting from the Currency Markets
Bill Kraft practiced trial law for more than 25 years before starting his own photography business. After realizing it wasn't quite what he wanted, he started reading everything he could about online trading. His net worth went from about $300,000 to multi-millionaire status eight years later. Here we talk about how he came through the tech crash by learning how to play the downside of the market effectively, how he trades using options and an "Iron Condor" strategy, and why he decided to write a book about his trading strategies called Trade Your Way To Wealth
