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61) A Brief Outline of the Uses of Options and How They Work: What can a normal stock trader or investor use options for? Here are three: Hedging, increasing yield on an owned stock, and trading.

62) What is Risk?: Risk is a factor involved in my attempt to do something that I know nothing about.

63) Entry Methods for Daytraders: Present Bar's High, Upticks Greater than Downticks, ABC Corrections, Buying a Three Bar High or Low, News and Gaps, Sharp Trending Market.

64) Mindful Daytrading - See What You May be Missing: Follow your trading system, notice when it is not working, and adjust accordingly. Pay attention to your preconceived notions of what kind of trading day it will be, or which direction it will trade. None of us know the market in advance. Stop trading to be right, and start trading to win.

65) Order Placement: There are a wide range of order types that traders can use to get their positions into the market. Here's an overview of the different types of orders.

66) Protective Stops: Adjusting Your Stop: After you have entered a trade and entered a stop loss order, your stop needs to be adjusted to lessen the amount of money you have at risk and to protect larger amounts of profit. It is mandatory that you move your stop only in the direction of the trade. To do otherwise is indulging in fantasy and false hope.

67) Why You Should Trade the First Hour: Statistics tell us that the great majority of the time, one end of the daily price range of the S&P 500 occurs within the first hour of trading! Consequently, if we can place a winning trade in the first hour of trading, we'll have terrific trade placement.

68) The New York Lunch: At 12:00 noon in New York many traders on the floors of the stock exchanges break for lunch. This exodus to fulfill a natural need substantially reduces trading volume. This allows a number of reduced volume strategies to be played out in the markets by specialists and market makers.

69) The Premium - Misunderstood Indicator: The Premium is is one of the most important equity market indicators and also a very misunderstood indicator. The reason for this confusion is that traders attempt to label a premium level as simply bullish or bearish. This indicator is more subtle and elegant than most and cannot be adequately interpreted in such rough terms.

70) Debt Funds: How to select?: The changing scenario in the interest rate over the world and the increasing volatility in the stock market has forced the investor to shift from equity linked instrument to debt instrument .This Article emphasized the importance of debt fund for small investor and the Technique used for selection of debt fund .

71) Mark Crisp’s Dos and Don’ts In Order To Win In The Stock Market: Realize that successful trading is more about emotional control than some fancy technical indicator.

72) Stock Options Are Not Risky!: The words "derivative" and "stock option" have become synonymous with "high risk" in the public mind. This is an unfounded belief. Worse still, it is an unfortunate situation because the truth is that stock options can significantly reduce risk within your investment portfolio.

73) What the Heck is a Futures Contract?: Lots of people talk about futures, but what are they really? Why do you care? Because trading futures, if you use the right system, can be your path to great wealth.

74) The Big Lie: What Wall Street Does Not Want You to Know: Kenneth Lay, Andrew Fastow, and Jeffrey Skilling of Enron are the preeminent poster boys for corporate greed, but by no means are the trio unique. In the back alley game of "Fleece the Shareholder", skilled competitors are abundant.

75) Exchange Traded Funds: 7 Reasons They Beat Most Mutual Funds: In financial-speak, ETFs are hybrid investment vehicles that combine the trading flexibility of individual stocks with the diversification benefits of mutual funds.

76) How to Create Wealth in the Stock Market: First and foremost, an opportunistic strategy for creating wealth in the stock market is needed. And the opportunistic strategy for creating wealth in the stock market must have two ingredients, a plan and a goal.

77) 401(k) Plans: Talk to an expert from the firm your 401(k) monies are with and find out what options are available to you and/or what your company allows. You may not be restricted to just putting your money into a Mutual fund or your company’s stock. You can transfer monies from your 401(k) to an individual IRA (Tradition, Roll-Over or Roth), at no fee and build your own Mutual fund.

78) Return on Investment Guidelines: Investment reward should be a function of speculation risk. The investor's goal should be to have a reward that is a multiple of his risk.

79) A Gadfly on a Dinosaur’s Butt, or The Hood-Winking of the American Stock Investor: In the stock market world, I think the word analyst is a perfect word in the English language and stockbroker sounds right to me, too. And this leads me to what I call the ‘brainwashing mantras’ of Wall Street....

80) When to Invest in the Stock Market: This is really not as important as to how you invest in the stock market. And how you invest in the stock market should take into consideration what goals you are setting for that stock market investment.