Weekend Reading For Dec 16th - 17th, 2006

In "Weekend Reading" I'll collect what I thought were the best posts and articles for the week from various bloggers.

Wow! With my subscriptions to more and more market blogs, I'm finding more and more great insightful posts and bloggers and this week there were plenty of articles for me to chew on!

• Flatwallet over at the Miseducated Day Trader reviews his trading strategy and tells us what's good and what needs to be fixed in Beyond The Setup

• What "Weekend Reading" list wouldn't be complete without a few articles from Brett Steenbarger! Here's another great article about emotions and psychology in Controlling Emotions Is NOT The Goal Of Trading Psychology

• Dave at StockTickr had a great interview with a Move The Markets regular - it's an Interview With Zoomie

• Tyro at Tyro Trader asks a couple of hard questions in Goals

• ZBS Trader also followed Tyro lead and did a review himself in Goal Setting For 2007

• Brett Steenbarger submitted a great article for TradingMarkets.com entitled How To Start A Trading Day

• A great post over at StockTradingInsights.com about what can kill you in trading: Holding A Conviction Of The Market's Direction

• An excellent review by Gav of candle stick patterns in Candysticks

• Here's an insightful post by Chris at Daily Trade Activity in which he review what he does to regain some objectivity in what he's doing in Last Fed Day For Me

• Another post by StockTradingInsights.com - it's Setting Your Own Trading Rules

• Brett Steenbarger at TraderFeed had this post called Stock Market Psychology: What You See Is Not What You Get

• Here's another interview by Dave at StockTickr - it an Interview With The HighChartPatterns Group

• Some excellent candlestick resources listed by Gav in Reading: Trading With Candlesticks

• A great brief post about options expiration by SimplyOptionsTrader in The Conspiracy Of Expiration

• A great brief summary by the now-famous Van K. Tharp of the Three Aspects Of Trading

• As someone who traded options a lot in the past, I've always been fascinated by the bountiful strategies one could play - here's a review done by Jody Osborne for Optionetics.com: Comparing Calendars And Butterflies

• Ugly (or should I say, The Chartist Formerly Known As Ugly) assesses whether trading Futures is right for him in Trading Stocks -vs- Trading Futures

• Kevin at Kevin's Market Blog tells us Why Do Most People Lose Money Trading

• And finally the last article this weekend by Brett Steenbarger (I promise!): Three Lessons From The Day Trader's Index