John O’Donnell sits in for Merlin and interviews Jose Blasco from Spain. Jose teaches at OTA on big picture market and history of  markets, depths and times. John and Jose also discuss forex as great indicators of inflation and deflation ie euro vs dollar index.

John O’Donnell sets in for Merlin and interviews Jeff Manson on the big picture market.  They discuss the history of the bear markets depth and times. They also discuss fibonacci as a great indicator.

Fresh off a trip to Mexico, Merlin returns to find the global financial markets in turmoil, and lots of finger pointing at the culprit. Merlin and special guest XLT Instructor Brandon Tristan, take a look at the top 3 factors and try to discern which will be the most influential over the coming weeks. Brandon talks about his Trade Review and Trade Plan Review sessions he conducts with his XLT students before diving into some listener questions about specific securities. From Stocks to Currencies, Brandon stresses the importance of filtering out the major news and focusing on a rule based strategy to increase your odds of success.

Merlin is away for a magical weekend in Mexico. Tillie Allison hosts the show today with Online Trading Academy Instructor Jeff Manson and they analyze the SPY on multiple timeframes. With all the negative news affecting markets pre-market, traders have to use special tactics to manage emotions before the opening bell. Jeff and Tillie talk about how to avoid common mistakes when trading the opening bell. In addition to trading the SPY, Jeff and Tillie talk about trading single stock futures to reduce the cost basis and increase the rate-of-return.

Tillie Allison hosts Power Trading Radio for the weekly wealth management show, with special guest Merlin Rothfeld. A wealth of brokerage firms recently released statistics on their client base, revealing shocking numbers pertaining to how inadequately prepared they are for retirement. Tillie discusses some justifications for this, as Merlin sets off in an angry rant. Both emphasize that everyone can take simple steps to build up their nest eggs with minimal time commitment.  Later, Tillie looks at some charts for market direction which seem to be pointing to a minor pullback across the board.

Merlin kicks things off breaking down his recent trades shorting the market, and long oil. Mapping out the Oil trade, he identifies a low risk entry with good reward, now we just have to wait and see if his position pans out! Steve Moses joins us from New York where he is teaching an Options class. Steve and Merlin work through an example of using options on Priceline before earnings that would have paid you $125 if PCL dropped $160 per share or less by next Friday. Yes, you read that right, $160! Later, Steve addresses a couple listener questions regarding how The Greeks are used in Options trading, as well as Naked Options.

Fresh off a whirlwind tour of Singapore and Indonesia, Sam Seiden tells us some of the highlights of his trip, touching on the cultural differences and some surprising trading technology in unlikely places! Sam and Merlin talk about establishing supply and demand zones to help identify high probability, low risk entry points. Sam looks at why some levels are more significant than others, and what causes these levels to provide significant moves.

After years of making a high number of executions and trading for the sake of trading, Eric Waddell went through a discovery process which taught him to focus on the “Exceptional Trade”. These setups offer low risk, high reward opportunities and follow a well thought out plan. Eric shares some of the details of his strategy with listeners, giving visual examples of stocks which are currently exhibiting some Exceptional Trade characteristics. Eric and Merlin talk about the importance of having a plan and following rules in order to gain a level of consistency in the market, as well as how to deal with the inevitable losing trade.

John O’Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld take a look at many of the major issues facing the financial markets. After calling a 1.5% decline on the S&P market on Thursday’s show, Merlin explains what factors caused his assessment, and target. John runs through a bunch of charts of economic data to help justify his comments that the market is poised for more downside movement. If you are finding it difficult to get financing or a loan, these charts will really drive home why!  John also tackles a listener question about selling rallies and buying pullbacks like we are seeing in the current market.

In a special investing show, Tillie Allison joins Merlin in studio to talk about some of finer points about what one should do when markets top out like they have. Tillie discusses how she implements her long strategy on present markets and what tactics she employs when markets correct and retreat to lower levels. While most financial planners shove more Mutual Funds in your face to make a defensive play, the ProActive Investor class uses options to generate consistent rates of return, despite price declines.