With the elections quickly approaching, American pessimism toward the political system is skyrocketing! John O’Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld welcome the Executive Director of Laissez Faire Books, Jeffery Tucker, to Power Trading Radio to take a look at how the political system is slowly distorting our daily life. Jeffery talks about his books, Bourbon for Breakfast & It’s a Jetsons World, and the major issues facing Americans with regards to government intervention into their daily lives. The trio take a good look at Gold and particularly at the Gold Standard as a possible way to help solve many of our lingering problems.

So many questions poured in over the last couple days, we had to forgo the usual guest and get down to answering all your questions! Merlin tackles a wide variety of questions including: What to do with Jim Cramers JNJ pick, How the low fed rates are going to hurt the Banking sector, correlation between S&P and Dollar Index, current trend of Oil and much more! If you have questions you would like answered, be sure to visit www.powertradingradio.com and hit the “PowerBlast” button to have your question read on the air! PowerPick: FCX

Many use Fibonacci as a tool to help refine entries, set target levels and anticipate price direction. Jeff Manson has taken all of that to a whole new level with his unique, systematic approach to this popular trading tool. Jeff shares with us his recent live trading tour and specifically the trading done today on the YM, with which he had 6 winners in 6 trades. Later, Jeff talks about how he uses Fair Value to plan out his trades each day. PowerPick: MPC

After blowout earnings, AAPL rockets in the post-market session, sending the major indexes higher. Merlin talks about the unusual afterhours halt that hit Apple, and shows its impacts on the share price. Bert Antonik, calls in from Singapore, where he has been living for the past 2+ years as an instructor for Online Trading Academy. He walks us through how the South East Asian city is doing in these tough financial times, and offers some insight into how they perceive the US markets. Later, Bert walks through some EURO charts as well as touching on his recent article in traders’ magazine (www.tradersonilne-mag.com)

PowerPick: EURUSD

With a weekend of boneheaded actions from politicians, bankers and football players, we had to have an extended segment of Donkey of the Day!  After an extended opening rant, Merlin is joined by 3^rd generation CME floor trader Bill Henner. Bill walks listeners though his last 25 years of experiences and discusses the difficulties he encountered when transitioning from pit to screen based trading. Later, Bill and Merlin break down the current action of the SPY, EURO and natural gas companies.

PowerPick: SHLD

Herb Meyer, author of The Cure For Poverty, joins the show to talk about how most Americans don’t clearly understand “the Operating System” of the US, especially when it pertains to creating jobs and promoting entrepreneurship. He discusses some solutions and ways that we can stabilize the job market and get America pumping again. Diana Hill is up next with a look at the current housing markets, and walks us through several of the new legislative issues coming at the housing market. Diana walks through what are some of the impacts you will face with these new laws. PowerPick: BAM

Guest host John O'Donnell Sits down with the founder and CEO of Online Trading Academy, Eyal Shahar.  We get Eyal's insight on starting the company and an insiders look at what is to come in the future.  John also discusses the world's current population problems.

Guest host and Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy John O'Donnell and special guest Steve Bobbitt discuss gold and the current state of our markets.

So many of take the news at face value, however we don’t necessarily see it from a viewpoint that is Outside of the US. Media twists and public opinions can be dramatically different! Sam Evans, XLT instructor, joins the show live from London, after a long day of mentoring and trading. Sam talks about the current mood over in the UK which, from his perspective, is very different than our media makes it out to be. Merlin and Sam take a look at both long & short term charts on the Cable and Euro, in the hopes of planning out some future trades. PowerPick: AUDUSD

Merlin walks listeners through the 7-Pillars of Trading, and answers a listeners question about which one is most important. Later, John Barrett joins the show to talk about some of the more common mistakes he sees traders make and what to do about it. Moving on John talks about the importance of having a couple trading styles so that traders can adapt to a variety of different market conditions. Both hosts give out examples of trading styles they witnessed on their trading floors that were very successful for their time, but faded as time progressed. PowerPick: ESRX