Trading Magazines

Discussion in 'Educational Resources' started by bigspeculate, Sep 28, 2018.

  1. Any decent trading magazines these days? So many have disappeared, like active trader mag, SFO..
     
  2. I subscribed to Modern Trader last year, they have delivered one issue (which was great). $99/issue is too expensive though. Seems too high quality to be a scam, but they did scam me out of that money.
     
  3. You paid 99 bucks for annual subscription and only got one issue?
     
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  4. speedo

    speedo

    Modern Trader is good stuff, it's the old Futures Magazine.
     
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  5. Exactly. And now their email is bouncing.
     
  6. Wow.
     
  7. tommcginnis

    tommcginnis

    Two current one that I just found,...
    http://traders.com/ (a couple folded in here, including SFO/Technical Analysis of Stocks Futures & Options)

    and, possibly website only,
    https://tradersworld.com/posts/
    which calls itself "The Official Magazine Of Technical Analysis."

    All that said, I very rarely find anything worth reading. I pulled a couple of articles out of SFO years ago, and pitched the remainder. Some from Futures/ModernTrader, too. But most I thought was......(to be charitable) dreck. Only ever paged through Active Trader -- I think my reaction was "Meh."

    As I started running, I subscribed to Runner's World and Runner, and *inhaled* every issue. But after 18 months, the fact-based articles recycled: there was only so much you could put out there, and "new" stuff covered about 2 Updates! pages at the front. I think the same thing is true of trading -- everything we do is based on fundamentals (whose accounting relationships haven't changed since T-accounts were invented) and moving averages (which, no matter the flooby-dust applied to it, still boils down to a FMA -- and you already know what the MA part stands for...)

    I think it's hard to put an entire magazine together, on something that was pretty well nailed down decades ago. Except for the newsy parts, which can be covered in 2 pages at the front -- let's call 'em "Updates!"....

    If seeking-αlpha would be kinder to technical stuff, I think we'd be all set. (FWIW, IMO, YMMV...OIMMBCTTA)
     
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  8. Hey I got a weekly mag here in ET...Send me money!

    ES
     
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  9. speedo

    speedo

    George Sheehan was always a fun read in RW but yeah after so many issues, I could have written any of the articles...save who won the 5k on the Marshall Islands over the weekend. :D
     
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  10. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    I get Modern Trader free. Have been for years. Shhh.

    TASC is good but too much of that stocks nonsense. :)
     
    #10     Sep 28, 2018