Covered in this months newsletter:

• More videos are now live
  
  
• MetaStock training course now available for clients
  
  
• Current market update
  
  
• Christmas Special
  

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More videos are live

With this quiet stock market time, I have been pumping out the videos since my last newsletter. I have added a video web page to my website that has all these videos included.

There are videos showcasing the different products and training courses I have available, as well as videos showing how I trade with the CMC Markets trading platforms and how I have these set-up. Visit this web link to view the current videos:

www.smarttrading.com.au/index.php?q=videos.html

I have also produced training videos on the Smart Trader Spreadsheet. So if you recently purchased the spreadsheet you can learn via video how to use it. You can view these educational videos from this web link:

www.smarttrading.com.au/index.php?q=sts_videos.html

I am also very pleased to tell you that new videos are going live on the Smart Trading Plan & System Development Online Course every few days now and all will be live and ready prior to Christmas. This will definitely enhance the course and you still have an opportunity to get in before the prices rise into the new year. Click here for more information on this course and the different training packages I have available:

www.smarttrading.com.au/index.php?q=stock-market-training.html

MetaStock training course now available for clients

I have just finished recording a whole series of MetaStock training videos. In the past I have offered this training via the telephone, now it is online. Which will make the price more reasonable and you can now watch online tutorial videos that are also supported by a detailed MetaStock workbook.

This Maximising MetaStock Course covers the following:

• Getting Started
• Creating Your Default Template
• Clearing Old Smart Charts
• Setting Up Favourites
• Creating Layouts
• Understanding Metastock Formula Language
• Indicator Builder & Justine’s Trailing Stop Indicator
• Explorer & running Justine’s market scans
• Expert Advisor & setting up buy arrows for Justine’s systems
• Setting up Justine’s Trading System Templates
• Custom Toolbar
• Setting up Justine’s Weekly Routine
• Streamlining MetaStock

This course is specific to my trading systems and strategies and shows clients how I have all my systems and templates set-up and streamlined into MetaStock. So if you have been having difficulty setting everything in MetaStock and using it to its full capabilities then you will love this online MetaStock training course.

As a special product release this course is available for clients that have purchased the Smart Trading Plan & System Development course at the special price of $199. This will be available until 31 January and then the price will rise to $399.

To purchase at this special price you need to log into the online course or Mastermind website and go to the Bonuses link. If for some reason you can no longer access the course, just send me an email.

For those that have recently purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate Smart Training packs you will be receiving information on how to access the online MetaStock tutorials shortly. As this MetaStock course has now been added to these two training packs. These packages will be rising by $300 next year to cater for this new addition. So if you are keen to start your trading career into the new year, now is your chance to get in at the current prices before they rise. Visit this web link for more information on these training packs:

www.smarttrading.com.au/index.php?q=stock-market-training.html

Market Update

What a boring trend less market these last two months have been. The big winning trades have dropped right off and the market is just churning sideways having difficulty making new highs. Even Gold has dropped back affecting the Australian resource stocks.

See the daily chart below of the ASX 200 below. It shows how it has found support at 4500 point level and resistance at 4800, with its last highs at 4900. There is a possible ascending triangle pattern building which will be interesting to see if it breaks or the market just continues to churn sideways between a 400 to 500 point range.

After the markets phenomenal run from July to October, where the market increased by 23% in three months, it has now paused and taken a breather. This breather has affected my trading results with a run of losing trades and I have not been fully invested in the market now for the past few months with my daily CFD trading system.

As for my long-term weekly system, it has not been affected and has seen a breakeven trade and a small losing trade exited to date and all other trades are holding nicely. It is times like this that the daily system is affected and it does become difficult to trade as the trend has become directionless. But if you were trading from July through to September, as I was, it certainly makes up for this current trading period.

As always it is money management that ensures your survival. For me it was my portfolio heat that prevented me from taking on board too many trades, as my stops were simply not moving very much. Unfortunately, we don’t know what kind of market we have been trading through until after the event and then we can look back and see.

So, for me, I only a few positions open and I am now taking a break from the market with Christmas just around the corner. I will maintain my current trades now and may not open any new trades unless there is a clear break in the index charts and the signals from my scans strengthen.

Christmas Special

Over the years I have produced several different products to showcase my trading, from competing in a trading competition in 2007, to keeping a trading diary in 2008 during the bear market period, to the 4 month teleconference program I ran this year. I have packaged all three items up together and I am making them available for purchase at the special price of $149. That is a 70% discount on the original products.

For $149 this is what you will receive:

• Teleconference recording of my CMC Markets 2007 trading competition results and review of all the trades – which shows how I increased my CFD trading account by 82%* in an 8 week period and achieved a top 5% ranking in the competition.


• Smart CFD Trading Diary which is a trading diary in a PDF format, that I kept from 1 October to 6 November 2008. This diary shows how I increased by CFD trading account by 300%* in a 6 week period through the strong bear market drop of 2008. It showcases all my trades during this time, which were predominantly short CFD trades, and how they resulted, along with my thoughts and what I did each day during that period.


• Smart Trader Teleconference Program Recordings from the 4 month teleconference event that I ran from June to September 2009. During this period I increased my trading account by 262% and you get to see every trade that I opened during this time and how I exited each one of them. You receive four teleconference event recordings with supporting notes which includes charts of all my trades. These recordings currently sell for $297.

This is a one off special that will be available until 31 January. So get in now to purchase this exclusive pack at this discounted price. It will make great holiday reading and listening.

Visit this web link for more information the pack and to purchase:

www.smarttrading.com.au/index.php?q=christmas_special.html

Merry Christmas

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas.

Thank you for your support throughout 2009 and I look forward to assisting you in your trading journey throughout 2010.

May 2010 be a time of personal growth and happiness for yourself and your loved ones.

Cheerio

Justine Pollard
Author, Private Trader & Trading Mentor
'Discover the Smarter way to trade'
www.smarttrading.com.au
justine@smarttrading.com.au

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