Professional trading techniques and trading systems are based upon the underlying principles of financial market price movement, and are the trading techniques and trading systems that are used by professional traders.

Trading gimmicks are based upon the underlying principles of taking advantage of new traders that do not know any different, and are often the so called trading systems that new traders use to blow up their trading accounts.

If you do not know the difference between a professional trading technique or system and a trading gimmick (which is the case for most new traders), my article explaining the difference between professional trading techniques and systems and trading gimmicks will help you avoid falling foul of a trading gimmick.

If you find that your trades often reach their stop losses before they would have reached their targets, then my articles explaining long squeezes and short squeezes might be very useful to you.

With the end of 2011 and/or the beginning of 2012 drawing very near, news year's resolutions are in abundant supply, so why not make one new year's resolution that is rather easy to keep, and could make for a rather enjoyable 2012, namely to stop searching for the holy grail of trading.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of the day trading site's visitors (and don't forget to check the holiday schedules for the various exchanges before Friday).

If you find that you are looking for something to read during the holidays, why not start with the article explaining how to identify highs and lows (of both individual bars and candlesticks, and of entire graphical charts).