Trading FAQs: The Author

John Forman is the author/editor of Trading FAQs. That means he’s the one who gathered up the questions, wrote answers to most of them himself, and enlisted the help of a high quality group of traders and market professionals to answer them as well.

John is the author of the Amazon.com ‘Top Seller’ introductory trading book The Essentials of Trading (Wiley, 2006). That book came out of his experience teaching trading in the university classroom and helping to develop related coursework.

Currently a Senior Forex Analyst for the IFR Markets group at Thomson Reuters, John has more than 20 years experience in the markets. As a professional analyst, in a number of positions going back to 1993, he has covered the interest rate, currency, and equity markets – even the energy market on a couple of occassions. His personal trading experience started with the stock market back in the late 1980s, and over the years has included just about every market an individual is likely to trade.

Forman is a former Content Editor for the Trade2Win trader community website and a regular advisor and contributor to the Currensee forex trader community. His articles have been published at:

John’s magazine article publication credits date back to 1994 and include:

Also on Forman’s resume are numerous webinar and seminar appearances, a few radio broadcasts, and a television/video appearance or two. On top of his trading and market analysis endeavors, he spent nearly a decade coaching volleyball at the youth and college level. He also started and ran a juniors volleyball club, and developed a patented volleyball training aide.

John loves to answer new trader questions, and frequently does so on his Essentials of Trading blog.

Trading FAQs: Over 50 trading questions answered by experienced traders and market pros

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