Index-Technical-Analysis™, an affiliate of MarketVolume™ (a service providing real-time volume charts), develops the "Best Trade" newsletters. This newsletter deals with options trading based on a volume-based technical analysis of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indexes.

A group of independent traders who have close ties to MarketVolume™ developed the "Best Trades" newsletter (in the following referred to as Best Trades). One of the traders, wishing to share his experiences of trading with volume-based indicators, came up with the idea of starting a newsletter. The idea took shape and by 2001, Best Trades appeared on a regular basis.

Please be aware that Best Trades was designed for educational purposes only. It does not provide signals for trading index options, nor does it make any predictions as to where the market is likely headed.

Because Best Trades has a long history (we began distributing the newsletter in 2001), an extensive archive of trades is available. Click here to browse through our newsletters archive.

Looking through the archive, you will notice that Best Trades categorizes two types of trades:  

1. "Past trades" or "closed" trades: These are trades that were closed a few days before the latest issue of Best Trades was published;
    
2. "Real-time" or "open" trades: These trades are still active at the time the most current issue of Best Trades appears. The success of an open trade cannot be evaluated until a later date, although we can of course assess its “performance to date”.

1. The newsletter will definitively reach you with some delay, so it might prove to be too late to open/close a position similar to the trade being discussed;
    
2. Another reason is technical in nature. Because all our trades are analyzed based on the relationships between volume and price/index movements (which may all change in rapid succession), you must absolutely have access to real-time volume charts for the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 indexes, at a very minimum. ''

In our trades, we focus heavily on QQQ options, but the principles discussed in Best Trades can be applied equally well to the analysis of the S&P 500, the DJI, as well as other indexes.
By studying the trades we discuss in Best Trades, you will:

• Learn how to apply volume indicators to particular market situations;
   
• Understand the specific correlations that exist between volume spikes and index movements;
   
• Develop the skills to create your own trading style based on the principles of volume-based technical analysis.