About MPTrader & Mike Paulenoff

MPTrader features Mike Paulenoff's real-time index & sector analysis (eMini S&P, gold/oil, euro/$ and more) plus trade alerts on stocks and ETFs that can benefit from these sector trends. The service is for traders with a 2-day to 2-week swing trade time horizon.

Mike has been involved in the world financial markets for three decades since his graduation from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1979. Early in his career he analyzed the fundamental and technical aspects of the financial and commodity futures markets for Smith Barney, Harris Upham, and for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert. From 1988 to 1993 he was President of MJ Capital Inc., a market analysis and trading firm, which advised clients involved in the financial futures and commodity markets. In 1992-93, he co-authored The Business-One Irwin Guide to the Futures Markets (with Stanley Kroll).

Republic National Bank recruited Michael in January 1994, for the position of strategic trader, and market analyst on the bank's trading floor, which included analysis and trading of instruments in foreign exchange, emerging markets, stock indices, and precious metals. In February 1999, Michael founded MJP Market Strategies, Inc., a financial market advisory firm, and developed www.mjpstrategies.com in October 1999. In addition, from August 2000 through August 2001, he was the chief on-air market consultant and strategist for JAGfn, a live, daily 8-hour financial market webcast and cable TV show produced by Jagnotes, Inc.

Mike has been a contributing analyst to Harry Boxer's The Technical Trader since June 2002, and in February 2003 launched MPTrader.com. His articles and commentaries are widely distributed on sites such as MarketWatch.com, WSJ Online, Trading Markets, Optionetics, and Minyanville, where he is a contributing "professor."

More on Mike's Strategy

Take our Video Tour

This brief, 5-minute video details what Mike's Trading Diary looks like and what subscribers see and receive in a typical trading session.

About Mike's Strategy & 5 Reasons to Subscribe

Detailed discussion of how Mike combines macro and technical analysis to produce winning trades.

Nov 2, 2011 Webinar hosted by TradersLog

Mike discusses the various market crosscurrents along with the chart outlooks, and how he incorporates both macro and technical analysis.

May 17, 2011 Webinar on Worden.com

Mike shares how he uses pattern recognition and oscillators as well as market psychology overlaid with macroeconomic analysis to identify short-term winning trades.

Jan 19, 2010 Webinar on TraderInterviews.com

A 1-hour audio-video presentation on Mike's strategy.

Mike's "Guru's Corner" Contributions on CBSMarketWatch

Mike is regularly featured every few months on CBSMarketWatch. Click to view the archive of articles Mike has written.

Mike's Primer on ETFs

This article, published on eSignal, examines how Mike selects ETFs and the combination of technicals, fundamentals and macro analysis that goes into timing trades.

Interview on Optionetics.com

3-Part interview by Optionetics senior writer Jeff Neal on Mike's strategies, history, tools, and favorite trades.