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Gold Up, Housing Down
Image via Wikipedia Japan’s Nikkei jumped 5.7% after its worst two-day performance since 1987. However, investor sentiment in the region remains uncertain, given the ongoing crisis at the cripp...

The Brave New World Of Trading
Over the last few years the world has changed dramatically for traders. New places to trade, much cheaper prices, combined with a wide range of uniquely focused (some might say, exotic) product ...

Trading Site, StockTwits, Continues To Draw Attention
Image via CrunchBase After breaking away from Twitter awhile back, the investing site StockTwits is rolling out a number of new features that it hopes will draw in more traders. The site, still i...

Gold Prices At Record High, Dollar Falls
Image via Wikipedia Gold futures settled at a new record Friday, ending higher for a fourth straight week as the U.S. dollar fell against the euro to a fresh one-year low, boosting gold’s inves...

Intro Info On Put And Call Options
Very basic intro on put and call options. Good for beginning video by Jules Dawson for new traders. ...

Bonds And Stocks Seem To Be Telling Different Stories On U.S. Economy
Image via Wikipedia MarketWatch has an interesting post for those investors who believe the stock market works perfectly at discounting risks and rewards. As they point out in the article, if you...

Stock Trader Tim Sykes Early Twitterer On Premium Twitter Service
Image by Young Money Cover 11/07 via CrunchBase Stock trader Timothy Sykes is apparently one of the first people to sign up for a new premium Twitter service, SuperChirp, that allows publishers t...

The Iron Condor: Making Money In A Sideways Market?
The PowerOptions blog has an interesting recent post on the Iron Condor Spread strategy. The Iron Condor is a neutral strategy where a trader combines a Bear-Call Credit Spread and a Bull-Put Credit S...

Investor’s Business Daily Strikes Syndication Deal
Investor’s Business Daily, publisher of in-depth financial news geared to personal and professional investors, recently announced a partnership with Mochila, a premium content syndication technology...

Outperforming The Market: Is More Leverage Better?
Over the past year or so, leverage has been a key component in many new and top-performing ETF’s. Astute traders using leveraged and/or inverse funds have seen outsized gains compared to more tradi...

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