I finally got around to finishing my Stocks Watchlist Wordpress Plugin [download].

The Stocks Watchlist plugin allows you to store stock symbols in your Wordpress database and then output these symbols along with their live prices to your Wordpress blog. You should be able to see mine in the far right hand column here.

To add/edit/delete stocks to the watchlist database, go to Manage->Stocks Watchlist in the admin panel.

Here it is possible to add a description to the stock symbol and also enable it to be visible in the output.

To output your stocks watchlist, add the following code to your blog template:

<?php swl_output() ?>

When the stocks watchlist is output, it will retrieve the latest price for the stock from Yahoo Finance and also insert a link to the stocks news page at Yahoo Finance.

The plugin was developed with WP2.1, but should work on all versions. Also, it requires cURL to be enabled on your webserver.

If you would like to give it a go, I would really appreciate some feedback. Also, I would be keen to hear of any features that you would like to see added to the plugin.

Update v1.1 v1.0 has not been working for a while, but I have now fixed the bud.

Download - Stocks Watchlist Wordpress Plugin

Our Online Pivot Point Calculator has become very popular, so we decided to write a version that you can download and run on your PC. You can download the Pivot Point Calculator here.

To use the Pivot Point Calculator, simply enter the previous days Open, Close, High and Low prices into the relevant text boxes and press the Calculate button. You will then get the Pivot Point, and Support and Resistance levels for the days trading.

You can read our Pivot Points Article if you would like to know a little bit more about Pivot Points.

To use the Downloadable Pivot Point Calculator, you need to be running Microsoft Windows with the MS .Net Framework 2.0. You can download the MS .Net Framework 2.0 here if you do not have it.

Please leave any comments and suggestions for the calculator.

Download Pivot Point Calculator Here.

If you have an interest or use Fibonacci Retracement lines for your trading, then please take a look at our Free Online Fibonacci Retracement Calculator.

The Online Fibonacci Retracement Calculator is our latest addition to our popular online financial calculators. And like our other calculators, it is free to use!

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This article is a brief introduction to explain what Exchange Traded Funds are, how they work, and how you can use them as part of your investment arsenal.

Basically, an Exchange Traded Fund is a collection of shares that will try to replicate the price action of a particular index such as the S&P500 or a market sector such as Energy or Technology.

Exchange Traded Funds were first introduced in 1989 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and have gained popularity ever since.

The American Exchange lists over 100 Exchange Traded Funds. The first to be listed here was the SPDR in 1993.

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We have just developed and released our Online Compound Interest Calculator here at TraderKnowledge.com.

We decided to develop this due to the success of our downloadable compound interest calculator as we have received requests from people who do not run MS Windows or who simply don’t want to run the software on their personal computers.

The Online Compound Interest Calculator is easy to use - just follow the instructions.

We would love to hear any feedback about how we could make it better for you, so please let us know.

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Here is a quick guide to Forex Trading. We will aim to explain what Forex Trading is, why Forex Trading has become so popular, how to get started in Forex Trading, and how to get successful at Forex Trading.

First of all, What is Forex Trading?

All around the world money is being transfered from one country to another, 24 hours a day of the working week. For this to happen, the money is effectively being traded from one currency to another.

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Let’s take a look at Fibonacci Retracement Lines and see how they can be used to help us win at trading the financial markets.

One interesting thing about using Fibonacci Retracement Lines is that they fall into the group of technical indicators that attempt to predict what price the market is going to move to.

This is different to many other popular technical indicators, such as the EMA, MCAD and Bollinger Bands which all attempt to guess the market determined upon what recent price movements.

Unlike Fibonacci Retracement Lines, These indicators tend to provide the trader with information as to whether the market will be going up or down.

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I decided it was time to adapt a useful piece of software that I use and make it available for everyone here to use.

So here it is - The TraderKnowledge Free Compound Interest Calculator.

This Compound Interest Calculator will show you graphically how much extra money you will make by reinvesting your gains and maintaining your principal payments.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is probably one of the best and well known books on the subject of financial speculation.

The book is a thinly disguised biography of the great stock trader Jesse Livermore, but also documents the time of financial speculation during the early 20th century.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator tells how Livermore started his amazing career when he was a teenager working in one of the bucket shops that were common during this time. He had a head for numbers and noticed how stocks reacted during times of heavy buying or selling.

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If you are looking for a style of trading that is shorter term than trend following, but don’t want to devote yourself to day trading, then you may want to take a look at Swing Trading.

For the investor who practices Swing Trading, stocks (or other financial instruments) are generally held for a period of a few days to a couple of weeks.

Although Swing Trading has been around for as long as people have been trading in financial markets, it generally became popular with the decline of day trading after the dot com bubble burst. Swing Trading offered a way to free the trader from the computer screen, but still make relatively quick profits in the market.

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