This article is a brief introduction to Day Trading.

A basic definition of Day Trading is the buying and selling of financial instruments within a single day. This means that any positions that are opened in a market are closed by the end of the trading day.

The profit or loss (but hopefully profit!) for the day is then calculated from the balance of trades.

Many people would have become familiar with the term Day Trading from the era of the dot com boom – mainly because this was the time when technology became available to give the general public easy and cheaper access to the financial markets.

However, the truth is that day traders have been around for as long as there have been financial markets. (Read More…)

After releasing the Free Compound Interest calculator, there have been a lot of visitors here who are searching for compound interest calculators or arriving from the various download sites that are hosting the Free Compound Interest Calculator.

So, I thought that I might expand a little on how we can use Compound Interest to our advantage when wanting to maximize our investments.

First of all, let’s take a look at how the compound interest calculation works.

Let’s say that we buy $1,000 worth of an investment that will pay us a rate of 15% per year.

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I recently bought Forex Trading Machine and thought I would share my opinion of it here. If you currently trade, or are thinking of trading the Forex Market, then you may want to take a look at it.

In Forex Trading Machine, Avi has identified what he calls the Price Driven Forex Trading (PDFT) method of trading the Forex Market.

Avi explains that the Price Driven Forex Trading (PDFT) is a way of trading without the usual technical indicators like the moving average, Bollinger bands, pivot points, ect. But instead relies upon the price of a currency pair and a time element. (Read More…)

SocialPicks.com is a new website that has surfaced on the internet that aims to provide a platform for sharing ideas about investing in the financial markets.

It has features that enable users to:

1. Share investment ideas from friends, and see who else follow their advice.

2. Recommend stocks, and let your track records speak for themselves.

3. Collaborate on market research, and keep updated with relevant market info.

4. Track performance of analysts and get the picture of how well professional experts really perform!

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Welcome to the July 5th edition of the Cavalcade Of Risk – offering insights into the world of risk management.

I trust that everyone had a great July 4th celebration – Just spare a thought for us guys in the southern hemisphere who are experiencing a rather chilly winter in New Zealand!

Ok, let’s get started:

Ebony Hall, I saved your financial life today – Wenchypoo chastises Ebony Hall about how he/she should be more careful about protecting their identity and not leaving important documents lying around. An important lesson to us all.

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Momentum Trading is a trading strategy that is used to focus on stocks or other trading instruments that are showing a strong move in a particular direction – usually on high volume.

When momentum trading is executed properly with a tried and tested trading plan and proper risk control, it displays a trading method that is ofter referred to as High Probability Trading.

When analysing stocks for momentum trading, a trader measures the amount by which a security’s price has changed over a given time span.

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If you have been thinking of getting started in futures trading, then you might want to consider E-mini Futures Trading.

The reason that E-mini futures trading can be a really good choice for the trader who is starting out in futures trading is that the trading lots for the futures contracts are considerably smaller, so lend themselves to the trader who does not want to risk as much trading capital.

As any trader who wishes to embark into the leveraged world of the futures pit should know, there is a considerable amount of extra risk compared to stock trading because of the leverage that is allowed when buying and selling contracts.

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One of the best ways to buy and sell stocks is by Online Stock Market Trading.

Why? Because it gives you more choices as to where you get you Stock Market information and which Stock Brokers you can use to carry out you stock market trading decisions.

It doing you stock market trading online is generally easier and less time consuming.

However, during the last decade or so that online stock trading has increased in popularity there comes an increase in different aspects of doing your investing via the internet that you need to be aware of.

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The Trading Authority offer a number of training packages for aspiring traders. They are run by a number of experienced traders who have a combined 65 years of trading experience to pass on to their students.

If you are looking for some trading training then it is definitely worth taking a look at the The Trading Authority website.

Although much of the material at The Trading Authority is by no means cheap, it is important to remember that “you get what you pay for”. It is also important to remember how much it costs to make too many mistakes when trading the financial markets!

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If you have a Forex Trading Plan in place then if is often often handy to set up a system to generate Automatic Forex Trading Signals.

Being able to receive these Automatic Forex Trading Signals enables you to be able to spot trading opportunities without employing your emotions too much.

It means you can get un-biased Forex Market information that is independant upon what you read in online forums, the newspaper or watch on the television news.

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