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Dont you think that if more people focused on trading based on fundamentals rather than technicals, the basis for the current crisis would have been discovered much before it actually progressed to the current status. Probably the debt crisis and the various other preceding crisis would...

Well I agree investing has some degree of speculation. However investing consists primarily of finding instruments with good fundamentals (not just price and volume). Most trading these days are primarily based on frontrunning investors(mutual funds, some hedgefunds, individual...

http://www.morningstar.es/es/news/article.aspx?articleid=101641&categoryid=13 Its actually surprising that my thoughts exactly matched what Bogle thought about the current investing climate. I have been thinking about this for a long time...what do you think?

Frida was not a follow through day. There was a 2% increase in the price averages but at significantly lower volumes compared to the average volume~-18%. Also there is a clear divergence between trend of the short interest ratio and the trend of the price indexes. The short interest ratio has...

I am just starting out. For the moment I am paper trading. I decided to start out with position trading in stocks. This doesnt mean that I am going to stick with it when I actually start trading. I choose the stocks and look at the market based on CANSLIM. In my opinion, the market is...

Hii Trader198, Could you please explain why you think these instruments are optimal for the given capital. Since I have seen a number of recommendations, it would help me choose better if I knew the reasoning behind the recommendation.

Hii All Thanks for sharing your experiences @Nodoji Thanks for the recommendations on the Al brooks method and the other book/links. I have seen recommendations of the 2 books, but havent read yet. @ammo, Trader13, Shanb I have mainly been studying the CANSLIM method for stocks for the...

Hii Gubinec, I understand the fact that real experience with trading can be replaced with reading books, to decide what time frame, instrument, method to use. My question was mainly to ask for suggestions for any general guidelines. There are literally hundreds or thousands of systems, and...

just had a myers briggs test...apparently i am an INTP

Hii I am new to trading and am trying to establish a method of trading as well as the instrument of choice. Due to various restrictions, it seems to me that swing/position trading with equities would be a good method for me to follow. However, after reading some books from a lot of...

if not, is there somewhere else where I can get the price and volume of the various well known market averages such as S&P, DJI, COMP etc. I checked morningstar, google finance and others but they dont seem to have such data.

Hii.. I use the thinkorswim platform. I havent traded yet, and am studying to understand CANSLIM before trading. Understanding the market average is a big part of this system. On the thinkorswim platform, there is no volume data on SPX. So I was thinking of using the SPY instead, since the...

well you can get free fundamental data, from google finance. You just have to write a web scrapper to grab that data and store it on your disk. I also have access to morningstar, from my public library. For this too, a web scrapper could potentially give you free fundamental data for 10...

Hii I am trying to develop a discretionary/automated trading system which trades infrequently ~ 4 times a month. My main goal is to catch the big moves in stocks while trying to loose as little as possible. So I am trying to understand what factors are a good indicator of large future...

sorry..i meant wiki leaks not wikinews...seems like a second gold rush is about to happen...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/wikileaks-discloses-reasons-behind-chinas-shadow-gold-buying-spree

I am actually thinking of getting TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade doesnt require any initial deposits. Since thinkandswim and TD Ameritrade merged what I heard is that clients of TD ameritrade can use the thinkorswim application. I also have a nonauthorized thinkorswim account (no ssn supplied)...

Wow..thats a lot for IB. Is there some reason why you chose Scottrade for backtesting/practicing? While it is not much Scottrade seems to ask for a 500$ deposit. It seems TD Ameritrade has real time quotes but doesnt require a deposit. Tradeking also doesnt have a minimum, but doesnt provide...

Hii.. I made a couple of posts, but they seem to vanish. From my nickname I can see that there are 5 posts, but only 2 when I click on the post count. Also when I go to the specific thread, I dont find the posts. Alpha

I am also a newbie..I was thinking about this route too. Since I dont have much experience with investing/trading, I was thinking of starting with a long term horizon investing and then gradually reducing the horizon. From what I hear, it seems long time trading/investing is less risky, but also...