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I am thinking of putting my money into real estate when I get out of college and I figure that the best place is a foreign market where the currency is strengthening against the USD. For the long term China looks the best right? Although I've heard the euro has been doing very well since it was...

"Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination, have agreed to co-sponsor legislation that would levy punitive duties on Chinese goods to cajole Beijing into revaluing its currency, according to aides."...

If you had to pick only one book one book to read about intermediate to long term investing what would you reccomend? I'll list the two biggies that I know of: The Intelligent Investor - I have read a few critcisms about this one, namely that it is a bit outdated and some of Warren buffet's...

Does anyone else get annoyed by those ameritrade commercials making it look effortless to make money in the markets? I wonder why they never show a guy sleeping in a box because he busted out and has to work at some lame construction job that pays for food or rent, but not both!

So if the NYSE is getting rid of specialists, does that mean the new hybrid system is computerized like the nasdaq? I'm guessing not as "hybrid" implies something else.

Thanks for the advice. I'm not interested in funds any more because I want to do my own stock picking. I think as long as I make an effort to actually follow a method I've learned here or from other sources I will find something that suits my style. But with so many different styles...

You have an elephant's memory, I didn't even remember that. I'm up to 11k now and it's returning a meager 4% or so until I find a good strategy that I'm satisfied with (probably won't be this year, no joke)

where did the $8000 number come from?

If you don't like longer time frames you probably won't like this "system" Lets say I'm looking for stocks that have had solid uptrends for the past year or so. Examples: AMX http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=amx&sid=0&o_symb=amx&x=0&y=0 NVDA...

I am actually a swing trader (albeit on a relatively short timeframe)

As I began paper trading I limited my universe to stocks in the $10-30 area, but after thinking about this today I don't know why I did it. I was thinking along the lines of "well at $60 I can buy twice as many $30 stocks or 4 times the amount of $15 stocks" Same difference. Having realized...

Well most of these questions I have a decent answer to. I do have a trading method outlined (time frame is a couple days to a week or so) and a small universe of stocks which I'll get to practice on and hopefully learn from. My universe of stocks are pretty volatle intraday, but if looked at on...

I guess I should explain my reason for asking this. I have read that certain markets just trend better than others. That is, once they establish an up or down trend they tend to continue that way rather than reverse. I think the issue with my question is I didn't realize how many markets there...

Interesting writing style you have murray, like a poem with smiley faces at the end of each part :) A search on trending markets brought up way too many threads with little relevance to my question. I know it's talked about a lot, but I couldn't find anything that focused on the same angle...

This is a pretty broad question but I don't know how else to ask it. Lets say you pull up a 100 day chart for various instruments in the stock, futures, and forex markets. Short term volatility aside, which markets will show the strongest trends in long term price action? Thanks

Ok makes sense now, thanks

Thanks for the insight Meskot and Grob :)

Sure it can. I wasn't expecting a unanimous "mechanical is better because of.." I think most experienced traders have an opinion of which side is better. I want to hear what they have to say. What are the strengths/weaknesses of trading your way vs the other.

Lets say you have 2 traders. One wants to learn to trade a discretionary style. His approach is 80% rule based but the other 20% will rely on intuition, past experience, and other intangibles that can not be programmed into a machine. Important areas of study for this guy are money management...

Well I actually pulled that off their site so I should have quoted the "low risk" Does anyone have any dealings with them?