Personal Investing Advice

The effect interest rates have on the performance of our economy cannot be overstated. Understanding how interest rates affect the business cycle will help you know how to structure your portfolio to achieve growth while minimizing risk. Read on to learn more.

Would you wear a winter parka on a Florida beach in the middle of summer? Of course not. I doubt any of us would wear a bikini to go ice fishing in the middle of a Minnesota winter. I know I wouldn’t!

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Get, set and go. If this is the situation with you for investing in stocks then; its time to fire the stock broker that provides your service. For those who are totally new to the field, discount brokers are not their cup of tea; the full time brokers are more suitable for them. But, for those who posses even some knowledge about trading, lifting discounts is the best option.

As such, with the advanced technology, the lines separating online brokers and discounted brokers (more…)

There are two mainstream approaches most traders take when they trade the forex market. There are in essence two types of traders. The fundamental trader and the Forex technical analysis trader. This latter trader is what this article is about.

While the fundamental trader typically watches the news and takes cues from world events to enter a trade, the technical trader believes, that by the time news breaks and the world hears about it, all the smart money has already ma (more…)

Candlestick indicators are a very old Japanese system of price divination. Candlestick charts can be traced back 500 years to the rice trade in Japan. Farmers used candlestick pattern recognition to try and identify when the best time it was to put their stored rice up for sale.

It is a widely popular system in use today. As a trader, I am very technical and lean towards science and empirical evidence. However, I must admit, that a successful trading system need not be pe (more…)