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Political decisions are somewhat important for traders. Especially the guys at the Federal Reserve are important to us. What Ben Bernanke says about the economy will move the markets.

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We all know the situation. We are just looking for a good opportunity but nothing is available searching our usual research sites. So we need to fire up a stockscreener and screen the market universe for ourselves. The problem is we like to screen for institutional ownership, that is for the percentage of outstanding shares held by institutional investors. This is a bit special and not every stockscreener will let us do this search - but this one does Continue reading… »

Volatility can be really bad for your long time performance. Before you can think, the market hits your stop only to bounce back a few minutes later.
The flash crash on May 6th was an awful example for this.
If your stop is close, you will surely get kicked out in one volatile move. But if you enlarge your stop too much, you hurt your Riskmanagement. A loss that’s too high for your account.
But how can our positions survive a volatile phase?

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This weeks winner makes things a lot easier. Most of the times it is dreadful to find an exchange rate. You have to jump over to your favorite financial homepage, then click through to see all exchange rates and most of the times those are not live. This ends now there is a one stop site and the best thing is, this site has it all live… Continue reading… »

It is common knowledge that sometimes we lose and sometimes we win as traders. That’s what happens and the only important thing is the result at the end. Did you earn more or did you lose more? Continue reading… »

We will be adding another category “WWW - Weekly Website Winner” and this is our first winner Continue reading… »

Is it, that sometimes you find yourself making a statement like this: “That’s the last trade for today!”?
If Yes, then you also know that often this won’t be the last trade.
We close our “last trade” for the day and after that it doesn’t last long until we see another big chance in the market. And without hesitation we jump into the next trade. But, WHY?

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I read an Article that says a lot about Recessions and when they end. Peter Cohan from the Daily Finance Blog shows you what role the “National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)” plays and what they are looking for to finally come out with a statement everybody wants to hear:  The Recession is over.

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Sometimes you get carried away by a moving stock and since you want to participate you add it to your portfolio. Most of the times you have watched the stock for a long time but didn´t have the guts to invest in it. Or you did invest in it only to find out that it turned south the very next moment. The market had just waited for you to jump in. Once in a time though you find that magic stock, you invest in it and to your surprise it goes on and makes money, lots of it. Shouldn´t you be a bit suspicious? Here is such a stock Continue reading… »

The SEC said last Friday that it wants to charge Goldman with fraud. This has caused quite some turbulence in the markets. But what is the SEC’s charge against Goldman Sachs actually telling us?

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