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On Thursday I discovered an interesting Article in the Wall Street Journal: “Transport Stocks Blaze a Path”

Suppose you would know a stock price is heading up. In that case it would be easy to allocate  the bigger portion of your portfolio to that stock alone and ride the wave. Unfortunately knowing where a stock is heading is everybody´s guess. Nobody really knows but there is

They have been out there for a long time, but almost no one of our customers or any other investor we have asked ever attends a conference call. But if you call yourself a serious investor or trader you should attend one and see for yourself whether you gain valuable information about a company. Therefore today we have an interesting conference call for you

Today we start our series on financial formulas. Throughout this series over time we will look at all sides of the financial business and try to clarify the mathematics behind the concepts. Our first entry deals with a simple one the Dividend Yield

This book from Van K. Tharp is another must-read for us. In „Trade your way to financial freedom“ you won’t find a certain trading system you can copy and trade - by the way, something you should never do, because it doesn’t work – but you find something really helpful: He shows how individual trading actually works.

Equity markets have come a long way in 2009. And now everybody wants in on the move and everybody wants to own stocks since they are moving up. That describes the same situation we faced at the start of the century after Dotcom stocks moved over the edge. Sure this time the situation is different, we are in the middle of one of the worst crisis we have seen so far and it is an event felt worldwide. But that doesn´t mean stocks can go up forever.

The economy is not following nearly as quickly as markets suggest. The stock market has outperformed the real economy by far. So what do we need to do

Believe it or not: You don’t have to trade!

In the end it is your choice to trade or not to trade. It is not a decision made by the market, it is one that you control. But most traders feel the need to trade every day. And it is not hard to imagine why.

If you tend to react like the trader in this video, you should seriously think about your tradingstyle. Trading shouldn’t be so stressful that you react like this when someone disturbs you.

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