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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.

In order to stay in touch

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

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…

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

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.

What can I say about the book?
Jack Schwagers “Market Wizards” is without a doubt one of the most important books about markets, trading, traders and risk management and therefore   you should read it.

The reason is very simple.

The complete team of  TheRiskBlog sends all the Best for the New Year, health, happiness and success for you and your family.

Merry Christmas to everybody and always remember to take care of the risk involved in trading in 2010.

If there was one big news this week, it was surely Warren Buffetts acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) railroad. But although the deal itself is interesting, another thing caught my attention.

Did you ever think about the guys that work at NYSE. The ones sometimes jumping up and down on CNBC ?
If yes,