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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.

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

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?

Today’s post deals with media phenomenons, that for us as traders can be very important.
As we know markets are made by people who sell and buy. And most of these people read newspapers or news related websites. So if we are able to discover what interests them the most, it helps us creating a better opinion about the markets.

Overtrading is one of the most overlooked mistakes you can make while trading. As a trader you want to make money any minute the market is open, this is understandable, but it doesn`t mean that you need to trade every opportunity that comes across your screen. Trade the most profitable ones and forget the rest. Here are 5 tips on how to spot and avoid overtrading.

Days like these are most interesting as far as risk management goes. Most of the times stock prices follow a chaotic pattern. Forecasting them is not easy if at all impossible but sometimes subtil changes in the surroundings make things forcastable. This happens when

Bruce Watson of the Daily Finance Blog posted the article: Food Shortages Coming? Famed Investor Jim Rogers Thinks So

The Article deals mostly with Jim Rogers opinion about the rise of commodity Futures because of an upcoming shortage in Food. But that´s not the point that caught my eye.

A While ago Brett Steenbarger posted a quite interesting questionaire at his Blog that helps you to define your curent attitude.

There is always a tendency to make mistakes, especially while trading or investing. They are just not avoidable. We need to learn that we make them and we need to learn how to minimize negative outcome from those mistakes. You can start by

It needs time, till you can make proper market decisions. You need a good portion of experience for this and you have to know what is going on in the markets. But the problem is, that even if you are theoretically right with your interpretation of market events, you still have to remain flexible.