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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.

There are millions of News sites on the web but a lot of them just repeat content from other sites, so which one is original and comes up with ideas that can really be traded? Here are a few we like a lot since these websites all have something we need for our trading style.

When people start out as traders they always have one goal. And that is to make money - preferably lots of it. People have different ideas but most often we hear something along the line: “..i want to be able to make a living trading…”, and “…i have this amount x right now but at the end of the year i would like to have doubled it…”.

Now this is all fine but how do you reach such a lofty goal? Let´s have a look at a few ways:

Risk management dictates to start with small positions as long as your account is not substantially in the green. But what if you knew what other traders hold and where the money is flowing. If you had that kind of information, it ´d be easier to stock up on your position and

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

News are essential for the markets to work, they keep everything moving. So, for a trader it is important to be able to read and analyze news correctly and then act on it. Therefore here are 5 tips on how to handle news and act on it:

Listen to this:

“Stock rally continued from yesterday afternoon. Market opened firm, bears attempted attacks early, particularly on US Steel based on recent drop in steel product prices. Attack quickly failed, Steel gradually gained, and gains spread through other leading industrials, many of which had large gains from recent lows.”

Take a wild guess at when this message was printed? “Gains in leading industrials. The market opened firm.” Is this message from last week or