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Using CTA Trend Following Systems to Find Global Macro Trading Opportunities

CTA’s or commodity trading advisers have been using long term trend following technical rules for years with great success. Some of the benefits of such a system is that once you have designed and tested the system it does not usually take much time to update it and have your trades ready for the […]

Global Macro Trading the Investment Strategy for Every Season

While we are biased we feel that most investors would benefit by incorporating at least some of the principles of global macro into their own trading. Global macro is the least inhibited of the popular trading styles. Most global macro funds trade almost anything almost anywhere. What we mean is that instead […]

Money Management: The Long Term Key To Success in the Markets

It does not matter if you know all there is to know about stock selection. Strategy mastery is not the most important skill to possess. You will be out of the game in short order if you can’t control your money.
Money management is probably the most important skill a trader can have […]

Dollar Cost Averaging Explained

Simply put, dollar cost averaging (DCA) is a stock purchasing plan that helps investors minimize the timing risk associated with lump sum investing. It is a strategy that is best used by investors with little time to watch the day to day fluctuation but still want to invest money in equities because it lets […]

The Securities Investors’ Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part Three

SIBORAP includes these ten specific sections: (1) Product Transparency, (2) Regulation and Education, (3) Protection from Speculators (4) Control of Hedge Funds, (5) Brokerage Account Statements, (6) Retirement Account Investments, (7) Executive Compensation, (8) Corporate Financial Statements, (9) Taxation of Investment and Retirement Income, and (10) Transactional Greed and Fear Controls.
Section Five: Brokerage Account Statements.
Investors […]

How to Identify Stock Market Trends

Many people over the years have gone to great lengths to develop various techniques in stock market investing. For many generations the most popular form of investments has been that of stocks, and throughout this time, the various strategies have either led to profits or to bankruptcy, but of all the good investment strategies that […]

The Securities Investors’ Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part Two

SIBORAP includes these ten specific sections: (1) Product Transparency, (2) Regulation and Education, (3) Protection from Speculators (4) Control of Hedge Funds, (5) Brokerage Account Statements, (6) Retirement Account Investments, (7) Executive Compensation, (8) Corporate Financial Statements, (9) Taxation of Investment and Retirement Income, and (10) Transactional Greed and Fear Controls.
Section Two: Regulation and Education […]

Examining Various Methods for Investing in Silver

Silver has recently experienced some renewed interest as a precious metals investment. Earlier this year, the price of silver exceeded the $20 per ounce level. This marked a twenty seven year high, but was still short of its all time high above $50 per ounce reached in 1980. In recent months, the price of silver […]

Is Gold a Good Investment?

As the prices of stocks fluctuates uncontrollably or in laymen terms the value of a particular currency starts to fluctuate unpredictably or even plummet, gold often comes up as a safe and more stable product to invest in for many investors. However, the real question is gold really a good investment?
There are many types of […]

Is Purchasing Property In Egypt For Profit A Sound Investment?

Deciding to move to a foreign country or invest in a property overseas to rent out takes a fair bit of investment, and not just of cash. Time, emotions and relationships will be stretched and tried during acquiring an abode abroad. It is wise to enlist all the help you can from an […]