by MarketHeist
February 17, 2012 in MarketHEIST
Mail like this needs to be dumped in the trashcan outside on your way back from your mailbox. We’re here to take money, not have our money taken! You’re smarter than getting scammed by get-rich fast schemes. Especially this type of scam: the pump and dump. Scam mail like this often have these characteristics: Obscure [...]
by MarketHeist
February 15, 2012 in MarketHEIST
You can earn minimum wage and end up wealthier than this guy: Allen Iverson. Iverson, former NBA superstar with the Philadelphia 76ers, earned $154 MILLION in the NBA, not to mention countless sponsorship deals, most notably Iverson’s own shoe “The Answer” line with Reebok. Someone with their own shoe line can go broke? Iverson’s FAIL? [...]
September 20, 2011 in Hamzei Analytics
George Cavaligos from the floor of the CME Group. I’m a broker with MF Global here in Chicago. Been on the trading floor for about thirty years. Fari Hamzei’s been kind enough to allow me to show you our trading floor and a little bit of our color from the bonds and notes here that [...]
by MarketHeist
September 18, 2011 in MarketHEIST
Isn’t it enough that Wall Street confuses us with terms like P/E ratios, CDOs and CDSs (like Mortgage-filled IEDs that blew up the US Banking system)? Now there’s fantasy creatures like witches for Quadruple Witching friday? And it’s not even October but September? Well, actually things happen in the stock market all year round. And [...]
by MarketHeist
September 17, 2011 in FINVIZ, MarketHEIST, Worden
Stock screeners, which most financial websites have some form of, are amazing. With stock screeners, it’s as if each of us has an army of researchers pouring through thousands upon thousands of stocks and their financial data to find opportunities that match our investment criteria. But even the most popular stock market sites, including Yahoo! [...]
by MarketHeist
July 4, 2011 in CMS Forex
An infographic from CMS Forex explaining the basics of forex. If you’re new to investing in forex, or just curious about what and how currency is traded around the world, this Forex infographic is a great introduction.
by OpenTrader
June 7, 2011 in OpenTrader
Just because many use the stock market to gamble, doesn’t mean stock trading is gambling. Many legitimate traders make their living by trading stocks, futures, options, forex, bonds, commodities, etc. With their trading income, legitimate traders pay their mortgage, send their kids to college, and pay their taxes. In this video, traders tell their side [...]
by MarketHeist
June 7, 2011 in Apex Futures
Exclusive trading order entry lesson by Craig Ross, Apex Futures The purpose of this article is to explain the different order types accepted by the exchanges and also some advanced order strategies your trading platform can maintain for you. Since the electronic markets make up over 70% of all futures trading we are going to [...]
by MarketHeist
June 7, 2011 in RiskDoctor
Options trading tutorial video by Charles Cottle, aka the Risk Doctor, showing how even the best stock market software can have glitches and errors even in the analysis of a simple covered call option with stock. The trading platform software used in this demo by the Risk Doctor is tradeMONSTER, and the Risk Doctor shows [...]
June 7, 2011 in Indicator Warehouse
Exclusive Article by Adam Halpern, Indicator Warehouse Support and Resistance Understanding how support and resistance works is paramount to understanding the markets. Why? Because support and resistance is how the markets work! Support and resistance levels on a chart are just the graphical representation of supply and demand in action, and it is supply and [...]
by nickfenton
June 6, 2011 in TickerTank
Time is a major commodity when Day Trading. The quicker you can accomplish any given task, the better. Scanning for trades is among the most important tasks throughout the day, and the faster you scan the better your odds of finding something worth trading. The ThinkorSwin Desktop Trading Platform provides many powerful features, one of [...]
by MarketHeist
May 30, 2011 in Zecco
The Online discount broker Zecco.com recently launched the first Facebook app with a stock trading platform that allows stock trading, live stock quotes, stock charts, and stock market discussion groups on Facebook. A compact trade ticket is available to let you enter buy and sell orders for stocks from within Facebook. Zecco has named this [...]
by MarketHeist
May 29, 2011 in TradeKing
Short video lesson showing how to place a stock order to buy and sell stocks on the TradeKing broker trading platform. To begin, find the “trading” tab on the TradeKing website menu and select “Stocks + ETFs” which will bring you to the stock order ticket. Choose an action, which includes Buy Sell Sell Short [...]
by nickfenton
May 23, 2011 in TickerTank
Contributed Exclusively by Nick Fenton, TickerTank When day trading, it is very important to have your finger on the pulse of the market throughout the trading session. Over the years, I have experimented with several methods of accomplishing this goal. None have worked as well as the Breadth Analysis methods explained in this video. But [...]
by MarketHeist
May 21, 2011 in TradeKing
An introduction to stock quotes on the TradeKing broker trading platform. Understanding a stock quote is one of the first steps to understanding how to invest in the stock market and trade stocks. Learning about the basics of stock quotes is also critical for making informed investing decisions. The simplest stock quotes tells investors what [...]
by MarketHeist
May 18, 2011 in Shrink My Taxes
Exclusive Tip by Steve Ribble, ShrinkMyTaxes You don’t have to be a pit trader or own a seat on the exchange to qualify as a trader in securities. However, there are certain requirements that the IRS looks for in determining if you’ll qualify as a securities trader. Meet these requirements and you’ll reap the favorable [...]
May 18, 2011 in Linda Bradford Raschke
Christopher Terry of LBRGroup video analysis of Emini futures for May 18, 2011. This emini futures video covers the S&P Emini futures with technical analysis of the daily Emini charts including Bollinger bands, trendlines, and candlestick patterns. Intraday technical analysis focuses in on emini levels of interest with volume profiles, TPO’s (Time price opportunity) and [...]
by MarketGauge
May 15, 2011 in MarketGauge
Exclusive Analysis by Michele Schneider, MarketGauge Stock Market Index Analysis Last week was tough! We got so close to looking like we were going to breakout to new highs in QQQ only to wind up closing down 1.2% breaking the adaptive moving average, yet holding last week’s low. And we did not have yet another Distribution [...]
