Mastering trade entry can be the hardest part of investing. What is it that separates the successful traders from those who fail? If you ask anybody who has studied trading for any period of time, they will answer ‘psychology’. Essentially, your mental ability to manage losses and profits and the good and the bad times in trading, [...]

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Moving to trading, programs generally sort of reset within the first three days of trading in a new month. Program trading is principally the domain of primary dealers, the big prime brokers allied with the US Federal Reserve.
We saw something different in the detail beneath volume last week. Big money downgraded long and short positions [...]

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Business standing firm during a recession is no easy thing. Cash is stiff, and for most businesses this is a nightmare which adversely affects productivity because of the on going global financial melt down, and the cycle continues. Now the first solution to surviving a recession is to understand that it will be over shortly. [...]

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Prices for single family houses are lower than they’ve been in decades in some regions. It’s tempting to want to buy investment property in areas that used to cost tens of thousands of dollars more than they’re selling for today. But don’t think that just because a house used to sell at a higher price [...]

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Investors are either looking at what is going to happen with the economic stimulus package or they are still looking for solid investments, just not ones with much risk attached to them. Some investors are looking at overseas energy companies in Chile and Brazil for example as they worry about the effect that a windfall [...]

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