Financial Guides

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour (Great American Storyteller) If you’ve lost up to 50% of your account, it means you aren’t competent: You ought to stop trading and go for further training (or why should you receive a margin call?). But […]

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself…” – Leonardo da Vinci Fantasies are among the cheapest things in the world, since everyone fantasizes. Nevertheless, carrying out what you fantasize is sometimes not impossible, providing that it borders on reality. So realistic goals in trading are the objective plans that guide […]

“Chance only favors prepared minds.” – Louis Pasteur Intriguing questions about trading have been raised by many. Yet, we’d be happy to say that we’ve derived joy from helping others to become better traders. No achievement is better than the awareness of the fact that your professional activities are a huge benefit to some people […]

In this exclusive extract from his Amazon Bestseller, CEO of ADVFN Clem Chambers explains why value investing is key to stock market success. Register for free, ADVFN provides the essential tools and information to make the right investment decisions. Over twenty years value investing will build wealth, but you will not be rich from it in a […]

First off, start with $1000. You thought you would need more didn’t you? No, $1000 will do. Now take your favorite stock, I’m going to pick Microsoft as our example. Microsoft is hardly the sort of crazy penny stock that the get rich quick merchants push at you and it isn’t some crazy pink sheet […]

“Trade and prosper – it is an attainable American dream.” – Mark. D. Cook As a trading expert, I’ve noticed different ways in which people view trading. Some people love trading, some people hate it. Some think financial websites are great; some feel those websites don’t help ultimately. Some like to overtrade, some open very […]

In the current economic climate it can seem that getting the most out of your money is an uphill struggle. Faced with rising energy and fuel bills, relatively high levels of inflation, low returns on savings and a stagnating property market, it can seem that making even a meagre return on an investment is an […]

Rule 1 SILENCE IS GOLDEN  Signal: Long If you find that a discussion on a stock you are interested in is muted this is an extremely good sign. People talk a lot about stocks when they are unsure or when they think their investment needs a shove in the right direction. Solid stocks attract a […]

The 1 stock market secret pros know and you don’t. What did Apple do today? Were you able to follow it with the most up-to-date price data or are you still living like they did in the bad old days. In the old days a call to your broker would give you this information and […]