Trading Pages

These pages contain resources that may be useful in trading and investing in stocks from technical and fundamental perspectives. The pages here are informational and should not be considered recomendations for trading securities. These pages assume that you're conversant with Technical and Fundamental Analysis of the Financial Markets.

Trading Chat

Clearstation CompX board This is sometimes a decent chat area but don't use it for now!
Clearstation $HUI board A goldbugs board but don't use it for now!
Investor Village ^DJA board A good chat area with some very experienced traders.

Financial and Market News

CBS MarketWatch is a major media business news service. Great for late-breaking news.
Financial Sense Online is a commodity-related site with a nice weekend radio show.
Prudent Bear Site which has a page with links to news of interest to the bears. Also note the weekly Credit Bubble Bulletin.
TheStreet.com is a second-tier business news outlet. They have a nice Earnings Calendar page.
Yahoo! Finance is a great place for financial news as well although it is an aggregator in addition to providing news.

Miscellaneous Stuff

Intel discussion at IHub
Bloomberg Rates and Bonds
Brian Brenda's charts
David Kneupper's charts
The Oil Drum Energy news and commentary.
Bankaholic - Banking news with a consumer and trading orientation
My CandleGlance Stock Screens Sector chart screens that I use to look for targets
CBOE Intra-Day Volume page at the Chicago Board Options Exchange can be useful in guaging options-player sentiment.
CME Globex Flash Quotes provides delayed index futures quotes. This is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange site.
Commitment of Traders Gold Report shows you where the major players are in gold. The Commercials are usually right.
The dk Report - daily (I hope) market commentary from a guy that's a whiz with music.
Downstream Ventures Energy & Petroboard provides information on commentary on energy matters that is often ahead of the major media outlets.
Freddie Mac's Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey
FXConverter - 164 Currency Converter can convert currency from many countries to other currencies.
FXStreet.com World Indices page has a summary of many markets.
The Housing Bubble Interesing blog on the housing bubble.
iqAuto Max Pain page will do a Maximum Pain options analysis on a stock based on the open interest in its options.
Jim Sinclair's Mineset provides information on the precious metals markets.
LitWick has a nice visual tutorial on recognizing common candle patterns for those into candlestick analysis.
Medved QuoteTacker a free Windows applications to track your stocks in real-time via streaming quotes from your broker or other quote feed.
Multiple Monitor Systems for Trading - work in progress page for setting up multiple monitor systems. Only contains links at the moment.
Natural Gas Inventory Chart (weekly)
New York Federal Reserve Temporary Open Market Operations Page.
Porfiry's Unofficial CEF NAV Calculator is a neat little tool to deterine the discount or premium that the Central Fund of Canada (CEF) is trading at.
The Slosh Report - Repo reports along with expiring amounts.
trulia real estate search A very nice site which allows you to browse neighborhoods with hover over prices and historical sales.

Must Read Articles

These articles are what I consider classics and should be read if you're interested in increasing personal wealth.

Rich Man, Poor Man General advice about growing wealth from Richard Russell, the editor of the Dow Theory Letters.
The Rules of Trading by John Maudlin. There are many Rules lists on the web but these will do for now.

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Updated September 7, 2008. For comments and questions, send email to Vector.x64 @ gmail.com (without the spaces).