One of my favorite things about TradeKing is its free tools for option trading. In the below 16 minute video, I’ll go over a couple of tools and how they can benefit your trading. Even if you don’t have an account at TradeKing, you should watch this video to discover the tools available and how [...]

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Mechanical stock investing involves following a pre-determined set of criteria for determining when to buy or sell a stock. This type of investing has several advantages for the beginner as well as the average investor.
Probably the biggest advantage of mechanical stock investing is that emotions are removed from the equation. [...]

As a stock investor you’ve probably have heard the term FOREX. So what exactly is Forex?
The term Forex refers to the foreign exchange market. The purpose of trading on forex markets is essentially to make money when one currency goes up or down in value against another.
To demonstrate this, imagine you had 100 US dollars($100) [...]