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May 29, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows

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US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Picks, Update Tagged With: finance, investment, share market, shares, stock market, stocks, trading, volatility

February 8, 2014 By Joe Marwood 15 Comments

How to buy penny stocks like Tim Grittani (and lose your shirt)

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Penny stocks. We have all heard of them. But very few of us know exactly what they are or where to buy them. The very thought of them conjures up different images for different people. For some its huge wealth and for others its huge risk. For me, its huge spreads. i.e. the costs of […]

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January 28, 2014 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

8-Rule Fundamental Trading Strategy

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The best way to eliminate emotion and subjectivity from trading is to bring in rules that can be used to identify the best times to enter and exit from trading positions. The difficulty when implementing fundamental trading strategies is that obtaining historical, fundamental data for stocks is particularly expensive. Fortunately, using the models at portfolio123.com […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: finance, investing, Picks, stock market, stocks, trading, trading systems

January 8, 2014 By Joe Marwood 7 Comments

4 Best Stock Screeners

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There are over 8000 stocks listed in the US and nearly 4000 on the NYSE alone. With so many to choose from, it’s essential to have a method to whittle them down into smaller numbers. Here are my 4 best stock screeners, all of which are freely available on the web: Best stock screeners: 1 […]

Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: finance, investing, investment, stocks, trading

December 25, 2013 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

List of economic indicators to trade forex

List of economic indicators

Predicting the direction of forex markets, particularly on a short term basis, is no easy task. For longer durations, however, it is a good idea to see a list of economic indicators as these show the fundamental reasons why currencies move. Technical indicators work too, but they are best combined with the fundamentals. Below is […]

Filed Under: Forex, Tools Tagged With: cot report, finance, forex, trading

November 12, 2013 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Trading stocks with Google Trends – part 1

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If you are anything like me, you probably like to keep up to date with new technology, watch for new trends and generally keep abreast of anything that might lead to profitable trading opportunities. With that in mind, last week I did a bit of research on trading stocks with Google Trends and was quite […]

Filed Under: How to, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: finance, google trends, investing, stocks, trading, trends

November 3, 2013 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Using the COT report to trade forex

The COT report or commitment of traders report is provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is an excellent tool for forex and commodity traders to analyse what other participants are doing in the market. The COT report is published using data from Chicago and New York futures exchanges every Friday at 14.30 EST […]

Filed Under: Forex, How to, Tools Tagged With: commitment of traders, commodities, cot report, finance, forex, investment, stocks, trading

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Joe Marwood is an independent trader and investor specialising in financial market analysis and trading systems. He worked as a professional futures trader for a trading firm in London and has a passion for building mechanical trading strategies. He has been in the market since 2008 and working with Amibroker since 2011.

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