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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

The Big Picture covers Investing & Trading to Macro Economics, and everything else in between. The blog has quickly amassed over 11 million visitors.

Living Off Dividends

Living Off Dividends

I’m a 33 year old programmer living in Southern California. Several years ago I came across Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and I realized that for most people, life’s a continuous race to make more money and upgrade your lifestyle. Most people achieve this by working harder and harder at their job. Instead, if you develop a few different streams of income, you could enjoy a better lifestyle with less work.

Shortly after 9/11 I was laid off and after 4 months was close to being broke. It was a rather depressing period and it solidified my resolve to get multiple income streams going.

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Robin Hood Trader

Robin Hood Trader

I am a trader just like you. I have run the gauntlet of trading tortures in my quest to reach the Holy Grail of Trading and, along the way, have learned through painful experiences how to succeed and profit consistently. As I reminisce on my first trading efforts, I realize that I was absolutely clueless early on. The smart money crowd regularly emptied my account and filled their purses. They readily accepted my generous contributions.

As time passed, I came to realize that unless I changed my approach to the markets, I was destined to continue to pay for the “Smart Moneys’ “ “ Big cars and Big cigars”. I made that shift and learned how to trade successfully and I am here to tell you that you can not only preserve your capital but can in fact take money out of the markets consistently without staying glued to the computer screen and without losing sleep.

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Money & Markets

Money & Markets

Weiss Research, Inc., founded in 1971 and a subsidiary of industry-leading Weiss Group, is one of the largest, most reputable sources of global investment information. It has a long history of providing research and analysis designed to empower investors with information and tools to make more informed, independent decisions. In addition, over the last 14 years, Martin Weiss and Weiss Research have continually dedicated their time and resources to public service efforts, including Congressional testimony, constructive proposals for reforms in the securities industry, proposals for standards of practice and advocacy for accurate accounting and sound fiscal policy.

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Goldpricecrash.com

 Goldpricecrash.com

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Goldpricecrash is a community that not only tracks the price of gold, but also other commodities and examines implications for the wider global economy. Goldpricecrash provides an alternative to mainstream media reporting of events in the global commodities markets.

Finance Viewpoint

Finance ViewPoint

An expat Aussie living in America looking at Investing and Personal Finance from a local and global perspective. This blog provides a channel to share my views and interesting ideas I find along the way. Your feedback is always appreciated.

Karachi Stock Market

Karachi Stock Market News

Daily updates on the Karachi Stock Market, with news, company dividends and KSE-100 index movements.The rollercoaster of a day trader's dream /nightmare riding the KSE-100 index. More than 500 posts and counting .

Prince of Wall Street

Prince of Wall Street

Prince of Wall Street is a daily updated financial blog covering finance news, finance gossip, economic commentary, and the madness of wall street.

It also offers a glimpse into the mundane life of a junior investment banker. Recurring features include "King of the Week", "Blog King of the Week", "Book Review of the Month", and "Trade of the Week".

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IndexFundFan

indexfundfan

Indexfundfan is an engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and works in the semiconductor industry. Currently residing in Silicon Valley, California, USA, he starting investing during the bubble days of 2000. Like almost everyone else, he got burnt from his investments, having a rather “un-diversified” portfolio at that time.

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Sharpe Investing

Sharpe Investing

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Financial Futures and Equity Market Analysis

Successful Trading Tips

My name is John Bougearel. I am Director of Futures and Equity Research at Structural Logic with over 12 years of experience across a broad array of financial and securities markets.

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My Virtual Angel World

MyVirtualAngelWorld

Karen Rands got involved in the world of angel investing in 2001. She left corporate world to join one of her clients as their VP and to help them raise their last bit of go-to-market capital. She didn’t anticipate the pending market collapse and never did raise the money for that client. What she did discover is a whole new world of investing.

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Investor Ideas: Big Ideas for the Small Cap Investor

InvestorIdeas.Com

About InvestorIdeas.com� : A Global Meeting Place for Investors, Public Companies and Industry Leaders Covering over 30 Industry Sectors - All in one Place!

* A leading global investor and industry research resource portal specialized in sector investing covering over thirty industry sectors and global markets including India, China, Middle East and Australia.

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The KLD Blog

The KLD Blog

Who We Are

Founded in 1988, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. is an independent investment research firm providing authoritative sustainability research and indexes. More than 375 clients worldwide use KLD products and services to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into their investment decisions.

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TimothySykes.com

TimothySykes.com

Timothy Sykes' claim to fame is turning $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah Gift Money into $1.65 million in 4 years by trading thousands of stocks while in college. He later went on to become a top ranked hedge fund manager and star of the TV show Wall Street Warriors. Now, he's closed his hedge fund and is restarting with $12,415 in order to turn it into $1.65 million...again.

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Options Doggy

options doggy

A free posting of notable activity in listed US equity options updated frequently throughout the day.

Hamzei Analytics Financial Network

Hamzei Analytics Financial Network

Our mission is to provide valuable trading insights to advanced traders for analysis of mass behavior in the equity, bond, commodity and currency markets.

Option Pundit

option pundit

OptionPundit© (OP) is designed for serious traders. It is a stock & option trading blogsite that is dedicated to discussing basic, intermediate and advance option trading strategies. A fine collection of investment tools is also available for free to OP readers. I am mostly an income spreads trader and I like “high probability of success”. OP is not intended to make recommendations.

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Fintrade Capital

Fintrade Capital

Fintrade Capital provides financial advisory services, investments and portfolio management to investors at the Nairobi Stock Exchange and other markets.

Dear Investor,
Welcome to sample a collection of my thoughts, research, financial advice, gut feeling and other works that i love to share with you from time to time.

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Biohealth Investor

Biohealth Investor

BioHealth Investor (BHI) is a blog and journal focused on providing updated commentary and financial news from the biotech and medical technology industry.

BHI's content is featured on Yahoo!Finance, Google Finance, TheStreet.com, SeekingAlpha.com, 247WallSt.com, BioSpace.com, TheMoneyBlogs.com, and hundreds of other blogs and websites.

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Baby Biotechs: Investing in Small Biotech Stocks

Baby Biotech

Welcome to Babybiotech.com! Brian analyzes small biotech stocks, one at a time. It takes 5-10 posts to finish the analysis of each company so bear with him. He also writes for The Motley Fool, so the posting can be sporadic especially during earnings season.

The Fresh Trader

The Fresh Trader

The Fresh Trader

TheFreshTrader.com was founded with the intent of teaching beginning to advanced traders the skills necessary to succeed in the stock market. TheFreshTrader’s mission statement is taken from an old chinese proverb: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

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The Beta Brief

The Beta Brief

Commentary and analysis on matters related to beta including indexing, exchange traded funds (”ETFs”), derivatives, their application in the portfolio management process and their effect on the investment industry.

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The Confused Capitalist

The Confused Capitalist

A celebration of the stock market by Jay Walker, author of The Brink's Truck Burst Open on Wall Street! A Holistic Approach to Finding The Easy Money In Common Stocks

Facts and ideas on how to outperform the general market, portfolio management and risk, plus occassional musings on "raising the median", both economically and socially. All wrapped nicely with a value-oriented investing bias.

Random Roger's Big Picture

Random Roger's Big Picture

This is a stock market blog about portfolio management,foreign stocks, exchange traded funds, options and the occasional musing about my wildland firefighting experiences. The point here is to share process. Hopefully you can learn a little from my approach even if you disagree with me on everything.

Blogging Stocks

Blogging Stocks

This site is part of the weblogsinc division of AOL. One of the site’s writers, Brian White, writes almost half of the 400 posts per month. His work is consistent and well-researched. His output is amazing. Most of the posts at BloggingStocks cover eight companies: Apple, GE, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, eBay, Google, Time Warner, and Yahoo!.

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The Stockmasters

The StockMasters

The Stockmasters are a group of individuals dedicated to profiting from the stock market by use of experience, research, and market analysis. We analyze market trends, use technical analysis and apply our expertise to identify market changes before they happen.

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TraderFeed

TraderFeed

Written by Brett Steenbarger, Author of The Psychology of Trading (Wiley, 2003) and Enhancing Trader Performance (Wiley, 2006) with an interest in using historical patterns in markets to find a trading edge. He is also interested in performance enhancement among traders, drawing upon research from expert performers in various fields.

Berkshire Ruminations

Berkshire Ruminations

Chew on this: Small investors have a huge advantage over the Oracle of Omaha. While his returns may be limited because of the sheer size of his company, the typical individual faces no such limitation. This blog is about applying the wisdom of the Oracle to the small portfolio.

2 Bull Forex Blog

2 Bull Forex Blog

Learn what the Forex is and how to choose a Forex broker with our one stop Forex information resource site. We also have Forex resources that will make you a better trader.

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