Stock Investment Trading: How Stock & Currency Trading Works, Where to Learn / Begin Trading Free - No Obligations, Free Registration, Training Accoun

August 14, 2009
Are you ready to conquer a 3.2 trillion daily market where 35 million is traded per second? Are you ready to experience the thrill of trading in the world's biggest market free of charge with absolutely no obligations?We are not going to sell you a software download, ask you to download software or purchase a trading robot!We are a world-leading, currency trading platform used by central banks, brokerages, major companies, firms, individual day traders, brokers & other organizations. We are not quick selling gurus who want to make a quick buck off an e-book or other items mentioned (our e-book is free too!).We are elite in our professional mentoring services (you will be assigned your very own, personal expert 1-on-1 & live to train you if you are new to the currency market).Our currency trading platform is easy to use, revolutionary & profitable, ideal for the active day trader or broker.The following are other features you will benefit from using our trading platform online. Copy & paste our url into your browser to begin profiting within the next 5 minutes or learning how to free.* Free and simple registration, start in 5 minutes* 24x7 online from any computer, anywhere, no download* Regulated (USA; UK; Australia; EU)* Instant deposits and profit withdrawals with credit cards or PayPaliweb themes, driver download, trade reference template full download* Start trading from as little as $200* No additional collateral required for trading (no "maintenance margin");* Unique "Freeze rate" trading feature (accept or regret)* No hidden costs* Working with reputable business partners and world leading banks* Full transparency, full control, highest data security and privacy* Special tailor-made terms to individuals traders* Free 1-on-1 live training by experts* Personal service by real people with real names and addresses* Special incentives to frequent traders* Portfolio manager programs* the inside viewer™* the trade controller™* SMS alerts* free training accounts* More ...

Brazil's stock, currency drop on profit taking

SAO PAULO, March 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's stocks and currency eased on Friday as investors cashed in on sharp rallies made this week on the back of government efforts abroad and at home to combat the global financial crisis.
Sao Paulo's main stock index .BVSP, the Bovespa, fell 1.63 percent to 41,896.17 points, in tandem with global shares.
But the index was still up about 4.5 percent in a week marked by hopes a U.S. plan to clean up toxic assets from banks' balance sheets would help the financial sector and that a $15 billion housing program at home would revive Brazil's economy.
"The U.S. government measures for the economy gave markets a boost in recent days, but now investors are opting for taking profits," said Roberto Alem, an economist at M2 Investimentos.
Brazil's currency, the real BRBY shed 1.6 percent to 2.277 reais as the greenback .DXY surged nearly 1.3 percent against a basket of major currencies.
Commodity shares led the downturn in the stock market. State-run Petrobras (PETR4.SA) slumped 2.6 percent to 29.57 reais as oil prices eased more than 4 percent and mining giant Vale (VALE5.SA) shed 2.1 percent to 27.7 reais as copper prices fell.
Lower metal prices also put steelmakers under pressure, with Gerdau (GGBR4.SA) down 1.9 percent at 13.44 reais and CSN (CSNA3.SA) 1.1 percent lower at 33.93 reais.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer (EMBR3.SA) tumbled 6 percent to 7.63 reais after announcing on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell 44 percent because of large derivatives losses and slowing sales.
Brazilian pulp producer Aracruz (ARCZ6.SA) lost 1.21 percent to 1.63 reais after posting a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.33 billion, due to foreign exchange losses.
(Reporting by Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Aluisio Alves; Editing by Diane Craft)

QuoteSee Stock/Currency plasmoid 0.2

Description:
QuoteSee lets you track stock and currency quotes.format for symbols:usdcad=x - USD to CADyhoo - Yahoo!It was tested on Kubuntu 9.04 with Qt 4.5.2 and KDE 4.3.I appreciate any bug reports :)Known issues* Brings down the desktop on OpenSUSE 11.1/KDE4.3/Qt 4.5.2To compile, install:cmake build-essentialkdelibs5-devIf you don't want to compile:check out the info and grab repository or package here for Ubuntu for versions 0.1.2 and 0.2: https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppahere for OpenSUSE (v0.1.2 at the moment, seehttp://www.kdelook.org/content/show.phpcontent=101760#c319942):http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=plasmoid-quoteseeChangelog:QuoteSee 0.2 [2009-08-10]New features:* Hovering over a widget causes a button for external link to show up, clicking on it opens a browser on yahoo page for the symbol* Hovering over a widget causes tool tip with trade time and date to show up* Configuration options for reading and saving a symbol list file* Configuration setting for increasing/decreasin update interval, this is for widget only, dataengine updates every 1 minute* Configuration setting for applet translucency* New Icon!!Changes:* Now plasmoid uses quotesee data engine* Improved processing for currency change fetching, grabs a smaller chunk of xmlQuoteSee 0.1.2 [2009-04-07]* Fixed currency rate change fetching if compiled with Qt 4.5* Currency rate change is displayed with 4 decimal places instead of 2* Stock names containing ',' display correctly, but are still limited to 17 charactersQuoteSee 0.1.1 [2009-03-30]* Fixed crashing when checking currency quotes if QuoteSee compiled with Qt 4.5 (works fine with Qt 4.4.3). Still won't work correctly but won't crash and take the desktop with it.

Personal Stock Streamer 9.6.5

Description:

Personal Stock Streamer is a complete stock streamer and trading platform for the active US investor. With PSS, investors can track hundrds of streaming stock tickers; manage multiple accounts and portfolios; see intraday and historical charts with candle, line and OHLC types and technical analysis indicators including SMA, MACD, RSI, Money Flow, Bollinger Bands, Momentum, and many others; mark up charts with annotations; produce asset allocation charts; collaborate and share stock tips and live annotated charts in real time; create watchlists; record filled orders in a complete transaction register supporting buy, sell, dividend, dividend reinvest, share transfers, return of capital, sell short, buy to cover and split transaction types; retrieve options chains; execute live trades through US exchanges including the NYSE, AMEX, & NASDAQ; calculate unrealized gain or loss on a lot by lot, ticker and portfolio basis; produce capital gains reports; send expression based alerts to email or mobile phones; exchange data with Quicken(tm), Microsoft Money(tm) and Metastock(tm); feed live tickers into Microsoft Excel(tm) for custom analysis; create custom asset classes; drag and drop Internet bookmarks; use a currency table and converter; place a light weight stock ticker bar on the desktop; read per ticker news headlines; organize view layouts with any of several dozen data fields including symbol, price, change, high, low, volume, spread, bid, ask, 52 week high and low, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend, yield, beta, market cap, gain, and others; get quick access to online research including EDGAR and finance.yahoo.com among others; use the scripting API to develop custom indicators, reports and extensions in VBscript(tm) or JScript(tm); all for free w/ supported brokerage accounts.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Foreign Currency Trading (Paperback)

Not recommended - not what you expect when you buy "Idiot Guides." I think other books are probably much better. It gave me very little understanding of trading currency, and definitely missed the mark in many areas. There are many grammatical errors, and the author constantly pushes his own website as being the best. He spends little time explaining what actually moves currency prices, which should have been a main topic. Instead, he spends much time discussing things like what kind of computer you need, what a bid/ask is, and how to pick a good broker (use his company)- which most people can figure out for themselves. His chapter on technical analysis is almost comical - it does nothing more than describe what a candlestick chart is, a bar chart, and what a trend is. The single useful advice I could come up with is his recommendation to cover a loss at a 30 pip decline, and shoot for a 100 pip profit. Otherwise, in many paragraghs he says interest rates boost a currency value and in one paragrapgh they lower a currency value, so I am left wondering which it is... At this point, I have to buy another book because I basically understand nothing. I still have no idea how brokers charge interest on your margin, or how long people hold currency trades. The author frequently mentions losing everything in a few minutes but does not explain how this happens -ie - why you cannot just wait for it to come back like with stocks and options. Overall, you will definitely need to buy another book. I think this book was very poorly written and does not convey information well at all.

FXCommerce® : localize your online store or auction site in minutes

mmerce® : localize your online store or auction site in minutes
FXCommerce allows online businesses and merchants to show prices in their customers' preferred currency without the need to setup, download and use complicated currency exchange databases and/or interfaces. FXCommerce is simple to install by merchants and intuitive to use by customers:
Merchants display prices in any of the 164 world currencies on their online catalogue, allowing customers to select their currency of choice.
Customers see prices in their local currency. They can make better and quicker decisions on whether a price is within their spending range without leaving the merchants Web site.
In addition to its simple integration process, FXCommerce has the following advantages over other localization services:
Simple Process - Merchants operate in a single currency while customers see prices in their own local currency.
Competitive Advantage - Merchants will be able to compete globally, with local and foreign markets. International customers will be less intimidated by foreign prices.
The Most Up-to-date Exchange Rates - Exchange rates are automatically updated by OANDA and downloaded on demand by customers whenever they view the merchants' online catalog.
Merchants' own Look and Feel Because FXCommerce is integrated within the merchant's own Web site, merchants can keep their own look and feel for displaying prices. Contrary to other products available on the Web, merchants can apply different style sheets, font color or size for displaying prices in their users' home currency. There is no need to direct users to other Web sites or pop-up a new window for users to type in the price.
How to add FXCommerce to your Web site
FXCommerce is available for licensing at $40 USD/month. You can register for this service online and start localizing prices on your Web site today.
Register to open an account (if you already have an account, you can use the same login information to login to FXCommerce)
Subscribe to FXCommerce and localize your online store today.

U.S. Dollar Currency Collapse Within 30 Days

It appears that there is a common refrain going around the investment community. It goes something like this: "Gold should be doing betterInvestors who believe this are making the mistake of thinking COMEX gold is the same as real physical gold. It is not. COMEX gold is a form of debt. It involves one party promising to produce gold (money) to another at a future date. Like all forms of debt, a COMEX futures contract is only as good as the counterparty behind the contract. Right now, because of low margin requirements, sellers of gold futures only have enough gold to cover 10% of outstanding contracts stored in COMEX warehouses. Considering that the biggest sellers of gold futures contract are insolvent financial institutions, it is obvious that COMEX gold has enormous counterparty risks . If even a quarter of outstanding contracts asked for physical delivery, it would be enough to guarantee a default. Since a financial collapse would actually creates the risk total default (insolvent banks can't produce the gold or cash), COMEX gold fails miserably as a safe haven . This is why COMEX gold prices are falling, while physical gold is disappearing from the market place Because of scarcity, physical gold is selling at an enormous premium to gold spot price (which is set by COMEX). How big a premium? Well, on eBay 2008 gold buffalo are trading between 300 to 400 over spot price. That is a 50% premium. The enormous premiums being paid in the physical market means that a large number of December gold contract holders are likely to request delivery. A volume, whether it causes defaults or not, is likely to change the marketplace perception of gold and cause a rush of into a physical gold plagued by shortages. Gold will skyrocket over 2000 in a matter of days. I am not the only person who believes COMEX gold futures are on the verge of collapse. I urge you to watch this video (skip to 11 minute mark) and read the extract below to see what others are saying about paper gold.

US Dollar Forecast Moderates on Forex Sentiment

Written by David Rodriguez, Quantitative Strategist
EURUSD – Euro Forecast Becomes Far Less BullishGBPUSD – Trading Strategies Prosper on GBP RalliesUSDJPY – Japanese Yen Outlook Unclear Versus US DollarUSDCHF – Swiss Franc Trading Bias Remains BullishUSDCAD – Canadian Dollar Forecast to Gain vs. US Dollar
While the SSI is available once a week on DailyFX.com, you can receive SSI readings twice a day in DailyFX Plus Forex Intraday Trading SignalsIt was an impressive week for forex trading sentiment-based forecasts, as our SSI-based currency systems went heavily short the US Dollar and Japanese Yen ahead of the pair’s sharp drops through recent trade. A more recent moderation in US Dollar and Japanese Yen losses has meant that forex trading crowd sentiment is far less one-sided, and our forecasts have accordingly become less clear. Traders aggressively bought the US currency as it continued to decline, and our contrarian trading systems presciently faded sentiment extremes on the USD’s tumble. Some of those systems have now covered US Dollar short exposure, and we await sentiment clarification before taking aggressive stances on all but a select few currency pairs.

Historical Charts of Speculative Forex Trading Positioning
EURUSD – Our sentiment-based Euro/US Dollar forecast has turned decidedly less bullish, as forex trading crowds have moderated their previously aggressive trading stance. In the EURUSD’s run up to fresh Year-to-date highs, the vast majority of traders remained heavily net short—giving us contrarian signal to buy. Now that the pair has pulled back, the ratio of long to short positions in the EURUSD stands at -1.29 as nearly 56% of traders are short. In detail, long positions are 21.8% higher than yesterday and 13.8% weaker since last week. Short positions are 7.1% lower than yesterday and 15.7% stronger since last week. The SSI is a contrarian indicator and signals further gains, but the recent shift towards long positions waters down our short-term bullish forecast.

GBPUSD –Our sentiment-based forex trading strategies went aggressively long the GBPUSD on its run to fresh peaks, as clearly one-sided market sentiment gave contrarian signal to go long. The more recent pullback limits our bullish bias, as the ratio of long to short positions in the GBPUSD stands at -1.14 with only 53% of traders currently short. Yesterday, the ratio was at -2.07 as 67% of open positions were short. In detail, long positions are 35.9% higher than yesterday and 29.4% stronger since last week. Short positions are 24.8% lower than yesterday and 18.3% weaker since last week. The sharp drop in short positions and aggressive gains in longs actually signals that the rally may be coming to an end, and a continued shift would give contrarian signal to go short the pair.

USDJPY – Our sentiment-based forecast on the US Dollar/Japanese Yen pair has been fairly mixed as of late, with lackluster USDJPY price action making for indecisive forex trading crowd biases. The ratio of long to short positions in the USDJPY stands at 1.15 as nearly 54% of traders are long. Yesterday, the ratio was at 1.49 as 60% of open positions were long. In detail, long positions are 4.3% lower than yesterday and 5.5% stronger since last week. Short positions are 24.1% higher than yesterday and 5.6% weaker since last week. The very recent shift towards short positions suggests that trading crowds may soon turn net-short the currency pair—a contrarian signal to buy. Yet we will wait for clarification in sentiment before taking an aggressive trading bias.

USDCHF – Our sentiment-based forecast for the US Dollar/Swiss Franc currency pair has remained aggressively bearish through recent trade, but a more recent moderation has led some of our forex trading strategies to close previous short positions. The ratio of long to short positions in the USDCHF stands at 2.19 as nearly 69% of traders are long. This is a fairly substantial shift from just several days ago, when the ratio stood at over 3 as more than 75% of traders were long. In detail, long positions are 8.2% lower than yesterday and 61.0% stronger since last week. Short positions are 5.7% higher than yesterday and 27.9% weaker since last week. A ratio over 2 still gives us a contrarian bearish bias, but the recent moderation suggests that sentiment may soon flip and actually produce a ‘buy’ signal.

USDCAD – Our sentiment-based US Dollar/Canadian Dollar exchange rate forecast remains bearish, as extremely one-sided forex sentiment points to further losses. The ratio of long to short positions in the USDCAD stands at 3.14 as nearly 76% of traders are long. In detail, long positions are 4.6% lower than yesterday and 6.7% weaker since last week. Short positions are 2.8% higher than yesterday and 4.0% stronger since last week. Though the USDCAD SSI ratio has moderated through very recent trade, the extremely net-long trading bias gives us persistent contrarian signal to stay short the currency pair.

GBPJPY – Extremely one-sided forex sentiment led our forex trading strategies to go aggressively long the British Pound/Japanese Yen currency pair on its run-up to fresh multi-month peaks. A more recent moderation in trading crowd sentiment nonetheless suggests that the pair could soon turn, and our sentiment-based biased is admittedly less clear. The ratio of long to short positions in the GBPJPY stands at -1.33 as nearly 57% of traders are short. In detail, long positions are 11.8% lower than yesterday and 2.1% weaker since last week. Short positions are 7.3% lower than yesterday and 22.6% weaker since last week. The noteworthy drop in short orders moderates our previously bullish sentiment-based bias on the GBPJPY. We now await a clarification in crowd trading bias before taking a more aggressive stance on the volatile currency pair.

Forex Currency Trading Market

The Foreign Exchange market (also referred to as the Forex or FX market) is the largest financial market in the world, with over $1.5 trillion changing hands every day. That is larger than all US equity and Treasury markets combined! Unlike other financial markets that operate at a centralized location (i.e. stock exchange), the worldwide Forex market has no central location. It is a global electronic network of banks, financial institutions and individual traders, all involved in the buying and selling of national currencies.

Another major feature of the Forex market is that it operates 24 hours a day, corresponding to the opening and closing of financial centers in countries all across the world, starting each day in Sydney, then Tokyo, London and New York. At any time, in any location, there are buyers and sellers, making the Forex market the most liquid market in the world.

Whether you are aware of it or not, you already play a role in the Forex market. The simple fact that you have money in your pocket makes you an investor in currency, particularly in the US Dollar. By holding US Dollars, you have elected not to hold the currencies of other nations. Your purchases of stocks, bonds or other investments, along with money deposited in your bank account, represent investments that rely heavily on the integrity of the value of their denominated currency "C the US Dollar. Due to the changing value of the US Dollar and the resulting fluctuations in exchange rates, your investments may change in value, affecting your overall financial status. With this in mind, it should be no surprise that many investors have taken advantage of the fluctuation in Exchange Rates, using the volatility of the Foreign Exchange market as a way to increase their capital.

Traditionally, access to the Forex market has been made available only to banks and other large financial institutions. With advances in technology over the years, however, the Forex market is now available to everybody, from banks to money managers to individual traders trading retail accounts. The time to get involved in this exciting, global market has never been better than now. Open an account and become an active player in the largest market on the planet. Discover the advantages of investing / trading at Forex Market

banks and large international companies were able to take advantage of the trading potential in the currency market. These days, all you need is a bank account and an internet connection. Forex Clearing Houses are open 24 hours a day, from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon. During that time, anyone can trade anything. Simply jump on your computer and you can do it at home.

Real Estate, Stock, Currency Strengthening

By Kim Tae-gyu Staff ReporterDespite the anemic economic growth, property and stock valuations, as well as the domestic currency are strengthening again on the back of ample liquidity. However, experts warn that the much-hyped economic recovery may still be far away. According to Kookmin Bank, house prices rose 0.1 percent in April to put an end to a six-month downward spiral that stretches back to last October. In particular, southern Seoul areas designated as speculation zones led the upturn. The benchmark KOSPI finished at seven-month high of 1,397.92 Monday. At 507.01, the junior Kosdaq has already returned to levels reached before the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September.The local currency, which had nose-dived to the 1,600 level per dollar, has been hovering around the 1,280 range as of last week, with more room for strengthening against the greenback.But prices for homes, stocks and the won-dollar rate have not fully recovered to the level that prevailed before last September. Idle money is flowing back into property and stock markets as investors see little merit in parking their money in unattractive deposit accounts with rates at a record low, a Seoul analyst said.He and other experts warn against any hasty optimism since expansionary monetary policies and lavish government spending is temporarily buttressing the upturn. Even Strategy and Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun has said it is premature to conclude that the economy is in a recovery stage.The IMF said in a report that Korea will be hit hard by creeping inflation from next year, possibly indicating the dawning of a high-inflation-low-growth stagflation era for the Korean economy``When the effect of stimulus packages or interest rate cuts run out later this year worldwide, Korea's exports might be hit hard,'' Lim Ji-won, chief economist at JP Morgan Korea, told Yonhap. ``Then, I see a likelihood that the economy will lose momentum during the period from the third and fourth quarters throughout the first half of 2010,'' Lim said. Exports account for more than half of the national income. Citigroup researcher Oh Suk-tae said snowballing household liabilities are feared to cast a chill on the economy, thus causing a double dip ― or another recession after a short-lived recovery. ``With timely policies, the Korean government successfully kept the time bomb of a foreign currency shortage from exploding last year,'' Oh said.``But the bomb has not gone anywhere. It lurks deep inside our economy in the form of prohibitively high household debts. Unless the debt problem is eased, the economy cannot get back on track,'' he said.According to the Bank of Korea, the country's households were indebted to financial institutions to the tune of 802 trillion won last December. The liabilities amounted to 78.3 percent of the nation's 2008 gross domestic products (GDP), which is comparable to 96.9 percent in the United States. Another headache is the H1N1 influenza A, the pandemic disease that has spread internationally after the outbreak started last month in Mexico. ``On top of positive signs, we are facing negative news like the H1N1 influenza A, which is feared to mess things up. We are keeping tabs on what will happen,'' Vice Strategy and Finance Minister Lee Dong-gul said