My $10000 Dollars

If you ever spot a stock that is surging by double digits within a very short time span, you may have run into a stock that is being “short squeezed”. Short squeeze is a term used by investors describing a situation in which stocks get “squeezed” upward rapidly, driven by the short sellers who are [...]

You may have seen investors or financial media talk about “Window Dressing” and how it impacts the stock price. Well “Window Dressing” is a term describing the unique strategy many investors employ around year ends and quarter ends to sugar-coat their investment portfolios. So what is window dressing? It’s a strategy used by mutual fund [...]

ETFs for commodities have been increasing popular in the last few years.  Some have been so popular in fact that ETFs like UNG (US Natural Gas Fund) have run out of shares this year.  Now with ETFs come the important topic: backwardation and contango that ultimately impact your investment on commodity ETFs. Backwardation has been [...]

Natural gas futures and UNG, an ETF that is designed to track the movements of natural gas price, have been brutally damaged in the recent weeks.  It seems like the UNG appetite has been increasing more and more as the price continues its downward movement.  UNG is now faced with 10 consecutive days in which [...]

Recently I’ve been recommended to check out Joshua Brown and his The Reformed Broker financial blog.   While I enjoyed the entire site overall, I particularly loved the “Who’s Who?” section he maintains.  In this section, he tracks all of the financial bloggers out there and throws them into a classroom as if the financial blogosphere [...]

While many of the readers here trade stocks full-time, there are many others who are part-time investors in various forms.  I am one of the latter.  Having a job that does not allow you to constantly monitor the market and make frequent trades, I have to bridge that gap by using many of the tools [...]

FINVIZ.com is massive stock ticker database that helps users easily “visualize” stock movements and helps screen stocks more efficiently.  As quoted by FINVIZ: FINVIZ offers the fastest and the most advanced stock screener available online, interactive markets maps, innovative market analysis and market intelligence solutions. The power of this tool is proven, as the site [...]

Since I like to keep things fresh, I figured I would move away from a my normal writing and post a collection of swing trading videos.  These swing trading videos are  not developed by me, but instead scanned the web and picked the ones I liked and more appropriate for learning. Swing Trading Advantages and [...]