The worlds youngest billionaire. (Makes me feel so old)

Trend traders performance results. (very impressive results, just ordered Michael Covel’s first book on trend trading)

Fundamental Analysis + Technical Analysis = Success. (An interesting paper)

Don’t set a date for your life to start: this is it. ( Time to take action)

20-money hacks tips and tricks to improve your finances. (We could all use a bit more money)

How to lie with statistics. (”lies damn lies and statistics”)

Fears of commodity crash grow. (Interesting reading)

Missing the Margin call.

Why Trading on News Stories Could Actually Be Profitable.

Protecting and Growing your Wealth.

Crude Oil Defies Gravity.

1980-2007 stock market returns for various indices.

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This week has been an extremely slow week as I have been sick. Here are an assortment of articles for you to enjoy. Hopefully by next week I should be fighting fit and will post more.

• John Chow shares his blog business structure.
• The Forex Project takes us to the next stage of Forex Trading.
• Dollar notches steller weekly performance.
• Expected technology sector impactors.
• NYSE Tick using sentiment to trade.
• Top Ten sectors by monthly performance.
• Credit Suisse rolls over troubled UBS.
• Financial Blog Search.
• 5 reasons good Texas hold’em players are great forex traders.
• blogonomics dissected.
• The SI swimsuit indicator (humor).
• Advance retail sales aren’t what they seem.

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January has come and gone with rapid pace and world markets have seen downturns and US recession is being talked about in nearly every media article. Unless you have studied Macroeconomics you may not know how a recession is defined quantitatively.

A recession is  defined as negative real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for two successive quarters.

Now that we have that out of the way with lets get onto our list of weekend reading. Time to sit back grab a cup of coffee and look through some articles that are of interest to all of the finance geeks out there. This weeks list will be a bit longer then usual.

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It has been a rather hectic week and I am sure they will only get busier in the lead up to christmas. Today as the weekend nears I am posting some interesting articles from far corners of the interweb. Enjoy.

• Never bet against the house.
• Recession starts next Tuesday.
• End of year financial checklist.
• How to recognize stock market manipulation.
• Retail sales analysis
• The psychology of human misjudgment (PDF)
• Dealing with sympathetic bias

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There are blogs on nearly every single topic you can imagine and trading is no exception. Today I will share with you blogs I enjoy reading and blogs that will make you a better trader. If you have been living under a rock for the past 5 years a blog is:

“A website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” Source wikipedia

Blogs are growing at a phenomenal rate as they allow individuals to have a powerful voice. The growth of blogs is highlighted in the chart below: Read the full story

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