The January Effect over with, Recessions and weekend reading

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.

Weekend Reading Articles

• Timothy Sykes gives up day trading.
• WallStrip time to look at Vice stocks (Humor)(Video).
• S&P500 calculation error highlighted.
• The key to breaking trading slumps.
• CBOT using volume at price to trade Gold.
• Your wallet’s worst nightmare.
• Unacknowledged trading genius.
• If I had 7 billion dollars, I would buy…
• America Still works.
• Improve your trading: Induce Autism.
• 30 ways not to get bored at work.
• The biggest swimming pool on earth.
• Track and visualize your work.
• Moist Robots and Emotion versus logic.

Well thats it time for me to bask in the summer sun with nice mild 31C or 90F forecast for Saturday and Sunday much the same.

About the author

Mark - Is a 28 year old form Australia. He has a Bachelor in Economics and a Major in CS. He is currently working towards his CFP. His interests include algorithmic trading systems, artificial intelligence, game theory and poker.