Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending Mark Minervini’s Master Trader Workshop in Myrtle Beach, SC. The workshop was live, taking place on both Saturday and Sunday, and included special guest David Ryan. The primary goal of the workshop was to break down Mark’s personal approach to the market, starting from a broad scope and by the end focusing on the intricate details. Also covered were different skills of trading including position management, psychology, and a very detailed breakdown of risk management. To achieve what Mark calls “super performance”, practice, discipline, and a very h ..read more

Our sister site, StockBrokers.com, has published its 2019 Online Broker Review! View the final rankings | 2019 Best online brokers guide Six months, 16 equity brokers, 4,544 data points, and over 30,000 words of research. Our other sister site, ForexBrokers.com, has published its 2019 Online Broker Review. View the final rankings | 2019 best forex brokers guide Six months, 28 forex brokers, 2,268 data points, and over 60,000 words of research. Needless to say, it was a journey. Please support us with a tweet, like, or share via email. Thanks ..read more

Our sister site, StockBrokers.com, has published its 2018 Online Broker Review. Six months, 13 equity brokers, 292 variables, 260 customer service tests, 3,796 data points, and over 40,000 words of research. Best Online Brokers Best Robo Advisors Needless to say, it was a journey. View the final rankings. Please support us with a tweet, like, or share via email. Thanks! Our forex broker review will publish later this Spring over at ForexBrokers.com ..read more

This is the first post of two that I will be doing as part of my annual year-end portfolio reflection. Feel free to see my 2015 results, 2014, 2013, etc. UPDATE: 2016 Tools of the Trade post is now published. As a huge advocate of post trade analysis, taking the time to look back over every trade made throughout the year is critical to long term success. Without question, 2015 for me was one of the toughest years of trading in some years. The first half of the year was uneventful with record low volatility and the back half was packed full of drama, highlighted by a three day crash in late Aug ..read more

On November 5th I started building a position in Valeant (VRX). I had a strong hypothesis that the negative news against the company was severely overdone and there was an opportunity to profit. From November 5th to my final purchase on November 28th, I bought Valeant shares a total of 28 times and accumulated 440 shares long (approx $34,000). For those that follow my yearly results, I only allocate around $60,000 to personal trading, so this was over half my portfolio. With a costs basis of $77.77, I ended up selling out of my long this past Wednesday morning after Valeant broke through $100 ..read more

Our team spends hundreds of hours testing financial products and services each year. Our reviews are honest and unbiased. If you use the links on this page to open an account, we may be compensated. Thank you for your support! Read more. A wise friend of mine has always told me to buy the best tools I could manage to obtain for work. He once posed the question of, “If you were to work construction, what power drill setup would you buy?” to which my reply was, “Dewalt, of course.” My in-laws operate a successful dairy farm enterprise and they have sworn by Dewalt for years. I’ve gotten to see f ..read more

Our team spends hundreds of hours testing financial products and services each year. Our reviews are honest and unbiased. If you use the links on this page to open an account, we may be compensated. Thank you for your support! Read more. Without a doubt, performing thorough fundamental and technical analysis is time consuming and not for the faint of heart. The vast amount of information available to investors is staggering. Furthermore, organizing the data to yield an educated buy, sell, or hold decision is traditionally left to analysts and institutional grade shops. Luckily for traders, Mar ..read more

The rise of the “robo-advisor” is hard to ignore. Startups Wealthfront, Betterment, Personal Capital, and others have shaken up the managed assets scene by letting algorithms determine the best allocation of capital. Investing with a robo-advisor has given investors the ability to accomplish long term investment goals with a much lower cost over using a traditional advisor. A similar trend of lower costs has been seen with the online brokers. All the major brokers charge $9.99 or less per trade, with a variety of firms offering trades at half that rate, $4.95 or lower. So which is the better c ..read more

Readers – Please note this is our last weekly market recap!  For more info please see this post as well as information for subscribing to future recaps if there is general interest.  To the greater readership, thanks for following along over the years and best wishes for success in the future! A rather quiet week on the news front as the same daily rumblings and hopes about a U.S. – China trade deal that have gripped the market for over a year, continued yet again.   A flock of Federal Reserve members came out to opine about the economy – some content with where rates are, while others wantin ..read more

An incredibly non volatile week as indexes did next to nothing until Wednesday afternoon when the Federal Reserve delivered the much expected quarter rate cut.    Markets rallied into the close Wednesday, flat lined yet again Thursday and then a small pullback Friday. While there was some worry about oil supply early in the week after an attack on Saudi facilities, much of that was washed away by mid week. As for the central bank: The Fed announced it would cut the benchmark federal funds rate a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.75% to 2% Wednesday afternoon, but said in an accompanyin ..read more