This is one of the classic books written about commodity trading. Many commodity traders are always looking for the latest and greatest trading books, however, most veteran traders know that the “old” books are usually the best.

Larry Williams is a household name among the commodity trading community. This book was written in the early 1970s during a bull market in commodities. The book does contain valuable information on trading commodities but it is not a step-by-step guide on how he made his million dollars trading commodities as the title might imply.

George Soros is a hugely influential yet relatively little known political figure. He is one of the world’s wealthiest men who has amassed much of his fortune through investing in world currencies at points in time shortly before political changes occur which effect the values of those currencies. He is a philanthropist who is frequently well thought of by many and is often perceived as using much of his fortune for creating progressive political change.

If you’re a Robert Scoble follower, you know he believes Facebook will be worth a half-trillion dollars by 2015. But not everyone’s as confident as Scoble that the social network will be worth the investment when it goes public.

Financial Advisor, Rob Black, Wealth Preservation & Retirement Planning, points to a couple of red flags:

1. A slowdown in monthly/daily active users

2011 MAUs 845 million +39%
2010 MAUs +69%

2011 DAUs 483 million +48%
2010 DAUrs +77%

What steps should I take to make millions in stocks and bonds?

The first step is to make sure you don't have any personal debt, credit card debt and that. You need to get that paid off so that you can start building your wealth.

The next step is to, if you work for a big company, many companies have a 401K program and they'll actually match your contributions up to a certain amount.

One of the great advantages of trading currencies is that the forex market is open 24 hours a day (from 5pm EST on Sunday until 4pm EST Friday).

Economic data tends to be one of the most important catalysts for short-term movements in any market, but this is particularly true in the currency market, which responds not only to U.S. economic news, but also to news from around the world.

With at least eight major currencies available for trading at most currency brokers and more than 17 derivatives of them, there is always some piece of economic data slated for release that traders can use to inform the positions they take.

Generally, no less than seven pieces of data are released daily from the eight major currencies or countries that are most closely followed. So for those who choose to trade news, there are plenty of opportunities. Here we look at which economic news releases are released when, which are most relevant to forex (FX) traders, and how traders can act on this market-moving data.

A lot of people these days will tell you that futures is one of the most profitable financial investment instruments. The attraction of futures trading is the fact that it isn't too complicated.

The problem with typical stock markets is that there are thousands and thousands of stocks available, and to some that might seem like too daunting a figure to deal with. With futures markets, a speculator has only a handful of markets - about forty - to choose from.

Just as it is easy to choose from that handful of markets, it is also easy to speculate commodities futures because the markets are affected by extreme weather conditions like storms or droughts. A decision to buy or sell can be made within moments of a weather report broadcast, and there is always a chance for profit whether prices go up or down.

There are in fact many advantages of futures trading. For this article, we will look into 3 of the best reasons why you should consider futures trading.

What is the Futures Market and why would anyone want to trade it?

Wikipedia's response is: A Futures Market is a financial exchange where people can trade Futures Contracts.Well, what is a Futures Contract?

A Futures Contract is a legally binding agreement to buy specified quantities of commodities or financial instruments at a specified price with delivery set at a specified time in the future.

It is important to emphasize the word Contract. The first important difference between the Futures Market and, say, the Stock Market is that the Futures Market trades contracts, not shares of stock. You are not buying and selling a share (or piece) of a company.

When fiascos like the Enron bankruptcy, auditing scandals and analysts' conflict of interest occur, investor confidence can be at an all-time low. Many investors are wonder whether or not investing in stocks is worth all the hassle. At the same time, however, it's important to keep a realistic view of the stock market. Regardless of the real problems, common myths about the stock market often arise. Here we go over these myths in order to bust them.

1) Investing in stocks is just like gambling.

This reasoning causes many people to shy away from the stock market. To understand why investing in stocks is inherently different from gambling, we need to review what it means to buy stocks. A share of common stock is ownership in a company. It entitles the holder to a claim on assets as well as a fraction of the profits that the company generates. Too often, investors think of shares as simply a trading vehicle, and they forget that stock represents the ownership of a company.

All right, let’s talk about what might really be required of someone who plans to go about online day trading for a living.

First of all you need capital.  You can paper trade all day, but unless you’ve actually got money invested in the market, you can’t very well make a living at it can you?

If you’re day trading for a living, you’re going to be buying and selling stocks all day, and this is going to require quite a bit of capital.

Like the old-fashioned gold rush at the turn of the 20th century, the stock market has become a modern day source of big and fast money in the minds of amateur and professional investors around the world. While day trading has become wildly popular, are day traders making the kind of money that books and seminars would have us believe? The object of any investing strategy is to make money, but how much money can a person make trading stocks minute by minute?

Definition

The stock market has evolved in to a medium-term trader's market, according to CNBC's Jim Cramer. The old ideas of buying a stock and holding it for years or decades have been replaced by a strategy of holding a stock position for weeks or months. But some stock traders only hold their stocks for hours, minutes or even seconds. These traders are referred to as day traders. Most day traders do not hold onto stock-market positions overnight.