Fundamental analysis is all about taking a company’s numbers and extrapolating them into some long-term predictions on where the stock price should be valued at. For the most part fundamental analysis requires investors to look at spreadsheets and long lists of numbers, YCHARTS is a nifty resource that breaks down several fundamental factors (i.e. earnings per share, PE ratio) and spits them back out as visual appealing charts.

With YCHARTS you can create and track up to 40 stocks, rank stocks by various metrics,

The ability to spot trends is key when trying to make profitable stock trades. In today’s global economy, markets drive and influence each other and ignoring them is the difference between a good and bad trade.

Trend TV is a new free service that teaches users how to easily spot trends and consequentially make good stock trades.

Videos included in Trend TV include:

• Day trading made simple
• Strategy trading using next day
• Interpreting candlestick reversals
• Trading with Vantage Point

Watch, learn, and earn, with Trend TV. Sign up for your free account.

You might have noticed towards the end of year a lot of traders throwing around the term tax loss selling, but did you know what it meant?

Before we can sum up what tax loss selling means lets first clear up some facts about taxes relating to stock trading particularly.

Whether you close your stock position at a gain or loss it has an effect on your yearly tax returns. Obviously the quicker you make money, the higher taxes are. This is commonly referred to as short-term capital gains tax.

There are a couple varying terms, but on average a gain is considered

Regardless of what type of movies you like, everybody enjoys plots of greed, corruption, fast lifestyles, and ultimate downfalls. All these factors is what usually makes Wall Street based movies so fun and entertaining to watch. They can also be quite inspiring.

With the much anticipated Wall Street 2 on the way, its a nice time to recall some of the best Wall Street-based movies that have been made.

In no particular order.

Wall Street

The movie that set all standards for past, present, and future Wall Street movies. Wall Street symbolized the greed, corruption, and illegal activities that were synonymous with the financial

No doubt one of the best ways to learn how to trade stocks or test out different trading strategies is through paper trading or virtual stock trading. These simulators will let you practice trading without actually risking any money.

Recently TradingSim launched a free trading simulator that is specifically geared for day traders.

Day trading is unlike other trading strategies in that all decisions must be made quicker, and you have to rely on strict rules to protect yourself from monumental losses. TradingSim aims to help traders learn and practices this type of active stock trading without risking