Through these weekly strategy sessions, traders look out for economic reports coming out, which companies are reporting earnings, potential stock setups, and other stock related news – essentially prepping themselves for what to expect in the week ahead.

Obviously, if you know what you are looking for, then you make the game that much easier. That being said, not everybody loves to do research; moreover, maybe you don’t even know where to begin.

Market Toolbox LIVE is a free service that sends out weekly market analysis every Sunday. The toolbox includes:

• stock picks
• trading tips
• commentary
• market analysis
• technical training.

New users also gain access to the archives – Sign up for Market Toolbox LIVE.

Before we can determine if this resource is a scam or not, lets take a look at the facts.

What MarketClub claims to offer.

• A charting platform with triangle trade technology. Besides gaining access to a charting platform, users are able to see recommended buy and sell points for both short and long-term traders.
• Data and charts for stocks, equities, futures, and forex.
• Smart scan. A sophisticated scanning system that sorts securities by trends.
• Alerts. Choose to receive alerts directly to your inbox when a triangle is created.
• Trade school. Use their online seminars, articles, and guidance to better your trading.

Now I’ll tell you what MarketClub is NOT.

• A stock picking service. While the triangle technology does give you buy and sell points, it is only based on stocks you choose to check.
• A brokerage service. You cannot trade stocks through MarketClub.

Example of using MarketClub.

Because MarketClub is not a direct stock picking service, it will not spit out a list of stocks (unless you run a scan) to check out. Instead, members will use it has a viable researching website for stocks of their choice.

For example, if they were interested in Stock X, then, through MarketClub, members could:

• Check the Triangles to see whether or not to buy, sell, or short Stock X.
• Use the charting platform for technical analysis on Stock X.
• Find a list of related news stories on Stock X.

Below is a real life example of how the triangles create buy/sell signals for a certain stock. Green represents the stock should go up, and red represents the stock should go down.

Check out user testimonials of MarketClub.

The one downside I find in MarketClub is that the charting platform is flash-based, which could be a little glitchy for some at times.

The great thing about stock trading tools like MarketClub is that users can directly measure the success of the resource to its cost.

For example, if it costs $300 per quarter for a subscription, then the success of the resource can directly be related to making $300 in profit for that same quarter.

This is different from say a diet program. How do you weigh the costs? Do you tag dollars per pounds lost?

Finally, there are actually faces that you get to know behind the service. Unlike other stock market resource where you never really know who is behind them, the co-founder of MarketClub, Adam Hewison, is making videos daily on market analysis and various stock trading education.

As an active user and partner of MarketClub (Shocking! A review with full disclosure), I can say with 100% confidence that MarketCub is worth the price.

Sign up now – Try out MarketClub risk-free for 30 days.

Because day trading requires such short time frames, traders do not necessarily need to look for the same qualities or positive long-term signals that one would normally look for. Day traders are NOT look to invest, they are looking to trade.. get in and out.

All traders require some sort of strict guidelines and trading rules, but more so for day traders. Holding a stock just a couple minutes longer than you want can mean the difference between a decent gain and a huge loss.

Trend TV recently launched a new video, Day Trading Made Simple.

Floor trader, William Greenspan explains how he day trades and shares the system he uses everyday. This very system has allowed Greenspan to achieve 155 consecutive winning months.

In this video, you will learn:

• What it takes to day trade on the floor of the major exchange.
• How to interpret major fundamental reports.
• And much more…

This video looks in the mind of a successful trader… watch it over at Trend TV.

There are various tax levels based on time span of investment and even tactics like tax loss selling to benefit off any loopholes.

The main idea is that stock trading + tax = pain and tedious work.

Thankfully there are several programs and applications to help try to automate the process as much as possible.

Simple Trading System has put together a brief ebook, Capital Gains Tax Tips For Traders And Investors.

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.

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 world of the time. Some big names in the movie include: Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas.

Boiler Room

Like Wall Street, Boiler Room revealed the greasy and sliming tactics that were relevant with the time and ultimately introduced the world to pump and dump stock promoters. The movie includes the likes of: Vin Diesel and Giovanni Ribisi.

The Persuit of Happyness

Unlike most of the movies in this list, The Pursuit of Happyness, does not revolve around any greedy or illegal trading scheme, but rather depicts the hardships and dedications one must take to become a stock broker at one of the top investment firms. This movie stars Will Smith.

Trading Places

More of a comedic tale than real-life depiction, Trading Places includes Eddie Murphey and Dan Aykroyd as they get tangled up in a scheme plotted by two super-rich siblings who argue: Are captains of industry born or made? Eventually the two men team up to teach the nasty old manipulators a lesson, cornering the market in frozen orange juice futures in the process.

The Associate

In a time where old men dominated top spots on Wall Street, Whoopie Goldberg, in The Associate, conjures up a fake male persona to head up her new investment firm only to realize covering up her real identity may be harder than she had though, while being caught in some interesting situations.

American Psycho

Christian Bale plays a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancé (Reese Witherspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the ‘80s, while setting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.

The Family Man

Nicolas Cage plays a widly successful stock broker that gets the shock of a lifetime when he wakes up one morning in suburban New Jersey next to Kate, the girlfriend he left 13 years ago. Suddenly Jack’s entire world is turned upside down, and must wonder what if he had chosen a different path. The Family Man also includes Don Cheadle and Jeremy Piven

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 any money.

More about TradingSim

TradingSim streams tick data through their web interface, allowing users to practice/fine tune their day trading skills through a historical market replay. They store the last 5 weeks of trading data for all Nasdaq symbols so users can trade any symbol they want for any of those days. The app has been taken one step further and offers the time and sales information as well as the level 1 info.

How To Use TradingSim

TradingSim is pretty easy to use and is a fun resource to play around with.

1. Pick a stock and let it stream.
2. Based on the current setup, determine what the proper trade would be.
3. Once you have made your decision, fast-forward the streaming chart and see what the actual result was.

Tradingsim requires no downloads and is completely web based (as compared to the other apps which force a download). Additionally, there is no need to have a brokerage account. You just have to create a free account to actually transact through the simulator (its for legal reasons)

Best of all, the app is completely free to use! Try out TradingSim.

There are plenty of people out there that create “exclusive email courses” with little or no credentials to actually backup their teachings. So, I think it’s right that I share a little bit about him with you before we even start.

Adam was a former floor trader on the IMM, IOM, NYFE and LIFFE as well as a risk manager of a large, multinational corporation in Geneva, Switzerland. He also has written books on forex trading and trend following. In 1995, Adam founded INO.com and later co-founded MarketClub. He has been in the trading biz for over three decades and has seen it all. Thankfully, he has created this course as a way to give back and share trading tips and techniques that he still use in his trading today.

Get your 10 free trading lessons

In this Free Mini Email Course, Adam will show and explain the tools and strategies you need to increase your success rate in the marketplace.

1. (1) The importance of psychology in price movement
2. (2) How to spot mega trends
3. (3) Understanding of technical price objectives
4. (4) How to picture price objectives
5. (5) How to trade with moving averages
6. (6) How to use point and figure trading techniques
7. (7) How to use the RSI indicator
8. (8) How to correctly use stochastics in your trading
9. (9) How to use the ADX indicator to capture trends
10. (10) How to capitalize on natural market cycles.

Plus, you will you will learn all about fibonacci retracements, MACD, Bollinger Bands and much more.

Just fill out the form and we’ll get you started right away.

I reviewed the service when it first came out a while back, but have never really looked at it since, so I thought I would give it another go. You can check out the video review below.

Overall, it is a great resource for TD Ameritrade users and doesn’t cost anything, but I wouldn’t necessarily rush over to sign up just for it. There are other similar applications, such as Finviz.

Now that banks have cut their 5% savings interest rates down to below 2, there are actually some enticing no-load mutual funds available for people looking to make more than what their banks currently offer.

To even the playing field…

A mutual fund is essentially a collection of money from several investors, which is then invested and managed by some investment firm.

Originally, mutual funds were looked down upon because of their high commissions and fees with lackluster returns; however, with the popularity of no-load mutual funds, now investors can avoid paying commission for every share traded.

Many people are now also looking at ETF’s as a substitute to mutual funds.

Below are the best 15 no-load mutual funds as rated by Kiplinger’s. Use MorningStar to conduct market research and look up symbol data.

No-Load U.S. Stock Mutual Funds

• Baron Small Cap (BSCFX)
• CMG Focus (CGMFX)
• Dodge & Cox Stock (DODGX)
• Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX)
• Longleaf Partners (LLPFX)
• Selected American Sahres S (SLASX)
• T. Rowe Price Equity Income (PRFDX)
• T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth
• T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Growth

No-Load International Stock Mutual Funds

• Artio International Equity II A (JETAX)
• Dodge & Cox Int’l Stock (DODFX)

No-Load Bond Mutual Funds

• Dodge & Cox Income (DODIX)
• Harbor Bond Institutional (HABDX)
• Loomis Sayles Bond (LSBRX)
• Vanguard Infl-Protected Secs (VIPSX)

Check out the best brokerages and commissions for mutual fund investing.