Fantasy Football Meets the Trading Floor

By TheWild1 at 13 September, 2008, 12:08 am

Updown.com is social network for virtual investing. In addition to giving members $1,000,000 in virtual money to invest, UpDown.com provides a platform for investors to improve their skills through collaboration, competition and aggregated wisdom. Major media outlets describe it as “fantasy football meets the trading floor,” UpDown.com is the only free investment platform that allows [...]

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Finviz.com - Screener, Charts, and More

By TheWild1 at 30 August, 2008, 10:08 am

One of the hardest things to find for a technical stock trader are good solid charts, while being able to still easily scan through hundreds of them.
Finviz
Finviz.com is a pretty efficient service that I recently came across. Basically you can scan through various stocks, see a great overall depiction of what is going on in [...]

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StockHouse - Taking it to the Streets

By TheWild1 at 22 August, 2008, 12:57 am

In the current era of web 2.0, new sites and services are being created left and right. With so many choices, it is easy for people to get overwhelmed with options. Well, I am not going to make it any easier as I have come across a new investor online community.

StockHouse -
A powerful community of [...]

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The End of Oil

By TheWild1 at 26 July, 2008, 12:01 am

I was lucky enough to score a review copy of Profit from the Peak - The end of oil and the greatest investment event of the century by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder.
The book can be summarized in a few words: oil has peaked and we are all doomed.
Ok, so maybe that is a little [...]

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