I am on the outside looking in with StockTwits, as I don’t have a Twitter account. StockTwits now has a Firefox add-on which:

Install our Firefox extension and magically turn StockTwits tagged tickers on twitter.com into links back to stocktwits.com so you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.
I do enjoy watching the stream [...]

On the surface, the recent stresses on the world’s financial system sounds complex - and to a degree it is, but the basic problem can be described in simple and understandable language. The InformedTrades team has done that with a couple of videos walking viewers through the foundations of the crisis:
Making It Simple: the [...]

I had a friend once that said that there are two types of successful traders: those that use trading systems (and stick to the system) and those that are lucky. The Universal Market Trader - Interactive Trading Strategy isn’t just a trading system, but also support mechanisms that help you keep the confidence required [...]

If you are looking for discussions or need answers to questions about anything and everything trading - join the Elite Trader forum and plug into almost 50,000 members. Zoinks - that is a lot of money being lost! Just kidding, as I am sure many of the members are doing really well, but [...]

Look, there is no denying it – we love science fiction here at DeepMarket. Mind you, we are more than willing to allow for certain suspension of disbelief when it is required to make the story more interesting or even possible. For instance, most space related sci-fi has some type of faster than [...]

As I was writing A peak at Natural Language Processing I excluded the “spoken language” component of NLP to simplify certain arguments surrounding this sub-field in AI. A couple hours later I remembered a discussion I had with a friend many years ago. He had been looking at new services via the web [...]

How much of today’s stock market conventional wisdom is actually self-fulfilling prophecies. The study of price action in charts is an activity that permeates all aspects of the markets - stocks - bonds - commodities. Do the “rules” that traders extract from the study of charts evolve from continual positive feedback - prophecy [...]

I recently finished an interesting book: Calculated Bets - Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win by Steven Skiena is a very interesting look at (does the title give you a clue?) managing money in the face of uncertainty. Gambling and the financial markets have a good deal of similarity when trying to decide [...]