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Forbes : Treasury To Sell More GM Stock, Exit Draws Closer

The U.S. Department of the Treasury will continue to sell shares of General Motors GM -0.62% by launching a third pre-defined written trading plan, the Treasury announced on Thursday morning. At the end of the second defined trading plan, taxpayers held 101.3 million shares of GM stock.

Tim Massad, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, said in a statement that taxpayer investment in GM was a critical part of the government’s response to the financial crisis and that it helped to prevent the collapse of the auto industry, but that the Treasury intends to continue winding down this taxpayer investment.
read more here http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/09/26/treasury-to-sell-more-general-motors-stock/

There are many different ways you can trade stocks online with an online broker. Investment strategies come in all different shapes and forms and can integrate both technical and fundamental analysis together, while some strategies just involve one or the other.

Stock Trading Strategies are in no particular order:

Day Trading
Momentum Trading
Swing Trading
CANSLIM Trading
Buy and Hold
Penny Stocks
Biotechs

Types of Traders

Scalpers

Scalpers’ main objective is to extract small quantities of pips (25 to 50) as many times as they can throughout the busiest times of the day. These guys and gals must be in front of a screen all the time, thus they are often called screen junkies. Theylove the excitement of rapid candle reactions.
Day traders

Day traders act on their belief of a daily bias to the market derived from pivots, Fibonacci lines or other indicators that retail speculators use to give them peace about a decision. They execute an entry and then close their trade during a single session, finishing the day with either a profit or a loss. These kinds of traders do not hold their trades overnight, as they have often been taught never to do so.
Swing traders

Swing traders hold onto trades for several days at a time. These traders refuse to be held captive to a screen, monitoring their charts only momentarily throughout the day. They dedicate their time “in the market” to hours outside the market, performing an analysis every day prior to their trading session decisions.
Position traders

Position traders make trades that last for weeks, months, or even years. These traders execute based on trend and manage their trades by adding more positions as the trade blossoms. These men and women analyze the markets and charts based on high time frame charts, making entries based on many factors that for the sake of this article will be defined as numerous, varied, and complex.

Forbes : S&P Falls 5th Day In Row: Shutdown, Default Deadlines Loom

The S&P 500 stock index fell for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday as investors worried about upcoming deadlines in Washington to avoid a Government shutdown and debt default. Stock indexes in Asia also edged lower early on Thursday amid the uncertainty.
read more here http://www.forbes.com/sites/markmcsherry/2013/09/26/sp-falls-fifth-day-in-row-as-deadlines-on-government-shutdown-and-default-loom/

All (not yet) about Strategy Tester, Optimization and Cloud https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/13542
This is summary thread for MT5 strategy tester and optimization/backtesting and cloud. Everything was collected on this small thread
Strongly recommended to read.

This very small thread is strongly recommended for any MT5 newsbies - How to Start with MT5, a summary ! https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/11134 because you will find the answer on many your questions.

Why Stock Markets May Be Lagging Indicators

Today Asia Confidential could talk about previously warning of Ben Bernanke tapering the taper and how U.S. government bonds and gold would rally as a consequence. Stroking the ego is a wonderful thing, and the financial world does it well, but it’s not my thing. Alternatively, I could talk of what’s going to happen to markets from here – but you can find plenty of that elsewhere.

No, instead, I’d like to delve deeper because there are some nagging questions from the past week’s events. Why do stock markets remain at or near record-highs yet it doesn’t feel like that to most people? Why the seemingly large gap between stock market and economic performance? Why are markets so dependent on the words of central bankers with dubious track records? And why did almost all financial analysts and pundits get it so wrong on the taper?
read more here http://asiaconf.com/2013/09/22/markets-as-lagging-indicators/

Forex Minute : Benefits from Using MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5

A major advantage with the MetaTrader trading platform is that there is reduced chance of scams or fraudulent behavior by signal providers. Traders who have been using it admit that using the MetaTrader platform has helped boost traders confidence in Forex trading.

read more here http://www.forexminute.com/blog/benefits-from-using-metatrader-4-and-metatrader-5/

Forbes : Week Ahead: Stocks Navigate Threat Of Government Shutdown & Default

The Standard & Poor’s 500 shares index is up more than 20% this year, but over the next week stock markets will have to navigate the twin threats of a possible U.S. government shutdown and debt default and digest a slew of economic indicators and big company news.

Most analysts consider the threats of a government shutdown and debt default to be remote, but the fact they are once again a technical possibility could be viewed as potentially troublesome for stocks, at least in the short term.

However remote, the prospect of a government shutdown or a default on the federal debt is reminiscent of 2011 when a similar stand-off in Washington led eventually to the United States losing its AAA credit rating and helped prompt a stock market correction.

Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average touched all-time highs on September 18, and U.S. stocks have recovered the trillions of dollars in market value they lost in the financial crisis of 2008, so many investors will watch the posturing over potential shutdown and default in Washington with concern.

read more here http://www.forbes.com/sites/markmcsherry/2013/09/22/week-ahead-stocks-navigate-threat-of-government-shutdown-default/

Price of oil up again after Fed maintains stimulus and US oil supplies drop more than expected

BANGKOK – The price of oil rose Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its monetary stimulus in place and U.S. oil supplies fell more than expected.

Benchmark oil for October delivery was up 61 cents to $108.68 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Brent crude, the benchmark for international crudes used by many U.S. refineries, was up 29 cents to $110.89 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

In other energy futures trading in New York:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 0.1 cent to $2.728 per gallon.
— Natural gas rose 2.2 cents to $3.735 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil rose 0.9 cent to $3.05 per gallon.

read more here http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/19/price-oil-up-again-after-fed-maintains-stimulus-and-us-oil-supplies-drop-more/