And coming from an IT background like you, what attracted me was technical analysis. Find someone who trades successfully the way you want to trade and use them as a coach/mentor. I use the trainers from http://www.wealthintelligenceacademy.com/ and the broker http://www.tradestation.com/ (great software package for analysis and automation, with a healthy user forum). WIA has a pit-trading course, but I'm sticking with options until I build my account (currently only trading with a $5000 acct).
Option trading will eat you alive without a mentor. Any trading system worth your time will have a strong focus on money management and position sizing so that even though you lose often (everyone does when actively trading) you don't lose much, and when the trade goes your way, you know how to lock in profit.
For fundamentals analysis with a focus on finding good growth companies, the book "Rule #1" by Phil Town is a keeper.
For general investing, everything by Robert Kiyosaki is worth reading.
Great. Get yourself some world-class mentors. Read books by Robert Kiyosaki, Phil Town, and play with the concepts in Elliott Wave (DOW) Theory. If you find you like short term trades (5-days to 10-weeks), look into Swing Trading.
"This is regarding the Comcast Privacy Policy and it's favorable comparison to AT&T's revised privacy policy.
AT&T recently modified their privacy policy to include the statement: 'While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.'
I understand that "account information" includes personally identifiable billing information, personally identifiable usage patterns, and personally identifiable email transmissions, web browsing, and instant message text.
Thank you for protecting my personal information, and also aggregating all other usage to eliminate personally identifying usage patterns.
Please NEVER adopt a privacy policy that abandons respect for individuals, or threatens your "common carrier" status like AT&T has done.
If you now advertise your hightened respect for individuals over that policy adopted by AT&T, you may garner additional market share. You certainly have my good will.
Also, please check your agreements with AT&T for any Comcast services which use AT&T supplied network infrastructure. AT&T may have declaired any network traffic as "business records" which they now claim is "owned by AT&T", unilaterally negating your privacy promise to your customers."
The EFF untangles some sneakyness in the Act. Here's what I told my Representative:
Hello, I'm a constituent, and I want you to know I oppose the wording of the Section 115 Reform Act currently being considered by the Judiciary Committee.
The Act proposes a blanket license which extends as license-able "incidental reproductions...including cached, network, and RAM buffer reproductions". I believe these should NOT be licensed, but instead treated as outside the scope of a copyright holder's rights, or as a fair use (as argued by the Copyright Office). Licenses should cover distribution and performance at the end points, where an esthetic and economically valuable transaction takes place, and not specify any of the intermediary technologies.
Furthermore, the act creates compulsory license with the condition that the music service may not take "affirmative steps to authorize, enable, cause, or induce the making of reproductions of music works by or for end-users." This damages the practice of lawful home recording.
Both these changes radically affect the digital technology industy and damage my current legal rights.
I'm asking my representative to oppose the Section 115 Reform Act.
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And coming from an IT background like you, what attracted me was technical analysis. Find someone who trades successfully the way you want to trade and use them as a coach/mentor. I use the trainers from http://www.wealthintelligenceacademy.com/ and the broker http://www.tradestation.com/ (great software package for analysis and automation, with a healthy user forum). WIA has a pit-trading course, but I'm sticking with options until I build my account (currently only trading with a $5000 acct).
Option trading will eat you alive without a mentor. Any trading system worth your time will have a strong focus on money management and position sizing so that even though you lose often (everyone does when actively trading) you don't lose much, and when the trade goes your way, you know how to lock in profit.
For fundamentals analysis with a focus on finding good growth companies, the book "Rule #1" by Phil Town is a keeper.
For general investing, everything by Robert Kiyosaki is worth reading.
Great. Get yourself some world-class mentors. Read books by Robert Kiyosaki, Phil Town, and play with the concepts in Elliott Wave (DOW) Theory.
If you find you like short term trades (5-days to 10-weeks), look into Swing Trading.
Best of luck.
"This is regarding the Comcast Privacy Policy and it's favorable comparison to AT&T's revised privacy policy.
AT&T recently modified their privacy policy to include the statement:
'While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.'
I understand that "account information" includes personally identifiable billing information, personally identifiable usage patterns, and personally identifiable email transmissions, web browsing, and instant message text.
Thank you for protecting my personal information, and also aggregating all other usage to eliminate personally identifying usage patterns.
Please NEVER adopt a privacy policy that abandons respect for individuals, or threatens your "common carrier" status like AT&T has done.
If you now advertise your hightened respect for individuals over that policy adopted by AT&T, you may garner additional market share. You certainly have my good will.
Also, please check your agreements with AT&T for any Comcast services which use AT&T supplied network infrastructure. AT&T may have declaired any network traffic as "business records" which they now claim is "owned by AT&T", unilaterally negating your privacy promise to your customers."
The EFF untangles some sneakyness in the Act. Here's what I told my Representative:
Hello, I'm a constituent, and I want you to know I oppose the wording of the Section 115 Reform Act currently being considered by the Judiciary Committee.
The Act proposes a blanket license which extends as license-able "incidental reproductions...including cached, network, and RAM buffer reproductions". I believe these should NOT be licensed, but instead treated as outside the scope of a copyright holder's rights, or as a fair use (as argued by the Copyright Office). Licenses should cover distribution and performance at the end points, where an esthetic and economically valuable transaction takes place, and not specify any of the intermediary technologies.
Furthermore, the act creates compulsory license with the condition that the music service may not take "affirmative steps to authorize, enable, cause, or induce the making of reproductions of music works by or for end-users." This damages the practice of lawful home recording.
Both these changes radically affect the digital technology industy and damage my current legal rights.
I'm asking my representative to oppose the Section 115 Reform Act.