My favorite [ and free! ] Academic Earth lectures

Academic Earth offers free access to video courses and academic lectures from leading colleges and universities. Their website is here.

Equity Valuations:
One of the best free "Equity valuation" lecture I've ever seen is by Dr. Aswath Damodaran.

Swing Trading and Short-Term Trading

- Are you left or right brained?

I get it. There are tons of different investing styles. We all use different ways to find the stock we want to trade in; However, once we have an idea, we should go into action.

If your a short-term trader or use swing trading techniques, what  is your action plan?

What will silver look like next week?

ZSL keeps falling. The price of silver keeps rising. If there is a true silver shortage, the ultrashort silver etf is probably exacerbating the situation.


http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ZSL

Prospectus

ProShares UltraShort Silver (the Fund) seeks daily investment results that correspond to twice (200%) the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of silver bullion as measured by the United States dollar fixing price for delivery in London.

Passive, index investing

During a crisis event, I've noticed the best place to be for the rebound is the index. I don't usually recommend passive investing; However if you realize that all stocks are trending up, why waste time. Later you can pick out the extraordinary finds and hidden gems.

Scalability of your trading process

I am a part-time swing trader. I use a 2% total risk drawdown. I can only pay attention to 2-3 stocks at a time. My account is not really that large. If I want to quit my day job, how can I survive?

0) increasing my risk by making the drawdown larger

Google tool

Google helps track and find Japan earthquake victums

Black Swan -- so now what?

So now what?

The time to plan for an event like this is before it happens. Good article

Turn off the TV news, or at least mute it so that the terror/sensationalism is diminished.