This article explains a few things about investing, and if you\'re interested, then this is worth reading, because you can never tell what you don\'t know.

I divide trading skills into two distinct elements: anticipating the market and execution. The anticipating part is reading the market, whether through charts, systems, technical indicators or intuition. Anticipating/reading the market is the trading skill that most of us focus all our energy on, and it is the subject covered by most trading books and seminars.

Trading the forex market has many benefits over other financial markets, among the most important are: superior liquidity, 24hrs market, better execution, and others. Traders and investor see the forex market as a new speculation or diversifying opportunity because of these benefits.

Now I am very much aware that many market players do not like to short stocks. This bias against the short side of the market is totally understandable, especially given the fact that the widespread reluctance is garnered and perpetuated by the various exchanges and the other powers-that-be.

Just before we get started I want to introduce you to fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis concentrates on the forces of supply and demand for a given security. This approach examines all the factors that determine the price of a security and the real value of that security.

Wouldn\'t it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn\'t lose. Well we can\'t. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread that has a lot of time value left at almost the same price as we can sell one with less time value left.

A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and lower peaks and the majority of bars should have lower lows and lower highs.

Owning stock has only two, maybe three, possibilities. The stock goes up. Or the stock goes down. Or, as a third possibility, it does a little of both. If you buy a stock, all you want it to do is go up.

The Japanese have no yen for the Dollar; the British may be metric, but they prefer pounds...Whatever happened to the U.S. Dollar?

Credit spread trading is an option trading strategy many individual option traders know nothing about.