An excerpt of Market Wizards author, Jack Schwager's talk about trader styles. Note how he compares "Mr. Commodities" Jim Rogers and "Champion Trader" Marty Schwartz:WPvideo 1.02Jack Schwager – Winning Methods of the Market WizardsDownload hereShare and Enjoy: Read More →

Jim Rogers, Rogers, a former member of the Barron's Roundtable and, with George Soros, co-founder of the Quantum Fund in the 1970s, investor, author, biker, and adventure capitalist, has moved to Singapore for its Chinese atmosphere. Having two daughters, one 4 years old, and one 4 weeks old, he... (more...)

If I hadn’t made money some of the time I might have acquired market wisdom quicker. - Jesse LivermoreThe ING Philippine Equity Fund, despite its size, was beating the index in the first half of 2007, until the subprime crash hit, prompting it to switch gears and pursue a... (more...)

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.  - Mark Twain September 2007 Global markets begin to recover from the meltdown. PSE Index stages a 6.2%... (more...)

If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises.  - F. W. Hirst  May 2007 It's election month. Market sets new all-time high with the PSE Index gaining 6.2% bringing YTD yields to... (more...)

“The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it's different.'” - Sir John Templeton Starting Point – December 2006 "2006 was A Good Year" states the ING Manager's Report. And good it was. The PSE Index ended the last 12 months up 42.29%, its... (more...)

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. " - Ayn Rand We should all be so lucky to have an inside peek at a portfolio manager’s playbook. However, I found a way to estimate the trading moves of major funds based on publicly available... (more...)

It is ten past ten, and Mark, the order taker, watches the market with anxious rapture. He has a pending order to push, sell a million shares of some mining stock. As he was trained he examines the bids and offers every five seconds, and in between he watches the stock ticker, which has been sluggish... (more...)