Stevenson High Update - All 6 teams finished in top 10 in state competition.

Posted on by lindsay

If you've been following the Traders Blog for a while, you are probably familiar with our sponsor school, Stevenson High in Lincolnshire, Illinois. I was contacted by a passionate teacher who wanted to provide his students with a tool to help them increase their success in their stock market competitions. I want to share an update we received from the economics team after they participated in the Illinois State Economics competition. They did great and I am so happy to share their success with you.

Lindsay,

It has been some time since we have communicated. I want to tell you how well our Economics Club performed in the Illinois State Economics competition. Of the 42 teams we placed 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th, all in the top 10. Last year we had one place in the top ten and that was 2nd.

Thanks to MarketClub for all the help you provided. The students used MarketClub for research and informative articles. It was well worth their time and, as can be seen by the results, important for their understanding of how basic economic principles can be applied to real world situations.

Thank you so much for your interest in what we are doing here at Stevenson and I hope we can continue with you next year.

Sincerely,

*Teacher's name removed for privacy*
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069

We are so proud of the Stevenson High Economics club!

Best,

Lindsay Thompson
Director of New Business Development
INO.com & MarketClub

The 6 Advantages of ETFs

Posted on by The INO.com Team

ETFs, or Exchange Traded Funds, have increased in popularity over the last few years, and for a number of reasons. Today, Price Headley of BigTrends.com, is going to give us the low-down on everything we need to know about this increasingly utilized financial product.

We hope you'll enjoy today's guest blog post and perhaps consider adding ETFs or ETF options to your portfolio in the near future. As always, we're interested in hearing what you have to say about this post or your experiences trading ETFS in our comments section.

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In recent years the popularity of ETF Options has exploded.  At BigTrends.com we have focused on ETFs for quite some time now.

The issue with ETFs and ETF Options has always been liquidity, but things have changed in that regard.  Due to the advantageous architecture of ETFs, more investors are hedging their portfolios with ETF options.  To understand the reason these vehicles are changing the options environment, let's take a look at the underlying securities and their benefits.

1. ETFs Trade Like a Stock - Unlike mutual funds or hedge funds which can only be entered or exited at the market close each trading day, ETFs can be bought and sold intraday.  They can even be day-traded just like stocks.  This advantage allows investors to make speculative bets on the direction of an index while still having the ability to exit the trade at any time of the day.  ETFs also allow short selling, as well as often being optionable. Continue reading "The 6 Advantages of ETFs" →

Saturday Success Story - Norman, Canada

Posted on by lindsay

At MarketClub, our mission is to help you become a better trader. Our passion is creating superior trading tools to help you achieve your goals—no matter which way the markets move—we promise objective and unbiased recommendations not available from brokers.

Here's great news from a member...

"I've been a member for a short three months and I am most impressed with what it has to offer. The site is easy to use and the lesson are priceless and I have extended my subscription for the full year because it work so well.

The new charts, smart scan for finding trades and the trade triangles to follow trends has made my trading plan easy and profitable.

Thanks for your daily input of blogs and training video's which are much appreciated and helpful." ~ Norman R., Canada

To send your own success story, please email

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. We wish all of our members the best and we look forward to hearing your success story.

Member Strategy Webinar - Manisha

Posted on by The INO.com Team

Last month's member strategy webinar featuring Loic, a futures trader from Marseille, France, and was very successful and I received quite a bit of positive feedback from those who attended. We expect this month's to be just as popular, educational, and useful. On Monday, May 24th, we will be hosting our second webinar in the series with a strategy developed solely using MarketClub.

MarketClub member Manisha S., a stock and stock options trader from California, will share her money-making strategy and how she devised it by way of old fashioned trial and error, using the tools available through the service.

We hope that you'll be able to attend, learn, and apply this strategy to your trading or simply learn a little more about MarketClub. However, due to the popularity of these webinars, we encourage you to reserve your seat now via the link below:

MarketClub Member Strategies - Manisha (Live on 05-24-10 at 4pm EDT / 8pm GMT )

We hope to see you there!

Susan Jackson
Director of MarketClub Education
INO.com & MarketClub

A New Technical Triad and Gold

Posted on by The INO.com Team

One of the most popular questions that we're asked here at MarketClub is to recommend which chart studies should be used in conjunction with one another. While we don't have an answer for this question - mainly because we realize that there is no right answer, you're in luck as today's guest blogger has developed a strategy using 3 different technical tools and described it in detail for us below.

Gary Wagner of WFGForex.com has developed a unique strategy using Elliot Waves, Fibonacci retracements, and candlesticks to gain insight on the current gold market. Since Gary received such a great response last time he was a guest, we hope that you will enjoy is newest post as well. Read about this interesting way of analyzing the market and leave your comment below.

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Most market analysts will agree that supply and demand economics are a major influence on the current price of a commodity. It is however market sentiment that greatly determines the perceived future price.  If one can understand, and quantify market psychology or market sentiment, one can more effectively forecast future prices. This has been the underlining assumption of Elliot Wave and Fibonacci Retracement theory. Continue reading "A New Technical Triad and Gold" →