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by Bill Singer

Two For The Presidents Day Holiday

February 15, 2014

If you missed these two stories,  you're missing out on the zany underside of Wall Street and the peculiar face of fraud. In one blog, we have the bizarre investment strategy that relied upon the moon and the pull of gravity. In the other blog, we have a lawman who tries his hand at FOREX, which took him down a path filled with lies and deceit.



George Bernard Shaw quipped ""I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum." Keeping those sage words in mind, welcome to Wall Street and the White Elephant Trading Company and the mysterious investment strategy using gravity and lunar cycles. READ


Far too many folks think that you can learn how to profitably trade stocks, commodities, and currencies by taking courses. Ah yes, there are all sorts of courses these days. Ya got yer online ones. Ya got those glitzy, supposedly freebie ones at the hotel where they try to sock you with more pricey, intensive classes and DVDs. They teach you how trade on a demo screen with play money. They teach you the big trading secret: buy low and sell high. Paper trading and book learning only go so far in our biz. In the end, the only way to learn to trade is to enter the forge, put your own dollars into the fire, and get burned as part of your tuition in the school of real-world trading. READ

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