http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ian+Jackson Finances Ian Jackson Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=169564&ca=Finances Commodities are products traded solely on the basis of price. The products are undifferentiated products, goods or services that are not traded based on quality and features, only on price. Historically, commodities were items of value, of uniform quality that were produced in large quantities by ma... Finances Ian Jackson Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=163406&ca=Finances ‘A picture speaks a thousand words’, as the old maxim goes. This maxim holds just as true for charts. Charting is the graphical expression of the behaviour of a stock over a period in time: Charts can be used to afford a birds eye view of the historical, often repeated behaviour or to get up close a... Finances Ian Jackson Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=161404&ca=Finances History of online day trading The birth of day trading was made possible when the computerized, over-the-counter NASD became available in 1971. Day trading was pretty much the domain of stock brokers and remained that way until the late 1990s, when the increasing popularity of the internet, motivate... Finances Ian Jackson Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=161403&ca=Finances A futures contract has a limited life span. It is also not the cash commodity that is really in play here. Instead, traders use a futures contract for hedging against price fluctuations or to gain some profits from potential variations in the price of commodities. In other words, if you are the buye... Finances Ian Jackson Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=161398&ca=Finances Over the last four years, I must have attended five or six seminars, paying upwards of 800 US dollars each time. The seminars covered such topics as Fibonacci, Writing Covered Calls, Moving Averages and other well known applications of statistical methods to trading; what are commonly known as techn...