In the beginning of 2008 I had to learn to look for signs that I never really had to before and because of that I took a beaten during that time. I started to seek out sites and tools to assist me with the education that was needed to recover from my losses.Frankly, I felt like a beginner investing in the stock market all over again. Over the next few months I worked hard to find the right tools and of course with so many of them out there, It took awhile to find the one that helped me the best.

One that I found myself going back to time and time again was ADVFN. Their site had pretty much everything that I could have found on several different sites, but they had it all in one place.

ADVFN offers a FREE service for anyone who wants to trade stocks, bonds, futures, as well as FOREX. Their site helps traders with research, technical analysis, charts along with a large community of traders on their message boards to assist you in making the right decisions. ADVFN is the one of the worlds largest stocks and shares websites. Offering the private investor FREE streaming prices from NASDAQ, NYSE, Dow Jones and many more indices from around the world.

Included in their FREE membership is a steady flow of press releases of the day. Hundreds of news releases every hour to keep you informed of what’s going on in the stock market world. The news is reported on all stocks that are traded on any trade floor including foreign and pink sheets.

I’ve been using this site for some time now and the longer I use it and the more I poke around on the site and see what the FREE membership offers me, the quicker and more thorough my research is being done.

The streamer that is part of the FREE service is 15 minutes time-delayed and you can upgrade your service to include real-time streamer, but if you have an account with a online broker, it doesn’t matter.

If you are looking for a better way to get your information and make better trades then why not give this FREE service a try. Just click on the banner below (or the one that’s in in right sidebar).

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I worked with someone that had the trade of a lifetime. He was telling me that there was this company that was in the commodity sector (which in regards to penny stocks, means nothing) and that they were about to hit pay-dirt with a new ore vein discovery. I really wasn’t too sure about commodities and knew even less about how the engineers calculated the potential find of an area.

He talked to another co-worker and myself about getting in on the deal. I was hesitant but this co- worker said that he would research it and get back to us with his findings. I had known this person for about four years and knew that he’d made some decent money in the stock market. About a week later he came back and said that he couldn’t believe what he was finding out. The company was actually going well and was on the verge of the “mother load” of discoveries.

I went ahead and took a chance with the only money that I was able to put together in a short period of time. I invested $200 into the company, but the other co-worker decided to liquidate some of his holdings to get in on the deal in a big way. He invested $50,000 in to this company.

I’m sure by now you know where I’m going with this story. Yes, the company was a scam. They were based in Africa and weren’t subject to the same laws as others that traded on the big boards.

What I mean by the big boards is NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), NASDAQ, CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange). This stock was trading on what is referred to as the OTC pink sheets, which means it’s an over the counter type stock.

I share this story not because I enjoy talking about my failures, but I will discuss the mistakes I’ve made here for two reasons.

1. You can learn from my mistakes.
2. I learned from my mistakes.

My point of this story is that when you trade stocks, you need to do your research and due diligence in finding out everything about a company that trades on these smaller boards. If they trade in a different country they may not be held to the same standards as the ones traded in the United States.

Penny stocks can make you a lot of money, but you can also lose it just as quickly. Be careful in how much you invest in what is referred to as penny stocks.

A penny stock is a stock that has a share value of less then $5. That doesn’t mean that some of the financial stocks that have been beaten up lately are considered a penny stock. I refer to stock of companies that are relatively new and are trying to raise capital to increase their company. Many of them are legit and will become a major player in years to come, but you need to do your homework to help steer clear of the ones that won’t make it out of the gate.

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When I find a web site that offers many different tools to properly analyze and chart stocks it keeps me coming back. One of the free sites I belong to is a great resource for many different types of stock market investing. No matter what you use as your trading option, this site will help you benefit from their tools and other programs that they offer.

ADVFN is the one of the worlds largest stocks and shares websites. Offering the private investor free streaming prices from NYSE, NASDAQ, Dow Jones and many more indices from around the world.

To join ADVFN all you need to do is register a free account.

As a member, you will be able to set up portfolios which you can monitor for changes in the markets. You can also watch other markets around the world including Japan, Russia and the FOREX. You can watch each of the indicies and certain stocks that you are following.

When you set up all the stocks that you are following, it will give a detail view of whats going on with them. Not only the price at the last trade, but everything that you need to see during the trading hours. Other pages include watching the top gainers and losers of the day, which stock have the highest amount of volume, viewing charts, news releases as well as seeing the latest financial report on any company that is traded in the U.S. markets.

One of my favorite options is setting up my own alerts on any stock or indicies that I want to keep close tabs on for when they will hit certain key technical levels.

They have two active message boards that are included with your free membership. One that has over 450,000 members with over 25 million post from mid and large cap investors. The other message boards consists of over 100,000 members with over 15 million post from micro and small cap investors.

There is so much that this site can offer to you. There are other offers that will cost you money to be a member, but the areas that I covered in this post are absolutely FREE. Click the banner below, or the one in our sidebar to sign up.

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