Useful Links – Trading/Investing
Standpoint Funds are managed by a long-time friend, Eric Crittenden in Scottsdale, Arizona. Tom Basso is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the management firm that manages the funds. Interesting blend of futures and equity exposures.
Laurens Bendorp, who wrote The 30 Minute Stock Trader runs the Trading Mastery School and offers coaching and other resources.
TrendSpider.com is a simple to use charting and indicator engine. You can test out indicators and parameters to refine your trading strategy’s buy/sell engine. After performing a strategy test, you can set it for live trading alerts to help trigger buy/sell action. I use their easy to see charts in my presentations and website.
Michael Covel’s excellent website Trendfollowing.com: Many good things to check out here on trading, books, links, coaching, etc. Use “bassospecial” for a discount.
Van was an expert on trading psychology and offers various training opportunities and reading materials from the Tharp Institute which lives beyond his passing.
Investing.com is an excellent collections of all things trading. There’s news, analysis, charting, prices, webinars, portfolio tools. Worth at least taking a tour through the features.
The Market Wizard, Ed Seykota, has a YouTube video of “The Whipsaw Song”. A very funny and educational song on the simple basics of Trend Following. Worth a listen to serious trend followers!
LearnApp has lots of educational courses on all sorts of topics, many of which are financial and trading. One of the courses in by me on Trend Trading.
Norgate Premium data is good end-of-day data for stocks research simulations. Reasonable prices, reasonable accuracy.
InteractiveBrokers.com is a world class, world-based, high tech brokerage firm. I use them for my futures trading. They have extensive API for connecting your trading platform to theirs if you’re interested in additional automated approaches to trading.
CSI is good for end-of-day data for research simulations, expecially for futures price data, their original sweet spot. Reasonable prices, reasonable accuracy, and some very old data.
Investopedia has a collection of formulas for most common trading indicators, return-to-risk measurements and lots of educational material for the new and experienced trader.
Dave Ramsey is a common sense guy who helps folks get out of financial difficulty, get on the path to financial solvency, create and run a budget, save money and put together simple investments. He’s not a trader.