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Everything you need for successful trading

BOOKS

Here we list and discuss some of our favorite books that cover a variety of topics. All of them can help make you into a better trader and live a more fulfilling life. We organize them by category, tag them by difficulty, and list what we consider the most essential books.  This is not a complete list but rather a list of the books we know of; we will be continually adding to this.

Risk Management

Trading Strategies

Psychology

Charting

Famous Traders

Coding/API

Personal Health & Wellness

Personal Betterment & Success

Essential Reading

WEBSITES

These are some of the most used websites when it comes to trading and investing. Each category can help your
trading in some way, shape, or form. Whether it is a website to provide you with news, a site to help build scanners,
or simply a blog where experienced traders share their knowledge, these sites will help you grow as a trader.

Scanning Sites

Callouts/Other
Trader Sites

Trading Sites

Blogs

Corporate/Market
News

TRADING PLATFORM REVIEWS

Here we review some of the many trading platforms available to you. We provide brief write-ups as well as brief
video walkthroughs on what we like and don’t like about the platforms from a trading perspective. Each review only
scratches the surface of the platform but can give you a good overview of what the platform provides.

Lightspeed

Robinhood

Interactive Brokers

Tradestation

ThinkorSwim

ETrade

SOFTWARE REVIEWS

These are very brief reviews of some of the software you can use to enhance your trading. Each review is simply
meant to inform you of the options you have available to you in hopes that they may better improve your trading.

Screen Recording
Software

Misc Apps

Microsoft Excel

Evernote

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Scanning Sites

Bar Chart

A good FREE site to look to get a lot of basic info on securities, use FREE online charts, some basic scanners for top stocks in play, and more. This site gives a lot of info without needing to sign up and many people like to use their charts and services when doing analysis.

Finviz

A great FREE site to set up your own personal scanners and filters. We cover this more extensively in the software reviews but Finviz can set up some very decent scanners for free.

Market Chameleon

Another FREE site that gives you some basic market information, can tell you what some of the more active stocks in play are and has decent features that can report on things like earnings, dividends, and more. Their premarket scanner page can be a good tool to find top movers prior to the open.

Market In Out

We have not used this site before but it was suggested to us and upon first glance, it seems to have a lot of potential. Good scanners and screening software and a lot of pattern identification could potentially be worth looking at.

Callouts/Other Trader Sites

Futures Trader 71

A very experienced trader over many years offers his insights on the markets and what he perceives the sentiment to be. His website and youtube can be very informative and he has webinars and other resources.

Convergent Trading

A futures and options trading community that can provide further insight and community to traders. We are not super familiar with them but they have a blog and chatroom that may be worth you investigating.

Ryan Mallory SharePlanner

A trader who puts out his own blogs and long term stock callouts. His chatroom and long term swing position callouts and targets may provide benefits to traders who look into them.

benzinga PreMarket Prep

A very helpful and respected pre-market show. They have a live online webinar every trading day from 8 AM est to 9 AM est. Their guests and analysis tend to be very insightful and can give you VERY helpful insight on how participants in the market think.

Profit.ly

A very helpful website that several largely successful traders use to broadcast their positions, show their live results and post their video and blog lessons. The positions and videos in here, if in line with your trading style, may be a big benefit and boost.

Trading Sites

Pivot Point Calculator

For those who are more math oriented and like using pivot points; this is a free and simple website to calculate some mathematical pivot points based on the open, high, low and close.

Earnings Whispers

For those who want to track earnings closely this can give you some solid insight into the upcoming earnings every day and what their performance is compared to estimates. Very helpful for a largely FREE site. 

NASDAQ Earnings Calendar

Another one of the many free sites you can use to track upcoming earnings. The site itself can also provide some decent information on stocks and the market. 

IPO Scoop

A very solid FREE site to track upcoming IPOs. You can use this site to see some of the basic information on IPOs and see a previous list of the ones that have already come. Not bad if you want to get some basic information on them and track them yourself.

Briefing Economic Calendar

One of the economic calendars out there for free to monitor the economic reports and upcoming numbers in the U.S markets.

Trading Sim

A unique site that offers testing of strategies and trading simulation. We don’t know too much about them but they also have an interesting “blog” section where they have some helpful articles that talk about a variety of indicators, strategies and more.

Merger Brief

A paid site that allows you to effectively track stock mergers and acquisitions. This can be a very helpful site to see new deals, see the details of deals and usually get links to the legal documents themselves.

Blogs

Calculated Risk Blog

A full-time blog that covers things not only in the stock market, but in finance and the U.S economy as a whole. A lot of people see this as a very helpful and insightful economic blog.

Fallond Picks

The picks and market analysis of a writer and researcher. We are unsure of his background but he tends to favor technical analysis of the markets.

Carl Futia

One of three blogs Carl uses to show his views on the markets. About every day he gives guesstimates on what he thinks many of the major markets, commodities, currencies and stocks will do, possibly further giving you insight into things you track.

Seeking Alpha

A “news” site that we categorize as a blog because anyone can make an account and post articles. It does give a lot decent information in terms of what is happening in the world of breaking news and many times stocks can move off of reports from here. 

Between the Hedges

The commentary of a portfolio manager that generally covers top articles from other sites as well as his own favorite stocks in play from a stock and options stance. A very decent aggregate of articles and information

Mish Talk

A refreshing site that talks a lot about global economics and politics. This site tends to spark conversation and discussion among the readers and can give you good insight into global events.

The Street Sweeper

This company is dedicated to finding the fraud and bad business of companies and posts pieces about them. They don’t often talk about the upside to companies but rather look for the companies that have “bad signs” or other things they bring to their readers attentions. They may quote others, put price targets or just give their general insights.

Dragonfly Capital

The thoughts and insights on the markets and other trading ideas from someone who has watched the markets for a long time. Has both free and premium content, we are not familiar with the premium. 

SMB Training Blog

An actively updated blog from a trading desk in New York. The interviews with experienced traders and insight from experienced traders in general tend to give a lot of value to new/intermediate traders looking to learn.

Zacks

This place is a mix of more “news” based articles that cover events and things that happen and some more “opinion-based” pieces that give the varying writer’s opinions on certain stocks and market events. There is a lot on this site so the chance that you can find something valuable to you could be high. 

Trader Feed

A typically more psychology and personal trading-focused blog from a very well respected trader coach and author. Has a very good grasp on the connection between the mind and trading and still gives helpful market and macro-economic insight as well.

The Macro Tourist

A more macro focused blog that can cover a variety of topics, often with a more humorous and understandable point of view. This blog can take some macro topics that you may find dry, and present it in a more approachable manner. 

Trade City

A blog posted from traders on their thoughts and techniques and what they think helps their trading. Not bad as a general basic blog to learn some tips, tricks and helpful ideas. We aren’t sure of the full extent of the content here. 

The Gilmo Report

A more market-focused site that gives free reports (as well as some paid) on the markets and some stocks. The free reports tend to be shorter, we are not sure about the paid ones, but they could provide insight if they cover areas you are watching.

AlphaShark’s Options Trading Blog

An interesting blog focusing primarily on options and that include reviews of their trades and setups. If you like watching the things they cover, this could be right up your ally. It may be worth investigating to see if it is a right fit to add to your list.

Alpha Trends

A site where you can watch the video analysis of the markets, top stocks in play and trades of a very popular author Brian Shannon. He tends to be more technical focused but does cover some fundamentals if they are worthwhile. His chatroom and videos tend to bring a lot of insight into the things he covers. 

Corporate/Market News

WallStreetJournal

One of the more well-known and, for the most part, respected news sites. This website has a subscription fee but will usually cover everything breaking for you and is a stereotypical morning newspaper for finance and traders for a reason. They do have some free sections that can be helpful like the upgrades and downgrades.

Bloomberg

An excellent free news site that tends to covers news in companies, markets and more. Very well respected and highly used. 

Market Watch

Another very popular news site that tends to be more market-focused. Can have unrelated or unhelpful pieces like any other news site but it is a very popular one for a reason. 

Yahoo Finance

A good free site to use to look up stock data and information. Does publish some news and article pieces but not largely used by that. 

24/7 Wall St

Another news site that tends to focus on more business and market-related news pieces. Nothing too original here that makes it much different from all of the others that we know of.

Zero Hedge

Another news and opinion-article source that tends to be fairly quick and posting top articles and headlines. Does not get as bogged down by unrelated articles as some other sites which can be nice. 

benzinga

Another respected and popular news source for the markets that has a lot of other services as well.  

NY Times

Not quite as breaking news based in our opinion but they do sometimes post out some interesting articles and may sometimes cover ideas or topics that are fairly unique. 

CNN Business

The market/business section of a major news outlet. So you get what comes with the terroritory, speed and a large range of information, but also sometimes a lot of information to sift through to find useful bits.

Briefing

A paid service that many use for analysis, news and stock ideas. 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S government site used to search for specific documents filed to the SEC. These could be any kind of legal documents a company has filed. If looking at these documents is something you may do in your research into your trades, being familiar with navigating this site is a must.

Fidelity

Another general site that covers some market performance, some news and research and some other varying products they offer. We don’t know too much else about the site.