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    My Opinion of ThinkorSwim

    A popular question that I get quite a bit from the traders who follow this blog, is what brokerage firm do we use for our trading and why. SharePlanner trades with thinkorswim (short name is TOS). And I have to say that I am very pleased with their service. They are by far the best

    |June 23, 2009|5 min read|
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    Our 2008 Overall Returns

    The year 2008 has come and gone, and with it a lot of fortunes, retirements, companies, and hedge funds. It will be a year that will go down as one of the worst ever in the financial and housing markets. SharePlanner was able to weather the storm like no other financial service – yielding an

    |February 8, 2009|2 min read|
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    Our Goals for Trading in 2009

    Rough year for about 99.9 of investors, and while Shareplanner managed to finish the year well in the green unlike most of its competitors, it still had challenges of its own (we’ll be publishing soon, Shareplanner’s 2008 Trading Results). In a year where losses for Wall Street ran out of control, we managed risk extremely

    |January 18, 2009|5 min read|

  • Monday’s Rally Completely Wiped Out

    Monday’s gains are a distant memory and the market is now looking at breaking Friday’s lows. If so, you could see further panic on Wall Street with the liklihood becoming more certain that Wall Street will test the lows from the Tech-Bust in late-2002. Citigroup reports tomorrow morning, and could cause even more volatility to

    |October 15, 2008|0 min read|
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    The Pains of Limit Orders

    Limit orders are one of the best ways to prevent slippage when creating or adding to a position in the market. However the drawback to limit orders is that sometimes, if your order is outside the bid/ask price, you may never get the fill you were hoping for. Today was a perfect example for us

    |October 14, 2008|2 min read|
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    Part II on Why Investing Isn’t Effortless

    Thought it might be appropriate to do a follow up on one of our more popular articles of the year entitled Should Investing Be Effortless? The quick answer to that question after reading the article is obviously “No”. We don’t make any such outlandish comments, because we know that investing/trading can be very difficult and

    |October 12, 2008|5 min read|
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    Should Investing be Effortless?

    July 22, 2008 Interesting link to a well known trading system website call GorillaTrades. You might have seen their commercials on CNBC. I believe their saying is “Funny Name, Serious Stock Picks” (I may be wrong on that but its close); nonetheless, plastered on their front page, it states “Investing Just Became EFFORTLESS” – Those

    |July 22, 2008|2 min read|