Of all the important skills in trading, survival is number one. For unless we make it through the inevitable bad times, we won’t be around to capitalize on the good. I’ve laid out some trading account guidelines that specify the account size required to conduct various commodity futures and option …

Surely “they” wouldn’t let the worst happen, would they? The “subprime” debacle in the last few weeks seemed to come from nowhere to suddenly infuse panic into financial markets from stocks to mortgages to hedge funds to banks to precious metals to consumer spending. Of course, as I have explained …

Amgen first became a public company back in the early 1980’s, a few years before all the big name computer and software companies began arriving on the financial markets. During that time, Amgen has done very well for its shareholders. The innovative biotech company has consistently produced new products to …