Learning About stock market

[Sniper]

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Well really don't need L2 action if your trading bigboard but just 1 min chart and ticker so you get to know if a move is real or just a whipsaw.

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Still not sure how you are using the recording in a way that pulling up a 1 min chart at eod wouldn't also do. Can you elaborate?

[Moonsugar]

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motleyfool.com for basics

after that read books:
"the intelligent investor" and "security analysis" by benjamin graham

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Extremely good books. These 2 books got me hooked on stocks at 18. I would rec. the 1940 edition of Security Analysis as the later editions lost alot IMO.

Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz is another great.

But, if anyone I was talking to could only read one book on investing it would be

The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein

[Moonsugar]

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Right now the only class of worker that has as a group done well are civil service.

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That is a really bold statement. LOL.

Believe me its a big difference seeing it live and understanding movement while its happening, looking at eod is looking in hindsight and stuff looks more obvious, i would equate it to watching poker on tv and seeing someone bluffed out of a pot that the person had a lock on