http://www.thefinanceowl.com All About Finance Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Background on FXCM Forex Capital Markets FXCM Forex Capital Markets provides 24 hour online currency trading service.  The online company professes to have over 100,000 live accounts.  FXCM also states on its online website that it is one of the largest and well-capitalized brokers. Warning for Potential Investors It is critically important to ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/investor-tools/20080908-fxcm-online-currency-trading/ by Doctor Steve Bone Investing in Technology by Doctor Steve Bone is offers sound advice on how the technology business investor should invest in the technology market. Investing in Technology is a practical guide to the financial questioning techniques that technology investors should consider. Doctor Bone’s 4 Key Questions for Making Technology ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/investing-in-technology/ by Michael Brett How to Read the Financial Pages by Michael Brett is one of the best books on how to understand the investment jargon contained within the financial pages.  The book is a practical guide to the financial jargon and explains some of the pitfalls in taking the financials at face ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/how-to-read-the-financial-pages/ by Burton G Malkiel A Random Walk down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is a highly informative book about the facts of investing.   As the strap phrase states, it provides a "time-tested strategy for successful investing".  It is worth noting to the investor readers at the beginning that the Random Walk ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/a-random-walk-down-wall-street/ by Fischer, Chou & Hoffmans The Only Three Questions That Count is a great books about the technique of questioning yourself before committing to investments. The Only Three Questions That Count The main message to investor readers is that before you invest make sure you answer the only three questions that count. These ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/the-only-three-questions-that-count/ by C.F. Bergsten, B. Gill, N.R. Lardy & D. Mitchell What Does the World Need to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower? From an investor's viewpoint, "China: The Balance Sheet" is a great book providing information on how to understand China. "China; The Balance Sheet" provides ample viewpoints on China: it emphasises ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/20080617-china-balance-sheet/ Background on ACM (Advanced Currency Markets) The ACM tool is an online trading service in currencies & precious metals. This web based investor tool states that online users will benefit from a technologically advanced, secure and integrated trading platform. Investor Warning It is extremely important to emphasize that investors trading in currencies ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/investor-tools/20080605-acm-trading/ by Benjamin Graham The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is in our opinion one of the best books on the principles of value investing techniques. This book has been written by a person who was born at the end of the nineteenth century, yet many of his principles are still ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/20080531-intelligent-investor/ by John C. Bogle Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John C. Bogle is in our opinion one of the best books on techniques for long-term personal investment growth. The book is a practical guide for the personal investor on what constitutes common sense for long-term investment strategies. Key common sense ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/20080528-common-sense-mutual/ by Peter L Bernstein This book is in our opinion one of the best books on how to understand the five fundamental investment ideas for the modern era investor. Capital Ideas Evolving by Peter L. Bernstein helps explain how the five fundamental investments ideas from the mid-twentieth century have shaped ... http://www.thefinanceowl.com/book-reviews/20080517-capital-ideas/