Recent content by Winslow

There has always been a significant sleazy element in the finance industry. It goes all the way back to the early days of the formation of the stock exchanges. There have also been those who could variously be described as hucksters, shills, liars, con men, fraudsters and outright thieves. Matt...

The underlying activity involving trading is has legitimate economic value other than entertainment and to facilitate betting. Issuing additional stock allows public companies to expand without borrowing while commodities allow the actual producers to lock-in a profit at the beginning of their...

The author, Russell Wayne, is a CFP who runs an asset management firm (essentially a sell side operation) in CT. He rips technical analysis while appearing to have barely researched the topic. Instead he quotes John Train, a 90 year-old stock market author and strong adherent to fundamental...