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Resources for trading, investing, and taxes

Listed on this page are some of the best trading, investing, and tax resources that we have come across in our travels. In addition, each of these sites have given their highest endorsement to our TradeLog™ tax lot accounting software.

Stock Trading

Hard Right Edge
Alan Farley is a private trader and publisher of Hard Right Edge, a comprehensive resource for trader education, technical analysis, and short-term trading techniques. He is author of the McGraw-Hill best-seller "The Master Swing Trader", and popular columnist for The Street.com.

Option Trading

Schaeffer's Investment Research
Investor education, bulletin, and alert services. Bernie Schaeffer is widely recognized as an expert on equity and index options, investor sentiment and market timing. Among more than 100 of the nation's top market timers, Bernie is rated as the #5 Bond Timer and the #9 Intermediate Market Timer for the last decade.

Investing

Kim Snider Financial Communications
We teach the proprietary Snider Investment Method™ to investors who want to make work a choice, not a necessity. The Snider Investment Method helps income investors get consistent cash flow, regardless of market conditions and helps growth investors to get a consistent yield and avoid years of dead money.

Taxes

GreenTraderTax.com
A web-based CPA and professional services firm specializing in taxes, accounting, and consulting for traders and e-commerce entrepreneurs worldwide. We are pleased to have been affiliated with the Green Company since July of 2001 and respect their vast knowledge and experience in dealing with the special tax needs of traders and investors. If you need help with your taxes, this is the CPA firm we recommend.

Fairmark Press Inc.
A leading independent publisher of tax guidance on the Internet. Fairmark offers a wealth of free information their web site, including over 100 pages of guidance on tax issues facing traders and investors such as capital gains and wash sales. Kaye Thomas graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and has over 20 years experience as a tax lawyer and consultant.

Online Brokers

Fidelity
Fidelity is a 24x7 full service brokerage firm catering to the needs of both individual and professional traders. New at Fidelity is their active trader services with competitive commissions and which includes a 1-second trade execution guarantee.

Interactive Brokers
Worldwide direct access trading of stocks, options, futures, forex, and bonds in over 60 market centers in a single universal account. Barron's awarded Interactive Brokers its top star ranking and lowest cost broker in 2007.

optionsXpress

Rated Best Online Broker four out of five years (2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006) and one of the best in 2007. The best online broker for trading options featuring one of the most sophisticated and easy to use order management systems, low commissions, and top notch investor education.