Interesting stories and valuable lessons from the trading life of five top speculators

The title is probably an exaggeration. After all, who can conclusively prove that these five were, indeed, the greatest stock traders of all time? Why Gerald Loeb and not Jim Rogers? Why Nicolas Darvas and not another famous Hungarian émigré, George Soros? Can we compare the dissolute and reckless trader...

What if a book is researched extensively, written beautifully and yet ends up with weak conclusions

The premise of this book is simple. According to the authors - Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson - there is a “worrying gulf between citizens and globalized corporations”. After socialism stood discredited, the “private-sector corporations inherited economic power but failed to...

This is the season for fund houses to launch new schemes. But is that precisely why you should avoid them? What if you had bought the new schemes launched during this time  last year? Analysis by ML Research Desk

The past three years have been the most memorable in recent market history with stocks shooting up in a gravity-defying act. If foreign funds, flush with cash, were pushing the...