Stern Advice: 5 reasons to start day trading now - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - We all know what we are supposed to say about day trading: It's horrible, a scam, a vestige of the 1990s tech boom, and just for naive chumps. But still, there are days when it would be nice to lock in a big win, or pile into a favorite stock when it seems to be beaten up. In an era of flash crashes, computerized trading, whipsawing volatility and sell orders that cost ...

System glitch halts some trading on TSE - The Tokyo Stock Exchange suffered its biggest system glitch in six years Thursday, temporarily suspending trade of 241 stocks and other financial instruments for more than three hours. The TSE detected errors and suspended operations of its arrowhead system before the day's opening at 9 a.m. Full trading started at the end of the normal lunch break at 12:30 p.m.

10 Steps To Building A Winning Trading Plan - Its impossible to avoid disaster without trading rules - make sure you know how to devise them for yourself.

Caesars Entertainment shares soar in first day of trading, giving investors a new out - LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An initial public offering of a tiny slice of Caesars Entertainment Corp. is allowing dozens of investors who bought into what once was the world's largest gambling company to get out with smaller losses than they might have seen.

“The ETS is bust, it’s dead” - Europe’s carbon trading system has collapsed, just as Julia Gillard prepares our higher-priced own: …

FX Alliance IPO closes up 14.5% after price cut - (Updates with closing stock price data.) Foreign-exchange trading platform FX Alliance Inc. FX continued this week's winning streak in the U.S. IPO market, with its stock rising Thursday. Like three of the four companies that have debuted so far this week, FX Alliance had to cut its asking price before investors embraced its deal; all previous stocks this week have also ended up with first-day ...

Stocks fall sharply as Greek deal is held up - Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical bailout.

Ethics panel probes congressman in insider-trading investigation - WASHINGTON -- The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the House Financial Services Committee chairman over possible violations of insider-trading laws. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., who holds one of the House's most influential positions, has been a frequent trader on Capitol Hill, buying stock options while overseeing the nation's banking and financial services industries.

Stocks Close Higher After Greece Deal - The stock market finally got a deal in Greece, but it didn't produce much of a rally. U.S. stocks rose Thursday morning after Greece announced an agreement to cut costs and keep from defaulting on its debt next month, an event that could have shocked the world financial system. But stocks dropped later in the morning and never returned to their highs for the day. Analysts cautioned that the ...

As Facebook IPO nears, the case for dull stocks - Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.