Author Archives: Tom Hagen

Nine Essential Marketing Channels Small Businesses Should Invest In

marketing channels

Social Media Today says that if you’re looking for ways to grow your small business and you want to know the best marketing channels you should dedicate some budget towards, the team from Red Website Design just shared nine marketing channels to utilize in an infographic. These are the nine channels you need to check […]

Current Warren Buffett Portfolio 2021: Q2 Update

warren buffet

The current Warren Buffett portfolio for 2021 has been updated with his 6/30/21 Q2 filing.  Here are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC for the 2nd quarter of 2021 at the end of June this year.  Warren Buffett continues to oversee and manage the Berkshire Hathaway […]

The Art of Cutting Your Losses

The Art of Cutting Your Losses

There is a common saying on Wall Street “Let winners run and cut losers short.” This quote tries to express the principle of creating big wins or small losses. Creating a high risk/reward ratio through the use of trailing stops for profitable trades and stop losses for unprofitable trades is the foundation of profitable trading. […]

WordPress Dominates Market Share Of Top 10,000 Websites

cms market share 10k websites

A new article on Search Engine Journal reports that new research highlights content management system ranking by market share with WordPress taking the lead with an incredibly impressive share. When you mention brands that dominate the market, the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon are likely to spring to mind. Likewise, when it comes to CSM market […]

A Small Business Guide to Shopify

shopify store

Social Media Today reveals that with eCommerce on the rise, more businesses are now considering their online store options and how they can align with evolving consumer behaviors and needs. If that sounds like your business, and you’re not sure where to start, then it could be worth considering a Shopify store. That option not only […]

Google’s New Technology Helps Create Powerful Ranking-Algorithms

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According to Search Engine Journal, an update of Keras-based TF-Ranking coincides with the recent pace of Google updates and allows rapid development of more powerful ranking and spam algorithms. Google has just announced the release of improved technology that makes it easier and faster to research and develop new algorithms that can be deployed quickly. That gives […]

21 Questions for a Trading Plan

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Before you can trade you must first have a trading plan. A trading plan is written while the market is closed to tell you what to do when the market is open. A trading plan tells you how to specifically execute your trading system in real time with real money. A trading plan forces discipline […]

Follow the Smart Money

Smart Money Moves

Smart money in the financial markets is considered to be capital traded or invested by experienced and educated professionals that are connected to better research on fundamentals or access to higher speed technology that gives them a technical edge over retail traders. There is little evidence to support the smart money edge as the majority […]

Cardano vs Ethereum

cardano cryptocurrency

Cardano and Ethereum are both cryptocurrencies and also blockchain ecosystems that other things can be built on. The Cardano network is very similiar to the Ethereum network. The primary creator of Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin. Cardano was created by Charles Hoskinson, who was also a co-founder of Ethereum. The cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain is […]

The Top 10 Mathematics of Trading

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Profitable trading is not about opinions, not about a prediction, or even great stock tips or picks. Profitable trading is all about math, making more money on profitable trades than you lose on unprofitable trades. How you do this is the details. Trading without understanding the math creates randomness and luck in your process. Understanding […]