Learning Markets Trader Podcast Series

The most recent proposal from the Greek government to its bondholders -- take a 50% haircut, take 15% in cash and take 35% in new 30-year Greek bonds. Let's talk about how we got here and what happens next.

Its still early but there is a lot to learn about the earnings reports that have been released and those that are coming over the next few days.

Stock and institutional margin levels have hit a bit of a low recently. This is a great sentiment indicator and shows the current rally is still unstable.

The divergence between stocks and the euro is a concern to traders expecting it to resolve itself in the short term.

Earnings season is full of unexpected news and volatility. In today's podcast, Learning Markets analysts will discuss how this season is shaping up and how traders can deal with some of the most unexpected news.

Among economic announcements, few are as important as the official employment report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on the first Friday of each month. However, each month, we get a sneak peak at what the BLS report might say when ADP -- a private payroll management company -- releases its monthly employment report. Or do we? Are the two reports correlated? What can we learn from each one, and how should it affect our investing?

If you are ending the year a little roughed up by the markets, you are not alone. In fact, most professionals underperformed the major market benchmarks including a rare-miss by Warren Buffett. In today's podcast Learning Market's analysts will look at who did well and who didn't and how to avoid making the same mistake in 2012.

Confirmation bias is the tendancy we all have to look for opinions that reinforce our own current beliefs. However, if we only look for investment analysis that matches our own biases, we miss out on some great insights that could make, or save, us a lot of money.

Lately the 200-day moving average has been a key resistance level for the stock market, and traders did not disappoint today with sharp selling at that level. What does this say about the rest of the week?

The European debt crisis is often reported but the relationship between bond yields and bond prices is seldom explained. If you are still wondering how these two things relate to each other and why they are so important in 2012, this episode will help.

The Santa Claus rally, like so many other calendar-based trading phenomena, is over-hyped and less-than-useful. Learning Markets' analysts discuss why we hear so much about this rally every December and how to avoid its pitfalls.

Bank of America (BAC) has been flirting with $5 per share prices for a while now and breached that level today doubling the market's losses in 10 minutes. Learning Markets' analysts will discuss why this price point matters and what to look for next.

Triple witching day comes around four times every year and is known for its volatile prices swings. It happens on the third Friday of March, June, September and December and is the day when options on stocks, stock indexes and stock futures expire. We discuss why these expirations matter so much and how you can use it to your advantage as a stock investor.

Futures traders can execute trades virtually 24 hours a day, but does this give them an advantage? We will discuss when the futures market matters before the stock market opens and when it doesn't.

Despite what a gold bullion dealer would like you to believe, gold is not always as correlated to a bear market, inflation, or Europe as you might think.