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InformedTrades Founder
Community Host David Waring
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Last Activity: 10-05-2009 07:59 PM
About Me
- About David Waring
- Biography
- I was raised in a small town in North Carolina called Roanoke Rapids. My father was always big into investing and while not an active trader got me interested in investing and the stock market at a very young age. So I guess you could say that I have pretty much always had an interest in the markets, and because of this I decided to study Finance at East Carolina University (ECU), where I went to college. ECU is located in the town of Greenville, also in North Carolina, so besides the once a year trip to see grandparents in Michigan, Virgina, or Arizona, I spent my entire childhood and early adult life in North Carolina.
After graduating from college I decided I wanted to pursue a career that was closely related to the markets. Becoming a traditional stock broker or working as a commercial banker, were pretty much my options at the time in North Carolina. After doing a few interviews, I decided that this was not what I wanted to do, so I decided to pack my bags and move to New York City.
To make a long story short, once in New York I got an interview with an Internet Start-up called FXCM, which at the time had about 15 people at the firm. While not a very impressive office at the time, the CEO of the firm Drew Niv (who was around 28 at the time) was one of the people who interviewed me. I was so impressed with his knowledge of the markets and his vision for the future of the Foreign Exchange Market, that I decided to take the job when it was offered to me.
Over the next 7 years I worked my way up from a customer service/sales position to what we turned into a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week customer service and sales operation. Although young, since I was one of the early people at the firm, I was given the opportunity to run that division, which is how I spent my first several years at FXCM.
Towards the latter part of my time there I split my time managing a team of business development professionals who were responsible for a large part of FXCM's web strategy, and managing a separate team of analysts/traders who were responsible for building FXCM's managed funds division. This was the role that I enjoyed the most, as it allowed me to combine my love of the internet with my love of the markets. As you can probably see now, this also laid the groundwork for what you see here today, in InformedTrades.com.
In November of 2007 after seeing the firm grow from 15 employees, to the over 600 that it has today, I decided that it was time for me to pursue a new challenge. So, with the help of a friend and colleague who I met at FXCM, Informed Trades.com was officially launched in January of 2008.
While I certainly do not consider myself a trading guru, I feel that my knowledge of the markets and the trading industry, puts me in a unique position to build a strong community of knowledgeable traders, who understand that trading is hard, and not a get rich type of thing as it is so often portrayed. I also feel that once we have a core community as we are starting to develop now, my knowledge of the internet can help bring that community together, in the most efficient and powerful way possible, so that each member gets the maximum benefit from the collective knowledge of the community.
While there is also a profit component of this site, I think you will find that, unlike most sites who ruin the experience by loading up on advertising, any advertising that is done here at InformedTrades, will be in the background and to the benefit of the community. If you are interested in a more in depth discussion of this at the link below:
http://www.informedtrades.com/26958-why-do-you-do.html
I hope you find this site useful in your quest for trading knowledge. If you have any questions or comments about anything relating to this site or trading, please feel free to post them at the link below:
http://www.informedtrades.com/f32/
Best Regards,
David Waring
InformedTrades.com - Location
- Miami, FL
- Interests
- Financial Markets, Internet Business, The Beach, Skiing
- Occupation
- Trader and Internet Entrepreneur
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Blog
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Latest Blog Entry
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Hi All,
Its hard to believe that its been almost two years since I left my job and started building InformedTrades with my longtime friend and business associate Simit Patel. As Simit recently stated on the homepage of our community, now that our community is to a stage where there are many other heavy contributors besides myself, I have decided to shift my focus to InformedFunds.com my money management business.
I am very proud of what has been accomplished by the InformedTrades...
Its hard to believe that its been almost two years since I left my job and started building InformedTrades with my longtime friend and business associate Simit Patel. As Simit recently stated on the homepage of our community, now that our community is to a stage where there are many other heavy contributors besides myself, I have decided to shift my focus to InformedFunds.com my money management business.
I am very proud of what has been accomplished by the InformedTrades...
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Hi All,
Quick update on my S&P analysis from the 14th (bottom of the page).
The above analysis was done on the SPY which is the symbol for the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) which tracks the price action in the S&P 500 index which is what you see in the chart below. The difference between these two charts is that the below chart is not tradable outside of an index mutual fund so most traders use the SPY to express their bias in the S&P 500 Index which you can see below:...
Quick update on my S&P analysis from the 14th (bottom of the page).
The above analysis was done on the SPY which is the symbol for the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) which tracks the price action in the S&P 500 index which is what you see in the chart below. The difference between these two charts is that the below chart is not tradable outside of an index mutual fund so most traders use the SPY to express their bias in the S&P 500 Index which you can see below:...
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Forex Market Overview from Dailyfx.com:
US Equity Market Overview from FDTV:
Commodities Market Overview from Oscar:
Top Morning Market Stories:
Marketwatch: Dollar benefits as U.S. durable-goods orders jump - The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, stood at 78.470, up from 78.240 late Tuesday...
US Equity Market Overview from FDTV:
Commodities Market Overview from Oscar:
Top Morning Market Stories:
Marketwatch: Dollar benefits as U.S. durable-goods orders jump - The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, stood at 78.470, up from 78.240 late Tuesday...
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Hi All,
Based on the feedback I received from my first appearance on GlobalFXRadio.com GlobalFXRadio I made a second appearance last Friday which I am hoping to make a weekly thing.
David Waring on GlobalFXRadio
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Best Regards,
Dave
Based on the feedback I received from my first appearance on GlobalFXRadio.com GlobalFXRadio I made a second appearance last Friday which I am hoping to make a weekly thing.
David Waring on GlobalFXRadio
Support InformedTrades! Click here to vote for this and other IT stores on ForexFactory.
Hope you enjoy feedback is welcome as always.
Dave
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Video Technical Overview of Forex Market Action by GlobalFXRadio.com
Video Technical Overview of US Equity Market Action by FreeDayTradingVideos.com:
Fundamental Overview:
Bloomberg: U.S. Markets Wrap: Bonds Rise as Stocks Fall, Crude Oil Climbs - Treasuries rose as U.S. stocks declined and investors speculated the central bank will keep interest rates low longer than anticipated. The Dow Jones industrial...
Video Technical Overview of US Equity Market Action by FreeDayTradingVideos.com:
Bloomberg: U.S. Markets Wrap: Bonds Rise as Stocks Fall, Crude Oil Climbs - Treasuries rose as U.S. stocks declined and investors speculated the central bank will keep interest rates low longer than anticipated. The Dow Jones industrial...
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