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Welcome To TheInflationist

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Since installing the LIVE Traffic widget, we have had the opportunity to see where all our readers are coming from. It is an amazing feeling seeing faithful visitors coming from every corner of the world: Brussels, Taipei, London, Israel, and a special thanks to visitors from Glasgow and Langwarrin in Australia who checks in many times a day.

Welcome fellow investors, your attention and regular visits makes it worth our while presenting all our analysis. We have spent considerable effort, time and money developing this site to what it is today. And we do it for the love of investing.

For readers who are new to our site, we created this site with the aim of empowering each other and to provide a common yardstick for all traders. We have been following dozens of trading/investment blogs for years, read as much as we could about investing and “hot tips” from stock gurus, and even subscribed to paid investment newsletters. The only problem is it was not making any difference to the bottom line. As great as these investment gurus sound, there is no objective and transparent way of quantifying their performance. Yet many pay good money to subscribe to these newsletters when most of their views are available online free of charge and more importantly their views are often WRONG anyway. These are some of the common strategies that financial forecasters use:

1. Make many calls, one of them will be right.
2. Make one call only, and eventually it’ll be right.
3. Make vague calls, so it can be interpreted either way.

We wanted a site where every trader has a scorecard. We want exact LIVE entry and exit points. We wanted it so easy to use that we could continue to focus on our day job and leverage on the investing talent of the public simply by replicating our portfolio to match his/hers. There are enough websites providing independent traders and bloggers an avenue to discuss their views about the fundamentals of the economy, gold, commodities, etc. And there are even more technical websites providing daily support and resistance levels which moved higher/lower every time the market violated them.

So, we embarked on a mission to set up a site in search of investing talent. This is the INVESTING IDOL. Anyone can join in, and our top ten investors are presented in our “Top Investor Widget”. This allows us to filter good from bad traders. If you own a trading website or newsletter, and are genuinely talented and wish to market your services, please join us. Trade publicly, build on your investing track record live prospectively, and let your results speak for itself.

The Rules are:

• You may trade in commodities, currencies and bonds
• You may trade both long or short positions
• Purchase and sold prices are calculated using the opening or closing price of the day
• You may trade in any market (Dow, FTSE, ASX, DAX, Hang Seng, Singapore, etc)
• No Day-Trading as trades are impossible to verify and retrospective trades are of no benefit to readers
  

Get started:

1. Register

2. Once registered, you need to be logged in to access your personalised Stock Trading Portfolio Management System using our Stock Trading Widget. This customised and unique Widget will automatically update prices and calculate your portfolio performance. To learn how to use our Widget, simply follow the instructions here.

3. To post an article, our WordPress-powered platform is self explanatory and it is as easy as sending an email. For those not familiar with Wordpress, and cannot be bothered learning, email your picks and a brief explanation for your selection (refer to The Speculator’s columns to get an idea of how this should be written) to us at theinflationist@gmail.com. We will post your articles for you on the site.