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This is one of the classic books written about commodity trading. Many commodity traders are always looking for the latest and greatest trading books, however, most veteran traders know that the “old” books are usually the best.

Larry Williams is a household name among the commodity trading community. This book was written in the early 1970s during a bull market in commodities. The book does contain valuable information on trading commodities but it is not a step-by-step guide on how he made his million dollars trading commodities as the title might imply.

George Soros is a hugely influential yet relatively little known political figure. He is one of the world’s wealthiest men who has amassed much of his fortune through investing in world currencies at points in time shortly before political changes occur which effect the values of those currencies. He is a philanthropist who is frequently well thought of by many and is often perceived as using much of his fortune for creating progressive political change.

If you’re a Robert Scoble follower, you know he believes Facebook will be worth a half-trillion dollars by 2015. But not everyone’s as confident as Scoble that the social network will be worth the investment when it goes public.

Financial Advisor, Rob Black, Wealth Preservation & Retirement Planning, points to a couple of red flags:

1. A slowdown in monthly/daily active users

2011 MAUs 845 million +39%
2010 MAUs +69%

2011 DAUs 483 million +48%
2010 DAUrs +77%

What steps should I take to make millions in stocks and bonds?

The first step is to make sure you don't have any personal debt, credit card debt and that. You need to get that paid off so that you can start building your wealth.

The next step is to, if you work for a big company, many companies have a 401K program and they'll actually match your contributions up to a certain amount.

One of the great advantages of trading currencies is that the forex market is open 24 hours a day (from 5pm EST on Sunday until 4pm EST Friday).

Economic data tends to be one of the most important catalysts for short-term movements in any market, but this is particularly true in the currency market, which responds not only to U.S. economic news, but also to news from around the world.

With at least eight major currencies available for trading at most currency brokers and more than 17 derivatives of them, there is always some piece of economic data slated for release that traders can use to inform the positions they take.

Generally, no less than seven pieces of data are released daily from the eight major currencies or countries that are most closely followed. So for those who choose to trade news, there are plenty of opportunities. Here we look at which economic news releases are released when, which are most relevant to forex (FX) traders, and how traders can act on this market-moving data.