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The Market Oracle is a FREE Daily Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication. We present in-depth analysis from over 150 experienced analysts on a range of views of the probable direction of the financial markets. Thus enabling our readers to arrive at an informed opinion on future market direction.

The Market Oracle coverage includes :

Analysis & Strategy - An concise analytical look at the state of a market or economy, and what investment strategy to adopt that most favour's the conclusions.

Forecasts & Technical Analysis - Using technical chart reading skills honed over many years of experience, presenting a technical picture that markets including stocks, commodities and economies are likely to follow forward, with clear targets and contingencies.

Investing - Commentary on opportunities that arise from time to time, either as a consequence of market pessimism or euphoria which invariably present good timing points,

Strategic News - The Market Oracle aims to concentrate on the financial news events that REALLY matter, rather than blanket coverage of all and sundry, accompanied with concise commentary and opinion.

The Market Oracle continues to go from strength to strength, recently passing into the top 47,000 World Traffic Website's as measured by Alexa.com's unique base of tens of millions of web user base.

The key reasons for our continuing success are :

100% Free
The Market Oracle's aim has always been to provide quality content for FREE, so as to more accurately advance the debate on market analysis and forecasts, without any limitations and to provide a non competing platform for experienced authors from across the world to contribute towards.

Over 100 Experienced Authors Contributions
As the Market Oracle has grown in popularity due to the key ethos of quality free articles, so many experienced financial authors have joined and been invited in publicizing articles of quality content with the aim of adopting a symbiotic relationship with the Market Oracle so as to provide quality articles with the traffic they deserve and thus enhancing our site visitors subscribing to the individual authors services.

Strong Editorial Team
Our five strong editorial team, each brings their strengths to the Market Oracle and are themselves responsible for the publication of several hundred unique syndicated articles, which continue to promote the sites presence on an ongoing basis. (Team at end of this article)

Quality of Content and Quality of Presentation
At the Market Oracle we aim to present many varied views on market direction, so as to present site visitors a multitude of viewpoints without prejudice. Thus enabling visitors to arrive at a more informed opinion on market direction. As many mainstream media tend to opt for one viewpoint. Our team also takes special care of every article posted so as to ensure pleasant visitor experience and this increase the probability that author contributions will be read. Strong editorial control over published articles helps to sustain the high quality of content to date.

Author Archives
In an going process of continuing to aim to enhance both visitor experience and benefit to authors, we have recently introduced the author archives to act as a repository for all articles published by author's, with an easy to follow link back to author sites or services. Author Archive

Newsletters
Our free service also includes a newsletter with key summaries of the best articles published on the site.

Comments Posting
All of our site visitors can comment on any article without registering with our site. This has enables our visitors to participate in important financial and economic debates. All comments are moderated before being posted to the site.

Free Access to Paid Services
Due to our relationship with service providers, we are from time to time able to secure free access to paid services for our site visitors, this includes access to subscription site's as well as newsletters.

Constant Development
Regular visitors will have noticed that the Market Oracle is constantly improving, as we take into account feedback from site visitors. The most recent change was the implementation of the Categories Block on the main index page, which now gives visitors the instant ability to choose from over 100 article categories.

Detailed Visitor and Traffic Statistics
As of this update, the Market Oracle is ranked in the top global 47,000 traffic sites. Traffic is measured by Alexa and Google Analytics.

Breakdown of Visitors by Country		Traffic Rank by Country
United States	50.1%	United Kingdom	2,400
United Kingdom	18.8%	Singapore	13,000
Canada	7.5%	Canada	19,000
Australia	4.5%	Australia	21,500
India	2.0%	India	39,000
Singapore	1.5%	United States	44,000

Average Number of Pages Viewed by visitors per days is 14

For up to date traffic statistics see Site Stats.

If you are an experienced financial markets analyst and you want to benefit from high traffic for your articles and associated services ...more info.

Market Oracle Editorial Team

Nadeem Walayat - Editor of MarketOracle.co.uk, is our resident financial analyst, with over 20 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Having started his trading career in 1986, and having first become a member of the Society of Technical Analysts in 1991. Apart from active real-time trading, Nadeem has been a programmer since 1983 and worked as a corporate accountant for over 12 years. Nadeem's objective is to freely share his knowledge, experience and analysis that he undertakes in support of his portfolio management and trading activities. "The first lesson a new trader needs to learn is that Trading is completely different to Investing. I plan at some point in the future to publish a series of articles on How to Trade that will make it clear that 90% of what is published in the trading books is at best irrelevant to trading and worst a red herring".

Sarah Jones - Is our site administrator, taking care of day to day management. She is also an economist by profession, who lends a unique perspective to analysis of economic & market trends as well keeping on top of current financial news.

Phillipa Green - A professional investor, who has a keen eye on stock analysis and selection, ability to see what the next big thing is likely to be. 'My best tip for stock selection is earnings growth ! A company that delivers consistently high earnings growth even with a high PE will grow its dividends and share price much faster then a slow growth high dividend yield company' - Says Phillipa

John York - Our political pundit, who likes to get his teeth into hot current affairs topics which are likely to have a strategic impact on the markets and social trends.

Shahla Walayat - An experienced investor and expert in personal finance affairs. "My best tip is to spend less than you earn"

The Market Oracle originally started as a serious of articles & guides published on Moneyforums.co.uk (our sister web site.) starting in 2005, a selection of which went on to form the basis for The Market Oracle.

Updated By Sarah Jones - March 2008

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Comments

Glenn Sanada 11 Dec 07, 16:26	FED dropping their rates How many times will the FED trying to navigate between the INFLATION AND THE RECESSION. The margin of error is very slim now and the FED ship will crash on either the shore of RECESSION or INFLATION or BOTH. How long are the morons going to ask for a steroid fix from the FED???? Haven't we seen enough of BubbleMania???? And the Busts.
A Painter 21 Apr 08, 11:43	Gordon Browns Abolishment of the 10% Tax Band- Leadership Challenge? It's not 'abolishment' - it's 'abolition'!
Nikhil Kumar 12 Jun 08, 07:09	front page list of articles What happened to that big list of all the article headings on the front page? That was a good way to see all the available articles.
Sarah_Jones 12 Jun 08, 08:22	Front Page Listings It repeated what is already posted on the left side under Best of the Week.
walter libby 20 Jun 08, 14:44	History at a turning point We face many challenges. The rise of communist China, peak oil, and a unresolved economic crisis. For a new look at the China threat, and how we solve the energy crisis while lifting our country out recession check out my blog. It's all about sustainable development. http://theendpoint.blogspot.com/
Steve Rouse 09 Feb 09, 16:27	Printing your articles... I love your website and check it daily, reading most of the new articles posted. However, I like to print the articles for reading away from my computer, and your articles are REALLY hard to print well. Is there anything that you can do to help this. For example, Safe Haven includes a "print friendly version" link that allows for a nice clean print. Even the charts print in full on a page, rather than getting separated between two pages. Yes, I know all my printing is not eco-friendly, but I love marking the articles and enjoy carrying with me to read when I'm not near my computer. Thanks again for a great website. Cheers, Steve
paul mak 15 Jul 09, 15:10	market manipulation A fantastic site with a tremendous wealth of information. The more I read on your site and others that I hold in high regard, the more I believe the markets (commodities,forex,equities) are rigged. I'd be very interested if you were to pass comment on Joe Saluzzi's interview in that respect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0U1vMUa2sc best paul
paul m 11 Aug 09, 08:42	manipulation dear Nadeen - many thanks for your many insightful articles - i look forward to the next installment and new website. I too have been frustrated at the manipulated markets lately and came across this rather blatent discussion http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/298475/Memo-to-Bernanke-Remove-the-Life-Support-%22Let-the-Chips-Fall-Where-They-May%22?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,DIA,XLF,SKF,TBT best paul
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Lamont Cranston 02 Mar 10, 10:24	Robert Prechter Why do you keep promoting Robert Prechter? In a report by Eric Tyson (http://www.erictyson.com/articles/20090616)he points out that.. "Mark Hulbert has been documenting Prechter's investment trading predictions and picks since 1985 so he now has a nearly 25 year long track record which can tell us whether you should trade on his predictions or not. Here's how Prechter's trading advice has done from 1/1/85 through 5/31/09 versus the broad U.S. stock market average (Wilshire 5000 index) according to Hulbert's analysis: Annualized Return: * Wilshire 5000 Index + 9.7 percent * Prechter's Trading Advice -15.4 percent Total Return: * Wilshire 5000 Index + 857.1 percent * Prechter's Trading Advice - 98.3 percent The underperformance of Prechter's newsletter is nothing short of astonishing and stunning! On an annualized basis, Prechter has underperformed the broad U.S. stock market Wilshire 5000 index by a whopping 25 percent per year! Here's what Hulbert's analysis shows would have happened to $100,000 invested according to Prechter's investing trading advice versus the Wilshire 5000 U.S. stock market index: $100,000 Invested (1/1/85-5/31/09): * Wilshire 5000 Index $957,100 * Prechter's Trading Advice $1,700"

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