Awesome Investing Site: Investopedia

Just wanted to pay a quick tribute to one of my favorite online investment resources, Investopedia.com. This site is packed with an amazing set of free articles, tutorials, financial tools and calculators, historical studies, and explanations of common (and uncommon) investing terms. Looking for a fascinating read that's both frightening and enlightening? Check out the Greatest Market Crashes, a series of essays explaining the economic trends, speculative behavior, and irrational exuberance behind such debacles as the Dutch Tulip Bulb Craze, the South Sea Bubble, the Great Depression, and the Dot-Com Crash.

For more practical advice on day-to-day trading, be sure to check out the investment dictionary and the tutorials on topics such as trading indicators and strategies, money management, electronic trading platforms, and how to code your own trading system. And for a currency trader, their introduction to the forex markets is a must-read.

Since I'm on the Investopedia site quite often to satisfy my curiosity about a particular trading approach or find out how a certain indicator is calculated, look for more highlights from their extensive resources in future posts.