Image credit: Raphael, “St. George and the Dragon,” ca. 1506, National Gallery of Art By Jason Zweig Nov. 20, 2014 My recent column, “The Lessons of Forex Trading: Learn from Your Losses,” reminded me of something, and I couldn’t remember what. Finally it came to me: I’d written something at least a little...
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By Jason Zweig | 12:27 pm ET Nov. 14, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet This past week, six big banks paid $4.3 billion to settle allegations that they had conspired to rig the global currency markets. But even if the bad behavior has stopped, the little guy still has the cards stacked against him. A new study of more than 110,000 transactions finds...
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By Jason Zweig | 11:24 am ET June 28, 2013 Image credit: http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/ Editor’s note: Jason Zweig recently wrote his 250th “Intelligent Investor” column for The Wall Street Journal and shortly thereafter won a Gerald Loeb Award, considered the most prestigious in business journalism, in the Personal Finance category. I was once...
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Image credit: Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig Nov. 13, 2014 I don’t often look back at what I’ve written and think: I nailed it. One of my columns, however, does seem to hold up pretty well more than 15 years later. In May 1999, I looked at Internet stocks and counseled readers not to buy them. Knowing, as you probably...
Read MoreBy Jason Zweig | 11:04 am ET Nov. 7, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet If you get a “happiness letter” from your brokerage firm this time of year, be worried. Such letters go out because the firm’s internal monitoring software has detected activity that could be harmful to a client and could lead to arbitration claims or regulatory penalties. Attorneys...
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