There are blogs on nearly every single topic you can imagine and trading is no exception. Today I will share with you blogs I enjoy reading and blogs that will make you a better trader. If you have been living under a rock for the past 5 years a blog is:

“A website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” Source wikipedia

Blogs are growing at a phenomenal rate as they allow individuals to have a powerful voice. The growth of blogs is highlighted in the chart below:

Blogs are also a source of income for a growing number of individuals. One notable blogger is John Chow whose income for October 2007 from his blog alone was $23,448.59.

Number One

Steve Pavlina runs a personal development blog that is full of insight and will help you become more productive and grow as a person. The blog is not regularly updated, however there are enough resources to keep you busy for a long time.

Key Posts

• Podcasts
• Ten Reasons to never get a job
• Self discipline series
• Reaction vs Responses

Number Two

Zen habbits covers a wide range of topics including eliminating debt, achieving goals, being organized, productivity, eliminating debt and saving.

Key Posts

• How to make the most out of luck
• Escape your location
• Create an Emergency Fund
• Simplified living

Number Three

Michael Covel is the author of Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets and The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results. His blog contains diverse range of quality trading information.

Key Posts

• CNBC Is Dangerous for Your Health!
• Pied Piper Feedback
• Plunge Protection Team
• Ben Stein on Oil

Number Four

The money blogs is an aggregation of a large number of different blogs. The topics posted on vary widely from real estate, stock investing, personal finance and trading.

Key Posts

• Risk, ruin and chaos
• Do you trade for action or profit?
• Above all have a trading plan
• Chance favors the prepared mind

Number Five

I can’t say too much about this blog other then it has some very interesting articles. It can be a bit hard to navigate but definitely worth a read.

Key Posts

• Avoiding outcome bias
• When index calculations lag
• But it is visually stunning (funny and so true)
• I am not as smart as I thought I was

Number Six

Trader’s narrative is concentrated mainly on timing, sentiment and new ways of analysing markets. It is jam packed full of analysis and also sells tshirts with the tagline “Traders do it for money”.

Key Posts

• Experts are hazardous to your health
• Sentiment measures
• Alan Grenspan
• The myth of Gold as safehaven

Number Seven

An inspiring blog by Jon who suffers from the degenerative Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This has not stopped Jon from living life to the fullest his sit is called onmoneymaking and provides tips on how to make more money.

Key Posts

• How much money have you made your company today?
• How to build a crystal ball to predict the future
• Freedom in 2007
• Money making formula

Number eight

Ugly chart is a blog that contains general trade information the author trade for a living. He trades with a Prop Firm.

Key Posts

• A glimpse into professional day trading
• Futures trading is hard
• WOW Gold arbitrage opportunities

Number Nine

Foot Noted is a site that takes a closer look at things companies attempt to bury in their routine SEC filings.

Key Posts

• Sub primeitis or a sub prime ate my homework
• Sub prime and Citi

Number Ten

Vitaliy’s Contrian Edge is a blog maintained by a CFA and author of Active value investing and contains interesting thoughts views and analysis.

Key Posts

• Why Are Bank P/Es So Low?
• Good Company vs. Good Stock
• Fly, Don’t Buy Airlines or Why Big Banks Make Dumb Loans