BillCara.com – Capital Markets & Social Equity

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Mission Statement

I believe in sovereignty of the individual and in our need to build and rely upon both family and social networks in order to improve society and build "wealth" that includes, in addition to material wealth, a healthy lifestyle and bountiful social capital.
--Bill Cara

BillCara.com is a virtual community of students-of-the-market united by their commitment to the pursuit and sharing of knowledge of capital markets. Leadership and opportunity for discussion is provided by Bill Cara through his personal experiences and insights of the global financial markets. By providing a trading-learning environment that fosters respect for differing individual and organizations’ needs and interests, BillCara.com offers experienced, incisive and truly independent analysis of the global financial markets, in Bill's free Daily and Weekly Reports.

Capital Markets and Social Equity

Social equity is the fair treatment of others in your community. Bill Cara takes this a step further into the capital markets, helping to level the playing field for anyone wanting to build personal wealth.

By sharing his own experience and knowledge of how the capital markets work, Bill offers the opportunity for individuals to learn how to successfully trade in the market themselves. The capital markets are open to everyone, not just the wealthy and investment advisors. Bill is committed to empowering his readers through education, information and facilitation programs building a community that in turn, can offer their resources and services to other like-minded individuals in the BillCara.com community.

From Bill’s senior industry experience on both the sell-side and buy-side, he knows that capital markets trading is a long and challenging journey. Regardless of whether you are a neophyte investor or a registered securities trader, he really does work free for you, because he loves the capital markets and wants to see all people in society do well.

Strategic Approach

Bill Cara selects the best trades from a computer analysis of quality, value and timing factors, without influence from biased or conflicted sources. With no ax to grind, Bill provides the straight-up information you need to make decisions that will make you money.

Bill was deeply influenced by the nineteenth century political economist Henry George who wrote...

"In the present social conditions of the civilized world, nothing is clearer than that there is some deep and widespread wrong in the distribution, if not in the production, of wealth. This, it is (our task) to disclose”

and now sees it as his life's mission to work toward the improvement of these systems.

Who is Bill Cara?

Bill Cara is known internationally as “The Trader Wizard”. Retired from active business at the end of 2000, he began to write a trading blog in April 2004 that quickly became popular around the world, gaining popularity with mainstream media like Wall St Journal, Barron's and Forbes, where he is listed as their "Favorite" trading blog. There are as of the summer of 2007, approximately 100,000 readers in 140 countries, with an annualized hit rate of over 100 million. On July 7, 2007, he moved to Nassau Bahamas where he anticipates becoming a permanent resident, and where he will operate a registered securities firm called Cara Trading Advisors (Bahamas) Ltd. His book “Lessons of the Trader Wizard” is due for publication by ISI Publications in February, 2008.

As a private Canadian businessman, Bill Cara has extensive experience in the Canadian securities industry. He was the co-founder/CEO of Qtrade Investor (Canada’s leading online broker), founder and President of Security Traders International (offshore trading broker), President of William Cara Investment Bancorp (registered Ontario securities dealer), founder/CEO Canaccord Capital’s Eastern Canada Operations (Canada’s largest full-service independently-owned broker-dealer) and broker and portfolio manager with Dominion Securities and Dominion Securities Investment Management (now RBC).

Bill has been called as an expert witness by the Canadian Securities Administrators at a forum on electronic trading brokerage and also by the Senate of Canada Banking Committee Task Force on the future of Canada’s financial services industry. The Government of Canada has invited Bill to speak with Canada’s trade commissioner in three Asian countries. He has also been a member of the Government of Ontario Task Force that reviewed the operations of the Canadian unlisted securities market, now operated by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Bill also supported non-profit, non-governmental organizations committed to the United Nations Global Compact for Third World economic sustainability.

Bill is married to Patricia Cara (from June 1969) and has a son, Will, and a daughter, Stefanie.

Posted by Bill Cara at August 1, 2007 6:21 PM