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Impressive 17.7% Return in stock trading contest.

Dec, 2011 CARTERVILLE, IL - While their counterparts on Wall Street struggled, students in David England's stock and option investment classes (FIN 229 & 230) at John A. Logan College put their new-found knowledge to work in the College≠s annual Investment Challenge and outperformed the market, which saw a loss of 4.89% during the same time period. The winner registered an extremely impressive 17.7% return on his investments.

The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq Since Their 2000 Highs

By Doug Short
9/11/2011 - This past Friday I received a request from David England, a professor who has developed a popular college level stock market classes at John A. Logan College in Carterville, IL. In his upcoming presentations, he wants to disprove the standard message of Wall Street, "Don't worry, the market will always come back." Read More at DShort.com

Dedicated student commutes nearly 400 miles to weekly class.

1/8/2010 - CARTERVILLE, IL - It was a long commute, but Phil Sands said it was worth the time and effort. Every week during the fall semester, the Champaign resident made a nearly 400-mile round-trip trek to John A. Logan College in Carterville to take FIN 230, a financial entrepreneurship class taught by Associate Professor of Finance David England, who educates students about trading and investing in the stock market and securities industries. Read More at The Southern

Economists, The sky is not falling

9/16/2008 John A. Logan College Associate Professor David England said he believes the market is primed for a correction before starting to go up again. A perfect storm is developing for a major sell-off. He said investors should use the economic environment now to learn how the market works and to learn how to make the market work for them. If you use a broker, you need downside protection to protect yourself in a downturn, he said.

Read More at The Southern

David England seen in the Daily American News, click for the full story

England's Stock is Rising Fast - Carterville Courier

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Spring '11 - Financial Friday Lecture Series at JALC

Everyone is talking about this Spring's Financial Friday Class series offered at John A. Logan college for only $79.00 each seminar. The series starts March 4, 2011 The first lecture is entitled, "Learn What Your Broker Does Not Want For You To Know!"

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Financial Friday Lecture Series at JALC

A popular series of one-day seminars returns to John A. Logan College this fall.

This year's theme will be "Learn What Your Broker Doesn't Want You to Know" and deal primarily with online and self-brokering. "I'm going to teach how the market works and how to work the market." Read More...

Learn to Earn teaches stock market lingo

For those who don't know how to send a fill or kill in anticipation of a dead cat bounce - has John A. Logan College got a class for you.

Students in David England's classes not only learn how to talk the stock market talk, but also how to turn that talk into a walk toward financial independence.... Read More...

A troubled economy and longer life spans are two of the reasons why baby boomers and other retirees are lining up for stock market classes, Associate Professor David England at John A. Logan College said.

England said that in the past few years, boomers, who are just entering retirement age, have been preparing themselves for retirement by taking his stock market classes.... Read More...

John A. Logan College (JALC) announced that it has become one of only 12 colleges in the country to offer TC2007 software, a program that allows professional money managers to analyze the stock market.

David England, who teaches a stock market trading class, said the software allows his students to sort through as many as 10,000 stocks and exchange traded funds (ETF).... Read More...

When David England was 11, he hit .559 in Little League. He attributed this feat largely to a philosophy he had already created at that young age: "Never, ever give up." Life was good that summer.

Everything changed the following year, though. When he was 12, England would be forced to really put his new-found philosophy to the test....Read More...

Over 50 percent of all households in the U.S. have money invested in the stock market. No longer regarded as the domain of wealthy financiers, the market has become a fact of life for millions of middle-income Americans. John A. Logan College's David England, associate professor of marketing and financial entrepreneurship, has advice for those who want to better understand how the stock market works in order to take advantage of the financial opportunities it offers. Read More...