Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Investor Parachutes vs. Pillows: Why Diversification Doesn't Work / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: EWI
Prechter and Kendall's "All the Same Market" Analysis Shows how Diversification Can't Protect You from Correlated Risk
A dear friend of mine wants to celebrate an important health milestone by going skydiving with friends. She feels happy and healthy and excited. She wants to do something very thrilling to celebrate.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Rebalancing Act for Your Stocks and Precious Metals Investment Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Investing 2011
By: David_Galland
David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research writes: Has the latest pullback in precious metals and related stocks given you a sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach?
If so, then consider rebalancing - because that sinking feeling is a good signal that you are probably over invested in the sector. I'll have more on that topic in a moment, but first to the question of where to invest, if not in precious metals and resource stocks? That is a question we get quite often.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Why It's Dangerous to Diversify Your Investment Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
A free report from Elliott Wave International reveals the risks of portfolio diversification
Despite near-unanimous endorsement among mainstream advisors, the strategy of portfolio diversification has a huge, glaring flaw: Namely, when large sums of liquidity begin to flow into global investment markets, formerly disparate trends become strongly correlated. And markets that go up together ultimately go down together; in turn, the value of diversified portfolios goes down with them.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Janet Tavakoli's Top Ten Business Books of 2010 / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Janet_Tavakoli
New Century: Fooling Me All of the Time or Why Improper Practices Only Matter When I’m Short and Not Earning Double Digit Dividends by David Einhorn
The Race to Stop the Collapse of Goldman Sachs and Exploit the Crisis, by Henry M. Paulson
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
How the Banking Industry Works - Xtranormal Video / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Mike_Hewitt
Julia Sanders interviews Thomas Lloyd, an investment banker of ABC Wealth Management, resulting in a satiric exposition of the banking industry.
Friday, December 03, 2010
Top 12 Favourite Books On The FInancial and Economic Crisis That has Defined Our Times / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Danny_Schechter
Back in 2007, just as the markets began their meltdown, I started writing a book I called Plunder to investigate the then emerging economic calamity. I had a well-known agent representing me, and, at that time, had published ten books. My agent warned me that I was ahead of the curve but agreed that the subject couldn’t be timelier.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
How to Trade Markets with Simple Tools / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Improve your Financial Decision-Making Skills with Guidance from EWI Chief Commodity Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
As a high school freshman, I had a friend over to do math homework after school. It was cold in the room, so I stood on my chair and jumped up and down to try and bat open a closed heating vent.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Doug Casey’s Secret to Finding Winning Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
Doug Casey – The Eight Ps of Resource Stock Evaluation : I’ve been asked “What’s the secret of finding winning gold, silver, and other natural resource stocks?” more times than I can even begin to count. And for over 20 years, my answer has remained pretty much the same: the Eight Ps.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
How to Spot High Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
The "moving average" is a technical indicator which has stood the test of time. Nearly 25 years ago, Robert Prechter described this indicator in his famous essay, "What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful." What he said then remains true today:
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Free eBook teaches you how to apply Moving Averages to your trading or investing / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Greetings trader,
Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave International (EWI) has just released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, bySenior AnalystJeffrey Kennedy.
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
Understanding Contrarian Stock Market Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Jeff_Neal
Traders have employed contrarian type analysis methods for years in an effort to garner market profits. Over the years the indicators that can be employed by the contrarian have grown but the major theme has remained the same and that is focus on what the majority is doing right now as well as what particular directional bias they currently possess. Contrarian analysis seeks out potential buying and selling strength by measuring investor expectations.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Market Manipulation Is Not Why Most Traders Lose / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
How often have you heard analysts refer to a down day on Wall Street as "traders taking profits"? Sounds great, but the sobering fact is that most traders -- in futures, commodities, or forex -- lose money.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
How to Protect Your Portfolio with Stock Options Insurance Policy / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:If you don't deal a lot with stock options in your investments, you probably don't realize just how versatile options actually are.
In fact, stock options can be used:
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
A Fingerprint of Instability in Biology and Finance, Time Series and Fractals Analysis / InvestorEducation / Financial Markets
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
Recently, there has been much research into the chaotic dynamics of complex systems in many different fields. Complexity theory provides great analytical insights into the structures of "hard" sciences such as biology and also social sciences such as economics. It can even reveal dyamic properties that will serve as predictive indicators across both of the two fields (and perhaps many others). It should be noted that "predictive" doesn't necessarily mean a specific result will always follow, but that it becomes significantly more likely to occur. The following article will explore a relatively simple indicator which identifies high probabilities of instability in both the human circulatory system (specifically cardiac) and financial markets. Let's start this discussion with a short quiz. Take a look at the following four graphs of heartbeats per minute over a 30-minute interval, and see if you can guess which one(s) belongs to a healthy patient and which one belongs to a patient facing sudden cardiac death:
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Investor Portfolio Diversification is Essential, Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
The natural resource sector has been performing extremely well of late and we are of the opinion that we are still in the early stages of an explosion in share prices. Gains of 100's of percent will be common but not without some risk.
Each investor must decide their own level of comfort and risk tolerance as measured again the potential gains to be made in the coming months.
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