Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Stock Market MAP Waves Part 1 - An Alternative to Elliot Waves / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
By: Marc_Horn
I had real problems with the complexity of Elliot Wave (EW) corrections, where there are never ending corrections, with some EW analysts having multi decade corrections, where higher tops are valid under EW theory. This presents serious investment difficulties, because you never know where you are in any wave. Here I will present MAP waves, my modified wave counting based on analysis with examples and statistics so that probabilities can be established for risk management on a weekly and daily pivot scale. I only look at indices, because individual stocks can be too easily manipulated, including by governments as is done in the US.
Monday, April 23, 2012
General Thoughts About Luck / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
As someone who plays poker regularly, I'd like to think that I have a good understanding of why luck is important in our lives. It's NOT because the world is completely random and we have no influence over what outcomes will materialize for us - actually, it is the very fact that we do make meaningful decisions in the face of uncertainty that generates luck. Let me try to explain what I mean with an analogy to the game of poker.
Poker is a game of skill, which means those players with superior skills (patience, discipline, memory, critical/logical thinking, mathematical analysis) have a long-term edge over the less skillful among them. It is a very simple game with simple rules governing what each player can do (fold, call, bet, raise), what order they can do it in, how much they can bet at any given time, which hands rank higher than others, etc.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
How to Spot High Profit Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear Trader,
Elliott Wave International (EWI) has released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, by Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Investing Diversification: Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Charles_Carnevale
Investing Diversification: Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be?There's an old cliché about real estate investing that states that the three cardinal rules are: location- location- location. Clever pundits have borrowed upon this refrain and glibly state that the three most important or cardinal rules of investing are: diversify- diversify- diversify. However, careful analysis will reveal that diversification is a multifaceted concept that has different meanings, benefits and even risks depending on how it's used and what its ultimate purpose is. Therefore, my goal is to examine this ubiquitous investing concept from various angles and perspectives.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Are Share Rollbacks: Good or Bad for Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
As a general rule, we hate to see an announcement of a share rollback, however, there exceptions which we cover below. Investors should always be aware that if a company has, say over 150 million shares outstanding, in our opinion, it is a potential candidate for a rollback and the announcement should not come as a surprise.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Trading Volatility, How to Beat the Stock Market at its Own Game / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
Many investors are convinced the market is stacked against them.
It is.... but not for the reasons you might think.
Dismal returns actually have very little to do with super computers, research, insider information or access to the trading floor.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A True Stock Investor’s Most Important Performance Measurement / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Charles_Carnevale
Although most people either fail to realize it, or simply refused to accept it, every stock portfolio has two separate and distinct performances. The first, and in my opinion, the least important, is stock price movement. If you buy a stock at $10 a share and it goes to $15 a share it’s a good stock. In contrast, if you buy a stock at $15 a share and it goes to$10 a share it’s a bad stock. Meanwhile, the operating performance (earnings results) is mostly ignored while often irrational price gyrations are excessively fixated upon. Of course, I understand why people behave this way, but I still can’t help but be very frustrated by this behavior.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
It's Time to Change the Way You Think About the Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
The Daily Crux: What does it mean to value a stock as a business? How does it differ from the way most investors think about investing?
Friday, April 06, 2012
Elliott Wave Diagonal Straight Shot to a Market Trading Opportunity / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Today we sit down with Elliott Wave International's Futures Junctures Editor and Senior Tutorial Instructor Jeffrey Kennedy to discuss his favorite wave pattern of all: the diagonal.
EWI: You say if you had to pick just ONE of all 13 known Elliott wave structures to spend the rest of your technical trading life with, it would be the diagonal. First, tell us what the diagonal is.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
How You Can Find High-Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear Trader,
Elliott Wave International (EWI) has released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, by Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
The Best Exit Strategy for Any Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
So... when do YOU sell?
What? You don't know? How could you not have any kind of plan?
Let's say you hold shares of Apple today at over $600 a share. You bought them a couple months ago below $400 a share. When is the right time to sell?
Monday, April 02, 2012
Stock Momentum Reversal Trading Method / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Banister
After a few years of testing with both ETF’s and then individual stocks, we rolled out our MRM (momentum reversal method) platform at my ATP subscription service in November 2011. This is now beginning to get alot of attention in the trading community as in addition to the ATP service, I have shared some of the real time MRM type plays online with some very top notch traders.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Why We Don’t Use The Stock Market Trading 7-8% Stop Loss Rule / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
The recent action in SWI and notes in the chart below are why we don’t use the 7-8% rule.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Option Trading: A Basic Explanation of Debit Spreads / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
Welcome back to the world of options. My reality exists in three dimensions and far more combinations of potential positions than does the one-dimensional world of the stock trader.
The view from my turret is ruled by the three primal forces of options — time to expiration, price of the underlying, and implied volatility. Consider for a moment the fact that each of these factors can independently impact a given option.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
ETFs: Do Investors Really Know What They Are Buying? / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Casey_Research
Vedran Vuk, Casey Research write: Exchange-traded funds have been all the rage in recent years – they are easy to buy, easy to sell, and often have lower expense ratios than index mutual funds. But the Casey Research team dug deep into the complex world of ETFs and found that in many cases, their names can be utterly deceptive.