Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Top 3 Technical Tools Part 3: MACD - Video Lesson / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Enhance your trading confidence with this short lesson on how to combine Moving Average Convergence Divergence with other technical tools.
Read full article... Read full article..."Guessing or going by gut instinct won't work over the long run. If you don't have a defined trading methodology, then you don't have a way to know what constitutes a buy or sell signal. Moreover, you can't even consistently correctly identify the trend." -Jeffrey Kennedy
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Free Traders Educational Week / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Dear Trader,
You have an opportunity to spend the next week learning how you can spot high-confidence trade setups in the charts you follow every day.
Elliott Wave International (EWI) is hosting a free Trader Education Week. Register now and get instant access to free trading resources -- plus you'll receive more lessons as they're unlocked each day of the event.
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
3 Ways the Elliott Wave Principle Enhances Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Learn practical ways in which Elliott wave analysis sets you apart from the herd
In this new interview, the head of Elliott Wave International's Educational Resources, Wayne Gorman, tells you about 3 practical benefits of trading with the Elliott Wave Principle: setting realistic price targets, finding ideal entry points -- and squeezing the most out of the trend.
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
Trading 101: Position Sizing / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
This is going to be the last of the trading lessons for a while. I don’t want to turn this into a trading blog, and there are important macro things to talk about (especially next week).
Here’s an imaginary scenario: someone tips you that an acquisition is going to happen. Of course, that would be insider trading, which is illegal—but let’s pretend for the purpose of this exercise that insider trading were legal.
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Stock Market Forecasts: Why You Should Consider Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Technical versus fundamental analysis? The winner is...
Technical versus fundamental analysis: Which approach yields better investment results?
A new study by three finance professors offers an answer.
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Decision Theory - The Certainty Equivalent / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By Jared Dillian
One of my students met me in my office the other day. He is a ROTC cadet; that’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, in case you don’t know.
He knows I have military experience, and he wanted to pick my brain about how he could use his MBA while working for the government.
“Uh, you can’t, really,” I said.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Three Things Every Master Trader Knows About Trading Options / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
I don’t want that happen to you.
While I expect this increased volatility to continue as we head into September and October, things seem to have settled down for the moment, and the markets have, for the time being, resumed their upward march.
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Friday, August 28, 2015
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Market Fluctuations / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
Patrick Cox: Most of you know that my day job involves finding disruptive technologies for investors. Most of you also know that the stock market has recently taken a southward plunge.
When I was younger, I always wondered why big fluctuations in markets seemed to cause so many people so much anxiety and consternation. It’s not as if we don’t know that, historically, markets have always displayed big swings. Understanding this, it always seemed clear to me that a rational individual would not invest money in equities if that money might be needed in the short run.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015
Trade for Income in a Tax-advantaged Accounts / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Friday, August 14, 2015
7 Key Rules Contrarian Investors Should Adhere To / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
"Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea." ~ Anonymous
Contrarian investing is a dynamic field and not a static one. The assumption that it's a static field is held by the new breed of fashion contrarians, whose only donation to this field has been to glamorize it and distort the correct notion of being a contrarian investor. These fashion contrarians are no different from those with the mass mindset; they only pretend to do things differently, but the moment fear or uncertainty is in the air, they flee for the exits like bandits being chased by the hounds of hell. A true contrarian in most cases understands the basic rules of mass psychology. If you are not familiar with these rules, you are doing yourself a disservice and should catch up on them ASAP.
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 1: Japanese Candlesticks / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Elliott Wave International senior analyst shows you how to identify quality trade setups
"I always will be an Elliottician, but other technical tools have merit and are indeed worthwhile: they allow me to build a case, build a more confident reason for making a forecast and for taking a trade; making a trading decision." -Jeffrey Kennedy
I recently asked Elliott Wave International analyst Jeffrey Kennedy to name his 3 favorite technical tools (besides the Wave Principle). He told me that Japanese candlesticks, RSI, and MACD Indicators are currently his top methods to support trade setups.
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Saturday, August 08, 2015
The "How to Get Rich" Lesson I Learned on the Trading Floor in Chicago / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
MoneyMorning.com Back in 1982, I was a clerk for a big market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). A year later, I was sitting on the exchange and running a hedge fund.
My first day of trading was a disaster. But it's where I learned how to get rich.
You see, there was a "fast market" in FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), which means the pit was crowded with traders yelling and screaming, buying and selling options based on an unexpectedly positive earnings report that had just come out. I rushed into the crowd and amassed a position.
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Friday, August 07, 2015
Bill Gross Warns Fed Will Raise U.S. Interest Rates in September by 25 Basis Points / InvestorEducation / US Interest Rates
Bill Gross of Janus Capital spoke with Bloomberg's Tom Keene following today's jobs report.
Gross said he sees the Fed raising interest rates in September by 25 basis points: "There have some pretty strong signals from Lockhart and others that September is the number. And I think it's because of financial conditions. We know that inflation is close to zero. Yes, unemployment is steady, but low... Whether it's 25 or 50 basis points-- probably 25, I hope. 50 would scare the market."
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Thursday, August 06, 2015
Shame - A Powerful motivator for Traders / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Shame is a powerful motivator. Especially in this business.
When I was an ETF trader, if a client came in to trade a few hundred thousand shares of an ETF and the price moved abruptly against him right after the trade was consummated, the client would request a price improvement. This was to prevent embarrassment when the client (an execution trader) reported the fill to his boss (the portfolio manager).
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015
The “Getting Rich” Lesson I Learned on the Trading Floor in Chicago / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
MoneyMorning.com Shah Gilani writes: Back in early 1982, I was a clerk for a big market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). A year later, I had a seat on the exchange, was a market maker and was running a hedge fund.
My first day of trading – for my account – was a disaster.
There was a “fast market” in FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), which means the pit was crowded with traders yelling and screaming, buying and selling options based on an unexpectedly positive earnings report that had just come out. I rushed into the crowd and amassed a position.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015
How to Build Consistent Trading Success / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
EWI's senior analyst Jeffrey Kennedy shares with you practical advice on what it takes to improve the quality of your trades.
You've heard it all before:
- If you want to trade using Elliott wave analysis, to succeed you first need to understand its rules and guidelines.
- You need a clearly defined trading strategy (what? when? how? etc.) and the discipline to follow it.
- Additionally, your long-term success depends on adequate capitalization, money management skills and emotional self-control.
Saturday, August 01, 2015
Why Your Brokerage Account Isn’t as Safe as You Think It Is / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By E.B. Tucker
Imagine logging into your brokerage account tomorrow and finding out that it’s frozen.
Not just your account… every customer account at your brokerage is frozen.
You can’t buy stocks. You can’t sell stocks. You can’t move money out of the account.
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Friday, July 31, 2015
One of the Greatest Income-Producing Tools for Retirees / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
One of the Greatest Income-Producing Tools for Retirees
Dr. David Eifrig writes: It might sound crazy... but retirees can safely earn 12% to 20% income streams on their savings.
My Retirement Trader readers have been using one strategy to rake in thousands of dollars every month.
It's simple. And once you get familiar with how it works, you can use this strategy to safely and conservatively generate 12% or more in annual income on a retirement account.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
How to Trade Markets Using the Stochastic Oscillator - Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
A lesson from EWI's Jeffrey Kennedy
The stochastic oscillator is a technical tool that was popularized by George Lane. It is a momentum indicator based on the idea that in an uptrending market the close tends to be near the high of the price bar, and in a downtrending market the close tends to be near the low of the price bar.
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Saturday, July 18, 2015
Market Orders - The Most Powerful Total Wealth Tactic of All / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When I started Total Wealth, I made you a promise that we were not only going to cover the events of the day and the opportunities they create, but also the specific tactics you need to maximize profits and build Total Wealth.
Today I want to keep that promise with a look at the single most powerful Total Wealth Tactic of all.
It’s simple, easy to use, and takes only an extra second or two to put in place.
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