Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, December 15, 2013
The Four Biggest Mistakes Stock and Futures Market Traders Make / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
In this series I would like to share with you the four biggest mistakes traders and investors make which costs them time, money and usually self-confidence when trading stocks, ETF’s or futures trading strategies.
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Monday, December 02, 2013
Short Selling - The Worst Trade You Can Make / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Alexander Green writes: Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled “Tough Year for Short Sellers.”
I’ll say…
Short sellers bet that stocks will fall rather than rise. You already know, for instance, that if you buy a stock at $20 and sell it at $25, you make $5 a share. But if you short a stock at $25 and buy it back at $20, you also make $5 a share. However, this has been an awfully difficult game to play this year.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Investing - Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
I have received numerous emails from subscribers asking about individual stocks and how much they should buy. While I am not licensed to give individualized advice, each time I read these questions, the experiences shared seem eerily similar to my own.
, Back in 2008 many retirees had their CDs called in overnight. They had a large amount of cash and an urgent need to do something to recover the 6%, low-risk income that no longer existed. Many thought moving all of their capital into the stock market was all that they needed to do. Oh boy, they were in for a surprise.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Investors' Toolkit - Trailing Stops: Why You Need Them and How to Use Them / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Here at Money Morning, we're big proponents of using trailing stops as an easy and effective way to mitigate risk and boost gains.
And yet a surprisingly large group of individual investors don't use them, or have never heard the importance of trailing stops explained.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
How to Spot High-Confidence Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The moving average is a technical indicator which has stood the test of time. It's been 27 years since Robert Prechter described this vital tool in his famous essay, "What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful." What he said then remains true today:
A simple 10-day moving average of the daily advance-decline net, probably the first indicator a stock market technician learns, can be used as a trading tool, if objectively defined rules are created for its use.
What is a moving average? Here's how EWI's Jeffrey Kennedy puts it:
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Common Investing Mistakes to Avoid / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Garrett Baldwin writes: It's been a great year for investors who stayed in the market, and stayed disciplined. The S&P 500 is up more than 25% on the year, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 21%.
But making money isn't just about finding stocks/investments that will increase in price. It also involves avoiding the common investing mistakes that prevent retail investors from enjoying record-high markets.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
How to Find Trading Opportunities in ANY Market Using Bar Patterns Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Learn to trade a Key Reversal Bar Pattern -- another high-confidence trade setup
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of EWI's trader education service, Elliott Wave Junctures, and is one of our most popular instructors. Jeffrey's primary analytical method is the Elliott Wave Principle, but he also uses several other technical tools to supplement his analysis.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Investment Rule of 72 for Successful Stock Market Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
The issue of successful stock market investment affects us all. Even if we are not directly engaged in the industry, all of us will need some form of pension to fund our retirement. Whether we like it or not most of our retirement funds will find their way into the financial markets. For this very reason, the issue of pensions has moved politically centre stage, in particular the investment strategies used to direct pension funds. Due to mismanagement, mainly over the last decade, many retirement portfolios have become under-funded at best, or, at worst, totally bust. This situation is a direct result of the managed funds having been speculated rather than invested. Many cynics will say that the whole investment environment today has more of the characteristics of a casino than of a professional market of equities and, therefore, they doubt that one can ever achieve a faithful and fair return on capital. However, this view is erroneous. This essay sets out to explain how to achieve superior stock market investment returns through a simple yet powerful investment rule: “the rule of 72”. This rule is based on investment and not speculation yet if you faithfully apply it your returns, over time, will be worthwhile. Many believe that such degree of return is only possible through “speculative activity”. They are wrong and I will explain.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
How to Trade in Currency Markets with Harmonic Chart Patterns / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Brett Chatz writes: One of the biggest challenges facing traders in the currency market is that of identifying future patterns or trends which may develop. Fortunately, some pretty useful methods have been developed using technical analysis and fundamental analysis. No method is fool proof and no method provides 100% certainty as to future market movements. However in the trading arena, it’s probabilities that investors are looking for. The higher the probability that an event is likely to occur the better.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Motive and Corrective Patterns - How to Find Trading Opportunities in ANY Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of our Elliott Wave Junctures trader education service and is one of our most popular instructors. Today, Jeffrey shares a video lesson about trading one of his favorite Elliott wave patterns, the diagonal.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
How to Use Candlestocks to Find Trading Opportunities in ANY Market - Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
How to Use Candlestocks to Find Trading Opportunities in ANY Market - Video
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of our Elliott Wave Junctures educational service and is one of our most popular instructors. Jeffrey's primary analytical method is the Elliott Wave Principle, but he also uses several other technical tools to supplement his analysis. In today's lesson, Jeffrey shows you how to use candlestick patterns to identify opportunities.
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Friday, November 01, 2013
How to Identify Market Turning Points in Your Charts Using Fibonacci / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
In this trading lesson, Elliott Wave International's Jeffrey Kennedy shows you how you can use Fibonacci to forecast potential turning points in your charts. You'll learn the most common Fibonacci retracements and where to expect them in your charts. At the end of the lesson, learn how you can get a 14-page Fibonacci eBook, free!
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Friday, October 25, 2013
How to Be a David to Wall Street Goliaths / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Does the little guy ever really stand a chance in the market? Well… did David take down Goliath?
The mainstream media likes to peddle stories about the little investor who always loses money in the stock market. When the mechanics or teachers or dentists of this world try to compete with the big boys on Wall Street, they always seem to fail. Ordinary people like you and me appear doomed to lose our shirts when we try to compete against folks with sophisticated trading tools (and mathematical geniuses to run them). But are we?
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Learn to Spot a Head & Shoulders Trading Patterns in Your Charts (Video) / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
A Trading Lesson from Elliott Wave International's Jeffrey Kennedy
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of our Elliott Wave Junctures trader education service and one of our most popular instructors. Jeffrey's primary analytical method is the Elliott Wave Principle, but he also uses several other technical tools to supplement his analysis.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tweeter - Why You Should Triple-Check the Ticker Before Buying That Stock / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
A simple misplaced letter can make a world of difference.
Two weeks ago, on an otherwise quiet Friday, voracious investors piled into the most anticipated tech IPO since Facebook. Buyers bought over 14 million shares of social media giant Twitter, sending its price soaring over 1,000%.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
How to Find Trading Opportunities in ANY Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Learn ways to spot trading opportunities using wave analysis and other technical analysis methods
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is the editor of our Elliott Wave Junctures and one of our most popular instructors. Jeffrey's primary analytical method is the Elliott Wave Principle, but he also uses several other technical tools to supplement his analysis.
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Monday, October 07, 2013
How to Trade the VIX Stock Market Fear Index / InvestorEducation / Volatility
It's time to learn something all serious investors should know: how to trade the VIX Indicator (VIX).
While most investors are scrambling to figure out whether the market is headed up or down, savvy pros use the VIX both as means of protection and a source of profit.
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Friday, October 04, 2013
The Three Phases of a Trader's Education / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy explains why traders need to understand both personal and crowd psychologyJeffrey Kennedy, editor of our educational Elliott Wave
Junctures service, tells us that there are three phases
of a trader's education, and that aspiring traders typically
go through them in this order:
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Announcing Trader Education Week - a Free Event to Help You Learn to Spot Trading Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Announcing Trader Education Week -- A FREE trading event that will teach you how to spot trading opportunities in your charts. Spend October 2-9 getting free trading lessons that you can apply to your trading immediately -- from one of the world's foremost market technicians, Jeffrey Kennedy. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, September 23, 2013
Why the Mega-Rich Get Richer / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Alexander Green writes: With unemployment high and the economy still sputtering, economic insecurity in the U.S. is rampant right now. The 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS), the longest-running survey of its kind, reveals that the percentage of workers who feel confident they have enough for a comfortable retirement is near record lows.
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