Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, February 08, 2013
Why Many Newsletter Writers Will Steer You The Wrong Way / InvestorEducation / Stock Markets 2013
Brian Hunt writes: It's time for traders to take caution... the "dirty secret of the investment advisory business" is flashing a warning sign.
This dirty secret helped traders make big, low-risk gains by going long stocks in June. And it's a timeless piece of wisdom that will always help lead you to great trading opportunities. The "dirty secret" is simple...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
QE for Dummies, Understanding the Most Outlandish Monetary Experiment Ever Conducted - Part1 / InvestorEducation / Quantitative Easing
A PeakProsperity.com reader recently lamented:
Read full article... Read full article...I have been trying to get my head around the mechanism of QE. Not being an economist or experienced investor I don't really understand a lot of the jargon. The usual simple definition of QE as "thin air money printing" does not satisfy my need for understanding either. Have hunted for a description of QE for dummies that leaves me feeling like I get it, but with no luck. My difficulty is in understanding how thin air money gets into circulation.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Trading Opportunities - Understanding How Moving Averages Work / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Moving averages are a popular tool for technical traders because they can "smooth" price fluctuations in any chart. EWI Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy gives a clear definition:
Read full article... Read full article..."A moving average is simply the average value of data over a specified time period, and it is used to figure out whether the price of a stock or commodity is trending up or down... one way to think of a moving average is that it's an automated trend line."
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Trading Chaos Theory Market Fractals - Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
How Chaos Theory Fractals can help you identify high probability market turning points.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The 12 Rules to Follow for Buying Dividend Stocks / InvestorEducation / Dividends
Many of you have probably filled out one of the "retirement planner" forms available online. Plenty of tax and accounting programs also have "Lifetime Planner" sections for folks to determine if they can afford to retire.
These sorts of programs plug certain assumptions into a formula, such as projected inflation rate, retirement income, anticipated spending levels, and portfolio growth rate. After you add your personal information, it projects how much money you'll be able to produce annually during retirement, and how long it will last.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
The Most Amazing Business and Investment Story of Our Time / InvestorEducation / Money Making
Alexander Green writes: If your son dropped out of college before getting a degree and without taking a single business class, joined a far-left commune dedicated to progressive ideals, and made no secret of his heartfelt belief that business is all about greed, selfishness and exploitation, what would you say the odds are that he would found and run a Fortune 500 company with $12 billion in annual sales and gross yearly profit of more than $4 billion?
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Chaos Theory Market Fractals - Nadeem Walayat's Real Secrets for Successful Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
This is a continuation of my series on how to interpret and trade the Financial Markets (as opposed to forecast), specifically building upon my last article that summarised the key elements of trading in terms of reacting to price movements in real time (Stock Market Crash Investing Lessons and the Real Secrets of Successful Trading ). This article seeks to expand on one key component which is the role chaos theory plays in interpreting triggers for action. A trigger is an immediate call to action, and not a wishy washy signal to suggest action.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Risk Management for Technical Traders / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Tips from EWI Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy's Stocks and Commodities interviewBy Elliott Wave International
If you trade with Elliott wave analysis, your trading decisions
are all about the difference between where the market is vs.
where it will be. According to Jeffrey Kennedy, editor of
our Elliott Wave Junctures service, risk management
skills are vital to being a successful technical trader.
Monday, January 07, 2013
Technical Analysis - ‘Linear Weighted Moving Average’ (LWMA) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Marcus Holland writes: The LWMA is a technical indicator which responds faster than the ‘Simple Moving Average’ (SMA) to new price developments because its latest readings are emphasized more than its older ones. However, the LWMA is not as popular as the (SMA) and the ‘Exponential Moving Average’ (EMA). The LWMA was designed to counter the lagging problems identified with the SMA in a similar way as the EMA.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
The Single Greatest Stock Investing Secret Ever! / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Porter Stansberry writes: Let's make a fundamental point about investing...
Most investors obsess about growth. They want a story about a company that's poised to experience massive growth. And yes, growth is very good. But you can't forget that the point of growth is to generate capital for shareholders.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Five Critical Criteria for Every Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
A recent reader question is from Alex L, who is a member of my Super Sports Roadster club, a “collaborator-friend,” and big help in getting the Miller’s Money Forever project started:
“Dennis, you started actively managing your portfolio when your CDs got called in and you were sitting on cash. What do you suggest for people who already have a portfolio but might want to rearrange it a bit?”
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Learn How to Label Elliott Waves More Accurately / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Are you looking for an easy way to improve your confidence as you analyze the charts you trade? Take a quick look at this chart (adapted from Jeffrey Kennedy's December 26 Elliott Wave Junctures lesson) to see how divergence relationships help clarify your analysis.
According to Jeffrey, divergence relationships are easy to identify. Whenever prices make a new extreme, look for underlying indicators to move in the opposite direction. Specifically,
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Friday, December 28, 2012
B-Wave Stock Price Corrections Precede Wave C Rallys / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The work at my firm centers firmly around a combination of fundamentals and catalysts, and crowd behavior. Yes, it’s crucial to understand herd mentality if you want to consistently enter profitable swing trades at the right time and price. The Seminal event is analogous to what is called “the tipping point” in a new development stage of a company. Learning to spot the pullback during this seminal event period and pouncing is crucial to making big money in the market.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Why Passive Management better than Active Management in Stock Market Investing? / InvestorEducation / Investing 2012
What offers the challenges of a chess game, thrill of a poker game yet it is so difficult to make money and only a handful of professionals managed to do well? It looks deceptively simple, offers the glitz of a movie star and everyone claims to be an expert in it and yet most of them lost money. The answer is the financial market which is fascinating, thrilling, and entertaining and opens 24 hours a day and seven days a week. As long as you are hook onto the internet you are able to play it in the comfort of your own home or where ever you are even in remote South Pacific or in an isolated beach in South America. It is the dream of every investor to become wealthy but how? Are there any shortcuts? Traditionally there are three ways for us to accumulate wealth namely, 1) through inheritance, 2) through the selling of one’s labour or 3) by using one’s savings to generate more wealth through investment.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Trading The ABC Sentiment Shifts Ahead Of The Crowd / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
One of the most obvious keys to successful trading or investing is buying low and selling high. The problem being if it was that easy to pinpoint those low and high points then all traders would be batting 1000%. What we use at my ATP service is a combination of fundamental analysis and catalyst spotting inter-twined with charting techniques. Most of our work revolves around buying substantial dips in a strong stock, 3x ETF’s, or reversal patterns. 3x ETF’s are great for short term swings as they function almost exclusively on crowd behavioral patterns, but it also applies to individual stocks.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Learn to Apply Moving Averages to Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave International (EWI) has just released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Confidence Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, by Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Why the Ballooning Student Debt Should Be on Your Radar / InvestorEducation / US Debt
John Paul writes: We’re two weeks away from surviving the Mayan Doomsday and three weeks away from stepping over the fiscal cliff. But the unabated student loan debt is just getting warmed up. Instead of dealing with the problem, Washington’s policies continue to stoke the fire. And that economic strain spells continued misery for America’s ongoing credit crisis woes.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Social Mood Impact on Stock Markets and Presidential Election Results / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
In the wake of the Presidential election, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) reports that the study, "Social Mood, Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections" has earned the #3 spot among the most-downloaded papers in the past 12 months.
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
How To Find Trades USing Chart Analysis - 10 Year Note And Wheat / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The one question so many want to know is where to find a good trade? From our perspective, we could care less what the underlying futures/stock is, because when reduced to charts, they are all subject to the forces of supply and demand, and they all have the same underlying factors of fear and greed.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
How to Trade Using the Inside Bar Strategy Candlestick Chart Pattern / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Steve Jones writes: The inside bar strategy is a binary options strategy that is based on the momentum strategy. If you want to use it we recommend you first read about the Momentum Strategy and then read this article about the Inside Bar Strategy to fully understand how it works.
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