Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.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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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Trading Forex USD/JPY With Elliott Waves / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
Elliott wave analysis is not a crystal ball. (No market-forecasting method is.)
But here's what is remarkable: Even when your Elliott wave forecast doesn't pan out, you have built-in safeguards to alert you -- and help you manage risk. Here's a real-life example.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Apple, How Market Booms Turn to Busts, Trading From New Paradigm to Despair / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I know most Apple enthusiasts will be rolling their eyes with my analysis and that's fine because the rest of us need people to buy our shares as we unload long positions or sell Apple short.
All joking aside, the charts below clearly show some very interesting information you cannot afford to overlook. At minimum, take a quick glance at the charts which tell the full story on their own...
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Trading the Stock Markets with GPS / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
(Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of this article.)
Think of Investing as a Trip
Here's my advice: View the Elliott wave Principle as your road map to the market and your investment idea as a trip.
You start the trip with a specific plan in mind, but conditions along the way may force you to alter course. Alternate counts are simply side roads that sometimes end up being the best path.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Reading the Elliott Wave Analysis Market Road Maps / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
(Part 1 of this article is posted here.)
A Quick Road Map of Wave Analysis
For this overview of wave analysis, I have borrowed from the "Cliffs Notes" version that we provide for free to anyone interested in learning about wave analysis. It's called Discovering How To Use the Elliott Wave Principle.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
What Works Best Financial Markets GPS or Road Map? / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Some of the best stories about global positioning systems (GPS's) are the weird detours they sometimes recommend to drivers. Just like some of the weird detours that financial markets can make you take when you think they would be better off going in a straight line either up or down, depending on how you've positioned your trades.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Investors Need Strong Stomachs… Not Big Brains / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Alexander Green writes: It’s great fun to read heroic investment stories about individuals who made fortunes as a result of exceptional insights or sheer genius.
No one is better at telling these than Michael Lewis, the bestselling author who devotes much of his book, The Big Short, to Steve Eisman, a brilliant and eccentric hedge fund manager who made hundreds of millions in the recent financial crisis by buying credit default swaps on the triple-B-rated tranches (slices) of subprime mortgage bonds.
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Sunday, November 04, 2012
How to Use Moving Averages to Identify Elliott Waves / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Moving averages are one of the most widely-used methods of technical analysis because they are simple to use, and they work. Among Elliott wave traders, you will likely find an especially high percentage of investors and traders who incorporate moving averages into their Wave analysis.
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Friday, November 02, 2012
Moving Averages and the Elliott Wave Principle / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Moving averages are one of the most widely-used methods of technical analysis because they are simple to use, and they work. Among Elliott wave traders, you will likely find an especially high percentage of investors and traders who incorporate moving averages into their Wave analysis.
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Stocks Overbought or Oversold? Where to Put Your Stops / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Its 1:00pm ET and volume is drying up.
We did see a nice pop this morning breaking some previous pivot highs from last week and volume looks strong. Long story short… stocks are overbought here very similar to the past two highs as seen in the chart below. The big question from here is what to do now? Well, I wanna see some bullish patterns and volume over the next 12-48 hours if we are going to be looking to get long for an intermediate rally that lasts several weeks taking the indexes to new highs.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
How to Make Money No Matter What the Stock Market Does / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: This weekend, I was at a boxing match, talking with someone affiliated with the show. He used to work on Wall Street. I asked him if he missed it. “Hell, no,” he said quickly. “Wall Street makes boxing look like an honest business.”
After the financial collapse, flash crash and various scandals, that’s the way many people view Wall Street.
And that’s despite the current bull market being the ninth longest in history – out of 26.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Timing The Gold Bull Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Dreaming the impossible dream
The question of when gold’s long awaited ascent will happen is not without precedence. A similar question is still being asked by the Jews concerning the appearance of the Messiah. Prediction has always been an inexact science.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Dividends, the Only Sure Way to Get Rich in Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Porter Stansberry: Most people think Warren Buffett became the richest investor in history – and one of the richest men in the world – because he bought the right "cheap" stocks.
Legions of professional investors tell their clients they're "Dodd and Graham value investors... just like Warren Buffett."
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Best Rides a Market Trader Can Take is on a Third Wave / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
The Elliott Wave Principle states that in financial markets, prices unfold in 5 wave patterns:
Read full article... Read full article...In wave 1, the trend has begun. Wave 2 makes a sucker outta you. Wave 3 is a powerful sight to see. Wave 4 is a corrective chore. And wave 5 is time to look alive -- once more.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
How to build an Optimal Investment Portfolio with Markowatz's Portfolio Theory? / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
There have been many changes in today’s stock market trading landscape which is dominated by computers and ECN networks as compared to the ‘open outcry’ system that existed until the early 1980s. During those days markets are relatively inefficient in a way that price change does not reflect the change in the news and events. Those who can get hold of technologies will have the upper hand in trading the markets because they will receive the news much sooner than the rest of us. Those who possess telex, fax and computers will certainly have an advantage not only in receiving the news but also in executing the buy and sell orders.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Facebook Crash Illustrates the Investment Opportunity Scam, Nadeem Walayat's Investing Lesson / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
With the Facebook stock price trading about 50% below the IPO price, read on if want to know why so many investors were zuckerberged into investing in Facebook and how such costly mistakes can be avoided in the future.
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