Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Learn The Most Important Trading Lessons / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
The trader is Peter Brandt. He's not someone you see regularly in the financial media. He's not someone who brags about his track record. As a matter of fact, he's a trader who just loves the business and is willing and interested in sharing what he can with others. Peter has published two popular books on trading and he runs a 4-day Traders Boot Camp where he works with serious traders to improve their chances of long-term success.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Why 90% of Traders Lose, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The failure rate for financial market and commodity traders has remained at a consistently high 90% for many decades, this despite all of the advances in information technology and the flood of new learning materials that is churned out annually, therefore why is it that 90% of traders still lose ?
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Risk Management, the Foundation of Successful Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
In the late '70s, Peter Brandt emptied his trading accounts several times. He'd lose a string of trades, then refund his account, then "wipe out" all over again.
But he persisted because he knew he was meant for a trading career. His determination paid off.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Adding Technical Indicators To Dividend Stock Selection Increases Total Returns / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Richard_Shaw
We compared three approaches to dividend investing. In one scenario, we relied only on fundamental data and the consensus street analyst recommendation. In a second scenario, we required at least one bullish technical indicator. In a third scenario, we required at least two technical indicators to have some confirmation of the technical condition. The combination of fundamentals and two bullish indicators was a hands down winner for both total return over five years, and for avoidance of the 2008 market crash.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Dividends Provide An Stock Investors Return Bonus / InvestorEducation / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
With all things being equal, dividend paying common stocks provide their shareholders a return bonus, or what some might like to call a kicker, over an equivalent common stock that pays no dividend. Many investors do not see it this way, as they tend to think of the dividend providing them their return. However, the stock market capitalizes earnings whether a company pays a dividend or not. Moreover, we contend that the market will value a given company’s earnings based on their past and future prospects for growth, again, regardless of whether a dividend is paid or not.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Foundations of Successful Trading - "The Commodity Markets Take No Prisoners" / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Do you have what it takes to succeed despite losing trades? Peter Brandt does -- and shares some of his insights in this FREE report. August 20, 2012
How many losing trades can you tolerate each year and still be successful in the markets? How many consecutive losing trades? How many losing weeks, months, or even years would it take to end your trading career?
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Could Price Bar Charts Help You Forecast the Markets? / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
By: EWI
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy has spent over 15 years developing techniques to "read between the lines" on a price chart, and he shares some of his techniques with you in a FREE eBook: Learn to Identify High Confidence Trading Opportunities Using Price Bars and Chart Patterns.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
What We Can Learn from a Great Economist / InvestorEducation / Economic Theory
By: David_Gordon
Although Leland Yeager calls himself a fellow traveler of the Austrian School (p. 100), rather than a full-fledged member of it — he is a fellow traveler of the Chicago School as well — no reader of his essays can fail to note one respect in which he resembles two quintessential Austrian economists, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Like them, Yeager is a scholar of enormous learning, a fact in evidence in each of the 28 essays of his collected here. As an example, few of his colleagues, one suspects, would know that "Thomas Hobbes … suggested that one might test whether a piece of abstract philosophizing means anything by seeing how readily it could be translated from the original language into another" (p. 267, n. 2).
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Critical Trading Lessons - Trader Psychology: Don't Trade With Your Ego / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: EWI
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy is a busy man. Along with his regular duties at Elliott Wave International, he prepares 3-5 video lessons each week that teach technical traders how to anticipate -- and act on -- trading opportunities.
Subscribers say that what sets Jeffrey's educational service apart is his unique ability to combine easy-to-understand, actionable advice along with a no-nonsense, uncensored look at trading psychology.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Learn to Identify High Probability Trading Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear Trader,
When you look at a price chart, what do you see? A bunch of ticks, some ups and downs, perhaps a pattern? Do you see the trend, support and resistance levels, where to enter your trade, and where to place your stop?
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
Elliott Wave Trading Instruction AND Application / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
There's no shortage of actionable trading information out there, for every kind of trading style -- countless newsletters, books, and websites to choose from.
But how do you know when to apply this information to your trades?
If you're an experienced trader, you know that the answer to this "million dollar question" is elusive indeed.
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Friday, August 03, 2012
Basic Elliott Wave Theory Video Lesson -- Characteristics of Zigzags / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
When you are new to trading with Elliott Waves, it can take some time before each pattern is easy to recognize and understand. But as with new music, the more you listen the more the particular rhythm and meaning stand out.
There may be as many approaches to market forecasting as there are genres of music, yet once you find a style that you like -- in trading or in tunes -- the patterns that drive each move (whether it's a pip or a note) become evident.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
U.S. Stock Market Drop Like a Rock Scenerio / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Financial markets always have and always will pose two basic questions that investors seek to answer:
- What's the direction of the main trend?
- How far will it go?
Systematic approaches to these questions commonly belong to either fundamental or technical analysis. Let's consider each one briefly.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Learning Elliott Wave Theory - How to Use Zig-Zag Patterns / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
You're not supposed to compare apples to oranges, but I do compare apples to apples: I prefer the classically mellow taste of Red Delicious to the grassy and tart Granny Smith.
It can be a challenge to describe the differences between two similar objects. For example, I'd struggle to tell the difference between Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc in a taste test (and why I don't try to earn a living as a sommelier).
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
End of Economic Man Revisited / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Christopher_Quigley
In 1939 Peter F. Drucker wrote "The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism". Its publication caused a sensation. When Winston Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain he gave the order to include the book in the kit issued to every graduate of a British Officer's Candidate School. A year previously Churchill had reviewed the publication. It impressed him because he realized that something fundamental had happened in the world with the rise of Fascisms and he wished his officers to understand what they were fighting in Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
What To Do When The Stock Market Opens Big In One Direction / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
As a rule of thumb, anytime a market opens big in either direction, NEVER take a trade in the opening direction of the market when you have a big opening move. The big move already occurred. Just think if you would have shorted MNST and AAPL and a lot of others out there at the open today — OUCH. The flip side is don’t react and sell either right away. Have you seen what just about everything has done since the open? Bounced that’s what. Let the opening dust settle first and above all NEVER REACT.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Change the Way You Invest Forever, Learn Elliott Wave Theory in 10 Free Lessons / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Greetings Investor,
"Successful market timing depends upon learning the patterns of crowd behavior. By anticipating the crowd, you can avoid becoming a part of it."
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Option Traders Profit From The Passage of Time / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
My most recent missive discussed some of the nuances of the options Greek, Delta which deals with the change in option price with regard to changes in price of the underlying. Today I would like to examine some of the practical details surrounding the second of the primal forces describing the behavior of options with regard to the passage of time. This second Greek is Theta.
As opposed to the value of a stock position which varies only in relation to changes in price, options are subject to changes in value as a result of the interplay of three factors: price of the underlying, time to expiration, and implied volatility.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Witness the Epic Battle Between Stock Market Investor Hope and Investor Fear / InvestorEducation / Stock Market Sentiment
By: EWI
Can an investor ever know enough about financial markets to make a truly informed decision?
Even professionals must cope with imperfect knowledge, and the constant uncertainty that comes with it. That's why every investor looks to others for signals about what to do.
Read full article... Read full article...Have you ever watched a dog interact with its owner? The dog repeatedly looks at the owner, taking cues constantly. The owner is the leader, and the dog is a pack animal alert for every cue of what the owner wants it to do.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Forecasting Future Earnings The Key to Stock Market Returns / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Charles_Carnevale
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series, we established the basic principles of valuation and provided evidence that backs those principles up. Then we demonstrated that valuation is a function of soundness based on the current earnings yield that any given level of earnings offers you. From there, we illustrated how the future rate of earnings growth, in conjunction with fair valuation, will be the primary determinants of future returns.