Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, December 03, 2010
Top 12 Favourite Books On The FInancial and Economic Crisis That has Defined Our Times / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Danny_Schechter
Back in 2007, just as the markets began their meltdown, I started writing a book I called Plunder to investigate the then emerging economic calamity. I had a well-known agent representing me, and, at that time, had published ten books. My agent warned me that I was ahead of the curve but agreed that the subject couldn’t be timelier.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
How to Trade Markets with Simple Tools / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Improve your Financial Decision-Making Skills with Guidance from EWI Chief Commodity Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
As a high school freshman, I had a friend over to do math homework after school. It was cold in the room, so I stood on my chair and jumped up and down to try and bat open a closed heating vent.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Doug Casey’s Secret to Finding Winning Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
Doug Casey – The Eight Ps of Resource Stock Evaluation : I’ve been asked “What’s the secret of finding winning gold, silver, and other natural resource stocks?” more times than I can even begin to count. And for over 20 years, my answer has remained pretty much the same: the Eight Ps.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
How to Spot High Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
The "moving average" is a technical indicator which has stood the test of time. Nearly 25 years ago, Robert Prechter described this indicator in his famous essay, "What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful." What he said then remains true today:
Read full article... Read full article..."...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."
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Free eBook teaches you how to apply Moving Averages to your trading or investing / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Greetings trader,
Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave International (EWI) has just released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Probability Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, bySenior AnalystJeffrey Kennedy.
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
Understanding Contrarian Stock Market Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Jeff_Neal
Traders have employed contrarian type analysis methods for years in an effort to garner market profits. Over the years the indicators that can be employed by the contrarian have grown but the major theme has remained the same and that is focus on what the majority is doing right now as well as what particular directional bias they currently possess. Contrarian analysis seeks out potential buying and selling strength by measuring investor expectations.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Market Manipulation Is Not Why Most Traders Lose / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
How often have you heard analysts refer to a down day on Wall Street as "traders taking profits"? Sounds great, but the sobering fact is that most traders -- in futures, commodities, or forex -- lose money.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
How to Protect Your Portfolio with Stock Options Insurance Policy / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:If you don't deal a lot with stock options in your investments, you probably don't realize just how versatile options actually are.
In fact, stock options can be used:
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
A Fingerprint of Instability in Biology and Finance, Time Series and Fractals Analysis / InvestorEducation / Financial Markets
By: Ashvin_Pandurangi
Recently, there has been much research into the chaotic dynamics of complex systems in many different fields. Complexity theory provides great analytical insights into the structures of "hard" sciences such as biology and also social sciences such as economics. It can even reveal dyamic properties that will serve as predictive indicators across both of the two fields (and perhaps many others). It should be noted that "predictive" doesn't necessarily mean a specific result will always follow, but that it becomes significantly more likely to occur. The following article will explore a relatively simple indicator which identifies high probabilities of instability in both the human circulatory system (specifically cardiac) and financial markets. Let's start this discussion with a short quiz. Take a look at the following four graphs of heartbeats per minute over a 30-minute interval, and see if you can guess which one(s) belongs to a healthy patient and which one belongs to a patient facing sudden cardiac death:
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Investor Portfolio Diversification is Essential, Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
The natural resource sector has been performing extremely well of late and we are of the opinion that we are still in the early stages of an explosion in share prices. Gains of 100's of percent will be common but not without some risk.
Each investor must decide their own level of comfort and risk tolerance as measured again the potential gains to be made in the coming months.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Stock Market Trading, How to Be A Better Loser / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
As in being grounded in reality. The stock market is a two way street. Sometimes your the bat and sometimes the ball and much like life being a dance so is the stock market.
We can’t tell you how many sites we’ve been to and subscribed to in the past but we can tell you most spend very little time if any talking about their losing trades. Let’s face it there is not a site or investor on this planet who has not gone under water on a trade.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Trading Markets Using High Probability Technical Chart Patterns / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
There's a little known joke among the trading community that goes like this: "A trader walks into a bar... pattern: 'Ouch!' "
Fact is, if you don't know what you're doing, price bar analysis can be a bit "painful." Finding a discernable pattern in their grouping can feel like finding a hair in a hay stack.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
How to Invest for Just Half the Year And Beat The Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: It's crazy, but true…
You can invest for just half the year and take the other half off… and beat the market.
It sounds crazy, but it's worked extremely well over the last 60 years.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Quant Trading, The Ever Changing Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Christopher_Quigley
Terms:
Q Trading: Quant Trading. The Use Of Mathematical Algorithms To Form And Identify Successful Investment Strategies.
HFT: High Frequency Trading: The Use Of Computers To Provide Trading Execution At Many Times Per Second.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Learn to Trade Using High Probability Technical Chart Patterns / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
By: EWI
There's a little known joke among the trading community that goes like this: "A trader walks into a bar... pattern: 'Ouch!' "
Fact is, if you don't know what you're doing, price bar analysis can be a bit "painful." Finding a discernable pattern in their grouping can feel like finding a hair in a hay stack.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Learn How Out-of-the-Money Butterflies Create Profits Trading SPX Options / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
Over the past few weeks the broad stock market has seemingly grown increasingly more bullish. Market pundits, traders, and even high profile money managers are stating publicly that the easy trade over the next few years will simply be being long high quality stocks. While time may prove these managers wise, it is likely a bit early to be that bullish. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Flash Stock Market Crash, the Dark Side of Stop Loss Orders / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
We are proponents of persistent percentage trailing stop loss orders to protect against significantly declining markets. If more investors used stop loss orders, fewer investors would have been devastated by the the 2008 stock market crash. Just like seat belts and airbags that save lives in auto crashes, stop loss orders save portfolios in market crashes. However, in a small minority of cases, seat belts or airbags are a partial cause of injury in an auto crash. Similarly, in a small minority of cases, stop loss orders are a partial cause of investment losses.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Using Iron Condors to Create Profits Trading SPX / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Chris_Vermeulen
This recent rally has many market pundits believing the market will continue higher, fueled by slightly improved economic data points. The bulls realize that the all important S&P 1130 level is not that far overhead; if they can push the SPX through that level with strong volume, a rally could play out. The charts below are using the S&P E-Mini contract for analysis purposes.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Learn How to Forecast Markets Using Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
There are two camps of market analysts out there: the fundamental camp and the technical one. Fundamental analysts look at things like the GDP, unemployment, interest rates, etc. to make logical assumptions about where the stock market is going.
Technical analysts use none of that. They look at the market's internals to gauge the trend: things like momentum, trend channels -- and yes, Elliott wave patterns.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Learn How Butterflies Can Create Profits When Trading Gold GLD ETF / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
In recent articles, we discussed that Theta (Time Decay) has the potential to cause option prices to decline dramatically, particularly in the final weeks leading up to option expiration. As it turns out, we are now in that very period of time and option strategies that utilize Theta (time) decay as their profit engine can really produce some outstanding risk/reward opportunities. Vertical spreads, butterflies, and iron condors can all be utilized to create profits in this environment, with a crisply defined amount of risk. When risk can be accurately defined, option traders can shape their expected perception of price action around their own unique time frame and risk profile. Read full article... Read full article...