Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, June 14, 2010
A Two-Bar Pattern that Points to Trade Setups / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Some people like to get outside on the weekends, maybe playing tennis or working in the yard. Some people like to visit their friends or cook a big meal or go out to see a movie. And some people who are passionate about their work -- such as Elliott Wave International's futures analyst Jeffrey Kennedy -- like to stare at hundreds of price charts on their computer screen to find patterns that point to trade setups. We used to worry for his health but not anymore, because he's been doing it for years and he comes up with some neat stuff. A case in point is his discovery of a two-bar pattern that he named the Popgun. Find out more in this excerpt from the Club EWI eBook, called How to Use Bar Patterns to Spot Trade Setups.
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Fractional Reserve Banking System Explained / InvestorEducation / Global Financial System
By: Robert_Murphy
Austrian economics is superior to Marxism in every respect, and this includes internal, sectarian squabbles. When we Austrians feel the time is ripe for another bloodletting — it keeps us strong by thinning the herd once in a while — we argue over fractional-reserve banking.
If you have never had the pleasure of watching such fireworks, I point you to Joe Salerno's recent blog post; it has enough links to bring you up to speed. In the present article, I want to walk through a simple example to make sure everyone understands exactly why some of us think fractional-reserve banking is just plain weird.
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Monday, June 14, 2010
How To Trade Stocks and Indices Cup With Handle Patterns / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
With regards to cup and handles, it helps to know what exactly the components of a cup and handle pattern are. Before you can have a completed cup, you have to have the left side of a cup (usually some sort of downtrend or pulling back chart action). Then comes the bottom of a cup (sideways consolidation, double bottoms, etc.). After that it’s what we call coming up the right side of the cup. The latter is the area we want to key in on today.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Options-Straddle Strategy Defensive Investing to Defeat Stock Market Volatility / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: It's often said the stock market can deal with anything but uncertainty, but uncertainty is about all the U.S. stock market has to feed on these days - and that has translated into raging volatility and huge swings in both the major market indexes and the prices of many individual stocks.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Eight Ways to Tell If You Should Hold or Fold Your Mutual Fund Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: With the whipsaw patterns U.S. stocks have experienced in recent weeks - both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 Index are down 12% from their highs for the year - even the most ardent buy-and-hold investors are studying their portfolios, searching for holdings to cull.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
The Greatest Stock Market Trading Indicator in History / InvestorEducation / Stock Index Trading
By: Graham_Summers
I’m about to reveal a true market secret to you.
However, before I do, I’d like to share the below quote with you. I think it summates just how much the world has bought into the notion that the Fed can save the markets.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Addicted to Trading! / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
Don’t just do something---sit there…Zen Koan
The most difficult thing for traders to do is to sit there and wait. Why? Because, we live in a world that is on a total dopamine, hypomanic binge. This is never more clearly manifest than by those who absolutely have to be in the markets at all times, desperately need to be trading and simply cannot wait. They are human do-ings, rather than human be-ings.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Five Tips for Trading ETFs / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
Every week I tell you about exchange traded funds (ETFs) that you can use for various investment purposes. You could be wondering, though, what’s the best way to buy them. So in today’s column I’ll give you some practical information that will help you implement whatever ETF investment strategy you might want to pursue.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
This Stocks Short Sell Pattern Is All You Need To Know / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
One classic and often explosive short-sell pattern we want to be on the lookout for is that of a First Thrust Down, Snapback Rally Bombs away pattern. Below is one such example with more further in this post.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Robert Prechter's 6 Critical Money-Making Rules for Investors / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Face the facts -- investing isn't easy. If it was, everyone would be successful. Successful investing takes hard work and discipline. Famed financial analyst Robert Prechter has identified the 6 critical rules successful investors follow. Learning the rules is the easy part -- putting them into action is what will make you a success. Download Prechter's free 30-page report, Six Critical Money-Making Rules for Investors, now.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Enjoy 8 Free Chapters from Robert Prechter's Conquer the Crash / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: EWI
Prechter's New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller remains a useful read.
In 2002, Elliott Wave International's president Robert Prechter published his New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller Conquer the Crash, a prescient book that explained why a financial crisis was inevitable and predicted almost exactly how it would unfold.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
How to Channel an Impulse Wave on a Price Chart / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Susan Walker writes: How do you choose one lesson from a basic tutorial that is chock-full of excellent information about Elliott wave analysis? You could browse through all 50 sections distributed over 10 lessons. Or you could do what some people do when they open a dictionary: let the book fall open and point your finger at a word. Sometimes you learn more from a random search than a deliberate one.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
How to Spot Trading Opportunities Free Ebook / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Elliott Wave International's free 47-Page eBook, How to Spot Trading Opportunities, is only available free for another 48 hours. Don't miss out on this valuable resource, created from the $129 two-volume set of the same name. The offer expires Friday, April 23. Learn more here and download your free eBook.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Raising The BAR: Bar Patterns & Trading Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
How a 3-in-1 formation in cotton "triggered" the January selloff
For Elliott Wave International's chief commodity analyst Jeffrey Kennedy, the single most important thing for a trader to have is STYLE-- and no, we're not talking business casual versus sporty chic. Trading "style," as in any of the following: top/bottom picker, strictly technical, cyclical, or pattern watcher.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Blaming "Market Manipulators" For Losses is a Huge Obstacle to Success / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
To win, you must accept the fact that losses are part of the game.
In 1984, Elliott Wave International's founder and president Robert Prechter won the U.S. Trading Championship, setting a new all-time profit record of 444.4% in a monitored real-money options account in 4 months. In the average 4-month contest, over 75% of contestants, mostly professionals, fail to report profits.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
How To Buy Stocks In An Extended Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: David_Grandey
What should you do with an extended market or shall we say a market that doesn't pullback? When you look at the indexes, that's what we have right now.
But first let's talk corrections and consolidations -- specifically of issues that are in clearly defined uptrends. We define clearly defined uptrends a stocks that make higher highs and trade above the 50-day moving average.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
How to Set Stop Loss Levels / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
We increasingly receive questions about how to set stop loss levels. Let’s look at one objective, data driven way to do that.
You may be a better way, and that’s good thing, but if you don’t have a way, and you need a way, this discussion may be a helpful starting place to design your own stop loss setting method.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
What You Can Learn From a Multi-Millionaire Who Understood Market Psychology / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
How much do you know about Bernard Baruch?
He's mentioned in the foreword of The Elliott Wave Principle - Key To Market Behavior, A.J. Frost's and Robert Prechter's definitive book on wave analysis (emphasis added):
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Friday, April 02, 2010
Jim Rogers' Trading Secret / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes: If you're a trader, you're a loser.
That's what a Journal of Finance study found.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
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By: INO
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