Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, February 12, 2010
How to Spot the Big Stock and Commodity Market Trends / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Every trader and investor I know would love to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. The reality is that this is not a winning solution, nor is it possible to do this on a consistent basis.
What we look for at MarketClub is to catch the sweet spot of the trend. The sweet spot is the 70% to 80% that's in the middle of a trend.
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
How to Trade IntraDay Gold and SP500 Stocks Index / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Last week was an incredible week for trading the intraday charts. With rising volume and volatility prices began to move up or down for extended periods of time allowing traders to profit from these powerful short term price swings.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Educational ETF’s, Futures & CFD’s Low Risk Trading Setups Explained / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I thought I would put this more detailed report on finding and trading low risk setups for gold, silver, oil indexes etc…. In short it does not matter what time frame you trade with or if you trade exchange traded funds, futures contracts or CFD’s (contract of difference).
This type of trading setup works for virtually every investment but I mainly focus on trading: Gold Futures, Gold ETFs, Gold CFD’s, and the SP500 & Dow 30 futures, ETF’s and CFD’s as I find they are very accurate and profitable.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Keeping Your Options Open (and Valuing Them) / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
It is often said that there is nothing new under the sun. Truly, economic events of late have demonstrated this in spades. There is little that is new, just different flavors of the same. So, in the absence of anything substantially new to add to the collection of events this week, I am going to take an opportunity to return to some of the analytical topics that I’ve had but a few precious chances to deal with over the past three and a half years. The last foray dealt with some hedging strategies involving options and inverse funds. This week I’m going to dig deeper into the options side of hedging and look at some of the various pricing models available for consideration. Then we’ll take the models for a spin and create ourselves a hypothetical situation and see how things play out.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Time the Market Using These Market Strength and Volatility Indicators / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
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Friday, January 22, 2010
How to Consistently Make Money Trading Financial Markets / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
One of the things that I am hearing more and more these days is that traders are not making money consistently.
Do you know anyone with this challenge? Do you know them intimately?
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
How Predictable Are Black Swans? The Black Swan Hunters / InvestorEducation / Forecasts & Technical Analysis
We invest using the scientific method and tools such as convergent evolution and comparative economic history in order to try to predict black swans. Here is our story:
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
How to Profit in Any Kind of Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When it comes to the global financial crisis, many so-called "experts" think the worst is behind us. But I don't buy it.
And I'm not alone.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
How to use the TICK for an Stock Market Trading Entry Point / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
If you have ever looked at the TICK, it pretty much looks like "noise". With extremely lengthy bars on minute to daily data, it seems like useless data to many. Chart 1 below is an example of TICK data.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The Secret to Making Millions Trading Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Tom Dyson writes: The secret I'm going to share with you today is probably the single most important factor in determining the success of stock market traders. If you can master it, you can make millions in the stock market.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Characteristics of an Effective Trading System / InvestorEducation / Trading Systems
Traders realize that the process of trading can be stressful and that there are human emotions such as greed, fear or hope that influence their decisions, leading them to commit mistakes. This is where a mechanical trading system can be so important. The very nature of system trading mandates taking every single trade generated by the system, which greatly helps to keep these dangerous emotions at bay. Mechanical systems do not have emotions, which can be a big advantage to the trader.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Learn To Analyse the Financial Markets Using Trend TV / InvestorEducation / Articles
I thought you might be interested in the four complimentary videos on Trend TV:
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Stock and Bond Investors Perils of Relying on Black Box Price Data / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Investors today rely greatly on web data sources, but must for their own safety never forget that while most of the time most of the data is good, sometimes it is not — or is not what you think it is. Before taking capital risk based on web data, use basic logic as a reality check and alternative sources for confirmation that what you are viewing is reasonable.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Why The Small System Trader Fails / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom – BERGEN EVANS Author and Professor
Those of you that follow this blog know that I am a big fan of a definitive trading plan. Having a plan however, does not equate to success, there are still limitations. One limitation is the small account. Unfortunately, the small account has many more obstacles to overcome to be successful than the large account. Let’s take a look at why that is the case.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Trader Fatigue / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
Having trouble sleeping these days? You aren’t alone. The National Sleep Foundation’s 2009 study shows that some 30% of the U.S. population reports sleep disturbances. These include challenges with falling asleep, staying asleep or early-morning wakening with inability to get back to sleep. Last year, there were nearly 57,000,000 prescriptions written for sleep meds. That’s 57 million. In his book “Sleep Thieves,” Dr. Stanley Coren says that lack of sleep is causing us to be “clumsy, stupid, unhappy and dead.” Evidence is mounting that the tragic death of Michael Jackson was related to his inability to sleep without powerful sedative drugs.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Danger of U.S. Treasury Bond Market Collapse 2010! / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
If you think 2010 is going to bring investors a carefree, nonstop ride to glory, think again!
Profit opportunities abound, and we intend to be among the first to lead you to them.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
Calculating Risk in Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
In my opinion…everything boils down to risk… not how much you can make..but how much you can lose in commodity trading. More so when we put on a trade..we think to ourselves mentally…how much is this going to cost me to see if the trade will work. The sad thing is that most people believe because they put on a trade…it has to work…many experienced commodity trading advisors think the opposite…We always think in terms of risk per trade…risk per sector…and open trade equity risk.. If you trade commodities yourself you need to think in these terms…or if you allocate to a commodity trading advisor you need to get good answers to these questions.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) Program / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
During the past sixty years, most economic, market, and interest rate cycles have lasted from two to five years, peak-to-peak. Rarely have any of the cycle-tracking market indices moved in tandem, and none of the cycles are considered to be particularly predictable.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
End of Year Stock Market Portfolio Rebalancing 101 / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Year-end is always a time of reflection, a rare opportunity where the usual psychological boundaries of time crumble. For a couple weeks, the tyranny of the present yields to a heightened consideration of the past and the future. This rift in our everyday thought patterns leads many investors to ponder the composition of their portfolios, making this time of year the primary season for portfolio rebalancing.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Robert Prechter on Socionomics and Elliott Wave Theory / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Interview with Robert Prechter about the Elliott Wave Pinciple, Socionomics, recent market moves and how he started studying all of it.
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