Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, September 03, 2009
How to Trade Growth vs. Value with ETFs / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
Ron Rowland writes: Ever been to an investment conference or watched CNBC? If so, you’ve heard people talk about “growth stocks” and “value stocks.”
What do they mean by this? How does knowing the difference make money for you? Today I’ll tell you what these terms mean and give you some ways to take advantage of them with exchange traded funds (ETFs).
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Get the Teachings that Hedge Funds Pay For / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
When major hedge funds need advice they turn to Dan Gramza for the help they need to turn their financial situation around. Today you have the same access to Dan that the big players pay money for... but you get it complimentary!
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Investment Performance Expectations And Broker Account Statements / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
As impossible as it is to predict the future of the markets, it's relatively easy to anticipate what you are going to experience when you view your next brokerage account statement.
Whether you go the discount route through Schwab, Ameritrade, Fidelity, etc., or enjoy a higher level of service through an independent like LMK Wealth Management, you should never be surprised by the market values reflected on your monthly statement.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Two Brains Are Better Than One / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I dream of painting, and then I paint my dream - Vincent Van Gogh
Even though my father would say on occasion that I didn’t have a brain in my head, I found out later that I actually have two.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Golf and Investing: Optimism, Focus, and Education / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
You knew it the moment it left the club, that spark at contact when you catch it just right. You look up. It's just reaching the top of its climb--- and heading down right at the pin, a pin positioned left of center on the elevated green, much too close to the water.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Why System Trading Is Ultimately Discretionary / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Successful system trading, in spite of the financial rewards, can be frustrating. A quantified mechanical model will take many decisions off the table. Yet, various issues, particularly the psychological approach to the issues, will always be in play.
Ed Seykota in the book, “Market Wizards,” writes, “Systems trading is ultimately discretionary. The manager still has to decide how much risk to accept, which markets to play, and how aggressively to increase the trading base as a function of equity change. These decisions are quite important, often more important than trade timing.&
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Commodity and Futures Trading 1-2-3 / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I would like to start with a simple yet very powerful concept. I am sure that over time we will elaborate much further on this simple concept but it seems appropriate to start here.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Why Some Traders Are Successful And Most Are Not / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I think successful traders realize a few important things that escape the failures. It doesn’t seem to matter if they trade discretionary or with systems, they all seem to know that the market is the boss. They are defensive and have a great deal of respect for risk. They all tend to manage risk and let reward take care of itself. The failures are for the most part completely focused on the reward, usually at the expense of risk.
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Why Are We Such Suckers For Prediction? / InvestorEducation / Forecasts & Technical Analysis
I keep CNBC on all day while I work. Perhaps I think I will miss something, or maybe it’s the background noise that’s appealing. In any event, what I always find amazing is the parade of experts making one prediction after another. I think I would fall out of my chair if I heard one of them say “Well, to tell you the truth Mark, I have no idea”.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Seventeen Japanese Candlestick Technical Trading Chart Formations / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Today's video is something quite special.
In many of my previous videos we've looked at charts using Japanese candlestick charts. While this is interesting, I've never quite explained to you some of the powers behind using Japanese candlestick charts.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Are These 4 Emotional Pitfalls Sabotaging Your Trading? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Jeffrey Kennedy writes: The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Kennedy’s Trader’s Classroom Collection. Now through August 17, Elliott Wave International is offering a special 45-page Best Of Trader’s Classroom eBook, free.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Corporate Bond Interest Rate Spreads Key to Stock Market Rally Continuing / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Want to know where the S&P 500 (SPY) is headed? The corporate bond market likely holds the answer.
So far this year, investment grade debt sales are on a record pace according to the article Blackstone Group to Sell Debt as Investment-Grade Spreads Widen.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Dollar Cost Averaging Stock Market Investment Strategy Still Works / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Nilus Mattive writes: More than a year ago — when the S&P 500 had begun to wobble but still sat comfortably near 1,400 — I wrote a column right here in Money and Markets talking about dollar-cost averaging.
I said that the strategy “puts time on your side, and allows you to kick back and relax a lot more in the process.” I went ahead to say that “it’s a great way to deal with the kind of bumpy markets we’re seeing right now.”
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Friday, August 07, 2009
The Hidden Risks of ETFs Investing / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
Shah Gilani writes: In just a few short years, exchange-traded funds have become the hottest item on the stock-market menu, with U.S. ETFs alone now holding more than $600 billion of investors’ money.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Speculation in the Commodity Markets / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
The first thought of some regarding the word, speculation in the commodity markets is of total risk or cowboy mentality. More so, the term speculator is looked down upon by the idea of trying to control the crude markets or selling short last year. All of these are inaccurate.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
Dealing with Losses in Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
For any of those contemplating investing in the commodity markets, they need to be very aware that losses are part of the game. As Ed Seykota has taught so many commodity and forex traders… losses are like breathing. They can not be avoided. If you are not having losses..either you are not trading.. or you are risking way too little. There is no way around it!
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Investment Strategy 101: One Trend to Bet On / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Old trading axioms, “the trend is your friend” or “never bet against the trend,” are more useful today than ever before.
The day-to-day action on Wall Street has been commandeered by a small group of investors and individual investors are getting left in the dust.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Donchian’s Holy Grail & Trading Guides for Commodity trading & Forex Markets (First published- 1934) / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
Follow these and compound your way to wealth:
Beware of acting immediately on a widespread public opinion. Even if correct, it will usually delay the move.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Trend Following Success- Intelligence or Discipline / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
seem to have this discussion quit often. In order to achieve success in the commodity markets or forex markets does one need to have a higher level of intelligence than most. Past experience has proven this not to be the case. Example after example both public as well as in our brokerage have proven this to me.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rocky Balboa on Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Rocky Balboa actually never talked about investing, but while preparing for a fight he said ” It ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit.”
Those words from a simple man are a simple explanation of part of our approach to investment decisions for those of our clients who have completed the accumulation stage of their financial lives, and now rely on their assets to support lifestyle.
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