Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Trading Doctor- Danger of Trader Tilt / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
The day was more or less like any other trading day—full of thrills and chills, panic and elation, some "high-fiving" and some "what is happening here?"
Then he appeared. It was the first time I had seen him, but the look in his eye was familiar. It was not sad, not happy—just empty.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Structured Finance Lecture 1- The Alphabet Soup of the Credit Crisis / InvestorEducation / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Dr_Krassimir_Petrov
Introduces the alphabet soup (CDO, CMO, ABS, CLO, MBS, CDS, CBO, CPDO, LBO, MBO, CP, ABCP, etc.) of structured finance and other instruments that contributed to the current Credit Crisis. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
How to Invest In Precious Metals with $25,000 to $50,000 / InvestorEducation / Metals & Mining
By: Dudley_Baker
My previous article, “ How to ‘Invest' with $5,000 to $10,000 ”, created a lot of interest among investors so we have decided to make this a mini-series of three articles. This current article increases the investment dollars available to be invested in the natural resource sector to the $25,000 to $50,000. The final article with be for investors with $100,000 and more and will be posted next week.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 14, 2008
How to Avoid Overtrading Choppy Markets / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nazy_Massoud
Do you know any trader who overtrades?
Do you know him/her intimately?
Overtrading is the most common challenge of trading and source of loss. Do any of the following scenarios sound familiar?
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Predicting Stock Market Movements / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
I've been thinking about starting a stock market prediction business. Clearly, there is a huge market for timely and accurate information of this type, and just as clearly, predicting the future is much easier than dealing with the realities of whatever is actually happening at the moment. If investors could know what's going to happen next, they could develop a plan to deal with it in the present. Maybe Wall Street could help me get this new business up and running! Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Sentiment Analysis: How Investor Perception Drives Market Prices / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Jack Crooks writes: Topsy-turvy markets like these can easily make your head spin. I mean, we're currently dealing with overdone trends, implosive fundamentals, government regulation and an increasingly globalized world economy.
And as if simply understanding those complex dynamics wasn't enough, we still have the difficult task of trying to make money.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Free Independent Online Trader Crash Course / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Over $300 of Trading Lessons, FREE through April 18!
You've heard them say, "Buy low, sell high." You've also heard, "The trend is your friend." Then there's, "Don't fight the Fed" and many other age-old trading principles.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Using the VIX for Short-term S&P 500 Index Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Marty_Chenard
Today we will look at the VIX, volatility levels, and the short term action on the S&P 500 index.
The VIX often gives good confirming clues about the market's direction, but it takes a keen ability in properly drawing support and resistance lines.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Trading Rules / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Christopher_Quigley
Rules Of The Trade
Rule 1. To trade successfully you must develop your own system and approach. To do this you must work the market out for yourself. The best way to start this process is to first learn how others before you mastered this task successfully. Thus become educated, informed and aware and stay that way.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Understanding Contracts For Difference (CFD's) / InvestorEducation / Derivatives
By: Christopher_Quigley
ONE of the most innovative financial instruments that has been developed over the last decade or so is the CONTRACT FOR DIFFENCE, better know as a CFD. The explosion in the use of this product is one of the reasons why London , as opposed to New York , is becoming the financial location of preference for many financial managers and hedge traders. CFD's are not allowed in the U.S. due to legal restrictions imposed by the American Regulators.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
How To Develop Your Mental Trading Edge / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Nazy_Massoud
I was in Vegas speaking at a recent Trader's Expo. There were a lot of exhibitors, speakers and attendees. All were talking about how traders and investment managers could make more money.
There were various systems, numerous indicators to use, and various news sources to listen to.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Return Persistence & Future Stock Performance: Are Momentum Strategies Effective? / InvestorEducation / Sector Analysis
By: Joseph_Dancy
Return persistence – the tendency for stocks to trend in the same direction – has been the topic of a number of academic studies. Many academics, and a number of portfolio managers, adhere to the theory that the market is reasonably efficient. As such, historical stock prices should reflect the sum of public knowledge and should have little predictive value of future stock price movements. Many value managers adhere to this theory. The fact that some studies show that stocks tend to trend on one direction is therefore puzzling to these researchers. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
How To Match Your Trading Style With Your Personality / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nazy_Massoud
Have you ever noticed that traders with seemingly the same skills are not making the same amount of money?
Have you ever attributed success to being in the right place at the right time, or just being lucky?
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
The Complete TurtleTrader - Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Michael_Nystrom
Buy and hold is dead! The extreme market volatility over the last decade should make this abundantly clear to even casual market watchers, but it is something that good traders have known all along: You trade securities, you don't marry them. Buying a stock is not a commitment "until death do you part." A friend once told me the story of a man he knew who worked at Worldcom during the go-go 90's and had his entire 401(k) invested in the company stock. He was waiting for his account to hit $2 million, and then he was going to cash out. It was almost there - $1.8m, $1.9m - something like that when the stock began its terminal decline. Instead of selling, he held on until the bitter end, until all was lost. Moral of the story: The market is the utlimate authority. It does not listen to you, nor care about your dreams & desires, so you had best learn to listen to it.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Five Common Mistakes in Commodities Investing / InvestorEducation / Resources Investing
By: Andy_Sutton
Take a deep breath. The rout may be over. It may not be. This is a time when commodities investors have seen their mettle tested once again. This is nothing new. As recently as June 2006, we saw the price of silver drop precipitously from nearly $14.50 an ounce to under $10; a drop of nearly 35%. Granted, this most recent correction may not be over yet, but so far, it has only claimed damage in the area of 19%. These types of corrections are perfectly normal in the commodity markets and given what we've been seeing in the equity markets, should not be at all surprising. That's the bad news. The good news is that there is once again a tremendous opportunity to pick up both bullion and related stocks at fire sale prices. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Economy and PE Ratio Impact on Long-term Stock Market Investment Returns / InvestorEducation / Stock Market Valuations
By: John_Mauldin
- Muddle Through Gets A Boost
- Honey, I Vaporized My Customers
- Consumer Spending is Going, Going...South
- The Boomers Break the Deal
Today we drop back to take a look at the economy and its long term effect on our portfolio returns. I am in Orlando this week, speaking at the Newport Advisor Conference sponsored by the Newport Group. The attendees are primarily investment advisors focused on larger retirement accounts and pensions. This week's letter is the gist of my speech I gave yesterday, as the entire speech would be way too long for a weekly letter. I want to thank the Newport Group for letting me do this, and thanks for the very kind way they have hosted me. Note: this week's letter will print a little longer as there are a lot of graphs. And next week I will address the housing market, as was my intention this week.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
How to ‘Invest' In Precious Metals and Commodities with $5,000 to $10,000 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Dudley_Baker
There are many ways to invest in the precious metals and natural resource sector. Many analysts would first suggest investors purchase gold and silver bullion or coins, then focus on some of the larger capitalized mining companies (most of which are selling for over $35 per share). You might consider the GLD or the SLV, the Exchange Traded Funds for gold and silver currently selling for $96 and $197, respectively. Not all investors have the financial resources necessary to purchase these alternatives.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Stock Market Rally Is Coming! The Rally Is Coming / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Always buy too soon--- because no one will tell you either when the rally will start or, more importantly, how long it will last. Of course those are the two things you want to know, but all you really have to go on is the experience of the past. This is not going to be a technical analysis of a series of numbers or chart formations that have predictive capabilities. Instead, it is intended to be a mild sedative to calm your collective fears and to allow for a relaxed analysis of the corrections of the past. You have to prepare yourself for the rally that is surely coming, and it may just arrive sooner than you think--- today, even. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Brainwashing of the American Investor - Academic Investment Book Reviews / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Steve_Selengut
Steve Selengut's "Brainwashing of the American Investor" is an eye-opening and intelligent book, which offers an analysis of the investment industry and a smart and practical guide to non-professional investors. Selengut is wary of the conventional wisdom of investing professionals, who appear to have abandoned the tried and true principles of investment, in favor of super-hype, organizational conformity, and greed. Selengut's back-to-basics approach builds on his critique of the Wall Street hypsters and their bandwagon mentalities. Instead, he serves up a clear set of economic principles, mixed with sound commonsensical advice.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Investment Portfolio Performance and The Working Capital Model / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Ouch! The mighty Dow has fallen to within a financial heart beat of its 1999 high water mark, boasting an average per year gain of less than one half of one percent in spite of several interim manipulations designed to improve the performance picture. The S & P 500 Average, an equally prestigious indicator of broader market movements, is nearly 13% below where it was at approximately the same time. Both figures reflect no investment expenses at all. So, in spite of the mostly ignored fact that neither index includes any income securities (bonds, preferred stocks, REITs, etc.), a reasonable person could well expect his or her portfolio market value to be well below where it was nearly ten years ago! Now that's a fairly dismal scenario, but it's the in-your-face reality for most investors as we move forward into what we all hope will be a more spring-like investment climate. Read full article... Read full article...