Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Protect Yourselves from the Triple Crisis of Surging Inflation, Unemployment and Credit Contraction / InvestorEducation / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin D. Weiss writes: I've lived through four U.S. recessions, two bouts of surging inflation, and at least two close encounters with a Wall Street meltdown.
But this is the first time in my lifetime — and probably yours — that all three have converged in one time and place.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Dividend Reinvestment Is One of the Most Powerful Wealth-Building Strategies Out There! / InvestorEducation / Dividends
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: I recently got a question on my blog asking whether it's better to cash in dividend checks or reinvest them.
It's a great topic, and I have a very definitive answer: If you're an income investor who could really use the dividends to live right now, by all means cash those checks.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
How to Survive and Profit from Stagflation / InvestorEducation / Stagflation
By: Martin_Hutchinson
Increasingly in recent weeks commentators have begun speculating about the dreaded “S-word”- stagflation- and whether or not such a protracted period featuring both high prices and high unemployment would blight the U.S. economy.
The stagflation debate arose anew on Friday when a worse-than-expected employment report and a record single-day surge in crude oil prices made economists once again consider the possibility that the U.S. economy could drop into a recession even as inflationary pressures spiraled higher.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
How to Deal with Knee-Jerk Market Reactions / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Jack Crooks writes: This past week was a roller coaster ride in the currency markets, and it sure ended with a bang. I'll get to the big news in a second. And I'll also tell you what to make of this market.
But first, I want to do a quick day-by-day rundown of what happened in the currency markets ...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Trading Doctor- The Danger of Overconfidence / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
There are two kinds of people that lose money: those that know nothing and those that know everything. With two Nobel Prize winners in the house, Long Term Capital Management fits the second case…R. Lenzner, Forbes Magazine, October 19, 1998
Once upon a time there was a secretive hedge fund called Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). Over a period of four years—from 1994-1998 this hedge fund returned approximately 40% per year. Then, in 1998, the LTCM portfolio dropped from US$100 billion to US$600 million. In order to avoid a potential market crash the U.S. Federal Reserve organized a consortium of investment banks to take over LTCM's positions in various financial instruments. The failure of LTCM is a cautionary tale about hubris, arrogance, overconfidence and the limits of modern financial theory.
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Preservation of Principal Is of Paramount Importance During Bear Markets / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Paul_Lamont
We hope you have a chance to read our rebuttal to CNNMoney.com's recent Great Depression article . While we have described the 1930 peak before (all the way back in October of 2006 ), we feel our analysis has been vindicated. We may take some flak for getting too far out ahead of the parade back in 2006; but our readers know we discuss long term trends. (Check our chart below on personal savings!) The reasoning in October was correct; Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Trigger Trading- Strategic Command and Control / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Joseph_Russo
Traders Quandary in Finding a Consistent and Accurate Edge: When considering the implied benefits of obtaining exclusive-access to a self-proclaimed, highly accurate charting service, (of which we are one) how is one to make heads or tails in turning the professed profit-packed price-charts into an actionable trading plan?Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Lessons from the Great Depression - Stock Market Crash! / InvestorEducation / Economic Depression
By: Dr_Housing_Bubble
Today I think it is appropriate to look at the actual crash of 1929 and how it unfolded. The importance of this post will examine the multiple interventions that entered into the market trying to prop it up while the market steadily unfolded for four years before bottoming out. When we look at a number such as 1929-1933, we seem to compartmentalize that these four years somehow went quicker than our future four years of say 2008-2012. Try to imagine for a moment, how 2012 will look. Does this seem like tomorrow? Does this seem like a quick turn of a chapter? Of course not. So when we examine the crash of 1929, we realize that the market declined both abruptly and quickly at times but took years. It wasn't for lack of intervention or from motivation. There were those perma-bulls back then that couldn't foresee a world without new credit devices that emerged during the early part of the century.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
How to Identify Stocks to Sell Short / InvestorEducation / Stocks Bear Market
By: John_Mauldin
Is the market over-valued? In this week's Outside the Box, one of my favorite global equity analyst's (and no stranger to regular readers), James Montier of Societe Generale does some very interesting analysis on the European and US markets and finds the number of stocks which make his list as possible for being a "short" is at very high levels. This is a remarkable read and re-enforces my view that we are in a "sell in May and go away" summer. This is really a great Outside the Box. Enjoy. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Leadership and Trading / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Nazy_Massoud
I was participating in a meeting the other day and the speaker was talking about leadership.
When I was thinking of leadership, it occurred to me that as traders, we own our business and we set its direction. We are leaders and how we run our business is very essential to our success.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Use Stock Screeners to find Great Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes:There are thousands of stocks trading on U.S. exchanges right now. And there are thousands more trading on major foreign exchanges. So there are clearly lots of opportunities out there at any given time.
The million-dollar question: How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Heck, I spend every single day following the markets and researching great income investments ... and there's still no way I can easily study a fraction of the stocks out there!
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Steve_Selengut
The caller seemed surprised that I had never heard about Compound Stock Earnings Programs, or CSEs. "People are earning three to six percent per month with little or no risk", she continued, "I'm thinking of attending a seminar". A wise man once said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is", but this sure is a creative euphemism for what has to be a rather complicated options strategy.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Secrets to Successful Investing- Special / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Many small investors seem to repeatedly make the same old mistakes of either getting on board of a trend just as the trend ends or holding onto to losing investments in the hope of an eventual bounce back.
Therefore this weeks newsletter has a mix of education as well as up to date examples of strategies that illustrate how investors need to gear their thought processes towards key elements of successful investing which include :
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Why Most Investors Fail and How to Invest Successfully / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
Why Investors Fail: Analyzing Risk - Investors Behaving Badly
- Tails You Lose, Heads I Win
- Ergodicity
- Why Investors Fail
- Becoming a Top 20% Investor
- Investors Behaving Badly
This week I am in South Africa and am not as connected as I would like to be due to meetings and slow Internet, so we are going to look at some material from my book, Bull's Eye Investing, which I think is more pertinent than ever. And since lately there has been rather large growth in the readership, there are a significant number of new readers for whom this material will be fresh. When I originally wrote much of this, the markets were coming out of the bear phase of 2001-2. I am adding a few comments in [brackets]. I trust you will find value as we look at the problems that investors face in the struggle to maximize portfolio value.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Trading: Art or Science? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nazy_Massoud
Is trading an art or a science? This is a conversation that I had with a very successful trader:
Nazy: Do you believe trading is an art or a science?
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Monday, May 05, 2008
Investor Survival Message / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Neil_Charnock
I am a private investor, a writer (to state the obvious), a gold trader, Investment Newsletter Editor and now a web site manager of sorts. All of these activities are related to investment. Part of my purpose is to educate investors about gold / silver and gold related opportunities such as the mining sector. From what I have seen over the past six months I just have to write this essay for many of my subscribers and potential subscribers. Highly experienced investors might like to skip down to market comments below as the following may not apply to you.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Your 401(k) Retirement Investments and the IGVSI / InvestorEducation / Pensions & Retirement
By: Steve_Selengut
Smack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in those mutual funds, and ETFs? Fortunately, the pain is most often temporary, but the timing of the recovery could alter some participant retirement schedules and benefits--- not to mention the hefty confiscation level retirees can count on from Uncle Sam.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Stock Market Strategy- Sell in May and Go Away: Fact or Fallacy? / InvestorEducation / US Stock Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
“Where is the stock market heading?” is one of the questions most often asked by investors, especially as stock markets seem to be disconnected from economic activity.
It is therefore no wonder that even so-called “pop analysis”, including some legendary axioms, is resorted to in a quest for direction. And besides “buy low and sell high” few other axioms are more widely propagated than “sell in May and go away”. A Google search revealed an astounding 126 000 items featuring this phrase.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Patience is an Successful Investor's Virtue / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
Patience is one of the most difficult skills to learn as an investor and trader. The best investors and traders understand the importance of patience. As one of Warren Buffett's rules of investing states:
"The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient." The best returns come from those who wait for the best opportunity to show it self before making a commitment. Those that chase the current hot stock are destined to loose more than they gain. Remain active in your analysis looking for quality companies at discounted prices, but be patient waiting for them to reach their discounted price before buying.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Learn How To Trade Forex / Currency Markets- Video Lesson / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: EWI
Watch Jim Martens, Senior Currency Strategist at Elliott Wave International, the world's largest market forecasting firm, give tips on how to trade forex with Elliott wave analysis – FREE. Read full article... Read full article...