Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Successful Pension Investment Strategy / InvestorEducation / Pensions & Retirement
By: Christopher_Quigley
PropositionsGiven that hyper inflation is here to stay any long term investment strategy must achieve good growth in order to protect future buying power.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Five Golden Rules of Profitable Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: The topic I'm writing about today has nothing to do with the current state of the markets, but everything to do with making money in them.
The reality is that there are certain core competencies you must implement if you want to trade profitably.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Trader / Investor Tip- How to Determine that the Market is Overbought / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Marty_Chenard
Upwardly moving markets or stocks all eventually move up into overbought conditions. Then ... they cool down in order to let some of the steam off.
How do you measure the steam level? One way is to look at a very short term Relative Strength reading. On a daily chart, I personally like to look at an RSI of 3.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Structured Finance Lecture 2- Credit Derivatives- Part 1 / InvestorEducation / Derivatives
By: Dr_Krassimir_Petrov
Provides a survey of all major credit derivative instruments - credit default swaps, credit default options, indemnity agreements, total return swaps, credit spread forwards, credit spread options, credit spread swaps, basket derivatives, first-to-default baskets and the correlation paradox Read full article... Read full article...
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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