Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Investing in 2009, Six Mistakes You Must Avoid / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Q1_Publishing
“Our first priority is managing risk.”
Seven months ago I had a chance to attend a presentation by investment manager David Burrows. You're not going to find his name in the Wall Street Journal or a quote in a Bloomberg news article, but that doesn't mean he's not worth listening to. He is.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
How to Trade the Forex Markets, Euro and the U.S. Dollar / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: INO
Today, we are dissecting and examining one of my favorite markets ... the Forex market. The Forex market is the biggest in the world and is traded on a 24/7 basis.
What makes these markets so exciting is the fact that they have a very strong tendency to trend, that is, once they get started in one direction they tend to continue in that direction for some time.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wall Street Snake Oil Salesmen Selling Deflation / InvestorEducation / Scams
By: Oxbury_Research
Wall Street Snake Oil - I'm sure that movie buffs are familiar with the snake oil salesman character which appeared in many Western films. He was a “doctor” with dubious credentials that traveled by covered wagon from town to town. The fast-talking salesman would sell “medicine”, such as snake oil, using lots of marketing hype and bogus “evidence”. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stock Selection Fundamental vs Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
Every once in a while, I like to flip the TV channels and watch Jim Cramer on CNBC. It's not that I think that Jim Cramer is a spectacular trader, I just think he is a talented and amusing guy. The last time I tuned on the tube, CNBC's Jim Cramer was naming his top five picks to get you through these recessionary times. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
A Contrarian's Viewpoint Of Technical Analysis In Today's World / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
Fred Carach writes:
When I broke into the stock market in 1961 if you wanted to learn technical analysis you were immediately pointed to Edwards & Magee's book," Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends" which was the bible of the industry from its first edition in 1948 until its last edition in the 1970s. Of course technical analysis really got its formal start with the publication of the famous "Dow Theory" in a series of articles written by Charles Dow in the Wall Street Journal between 1900 and 1902. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
How to Ponzi Scam Proof Your Stocks Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
I've been in the financial arena for over 30 years. I must say I that I am appalled to see scum like Bernie Madoff stealing money from honest people. In many ways he's committing one of the most heinous of crimes. He's destroying the financial standings of unsuspecting victims for his own selfish greed. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A Bernie Madoff scam cannot exist under “traditional” portfolio management / InvestorEducation / Scams
By: Joseph_Toronto
“Traditional” asset management carries with it one cardinal rule which, by definition, simply does not permit a Bernie Madoff style fraud, ponzi scheme, or any other generic scam. By now most have read about the collapse of the Bernie Madoff hedge fund as roughly $50 billion of investor funds vanished in what turned out to be a gigantic ponzi scheme and the largest scam ever.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Dumb and Dumber, Taking Investment Advice from Wall Street / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Oxbury_Research
Dumb and Dumber is the title of the 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. The title could also be applied to the current behavior of both institutional and individual investors. Both type of investors are cowering in the corner, afraid of the bogeyman – deflation. Both types of investors are eagerly purchasing Treasuries at zero per cent or even negative interest rates. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Trading Trap #5- Failure to Keep Studying, Learning and Growing / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn... Alvin Toffler (Future Shock)
This trap is one of my favorites because it embodies the idea of continual enrichment of self as critical to success as a trader or investor. It is a recurring and powerful theme in my writing, and this is just a snippet.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Basic Parameters of Successful Day Trading and CFD's / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Christopher_Quigley
Due to the lack of alternative employment opportunities, more folk than ever are turning to day trading to try to earn a living. Increasingly I am getting emails asking for advice and guidance. I have been teaching a course in investment and trading for the past 10 years and if there is one thing I try to communicate broadly is that before you embrace this arena you must become educated, informed and aware. As one of my students once quoted; "I now have come to realise that this is perhaps one of the hardest ways to make easy money".Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
How to Use Elliott Wave to Boost Your Forex Trading / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: EWI
Elliott wave analysis is something many Forex traders use. It's not a crystal ball (what is?), but it helps you accomplish three crucial goals: Identify the trend, stay with it, and know when the trend is likely over.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 11, 2009
How to Use Elliott Wave Analysis to Boost Your Forex Trading / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: EWI
This 90 minute video lesson features Elliott Wave International Senior Currency Analyst, Jim Martens, demonstrating how you can use Elliott wave analysis to identify opportunities in your Forex trading. For a limited time, you can access the full $79 online trading course, FREE. Visit Elliott Wave International for your free access . Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 09, 2009
How to Spot Winning Trades in 2009 / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
In this online video, our first of 2009, Adam Hewison explains how to spot winning trades using MarketClub's Smart scan technology.
Adam also explains in detail a specific trade that he thinks is worth watching in the New Year.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Confused About Warrants on Mining Stocks / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Dudley_Baker
Warrants are being mentioned more and more in the traditional media as the U.S. Government has moved to receive warrants in connection with some of the bailout/rescue plans for the Big 3 auto manufactures and also with AIG back in September.
Warrants have a long history going back into the 1920's but the average investor has absolutely no idea what this investment vehicle is all about.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009
Stock Market Index Investing Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Donald_W_Dony
The art of index investing. How to optimize index funds with simple moving averages.
Warren Buffet got it right. Arguably, the world's best know investor has for years been advocating to both private and professional investors that the simple index funds offer superior returns to actively managed portfolios. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 26, 2008
The Working Capital Model Investment Process / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Most people enter the investment process tip first. They hear something, grab an idea from a popular blog, accept a Cramerism or some motley foolishness, and think that they are making investment decisions. Rarely, will the right-now, instant-gratification, Internet-generation speculator think in terms that go beyond tomorrow's breaking news.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, December 19, 2008
Trading Trap #4- Failure to Plan Your Trade and Trade Your Plan / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"
- Benjamin Franklin
Ladies and Gentlemen---welcome to Flying Blind Airlines. We hope you enjoy your trip today from Phoenix to Vancouver. We wish to remind you that the pilot has very few navigational aids, no instrument panel, no co-pilot, and no flight plan and will be flying by the seat of his pants. Alcohol ( lots of alcohol) will be served.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Learn to Trade Forex Markets Trends and Timing / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: INO
In this week's video, we will be exploring the world of foreign exchange.
It is also commonly known as the forex market to industry professionals.
The forex market is the biggest market in the world with trillions of dollars changing hands everyday. This truly is the most fluid and liquid marketplace on earth. This market trades 24 hours a day, 6 1/2 days a week and it is traded by every major bank in the world.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Financial Markets Pullback Trading Secret / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
I can honestly say that 30 years ago I learned how to trade the markets in the pits of Chicago.
It was there, in one of those sweaty, tumultuous, in your face trading pits, that I learned one of the most valuable trading secrets in the world.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Trading Trap #3- Failure to Master Your Emotions / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
(aka Your Rat Brain Is Out To Get You) - When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion"
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