Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education

The analysis published under this topic are as follows.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 1: Japanese Candlesticks / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: EWI

Elliott Wave International senior analyst shows you how to identify quality trade setups

"I always will be an Elliottician, but other technical tools have merit and are indeed worthwhile: they allow me to build a case, build a more confident reason for making a forecast and for taking a trade; making a trading decision." -Jeffrey Kennedy

I recently asked Elliott Wave International analyst Jeffrey Kennedy to name his 3 favorite technical tools (besides the Wave Principle). He told me that Japanese candlesticks, RSI, and MACD Indicators are currently his top methods to support trade setups.

Saturday, August 08, 2015

The "How to Get Rich" Lesson I Learned on the Trading Floor in Chicago / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Back in 1982, I was a clerk for a big market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). A year later, I was sitting on the exchange and running a hedge fund.

My first day of trading was a disaster. But it's where I learned how to get rich.

You see, there was a "fast market" in FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), which means the pit was crowded with traders yelling and screaming, buying and selling options based on an unexpectedly positive earnings report that had just come out. I rushed into the crowd and amassed a position.

Friday, August 07, 2015

Bill Gross Warns Fed Will Raise U.S. Interest Rates in September by 25 Basis Points / InvestorEducation / US Interest Rates

By: Bloomberg

Bill Gross of Janus Capital spoke with Bloomberg's Tom Keene following today's jobs report.

Gross said he sees the Fed raising interest rates in September by 25 basis points: "There have some pretty strong signals from Lockhart and others that September is the number. And I think it's because of financial conditions. We know that inflation is close to zero. Yes, unemployment is steady, but low... Whether it's 25 or 50 basis points-- probably 25, I hope. 50 would scare the market."

Thursday, August 06, 2015

Shame - A Powerful motivator for Traders / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: John_Mauldin

Shame is a powerful motivator. Especially in this business.

When I was an ETF trader, if a client came in to trade a few hundred thousand shares of an ETF and the price moved abruptly against him right after the trade was consummated, the client would request a price improvement. This was to prevent embarrassment when the client (an execution trader) reported the fill to his boss (the portfolio manager).

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

The “Getting Rich” Lesson I Learned on the Trading Floor in Chicago / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Shah Gilani writes: Back in early 1982, I was a clerk for a big market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). A year later, I had a seat on the exchange, was a market maker and was running a hedge fund.

My first day of trading – for my account – was a disaster.

There was a “fast market” in FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), which means the pit was crowded with traders yelling and screaming, buying and selling options based on an unexpectedly positive earnings report that had just come out. I rushed into the crowd and amassed a position.

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

How to Build Consistent Trading Success / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: EWI

EWI's senior analyst Jeffrey Kennedy shares with you practical advice on what it takes to improve the quality of your trades.

You've heard it all before:

• If you want to trade using Elliott wave analysis, to succeed you first need to understand its rules and guidelines.
• You need a clearly defined trading strategy (what? when? how? etc.) and the discipline to follow it.
• Additionally, your long-term success depends on adequate capitalization, money management skills and emotional self-control.

Saturday, August 01, 2015

Why Your Brokerage Account Isn’t as Safe as You Think It Is / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Casey_Research

By E.B. Tucker

Imagine logging into your brokerage account tomorrow and finding out that it’s frozen.

Not just your account… every customer account at your brokerage is frozen.

You can’t buy stocks. You can’t sell stocks. You can’t move money out of the account.

Friday, July 31, 2015

One of the Greatest Income-Producing Tools for Retirees / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants

By: DailyWealth

One of the Greatest Income-Producing Tools for Retirees

Dr. David Eifrig writes: It might sound crazy... but retirees can safely earn 12% to 20% income streams on their savings.

My Retirement Trader readers have been using one strategy to rake in thousands of dollars every month.

It's simple. And once you get familiar with how it works, you can use this strategy to safely and conservatively generate 12% or more in annual income on a retirement account.

Friday, July 24, 2015

How to Trade Markets Using the Stochastic Oscillator - Video / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: EWI

A lesson from EWI's Jeffrey Kennedy

The stochastic oscillator is a technical tool that was popularized by George Lane. It is a momentum indicator based on the idea that in an uptrending market the close tends to be near the high of the price bar, and in a downtrending market the close tends to be near the low of the price bar.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Market Orders - The Most Powerful Total Wealth Tactic of All / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When I started Total Wealth, I made you a promise that we were not only going to cover the events of the day and the opportunities they create, but also the specific tactics you need to maximize profits and build Total Wealth.

Today I want to keep that promise with a look at the single most powerful Total Wealth Tactic of all.

It’s simple, easy to use, and takes only an extra second or two to put in place.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

One of the Most Important Lessons When Buying Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

You're not going to succeed in the stock market by just buying the world's best businesses...

For the past several years, my colleague Dan Ferris and I have urged Extreme Value readers to buy great businesses... Businesses that gush free cash flow, reward shareholders, have great balance sheets, earn consistent profit margins, and have high returns on equity.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Stock Market Investors Avoid the "Herd" Like the Plague / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

Porter Stansberry writes: If you've been following my series this week, you know we're working our way through the desert – the Rub' al Khali.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Learn How to Apply Fibonacci Retracements to Your Stock Index Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: EWI

Fibonacci is the mathematical basis of the Wave Principle. You will often find that Elliott waves correct in terms of Fibonacci ratios. The following article explains what you can expect when a market begins a corrective phase.

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Trading is 99% Boredom, 1% Sheer Terror / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: John_Mauldin

Jared Dillian writes: Back when I was a sailor, I was bored all the time.

I was deck watch officer, standing watch on the bridge. We were miles offshore, hadn’t seen another ship in days, and I’d check the radar, then walk out on the bridge wing and scan the horizon with my binoculars, go back and talk to the quartermaster, check the chart… Zzzzzzz. Mind-crushing boredom.

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

How to Handle a Short Attack on a Stock You Own / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: An anonymous individual writing under the name “The Pump Stopper” launched a vicious attack on Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (OTC:EKSO) yesterday that immediately pressured the stock and caused it to drop 24.28% to close at $1.36 a share on heavy volume. Understandably, that makes a lot of people nervous.

Here’s the thing, though.

If you’ve been in this game long enough, you know what to look for and why stuff like this isn’t a big deal in the scheme of things.

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Wave Principle Offers Specific Stop Levels - Part 1 of 2 / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory

By: EWI

Elliott Wave International's Jeffrey Kennedy talks about how he spots trade opportunities and how he decides when it's time to enter a trade. Learn how the rules and guidelines of the Wave Principle help traders identify exactly when they're wrong.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Options Pricing - Covert Gamma, Portfolio Insurance, and STDs / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants

By: John_Mauldin

By Jared Dillian

This piece requires some knowledge of option pricing, so I’m going to bring everyone up to speed.

This is the P&L diagram of a long call option:

Friday, May 22, 2015

Investing is About Identifying Gifted and Talented Camps / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: John_Mauldin

Jared Dillan writes: I was a “smart kid” growing up. I got used to being the smartest in the class, every year; I also got used to being left out socially and being bullied a bit. It wasn’t bad, though. In 9^th grade, I transformed from a little pork chop into a tall, decent-looking kid. I had lots of friends in high school, and life was good.

Before that, though, it was tough. I put up with my share of indignities. One summer, in 7^th grade, I was sent to gifted and talented camp or, more specifically, the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), where I could be around other geeks like me.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Learning to Trade Markets - Dealing with Losing Trades / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade

By: Dan_Norcini

One of the most important things that anyone who ventures into the arena of trading will need to learn, is how to deal with trades that go sour.

You can find lots of books out there on technical analysis in this day of age. You will also discover no shortage of self-proclaimed "experts" with infallible price predictions which are yours for the taking provided you first plop down some exorbitant sum of money for the privilege of then watching those prophecies fail to come to pass.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Biotech Stocks and the Power of Context / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory

By: EWI

Biotech stocks: A real-life example of Elliott-wave forecasting at several degrees of trend

Since joining Elliott Wave International in 1993, the editor of our Trader's Classroom, Jeffrey Kennedy, has traveled to at least a dozen countries, teaching seminars to some of the best professional and individual traders.