Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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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Friday, December 05, 2008
Using Traded Options to Gauge the Safety of Dividend Payments / InvestorEducation / Dividends
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: Over the past few weeks, I've told you about some dividend bright spots — companies and sectors where payments continue to rise despite the weakening economy.
But I've also told you that many dividends have been cut or suspended. And many more are likely in jeopardy right now, especially as the “now-official” recession deepens.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Trading Markets Trap #2 Failure to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Trades & Investments / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself… "
- Leonardo da Vinci
We buy stocks, options, futures, currencies, commodities, etc, because we want them to go up and make profits. We short them because we want them to go down and make profits.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
How To Handle The Turbulence Of Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nazy_Massoud
With markets having their biggest turbulences, how are you handling your trading?
These days, we are witnessing the common modes of operation: Fear and Panic. People are worried about their future. They are thinking, “How can I pay my mortgage, my children’s college expenses and what is happening to my retirement account?”
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Monday, November 17, 2008
The Ascent of Money and Descent of Niall Ferguson / InvestorEducation / Fiat Currency
By: Adrian_Ash
"Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal...It's amazing what a tenured professor can earn these days..."
"MONEY IS TRUST , not metal," says Niall Ferguson, Harvard egghead and knit-browed global media star, in his latest book and TV series, The Ascent of Money .
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sell Put Options to Get Paid for Stocks You Want to Buy / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Investment_U
Lee Lowell writes: Did you know that you could get paid to buy stocks at the price you want? That's right, someone will actually hand you cash today for your promise to buy any stock you want at a cheaper price than where it's currently trading.
All you have to do is decide which stock you want to buy, at what price you want to buy it, place the trade and collect your money.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Trading Markets Trap #1 Failure to Preserve Financial and Neuropsychiatric Capital / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
WHY YOU WIN AND WHY YOU LOSE:
TRADING TRAPS AND HOW TO GET OUT OF THEM
Estimates are that 75-95% of all traders lose all their trading capital in the first year, and only about 5-10% of those that get into trading are able to stay profitable on a consistent basis after 5 years. This is not encouraging. However, since the majority of people tend to be overconfident, most believe that they are not going to be among the casualties.
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