Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Five Investment Mistakes to Avoid in 2008- LIVE Web broadcast 4.30pm EST - Today! / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Five investment mistakes you will probably make in 2008 ...
Unless YOU attend this FREE, LIVE webinar!
Have you ever looked back on an investment and asked yourself, "What in the world was I thinking?!" The obvious reply is "Yes!", and that is because...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Key to Successful Investing - Calculating Your Investment IQ / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Stocks, bonds, index funds; averages, recessions, market rallies and corrections; mutual funds, technical analysis, financial statements; commissions, taxes, and discount brokers. Just how much do you know about investing, or perhaps a better question: is there any "know" in the investment vocabulary? So many terms, ideas, and strategies; so little time and money! Here's a list of thirty mostly-true or mostly-false comments for you to kick around with your friends and fellow investment bloggers:
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Investment Performance Analysis Using the Working Capital Asset Allocation Model / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can't know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections... even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market Values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages. If we reconcile in our minds that we can't predict the future (or change the past), we can move through the uncertainty more productively. Let's simplify portfolio performance evaluation by using information that we don't have to speculate about, and which is related to our own personal investment programs.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
How Super Traders Confidently Pull the Trigger and Win / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
As a trader, have you had occasions when you just could not pull the trigger and afterward you were mad at yourself?
Have there been times when, as soon as you pulled the trigger, you started doubting yourself?
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Trading the Price Action With Purpose and Resolve / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The following exchange is a brief and rather illuminating excerpt from Jack Schwager's interview with Paul Tudor Jones from the 1990 national best-seller Market Wizards ( Interviews with top traders .)
Jack Schwager: My impression is that you often implement positions near market turns. Sometimes your precision has been uncanny. What is it about your decision-making process that allows you to get in so close to the turns?
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Financial Market Myths Video Series Learn How to Interpret The Financial Markets / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Have You Watched Market Myths Exposed?
You can see EWl's Chief Market Analyst Steven Hochberg debunk some of the most widely held market myths and answers some of today's toughest questions for traders and investors, including:
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
The Reality of Stock Market Corrections and What to Consider / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Every correction is the same, a normal downturn in one or more of the Markets where we invest. There has never been a correction that has not proven to be an investment opportunity. You can be confident that the Federal Reserve, as hypnotized as it is with keeping inflation under control, is not going to cause either a financial panic or a prolonged recession with tight money and high interest rate policies. While everything is down in price, as it is now, there is little to worry about. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Should Investors Use Warrants for Leverage in 2008 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
Are you still a non believer in this bull market in gold and silver? What an awesome beginning to 2008 with a gain of over $25 in the price of gold on the first day of trading for 2008 and as we write this piece, spot gold is at $859.00.. Probably even the talking heads at the popular TV channels are getting excited and soon we will have all investors joining ‘our' party, and what a party it will be.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Beat The Market By Using Call Covered Traded Options Strategies - Part 4 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
Investors who wish to beat the market using a conservative approach might want to consider using covered call option strategies to enhance their overall return. Writing covered calls helps to improve the total return of an investor's portfolio if they apply several important principles. Covered calls are approved for use in Individual Retirement Accounts as they are considered a conservative way to use options by the authorities. This is part four of a multi-part series on using options to enhance the performance of your portfolio performance. In Part 1 , we introduced covered calls and described the two primary categories that are important to understand. In Part 2 we introduced the Total Return Approach, as well as the risks, the potential return on investment and what strategy to use given your assessment of the situation. Part 3 we discussed some of the basic strategies to exit the position.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
How Super Traders Think Differently / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Would you allow an 8-year-old to run your financial matters?
Have you ever wondered why some traders make a lot of money and others do not?
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Dragons' Den – The Survival Guide - Chrismas Day Special / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
A festive special from the Dragons on BBC2 at 8pm - Christmas day – Photo (L-R) James Caan, Duncan Bannatyne, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis
Evan Davis presents this 90-minute Christmas special of Dragons' Den, which revels in the very best of all five series. Evan also reveals the 10 rules for success as the show relives the best and worst moments in the Den.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Taking Action is the Key to Trading Success / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
How to Deal With Invisible Fences in Your Trading - I was watching a rerun of "Sex and the City." If you are not familiar with the series, it is about 4 single women living in Manhattan and what they went through in their daily lives.
In any case, these city girls went to suburbia for a party. They were passing by a house and saw a dog. One of them gestured for the dog to come to her. The dog came to a certain point and then went back. She was stunned by what had happened. She could not figure out why the dog retreated when he seemed to be interested. She started to take it personally. Then one of her friends explained that there was an invisible electronic fence around the house...
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Secret to Preventing Trading Losses is Managing Your Emotions and Mindset / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Did you know that the traders who lose the most money in trading are some of the most intelligent people?
So what's causing them to lose money?
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Beat The Market By Using Call Covered Traded Options Strategies - Part 3 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
Investors who wish to beat the market using a conservative approach might want to consider using covered call option strategies to enhance their overall return. Writing covered calls helps to improve the total return of an investor's portfolio if they apply several important principles. Covered calls are approved for use in Individual Retirement Accounts as they are considered a conservative way to use options by the authorities. This is part three of a multi-part series on using options to enhance the performance of your portfolio performance. In Part 1 , we introduced covered calls and described the two primary categories that are important to understand. In Part 2 we introduced the Total Return Approach, as well as the risks, the potential return on investment and what strategy to use given your assessment of the situation. There are several good books on options such as Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading (2nd Edition) by Guy Cohen. It is an easy read that will help you understand options.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Trading Doctor - Finding Your Trading Edge : Support & Resistance Levels / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
“I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient…” Warren Buffett
Edges are what separate successful from unsuccessful traders. Those traders who find and exploit edges are the ones who end up winning. Moreover, the ability to execute on an edge is at the heart of behavioral trading.
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Common Sense Indicators For Making Money Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Should we add to our metals positions? To help answer this question we ask ourselves important questions such as "what does the end of a bull market look like"? Clearly gold and silver have been in a bull market as their prices have roughly tripled from their lows earlier this decade. So we want to know, 'What would the end of a mega bull market look like?' to help us gain confidence in our decisions today. If we are in a bull market in precious metals are we likely at the end of this current bull-run?Before we continue let us clarify that there are no absolute rules to the financial markets and we are only providing our opinion, however we have found that with common sense analysis and research our probability of successful and profitable investing is greatly improved.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Beat The Market By Using Call Covered Traded Options Strategies - Part 2 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
Investors who wish to beat the market using a conservative approach might want to consider using covered call option strategies to enhance their overall return. Writing covered calls helps to improve the total return of an investor's portfolio if they apply several important principles. There are several strategies that an investor should consider when using covered call options. In Part 1 , we introduced covered calls and described the two primary categories that are important to understand. In Part 2 we will introduce the Total Return Approach, as well as the risks, the potential return on investment and what strategy to use given your assessment of the situation. This is part two of a multi-part series on using options to enhance the performance of your portfolio performance.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, December 03, 2007
Traders - Get a Mental Edge to Avoid Tripping Yourself Up! / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
Have you been in situations where you had several winning trades which were wiped out by one losing trade?
Have these become a pattern?
Like some of my clients, you may be saying, “I have spent hours creating my plan.” Then you start the day with every intention of following it. After a few losing trades, you lose your control and with that, your plans go out the window. You try to make up for your losses by chasing after deals and increasing the size of your trades. So you get in at the wrong entry point and the size does not warrant the risk.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Beat The Market By Using Call Covered Traded Options Strategies - Part 1 / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
Investors who wish to beat the market using a conservative approach might want to consider using covered call option strategies to enhance their overall return. Writing covered calls helps to improve the total return of an investor's portfolio if they apply several important principles. Covered calls are approved for use in Individual Retirement Accounts as they are considered a conservative way to use options by the authorities. This is part one of a multi-part series on using options to enhance the performance of your portfolio performance. If you are interested in learning more about options Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading (2nd Edition) by Guy Cohen is an easy read that will help investors understand options.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 23, 2007
How to Select and Trade Stocks and Shares / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Are you interested in trading in the stock markets? Do you have questions about getting started? You are certainly not alone. Almost weekly I hear from ordinary folks with basic questions about trading stocks. After addressing these on a consulting basis for years, I'll outline some of the basics in this essay.
The Rewards of Stock Trading
Trading stocks is an incredibly rewarding journey. Everyone is intrigued by the stock markets because traders can make big money there. This is certainly true. But the potentially extraordinary financial winnings are not the most gratifying part of trading stocks. The best part is really the endless learning and personal growth that trading naturally generates. Trading is a most-fascinating voyage of discovery.