Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Investment Advice for My Children & Grandchildren / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Axel_Merk
Okay, so I don’t have grandchildren yet, but I want to increase the odds you read beyond the title if you are old enough to have grandchildren. Should the investment advice we give to someone young truly be different from that given to someone old? And given where asset prices are, is it responsible to tell anyone to pile into the markets? Here are my thoughts on the topic, hopefully applicable not just for my children:
Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio likes to say he chose the first stock he ever bought because it cost less than $5 a share, given that his savings from caddying at the time were, well, five bucks. That story is a great icebreaker but also highlights with what’s wrong with our industry: when we think about investing, we immediately think about the stock market. Let’s take a step back.
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Sunday, September 10, 2017
The Rules of Angel Investing From Someone Who’s Tried / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Rodney_Johnson
Salesmen rarely make good managers or business owners. But that doesn’t stop them from trying.It used to be a hallmark of American business that successful salesmen were promoted. The logic is obvious. Whatever makes Joe or Amy great at selling the company wares should be emulated by others, thereby making the company more successful.
But selling and managing require very different skills, much like playing a sport and coaching are different.
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Thursday, September 07, 2017
Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 3: MACD / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
"Guessing or going by gut instinct won't work over the long run. If you don't have a defined trading methodology, then you don't have a way to know what constitutes a buy or sell signal. Moreover, you can't even consistently correctly identify the trend."Jeffrey Kennedy is an accomplished teacher and a Senior Analyst here at Elliott Wave International. He feels strongly that, in addition to risk management and emotional discipline, the right technical tools can also add confidence and clarity to your Elliott wave counts.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 2: Relative Strength Index (RSI) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
EWI's senior analyst shows you a beautiful example of how supporting indicators help identify a trade setup in Halliburton (HAL).
"There are many different forms of technical analysis. A completed Elliott wave pattern supported by additional evidence allows for more confident forecasts and higher probability trades."
- Jeffrey Kennedy
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Friday, August 11, 2017
What Makes Women Better Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Adam_ODell
Remember that book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus? It sold more than 50 million copies in the ‘90s!It brilliantly shed light on some of the biggest differences between men and women in terms of each gender’s typical traits, thought patterns, communication styles, and behaviors.
Sure! It garnered some criticism for perpetuating stereotypes, although I’m sure the author never meant to suggest that all men are problem-solvers, for example, or that all women are good at multi-tasking.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Top 3 Technical Trading Tools Part 1: Japanese Candlesticks / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
"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."
I recently asked Trader's Classroom editor Jeffrey Kennedy to name 3 of his favorite technical tools (besides the Wave Principle). He told me that Japanese candlesticks, RSI, and MACD Indicators are great methods to support Elliott wave trade setups.
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Friday, August 04, 2017
The Books You Most Likely Read about Investing Taught You Nothing about Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : Lots of people ask me for good beginner books about finance.
That’s one of the hardest questions I get.
I think back to when I was learning about finance—one of my Coast Guard shipmates had these things called “mutual funds,” so I found some free literature about mutual funds and started reading.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
The Socionomic Theory of Finance By Robert Prechter - Book Review / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Here is my review of Robert Prechter's latest BOOK "The Socionomic Theory of Finance", which is a 800 page monster of a work. I first became aware of the Robert Prechter's writings in the 1980's as his book "The Major Works of R. N. Elliot" was my first foray into Elliott Wave Theory, in which Robert Prechter was already in the last few pages seeking to go beyond Elliott Wave Theory, and now 30 years later here is the latest manifestation of Robert Prechter's journey into a socioeconomic model of markets and economies that began as elliott wave theory.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
How To Use Emotions To Make Better Investment Decisions / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
BY JARED DILLIAN : There are a lot of times in my life where I wish I was just a computer and didn’t have feelings. I’d probably be a much better trader.
And that’s what this piece is about. We’re all human beings, trading and investing, trying to make money, but these things called emotions get in the way.
Most trading experts will tell you to get rid of your emotions altogether, to get as close to being a computer as possible.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Beginners Guide to CFD Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Why Online Trading Platforms Are Useful for Everyone / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
Despite the accessibility of online trading platforms, these entities remain synonymous with novice investors and those are new to their respective markets. After all, online platforms are largely attributed with eradicating many of the barriers to entry that once surrounded the financial marketplace, making it accessible to everyday citizens and part-time day traders. A great trading platform to try is the EmpireOption, it's one of the leading trading platform online.
While there is some truth to this, it is unfair to claim that online trading platforms only offer value to novices. In fact, they offer value to every single trader, regardless of their experience level and the individual strategies that they use to execute orders.
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Elliott Wave Theory: Is Elliott’s Theory Enough? / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: ElliottWave-Forecast
By Daud Bhatti : Elliott wave Theory: Is Elliott’s Theory a system in itself?
As many traders know, The Elliott wave Theory is a form of technical analysis that finance traders use to analyze financial market cycles and forecast market trends by identifying extremes in investor psychology, highs and lows in prices, and other collective factors. Elliott’s Theory was developed by Ralph Nelson Elliott and published in 1938 in the book The Wave Principle. The Theory states that collective investor psychology, or crowd psychology, moves between optimism and pessimism in natural sequences. These mood swings create patterns evidenced in the price movements of markets at every degree of trend or time scale.
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Sunday, April 23, 2017
Robert Prechter Talks About Elliott Waves and His New Book / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Avi Gilburt of ElliottWaveTrader.net conducted a thoughtful interview with Bob Prechter recently. We thought you'd like to see it.
1. How did you come across Elliott wave analysis?
My dad subscribed to Richard Russell's Dow Theory Letters, and he would occasionally forward his copies to me. In 1968, Russell began writing about A.J. Frost's Elliott wave work. He published wave interpretations for the Dow off and on through late 1974, when he called the end of the bear market. During that time, I began charting gold and gold stocks, labeling the waves. After I became a professional technician at Merrill Lynch in 1975, I went on a search for Elliott's original books, which were published in ring binders. The Library of Congress didn't have them. Finally I found copies on microfilm in the New York Public Library. It was a thrill coming across those listings on library cards. In 1980, I republished Elliott's original books and articles in what is now called R.N. Elliott's Masterworks. Later I published all of Bolton's, Frost's and Russell's Elliott wave writings along with bios and notes.
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Thursday, April 06, 2017
The Myth of Market Shocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
An Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Socionomic Theory of Finance
By Robert Prechter
Few people find a new theory accessible until they first see errors in the old way of thinking. Part I of this book challenges the universally accepted paradigm under which humans' rational reactions to exogenous (external, or externally generated) causes purportedly account for financial market behavior. The current chapter explores whether dramatic news events affect financial markets.
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Trader Education Week - Free Event to Help You Learn to Spot Trading Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear Trader,
You have an opportunity to spend the next week learning how you can spot high-confidence trade setups in the charts you follow every day.
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Friday, March 10, 2017
This Time Is Different - 4 Words That Broke Many Investors / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : Four little words may have cost more investors more money than anything else in stock market history: This time is different.
Granted, in a sense, every time is different. History never repeats itself in exactly the same way, but it can certainly rhyme.
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Friday, February 10, 2017
Learn to Trade Markets Better with Elliott Waves Now, Free / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Dear trader,
As a trader, the one question you ask yourself constantly is:
"Next, is the market going up, down -- or sideways?"
That's all that matters. But how do you get your answers?
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Thursday, February 02, 2017
MACD: Learn to Recognize Trade Setups / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
See examples in Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) and Intel Corp. (INTC)
Just as there are patterns in price, there are also patterns in momentum indicators. These patterns can support your Elliott wave analysis and help you identify tradable moves in price.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
3 Ways the Elliott Wave Principle Enhances Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Learn practical ways in which Elliott wave analysis sets you apart from the herd
In this interview, the head of Elliott Wave International's Educational Resources, Wayne Gorman, tells you about 3 practical benefits of trading with the Elliott Wave Principle: setting realistic price targets, finding ideal entry points -- and squeezing the most out of the trend.
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Monday, January 09, 2017
Test Your Markets Trading Knowledge: Find the Clear Wave Pattern on this Chart / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Take this quiz, then check your answer against one of our top analysts
Do you see a pattern you recognize in this chart of Reynolds American (RAI)?
The Wave Principle separates price action into two categories: motive and corrective, and this price chart has a clear example of one category.
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