Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, January 07, 2013
Technical Analysis - ‘Linear Weighted Moving Average’ (LWMA) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Marcus Holland writes: The LWMA is a technical indicator which responds faster than the ‘Simple Moving Average’ (SMA) to new price developments because its latest readings are emphasized more than its older ones. However, the LWMA is not as popular as the (SMA) and the ‘Exponential Moving Average’ (EMA). The LWMA was designed to counter the lagging problems identified with the SMA in a similar way as the EMA.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
The Single Greatest Stock Investing Secret Ever! / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Porter Stansberry writes: Let's make a fundamental point about investing...
Most investors obsess about growth. They want a story about a company that's poised to experience massive growth. And yes, growth is very good. But you can't forget that the point of growth is to generate capital for shareholders.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Five Critical Criteria for Every Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
A recent reader question is from Alex L, who is a member of my Super Sports Roadster club, a “collaborator-friend,” and big help in getting the Miller’s Money Forever project started:
“Dennis, you started actively managing your portfolio when your CDs got called in and you were sitting on cash. What do you suggest for people who already have a portfolio but might want to rearrange it a bit?”
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Learn How to Label Elliott Waves More Accurately / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Are you looking for an easy way to improve your confidence as you analyze the charts you trade? Take a quick look at this chart (adapted from Jeffrey Kennedy's December 26 Elliott Wave Junctures lesson) to see how divergence relationships help clarify your analysis.
According to Jeffrey, divergence relationships are easy to identify. Whenever prices make a new extreme, look for underlying indicators to move in the opposite direction. Specifically,
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Friday, December 28, 2012
B-Wave Stock Price Corrections Precede Wave C Rallys / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The work at my firm centers firmly around a combination of fundamentals and catalysts, and crowd behavior. Yes, it’s crucial to understand herd mentality if you want to consistently enter profitable swing trades at the right time and price. The Seminal event is analogous to what is called “the tipping point” in a new development stage of a company. Learning to spot the pullback during this seminal event period and pouncing is crucial to making big money in the market.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Why Passive Management better than Active Management in Stock Market Investing? / InvestorEducation / Investing 2012
What offers the challenges of a chess game, thrill of a poker game yet it is so difficult to make money and only a handful of professionals managed to do well? It looks deceptively simple, offers the glitz of a movie star and everyone claims to be an expert in it and yet most of them lost money. The answer is the financial market which is fascinating, thrilling, and entertaining and opens 24 hours a day and seven days a week. As long as you are hook onto the internet you are able to play it in the comfort of your own home or where ever you are even in remote South Pacific or in an isolated beach in South America. It is the dream of every investor to become wealthy but how? Are there any shortcuts? Traditionally there are three ways for us to accumulate wealth namely, 1) through inheritance, 2) through the selling of one’s labour or 3) by using one’s savings to generate more wealth through investment.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Trading The ABC Sentiment Shifts Ahead Of The Crowd / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
One of the most obvious keys to successful trading or investing is buying low and selling high. The problem being if it was that easy to pinpoint those low and high points then all traders would be batting 1000%. What we use at my ATP service is a combination of fundamental analysis and catalyst spotting inter-twined with charting techniques. Most of our work revolves around buying substantial dips in a strong stock, 3x ETF’s, or reversal patterns. 3x ETF’s are great for short term swings as they function almost exclusively on crowd behavioral patterns, but it also applies to individual stocks.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Learn to Apply Moving Averages to Your Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave International (EWI) has just released a free 10-page trading eBook: How You Can Find High-Confidence Trading Opportunities Using Moving Averages, by Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Why the Ballooning Student Debt Should Be on Your Radar / InvestorEducation / US Debt
John Paul writes: We’re two weeks away from surviving the Mayan Doomsday and three weeks away from stepping over the fiscal cliff. But the unabated student loan debt is just getting warmed up. Instead of dealing with the problem, Washington’s policies continue to stoke the fire. And that economic strain spells continued misery for America’s ongoing credit crisis woes.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Social Mood Impact on Stock Markets and Presidential Election Results / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
In the wake of the Presidential election, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) reports that the study, "Social Mood, Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections" has earned the #3 spot among the most-downloaded papers in the past 12 months.
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
How To Find Trades USing Chart Analysis - 10 Year Note And Wheat / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The one question so many want to know is where to find a good trade? From our perspective, we could care less what the underlying futures/stock is, because when reduced to charts, they are all subject to the forces of supply and demand, and they all have the same underlying factors of fear and greed.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
How to Trade Using the Inside Bar Strategy Candlestick Chart Pattern / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Steve Jones writes: The inside bar strategy is a binary options strategy that is based on the momentum strategy. If you want to use it we recommend you first read about the Momentum Strategy and then read this article about the Inside Bar Strategy to fully understand how it works.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Trading Forex USD/JPY With Elliott Waves / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
Elliott wave analysis is not a crystal ball. (No market-forecasting method is.)
But here's what is remarkable: Even when your Elliott wave forecast doesn't pan out, you have built-in safeguards to alert you -- and help you manage risk. Here's a real-life example.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Apple, How Market Booms Turn to Busts, Trading From New Paradigm to Despair / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
I know most Apple enthusiasts will be rolling their eyes with my analysis and that's fine because the rest of us need people to buy our shares as we unload long positions or sell Apple short.
All joking aside, the charts below clearly show some very interesting information you cannot afford to overlook. At minimum, take a quick glance at the charts which tell the full story on their own...
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Trading the Stock Markets with GPS / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
(Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of this article.)
Think of Investing as a Trip
Here's my advice: View the Elliott wave Principle as your road map to the market and your investment idea as a trip.
You start the trip with a specific plan in mind, but conditions along the way may force you to alter course. Alternate counts are simply side roads that sometimes end up being the best path.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Reading the Elliott Wave Analysis Market Road Maps / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
(Part 1 of this article is posted here.)
A Quick Road Map of Wave Analysis
For this overview of wave analysis, I have borrowed from the "Cliffs Notes" version that we provide for free to anyone interested in learning about wave analysis. It's called Discovering How To Use the Elliott Wave Principle.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
What Works Best Financial Markets GPS or Road Map? / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Some of the best stories about global positioning systems (GPS's) are the weird detours they sometimes recommend to drivers. Just like some of the weird detours that financial markets can make you take when you think they would be better off going in a straight line either up or down, depending on how you've positioned your trades.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Investors Need Strong Stomachs… Not Big Brains / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Alexander Green writes: It’s great fun to read heroic investment stories about individuals who made fortunes as a result of exceptional insights or sheer genius.
No one is better at telling these than Michael Lewis, the bestselling author who devotes much of his book, The Big Short, to Steve Eisman, a brilliant and eccentric hedge fund manager who made hundreds of millions in the recent financial crisis by buying credit default swaps on the triple-B-rated tranches (slices) of subprime mortgage bonds.
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Sunday, November 04, 2012
How to Use Moving Averages to Identify Elliott Waves / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Moving averages are one of the most widely-used methods of technical analysis because they are simple to use, and they work. Among Elliott wave traders, you will likely find an especially high percentage of investors and traders who incorporate moving averages into their Wave analysis.
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Friday, November 02, 2012
Moving Averages and the Elliott Wave Principle / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Moving averages are one of the most widely-used methods of technical analysis because they are simple to use, and they work. Among Elliott wave traders, you will likely find an especially high percentage of investors and traders who incorporate moving averages into their Wave analysis.
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