Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Stocks Overbought or Oversold? Where to Put Your Stops / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Its 1:00pm ET and volume is drying up.
We did see a nice pop this morning breaking some previous pivot highs from last week and volume looks strong. Long story short… stocks are overbought here very similar to the past two highs as seen in the chart below. The big question from here is what to do now? Well, I wanna see some bullish patterns and volume over the next 12-48 hours if we are going to be looking to get long for an intermediate rally that lasts several weeks taking the indexes to new highs.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
How to Make Money No Matter What the Stock Market Does / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: This weekend, I was at a boxing match, talking with someone affiliated with the show. He used to work on Wall Street. I asked him if he missed it. “Hell, no,” he said quickly. “Wall Street makes boxing look like an honest business.”
After the financial collapse, flash crash and various scandals, that’s the way many people view Wall Street.
And that’s despite the current bull market being the ninth longest in history – out of 26.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Timing The Gold Bull Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Dreaming the impossible dream
The question of when gold’s long awaited ascent will happen is not without precedence. A similar question is still being asked by the Jews concerning the appearance of the Messiah. Prediction has always been an inexact science.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Dividends, the Only Sure Way to Get Rich in Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry: Most people think Warren Buffett became the richest investor in history – and one of the richest men in the world – because he bought the right "cheap" stocks.
Legions of professional investors tell their clients they're "Dodd and Graham value investors... just like Warren Buffett."
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Best Rides a Market Trader Can Take is on a Third Wave / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
The Elliott Wave Principle states that in financial markets, prices unfold in 5 wave patterns:
Read full article... Read full article...In wave 1, the trend has begun. Wave 2 makes a sucker outta you. Wave 3 is a powerful sight to see. Wave 4 is a corrective chore. And wave 5 is time to look alive -- once more.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
How to build an Optimal Investment Portfolio with Markowatz's Portfolio Theory? / InvestorEducation / Risk Analysis
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
There have been many changes in today’s stock market trading landscape which is dominated by computers and ECN networks as compared to the ‘open outcry’ system that existed until the early 1980s. During those days markets are relatively inefficient in a way that price change does not reflect the change in the news and events. Those who can get hold of technologies will have the upper hand in trading the markets because they will receive the news much sooner than the rest of us. Those who possess telex, fax and computers will certainly have an advantage not only in receiving the news but also in executing the buy and sell orders.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Facebook Crash Illustrates the Investment Opportunity Scam, Nadeem Walayat's Investing Lesson / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
With the Facebook stock price trading about 50% below the IPO price, read on if want to know why so many investors were zuckerberged into investing in Facebook and how such costly mistakes can be avoided in the future.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Stock Market Crash Investing Lessons and the Real Secrets of Successful Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
On Friday the stock market (Dow) plunged by 205 points, or 1.5%, that was explained by the mainstream financial press after the fact in terms of market response to corporate earnings news events, but having all but forgotten that Friday the 19th was the 25th anniversary of the Great Stock Market Crash of 1987 which saw the Dow crash by 508 points, 22% in a single days trading that still echo's through time just as the 1929 Great Crash (10% drop) echo's to make their presence felt each October that acts to reinforce the seasonal tendency for Octobers to be a negative month for stocks.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Trading Markets - Elliott Wave Pattern that Signals the Start of Opportunity / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
On Monday Oct. 8 I sat down with Elliott Wave International's senior analyst Jeffrey Kennedy to discuss his favorite wave pattern of all: the Elliott wave diagonal.
Nico Isaac: You say if you had to pick just ONE of all 13 known Elliott wave structures to spend the rest of your technical trading life with, it would be the Elliott wave diagonal. First, tell us what the diagonal is.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Fibonacci in Nature: The Golden Ratio and the Golden Spiral / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
If you've studied the financial markets, even for a short time, you've probably heard the term "Fibonacci numbers." The ratios and relationships derived from this mathematical sequence are applied to the markets to help determine targets and retracement levels.
Did you know that Fibonacci numbers are found in nature as well? In fact, we can see examples of the Fibonacci sequence all around us, from the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the shape of a seashell. Even our human bodies are examples of Fibonacci. Read more about the fascinating phenomenon of Fibonacci in nature.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Free Cash Flow - The Best Company Valuation Metric / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Ian_R_Campbell
Why Read and Watch: Because Free Cash Flow is indeed the best valuation metric for established companies that generate cash flow from operations.
Featured Article and Video: A recent short article with an accompanying video purports to explain what 'free cash flow' is, and why and how it is important as a business valuation metric. On balance, the video does quite a good job of this - and hence is worthwhile watching and listening to.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Don't Let the Stock Market Play You For the "Greater Fool" / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: More than a decade has passed since the dot-bomb implosion, and many of us are still amazed that so many investors got sucked into such an insane speculative financial mania.
The thing is, it has happened many times before.
For instance, in the mid-1600s Holland literally drove itself to ruin over flowers - tulips, to be precise.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Major Stock Market Turn Still to Come / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Elliott's 70-year-old forecast applies in 2012
Adversity often visits people just as their future seems brightest.
At the same time, other people learn that when one of life's doors closes, a window will open.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
The Stock Market and Standard Time Spans / InvestorEducation / Cycles Analysis
By: Submissions
Ed Carlson writes: One of the great gifts left to us by twentieth-century technician, George Lindsay, was his identification and categorization of what he called the standard time spans. He traced these time spans back to 1798 and found they occurred over and over again throughout time. They became an integral part of his methodology. Those time spans play an important role in telling us that the current bull market is about to end (or has ended already).
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Dramatic Stock Market Sell off and the Importance of Patience and Persistence in Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Enjoy this video clip from Elliott Wave International Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy, as he combines actionable advice that's easy to understand with a no-nonsense take on trading psychology.
You can get immediate access to additional trading lessons like this one each day when you register for EWI's Trader Education Week FREE >>
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Investor Rules for Avoiding Stock Market Bubbles / InvestorEducation / Liquidity Bubble
By: Casey_Research
Dan Steinhart, Casey Research : Warren Buffet's #1 rule of investing is "Don't lose money."
It's good advice, though not to be taken literally; all investors lose on occasion. Still, it is a worthy goal for which to aspire. And to have any chance of reaching it, you must learn how identify and avoid bubbles.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Trading Markets with the Two-Bar Pop Gun Trading Pattern / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Some people like to get outside on the weekends, maybe playing tennis or working in the yard. Some people like to visit their friends or cook a big meal or go out to see a movie. And some people who are passionate about their work -- such as Elliott Wave International's (EWI) analyst Jeffrey Kennedy -- like to stare at hundreds of price charts on their computer screen to find patterns that point to trade setups. We used to worry for his health but not anymore, because he's been doing it for years and he comes up with some amazing trading lessons. Enjoy this lesson on bar patterns from EWI analyst Jeffrey Kennedy.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Learn How to Spot Trading Opportunities in Your Charts For Free / 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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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Why 95% of Traders Lose, Learn How to Manage your Trading Positions / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear Reader,
One of the most difficult aspects of trading is emotional control -- the ability to keep yourself from sabotaging your trading plan. Unfortunately, there is so much information available to you that your decision-making can be easily swayed.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Don’t Be a Stock Market Racist, Investing Lesson / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Charles_Carnevale
There is no shortage of pundits and prognosticators willing to offer their opinions (rarely based on facts) as to whether or not stocks are cheap or expensive, or as to whether the markets are going to rise or fall. In every case, the opinions and prognostications are directed as generalities such as stocks or markets. In this context, the implication is that all stocks are the same, and therefore will all behave in the same manner or in tandem.