Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Understanding the Basic Language of Option Trading / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” ~ Lao Tzu ~
The peculiar vocabulary and concepts inhabiting an options trader’s thoughts are often the source of confusion to visitors to my world. I have often pondered that learning to understand options is a lot like learning a foreign language. When you arrive in the country whose language you seek to learn, you need a functional vocabulary immediately.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Stock Index Trading with Fibonacci Retracement Levels / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Elliott waves often correct in terms of Fibonacci ratios. The following article, adapted from the eBook How You Can Use Fibonacci to Improve Your Trading, explains what you can expect when a market begins a corrective phase. Learn how you can read the entire 14-page eBook below.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
A Two-Bar Pattern that Points to Trade Setups / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
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 futures 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 neat stuff. A case in point is his discovery of a two-bar pattern that he named the Popgun. Find out more in this excerpt from the Club EWI eBook, How to Use Bar Patterns to Spot Trade Setups.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Learn How to Apply Fibonacci Retracements to Your Stock Index Trading / InvestorEducation / Stock Index Trading
Elliott waves often correct in terms of Fibonacci ratios. The following article, adapted from the eBook How You Can Use Fibonacci to Improve Your Trading, explains what you can expect when a market begins a corrective phase. Learn how you can read the entire 14-page eBook below.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The Value Trap of Deeply Cyclical Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Just as it is easier to draw straight lines than to think in nonlinear terms, it is simpler to buy stocks that have gone up a lot over the previous decade than to remain committed to the ones that have done nothing. However, linearity is for suckers. Success in investing comes from being able to see not what is in front of you but what is lurking just around the corner.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Applying Fibonacci to Stock Market Patterns / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Patterns are everywhere. We see them in the ebb and flow of the tide, the petals of a flower, or the shape of a seashell. If we look closely, we can see patterns in almost everything around us. The price movements of financial markets are also patterned, and Elliott wave analysis gives you the tools to interpret those patterns.
The Fibonacci sequence is vital to Elliott wave analysis -- as a matter of fact, R.N. Elliott wrote that the Fibonacci sequence provides the mathematical basis of the Wave Principle. Once you understand the Fibonacci sequence, it's easy to apply it to the markets you trade.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Market Trading Technical Indicators Love Hate Relationship / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Trading using technical indicators -- such as the MACD, for example -- can do one of two things: help you or hurt you.
Elliott Wave International's Jeffrey Kennedy explains what he loves and hates about technical indicators and shows you how he uses them to his advantage in this excerpt from his FREE eBook, The Commodity Trader's Classroom.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
How You Can Identify Stock Market Turning Points Using Fibonacci / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Dear Trader,
You may be missing trading opportunities that are staring you in the face. The charts you look at every day could reveal high-confidence trade setups and market turning points, and you can learn how to find them, today.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The Best Ever Stock Market Indicator / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Courtesy of Doug Short. The $OEXA200R (the percentage of S&P 100 stocks above their 200 DMA) is a technical indicator available on StockCharts.com that can be used to forecast conservative entry and exit points for the stock market.
See Is This the Best Stock Market Indicator Ever? for a discussion of this technical tool.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Robert Prechter Reveals Why he Embraced the Wave Principle / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Robert Prechter is the widely recognized authority on the Elliott Wave Principle.
Read how he learned about the Wave Principle and why he embraced it in the edited excerpt from his book Prechter's Perspective below (Q&A format):
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Rationalization, Ripped from the Headlines, Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part IV / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking.
Here is Part IV of the series, you can download your free copy of the Independent Investor eBook here.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Cause and Effect, the Stock Market Is Not Physics / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
The Top 10 Stock Market Myths Expose, Setting the Record Straight / InvestorEducation / Corporate Earnings
Not knowing the truth can be hazardous in just about any type of situation, but especially when it comes to your financial future.
To help you decipher market truth from myth, Elliott Wave International put together Market Myths Exposed, a free 33-page eBook that takes the 10 most dangerous investment myths head on and exposes the truth about each in a way every investor can understand. Originally published in 2009, it's still just as valuable as ever. Get your free eBook here.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
The Stock Market Is Not Physics: Part II / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. Although originally published in 2004, the valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking.
Here is Part II of the series. You can read Part I here. Check back in a few days to read Part III, or you can download your free copy of the Independent Investor eBook here.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Commodity Traders How to Identify and Use Support and Resistance Levels / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
Since 1999, Elliott Wave International senior analyst and trading instructor Jeffrey Kennedy has produced dozens of Trader's Classroom lessons exclusively for his subscribers. While commodity markets are known as some of the toughest trading environments around, these actionable lessons from a skilled veteran can help you trade commodities, or any market for that matter, with more confidence.
Enjoy this excerpt from Elliott Wave International's free Club EWI resource, the 32-page Commodity Trader's Classroom.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Stock Market Is Not Physics / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The following series is excerpted from two classic issues of Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. The valuable series has been re-released in the Independent Investor eBook, along with over 100 pages of other reports that challenge conventional economic thinking.
Here is Part 1 of the series. Check back in a few days to read Part 2, or you can download your free copy of the Independent Investor eBook here.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Learn Elliott Wave Analysis - Free 10 Lesson Online Tutorial / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
Understand the basics of the subject matter, break it down to its smallest parts -- and you've laid a good foundation for proper application of... well, anything, really. That's what we had in mind when we put together our free 10-lesson online Basic Elliott Wave Tutorial, based largely on Robert Prechter's classic "Elliott Wave Principle -- Key to Market Behaviour." Here's an excerpt:
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
European Union Agreement: Good or Bad for the Dow Industrials Stocks Index? / InvestorEducation / Stock Markets 2011
Did European Union leaders make the sovereign debt crisis "go away" last week?
Not even close. What they did agree on is tougher budget rules:
Read full article... Read full article..."...17 countries of the euro zone...agreed to run only minimal budget deficits in the future and allowed the European Court of Justice the right to strike down national laws that don't enforce such discipline properly..." Wall Street Journal, (12/9)
Monday, December 05, 2011
Single- and Multi-Bar Price Analysis: Could It Help You Forecast the Markets? / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy has spent over 15 years developing techniques to "read between the lines" on a price chart, and he shares some of his techniques with you in a new FREE eBook: Learn to Identify High Probability Trading Opportunities Using Price Bars and Chart Patterns.
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Friday, December 02, 2011
Learn to Identify High Probability Trading Opportunities Using Price Bars and Chart Patterns / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Dear Trader,
When you look at a price chart, what do you see? A bunch of ticks, some ups and downs, perhaps a pattern? Do you see the trend, support and resistance levels, and who's in charge of the market -- the bulls or the bears?
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