Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Monday, October 12, 2009
Do you Really Want to Succeed in Commodity Trading? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Ed Seykota has said that we all get out of the markets what we want. What does he mean by this? Some people want excitement but hopefully you want to succeed and compound your money. This is what I want to continue to do.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Q&A With Robert Prechter: Why Technical Analysis Beats Out Fundamental Analysis / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
As the major stock markets turned down in late 2007 and then started to rally in March 2009, many people who believed in fundamental analysis have begun to question its validity.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Understanding Probability and Risk in Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
It goes without saying one must have a thought out plan if they want to succeed in commodity trading. More so a proper mindset is an important ingredient in long term success in commodity trading. One cannot even think about successful commodity trading without first fully understanding probability and risk. In order to have the proper mindset and become a successful commodity trader, one must first learn to think in probabilities.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Do You Know What is Your Risk Tolerance When Commodity Trading? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
What is your risk tolerance?
Most people that I know don’t think about risk tolerance, this is why they do not even know where this threshold is in commodity trading. The fact is most people actually hate to lose money no matter how small the amount is. This is one of the reasons that many want to be commodity traders never succeed.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Garbage In – Garbage Out / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Like any other effort in science, the back test can vary from shallow and useless to very useful. It is a matter of the quality of information that forms the test. A shallow back test, and the discipline to stick with it, is a recipe for disaster.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
You Say Goodbye And I Say Hello / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
What we see depends mainly on what we look for - JOHN LUBBOCK
In his book The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama notes a Greek fable on perspective.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Q&A With Robert Prechter: Why Technical Analysis Beats Out Fundamental Analysis / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
As the major stock markets turned down in late 2007 and then started to rally in March 2009, many people who believed in fundamental analysis have begun to question its validity.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Robert Prechter's Five Tips for How To Trade Successfully / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Take it from the person who won the United States Trading Championship with profits of more than 440% in 1984 – there are five things that every successful trader needs to know how to do:
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Monday, October 05, 2009
One of the Reasons Commodity Traders Fail / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
There are many reasons commodity traders or even stock market investors fail.
Read this email that was sent to me. This is an example of one of the main reasons for failure.
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
Come Out Of Your Shell (Part 2) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
So if you can teach someone to trade, why is it that all the turtles didn’t succeed, let alone have returns similar to one another?
Michael Covel, author of “The Complete Turtle Trader”, gives an explanation. “Some Turtles like Jerry Parker have chosen a path of less risk and less return. Some like Tom Shanks have stayed true to their higher risk/reward roots. Even though they have made different choices they are BOTH still trend following Turtle traders!”
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
I’m a loser and proud of it / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
My 10 year old nephew Kevin paid me a visit this week. I thought he would enjoy meeting the guys I work with, so I brought him into the office one day. After looking at the screens and watching the prices go up and down, he asked, “How do you make money from all this?”
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Friday, October 02, 2009
The Importance of Financial Market Traders Not Adding to Losing Positions / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
The day was more or less like any other trading day...full of thrills, chills, panic, elation, some "high-fiving" and some "what is happening here?"
Then he appeared. It was the first time I had seen him, but the look in his eyes was familiar. It was not sad, not happy--- just empty.
Friday, October 02, 2009
MEB, the Stock Market Investing System That Beats the Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: If I weren't working on the same research myself, I wouldn't have believed it's possible...
The results of this system are so powerful, I hesitate to share them with a large audience. But I get paid to share the best investment ideas I find. So I feel compelled to tell you about this one...
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Come Out Of Your Shell (Part 1) / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are - ANAIS NIN US (French-born) author
I was having a conversation with one of my clients yesterday on the subject of whether good traders are born or whether they can be taught. I brought to his attention that this was the identical argument between Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt back in the early 1980’s.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
10,000 Hours To Graceland / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
The world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed - SEAN O’CASEY, IRISH DRAMATIST
Do we really have a clear understanding of raw talent? Is there such a thing as a natural born trader?
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
How a Kid With a Ruler Can Make a Million - A Lesson in Drawing and Using Trendlines / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Jeffrey Kennedy writes: The following article is adapted from a brand-new 50-page ebook from Elliott Wave International. Learn more about The Ultimate Technical Analysis Handbook, and download your free copy here.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Are You Trading For Thrills Or Dollar Bills? / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
According to Ori and Rom Brafman in their book “Sway” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a rather interesting experiment. They gathered participants and placed them in a MRI like machine and gave them a computer monitor and a joystick. Then they played a game.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Would You Pay Over $200 For A $20 Bill? Don’t Be Too Sure / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
I just read a very interesting book. It is called “Sway”: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.
Max Brazerman is a professor at The Harvard Business School and introduces his new students to a game at the beginning of the semester. He auctions off a $20 bill with only two rules to the game.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
How to Make a Million Trading Financial Markets Using Trendlines / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Who can blame them? After all, fundamental analysis -- based on past company earnings, rating agency projections and the like -- proved to be of little value during the bust.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Learn the Most Powerful Trading Tools Including Elliott Wave Theory, MACD, Fibonacci / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Who can blame them? After all, fundamental analysis -- based on past company earnings, rating agency projections and the like -- proved to be of little value during the bust.
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