Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Commodity Futures Trading Second Worst Performing Strategy YTD / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
By: Andrew_Abraham
Commodity futures trading was the second-worst performing strategy this year. So what does that mean for trend following? Does one who invests in commodity futures trading need to make profits every month or is it more important to make money over a long period of time? Commodity trading advisors and in general commodity futures trading are down to a lack of clear trends in markets.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Basic Financial Markets Analysis Part2 / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Andy_Sutton
Last time we discussed the concept of valuation for some different types of investments and the formation of themes that can be used to help zero in on potential areas for focus. This week we’ll take a look at some ways of breaking down industries and sectors, sizing companies, then connecting the dots between economic themes and investment needs.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Understanding The Dangers of Leveraged ETFs / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: You’ve probably heard about leveraged ETFs: Funds designed to deliver twice or even three times the return of their benchmarks.
Just last week, ProShares launched the first triple-leveraged ETFs tied to the S&P 500 index. ProShares UltraPro S&P 500 (UPRO) is a 3x ETF for bulls, while ProShares UltraPro Bear S&P 500 (SPXU) is a 3x leveraged inverse ETF.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
May The Investment Force Be With You / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Investment markets got you down, Bunkie? Been blown away by derivative stun guns? When will portfolio market values move back to 2007 levels--- and then what will you do about it?
Friday, June 26, 2009
Five Fatal Flaws of Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Jeffrey Kennedy writes: Close to ninety percent of all traders lose money. The remaining ten percent somehow manage to either break even or even turn a profit – and more importantly, do it consistently. How do they do that?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Inverse ETFs Let You Profit In a Falling Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Stocks Bear Market
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: I don’t have to tell you that the stock market can go down as well as up. And the huge volatility we’re seeing in the markets isn’t going away anytime soon.
Why not just stay safely in cash then? Well, for some people that’s exactly the right thing to do. For others, however, that might not be the best option.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Trading Financial Markets "The Holy Grail" / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Angelo_Campione
Over the years I've traded with many different trading systems on many different markets and generally lost money with all of them sooner or later. I couldn't work out why I'd do ok to start with and then give back all the gains and more. It was quite a roller coaster ride.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Stock Market Investing Long-term Buy and Hold Still Bad Advice / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Mike_Shedlock
In spite of what you hear from main stream media and self-serving advice from Wall Street, an investment philosophy of long term buy and hold is not what it's cracked up to be.
Unfortunately, many boomers headed into retirement are finding that out now, at the worst possible time. Moreover, looking ahead, I doubt the next decade is not going to be much better than the last.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Investors Don't Get Trapped in the Next Asset Bubble / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: I have identified the next bubble. It has already begun. It is in full swing.
Investors want to identify the next big bubble. Some investors want to buy in now, maybe using borrowed money (margin loans) to make a killing. They are confident that they will sell out near the top. They won't. Other investors just want to avoid getting trapped. They prefer to let the first group bear the uncertainty of profiting from a bubble sector.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Investor Downside Risk Protection, Stop Loss Orders vs. Protective Put Options / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
If you have been investing for a while, you know it is good practice to have a stop loss in place. You might have heard that pros use protective put options to reduce their downside risk. It is always important to have downside protection on any stock position you own. Investors use stop loss orders and protective put options to provide this protection. The stop loss is the most popular. However, many professional investors use protective puts to insure against losses. Which is the best method for you?
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Quantitative Easing Impact on U.S. Dollar and Treasury Bonds / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Ashraf_Laidi
Neither the Fed, the Bank of England or the Bank of Canada can or plan to exit their quantitative easing policies any time soon.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Basic Financial Markets Analysis – PartI / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Andy_Sutton
In an age of green shoots, fluff, and spin, it is probably worthwhile to put our feet on the ground every so often and take a look at some old fashioned ways that we might value a project, a firm, or capital stock. Too many times over the past 15 years in particular, investors have been lured into various valuation traps. Probably the most noteworthy was the dotcom era of the late 1990’s and the first part of the 21st century. Not a great start to a new millennium. And so the trend has been that each time the investing public deviates from the ‘old fashioned’ rules of finance and analysis, there is always a good whipping waiting just around the bend.
Friday, June 19, 2009
U.S. Treasury Bonds Bear Market Final Head-Fake / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: John_Handbury
My past articles have offered excellent advice, for example, buying Eurodollars (July 2008) and shorting gold (April 2008). The last two years have been profitable.
This trade is my most confident yet....
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Trading Financial Markets Around the Block / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
He that lives upon hope will die fasting… Benjamin Franklin
A man had constant dizzy spells and searched everywhere to find a cure.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Geithner on a Fool’s Errand in China / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: LewRockwell
Bill Bonner writes: This week brought an entertaining episode. Wall Street’s man in Washington, incidentally Secretary of the US Treasury, was sent to Beijing. His mission: to convince the canny Chinese of something that everyone knows is untrue – that US bonds are safe. But if the Americans keep faith with China, it won’t be for lack of trying.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Which Came First, The Happiness or the Success? / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
What’s the deal with happiness and success?
Why is it that we live in such an amazing world, filled with blessings and opportunities, yet so few are happy?
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Managing Your Investment Expectations / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
In all aspects of our lives we need a plan, an objective or a roadmap for managing our expectations. This extends to our investing and financial objectives as well as expectations and challenges of dealing with family issues. Here we would like to chat about investor’s expectations, especially those investors in the natural resource sector.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Thinking of Investing in Precious Metal ETF's? / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Bob_Coleman
Thinking of precious metal ETF's?
Then you better think again...
Can't you see the yellow caution light that is flashing...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The One Thing You Need to Know About Dividend Investing Today / InvestorEducation / Dividends
By: Graham_Summers
Dividend investing may be dead… at least for now.
For a company to pay out dividends, it has to make money (the one exception to this is the financial sector which now resorts to using government money or simply issuing more shares in order to maintain dividend payments).
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Fed Credibility Bubble Bursts as Too Big to Fail General Motors Goes Bankrupt / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: General Motors used to be among the giant companies widely considered “too big to fail.”
Almost all of Wall Street said a GM bankruptcy was “unthinkable.” Most Americans didn’t even consider it as a real possibility. And as recently as February, outgoing and incoming administration officials were still insisting they would never let it happen.
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