Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
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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Monday, June 01, 2009
U.S. Bond Market Vigilantes Demand Higher Interest Rates / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin here with a quick note to give you a unique perspective on what’s happening right now.
For many months, we’ve warned that Washington does NOT have a blank check to fight this crisis; there’s a limit to how much Washington can borrow and spend without serious consequences.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
70% of ALL Stock Market Gains Come From This... / InvestorEducation / Dividends
By: Graham_Summers
Are you getting paid?
For much of the 20th century, investors bought stocks for one reason: dividends. In fact, before the SEC act of 1934 was passed, dividends were THE ONLY reason you’d buy a stock.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
How to Stay Safe in this Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Q1_Publishing
Is this a “normal” market?
GM is bankrupt. Unemployment is rising every month. Oil prices are up 90% in six months. And the market goes up.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Buying Annuties for a Steady Income / InvestorEducation / Pensions & Retirement
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: Last week I talked about Social Security. And given the problems with that program, along with the toll the bear market has taken on many portfolios, it’s clear why there has been a renewed interest in annuities lately.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
U.S. Treasury Bond Market Collapsing Now! / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: My mission is to worry so you don’t have to.
And I’ve never been more worried than I am right now. At the same time, though, I’m also more excited than ever about your opportunities to grow your wealth.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Successful Financial Markets Day Trading Brief / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Christopher_Quigley
Judging from the contents of an increasing number of emails more and more investors are choosing to "actively" trade the market rather than "buy and hold." In the main, this is due to the fact that in a bear market the latter strategy creates losses that are difficult to accept long term. However another reason is that with limited business opportunity available investors are seeking "income" rather than capital gain from their investments.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Dangerous Treasury Bond Bubble / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Marty_Chenard
As reported two weeks ago: spreads had been sending a caution sign for the risk of yields rising. That has been happening, and the 30 year yields are rising ...
Friday, May 15, 2009
Portfolio Hedging Strategies Against Fresh Stock Bear Market Lows / InvestorEducation / Stocks Bear Market
By: Andy_Sutton
While it may seem rather inappropriate to talk about hedging strategies while the markets are retracing at least a portion of 2008’s devastating plunge, common sense continues to support the position that the worst is yet to come. Granted, focus has shifted to ‘less bad’ economic data and the anointing of government spending as the elixir that will return the American economy to prosperity. Yes, that whole “We’re going to spend our way to prosperity” mantra is once again in play. Make no mistake about it; what we are witnessing right now will be viewed years from now as the biggest suckers rally in history – so far.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
How to Trade Using Intra-Day Charts to Find Low Risk Entry Points In Any Market / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
In this short video, I will show you how to use intra-day charts to time low-risk entry points in any market that has an established trend. In this example, I am looking at a 30-minute chart of July crude oil (CL.N09). With all of my indicators in a positive trend for crude oil, I am looking for low risk entry levels where we can add to, or institute new positions.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Warrants: The Devil is in the Details – A Follow-up / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Lorimer_Wilson
This is the promised follow-up to my earlier article entitled “Warrants: The Devil is in the Detail” regarding the merit of my decision to forego buying a particular warrant at the time of issue. What can I say other than that I was dead wrong in my assessment of the buying opportunity it presented. It has turned out to be a ‘grand slam’ of an investment rather than the possible ‘bunt’ that I feared.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Vanishing Credit Lines for Consumers and Small Businesses / InvestorEducation / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
In Credit Card Lending Goes Full Cycle I posted an Email from Scott who was denied a credit card by Capital One on the basis of where he lived. Capital One did not even bother with a credit check that would have sown that Scott had a FICO score of 800.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Why ETFs Beat Mutual Funds Investing By a Mile / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: I’ve been trading and investing in mutual funds for most of my life, and I’ve had some success. Yet I have to admit that mutual funds have some shortcomings as an investment vehicle. I’ll bet you’ve noticed the same things, too …
Monday, May 04, 2009
Corporate Takeovers: “Once-In-A-Lifetime” Investment Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Investing 2009
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Despite efforts by the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to thaw the credit markets, normal lending remains hamstrung. This is a both a significant problem and an enormous opportunity.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Inter-Market Analysis Between Stocks and Bonds for Trend Changes / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
By: Richard_Shaw
In a post yesterday, we showed how long-term movements of yield spreads between US high quality and low quality debt tends to move coincident with, and in the same direction as, US stocks over multi-year periods. The pattern worked well for the last three stock trend changes in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Financial Independence: Make Money the Easy Way Investing in this Sector / InvestorEducation / Healthcare Sector
By: Q1_Publishing
Have you ever thought investing was easy?
I sure did.
And I think it’s about to get easy again.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
How Banks Create Money Out of Nothing / InvestorEducation / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Submissions
The following is from mainstream economics textbook Success in Economics by Derek Lobley B.A. (London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1978 edition), which was part of the "Success Studybooks" series. It was intended to be "appropriate to the Economics syllabuses of many of the professional bodies such as ... the Institute of Bankers". It is published verbatim (but with emphases added) from ch.17, pp. 205-206.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I Hate Reverse Stock Splits / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
I started to title this piece, ‘These Guys Are Killing Us’. Where I am coming from is that over the last eight months or so many of the junior mining companies have required additional financing to meet current requirements. In better times and at substantially higher prices, the raising of additional monies and the issuance of more shares and warrants could have been accepted, at least reluctantly, by shareholders.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Investment Performance Evaluation Re-Evaluated: Part Two / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
The Working Capital Model (WCM) looks at investment performance differently, less emotionally, and without a whole lot of concern for short-term market value movements. Market value performance evaluation techniques are only used to analyze peak-to-peak market cycle movements over significant time periods.
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