Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Use Stock Screeners to find Great Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes:There are thousands of stocks trading on U.S. exchanges right now. And there are thousands more trading on major foreign exchanges. So there are clearly lots of opportunities out there at any given time.
The million-dollar question: How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Heck, I spend every single day following the markets and researching great income investments ... and there's still no way I can easily study a fraction of the stocks out there!
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Steve_Selengut
The caller seemed surprised that I had never heard about Compound Stock Earnings Programs, or CSEs. "People are earning three to six percent per month with little or no risk", she continued, "I'm thinking of attending a seminar". A wise man once said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is", but this sure is a creative euphemism for what has to be a rather complicated options strategy.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Secrets to Successful Investing- Special / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Many small investors seem to repeatedly make the same old mistakes of either getting on board of a trend just as the trend ends or holding onto to losing investments in the hope of an eventual bounce back.
Therefore this weeks newsletter has a mix of education as well as up to date examples of strategies that illustrate how investors need to gear their thought processes towards key elements of successful investing which include :
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Why Most Investors Fail and How to Invest Successfully / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
Why Investors Fail: Analyzing Risk - Investors Behaving Badly
- Tails You Lose, Heads I Win
- Ergodicity
- Why Investors Fail
- Becoming a Top 20% Investor
- Investors Behaving Badly
This week I am in South Africa and am not as connected as I would like to be due to meetings and slow Internet, so we are going to look at some material from my book, Bull's Eye Investing, which I think is more pertinent than ever. And since lately there has been rather large growth in the readership, there are a significant number of new readers for whom this material will be fresh. When I originally wrote much of this, the markets were coming out of the bear phase of 2001-2. I am adding a few comments in [brackets]. I trust you will find value as we look at the problems that investors face in the struggle to maximize portfolio value.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Trading: Art or Science? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nazy_Massoud
Is trading an art or a science? This is a conversation that I had with a very successful trader:
Nazy: Do you believe trading is an art or a science?
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Monday, May 05, 2008
Investor Survival Message / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Neil_Charnock
I am a private investor, a writer (to state the obvious), a gold trader, Investment Newsletter Editor and now a web site manager of sorts. All of these activities are related to investment. Part of my purpose is to educate investors about gold / silver and gold related opportunities such as the mining sector. From what I have seen over the past six months I just have to write this essay for many of my subscribers and potential subscribers. Highly experienced investors might like to skip down to market comments below as the following may not apply to you.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Your 401(k) Retirement Investments and the IGVSI / InvestorEducation / Pensions & Retirement
By: Steve_Selengut
Smack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in those mutual funds, and ETFs? Fortunately, the pain is most often temporary, but the timing of the recovery could alter some participant retirement schedules and benefits--- not to mention the hefty confiscation level retirees can count on from Uncle Sam.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Stock Market Strategy- Sell in May and Go Away: Fact or Fallacy? / InvestorEducation / US Stock Markets
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
“Where is the stock market heading?” is one of the questions most often asked by investors, especially as stock markets seem to be disconnected from economic activity.
It is therefore no wonder that even so-called “pop analysis”, including some legendary axioms, is resorted to in a quest for direction. And besides “buy low and sell high” few other axioms are more widely propagated than “sell in May and go away”. A Google search revealed an astounding 126 000 items featuring this phrase.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Patience is an Successful Investor's Virtue / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
Patience is one of the most difficult skills to learn as an investor and trader. The best investors and traders understand the importance of patience. As one of Warren Buffett's rules of investing states:
"The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient." The best returns come from those who wait for the best opportunity to show it self before making a commitment. Those that chase the current hot stock are destined to loose more than they gain. Remain active in your analysis looking for quality companies at discounted prices, but be patient waiting for them to reach their discounted price before buying.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Learn How To Trade Forex / Currency Markets- Video Lesson / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: EWI
Watch Jim Martens, Senior Currency Strategist at Elliott Wave International, the world's largest market forecasting firm, give tips on how to trade forex with Elliott wave analysis – FREE. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Successful Pension Investment Strategy / InvestorEducation / Pensions & Retirement
By: Christopher_Quigley
PropositionsGiven that hyper inflation is here to stay any long term investment strategy must achieve good growth in order to protect future buying power.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Five Golden Rules of Profitable Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: The topic I'm writing about today has nothing to do with the current state of the markets, but everything to do with making money in them.
The reality is that there are certain core competencies you must implement if you want to trade profitably.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Trader / Investor Tip- How to Determine that the Market is Overbought / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Marty_Chenard
Upwardly moving markets or stocks all eventually move up into overbought conditions. Then ... they cool down in order to let some of the steam off.
How do you measure the steam level? One way is to look at a very short term Relative Strength reading. On a daily chart, I personally like to look at an RSI of 3.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Structured Finance Lecture 2- Credit Derivatives- Part 1 / InvestorEducation / Derivatives
By: Dr_Krassimir_Petrov
Provides a survey of all major credit derivative instruments - credit default swaps, credit default options, indemnity agreements, total return swaps, credit spread forwards, credit spread options, credit spread swaps, basket derivatives, first-to-default baskets and the correlation paradox Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 18, 2008
Trading Doctor- Danger of Trader Tilt / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
The day was more or less like any other trading day—full of thrills and chills, panic and 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 eye was familiar. It was not sad, not happy—just empty.
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