Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Trading Systems for Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Trading Systems
By: Andrew_Abraham
There are countless criteria used by commodity, stock and forex traders. A discretionary commodity trader might seek out markets that in his or her mind that look like they are starting to move ( trend). A SP trader might short the SP 500 when the moon is full or some astrological incident ( Yes I have heard things like this). A systematic trader might look for a break out …or a a moving average crossover depending on their time frame.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Psychology of Risk in Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Andrew_Abraham
The psychology of risk in commodity trading is not that often of an issue discussed. I want to share an interview with my colleague Martin Bedick.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Great Expectations / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations - ELI KHAMAROV
Legendary trader Roy Longstreet was once asked by Intermarket Magazine, “Why have you succeeded in trading to such a degree and why do most traders fail?” Roy answered “Many major problems people have in trading are caused by their expectations – of where the market is headed, how much money will they make from this trade, etc. One thing I learned that has helped me: it is wrong for a person to enter any market with any preconceived expectations.”
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
You Need to Let Your Profits Run in Commodity Trading / InvestorEducation / Commodities Trading
By: Andrew_Abraham
Letting your profits run in commodity trading is one of the most basic attributes of trend following. Commodity traders that adhere to this tenant put themselves in a position of potential long term success. The problem is that many new or inexperienced commodity traders do not have either the patience or discipline to let profits run. They are afraid that the trend might turn around or that they will give up profits. This is one of the major reasons commodity traders fail. When one uses a mechanical trading system ( if they can follow the signals) it forces the commodity trader to follow the trend…and let profits run.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
U.S. Treasury Bond Yield Observations / InvestorEducation / US Bonds
By: Guy_Lerner
The only asset moving up over the last week has been longer term Treasury yields. This is odd especially in the face of equity market weakness and especially since demand for Treasury bonds has outstripped supply over the past year. So why are yields moving up now? Maybe yields are rising in anticipation of buyer fatigue as this week's record bond issuance comes to market.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Hedge Fund Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Monty Agarwal writes: Hedge funds and the managers who run them have been getting a lot of publicity lately — and not of the flattering kind.
We have massive Ponzi schemes, equally massive losses and outsized systemic risks that are enough to frighten away even the hardiest of investors.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Forecasting and Trading, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson's / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Over time one learns the important difference between forecasting, which is scenario building and trading, which is reacting to price movements in real time. Why forecast ?
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Black Swan Insights, Confusing Design And Discovery / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Charles_Maley
When it comes to the things that count, we humans don’t like to admit that we live in a world we know very little about. We also have a tendency to place a premium on the little that we know, and discount the larger amount that we don’t know.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Robert Prechter Conquer the Crash 2009 Second Edition Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Robert Prechter's original Conquer the Crash book of 2002 sought to explain why he thought the economy was heading for a deflationary depression through the application of elliott wave theory as well as giving many suggestions as to how to protect ones assets in a deflationary environment. The second edition adds 188 new pages (480 pages total) seeking to expand Prechter’s deflationary argument through the stock market’s manic climb to the 2007 peak and subsequent crash.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
How to Conquer the Financial Crash - 8 Lessons / InvestorEducation / Financial Crash
By: EWI
Greetings,
In every disaster, only a very few people prepare themselves beforehand. Think about investor enthusiasm in 2005-2007, and you'll realize it's true.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Dead Sure Or Just Plain Dead / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Charles_Maley
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you -LARRY KERSTEN, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Zen Lessons in Market Analysis, Trading and Forecasts / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: John_Mauldin
"Everything, including the market, is ultimately empty of a separate self. One market can only be understood and analyzed in the context of other markets and conditions. Supply and demand, in particular, should not be considered in isolation."
Long time Outside the Box readers are quite familiar with Dr. John Hussman, as he is a frequent choice for this column. But this week I think he has written one of his bests essays ever. He cleverly weaves in quotes from a Zen master who is his friend and gives us a very fresh look at market analysis. This is a thought piece and you should set aside some time to absorb the lessons. You will be well rewarded.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Financial Markets 50 Year Roller Coaster Ride Insights / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Charles_Maley
Richard Russell began publishing Dow Theory Letters in 1958, and he has been writing the Letters ever since (never once having skipped a Letter). Dow Theory Letters is the oldest service continuously written by one person in the business.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
The Red Badge Of Courage, Financial Markets are No Place for Bravery / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Roy Longstreet, legendary commodity speculator once said, “To trade successfully, one needs two things: Knowledge and Courage. The knowledge you can learn or buy. Courage cannot be learned or bought. You either have it or you don’t. But you cannot succeed without it.”
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Holy Grail of Trading, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson's / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Theories, methodologies and systems abound that purport to be the holy grail of trading, the usual tendency is towards ever greater complexity where the reader just needs to commit that bit further before they 'get it' usually by which time many years have passed and the shelves are full of materials, an example of this is found in Gann Analysis, yes W.D. Gann was an legendary trader from the pre-war era but even more so he was a legendary publisher of books, trading materials, courses, and letters.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
How to Learn to Trade, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson's / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
How to Learn to Trade?
From technical analysis books ? , website's ? magazines ? trading guru's ?
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Don't Think Too Much, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson's / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Don't THINK too MUCH !
Don't get lost in reasons of why the market must move, rather focus on what the market is doing on the price charts! As you are trading the PRICE CHART and NOT the fundamental DATA! They can and DO move in OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS!
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Trading Trap, Failure To Truly, Madly and Deeply Believe In Yourself / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Dr_Janice_Dorn
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This trap is deceptively simple because most people, when questioned, say that they totally believe in themselves and deserve to be successful as traders.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Rhythm Of Living / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change- this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, and fresh hope. And out of hope, progress - BRUCE BARTON (AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN 1886-1967)
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Do you Really Want to Succeed in Commodity Trading? / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Andrew_Abraham
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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