Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
This Stocks Short Sell Pattern Is All You Need To Know / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: David_Grandey
One classic and often explosive short-sell pattern we want to be on the lookout for is that of a First Thrust Down, Snapback Rally Bombs away pattern. Below is one such example with more further in this post.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Robert Prechter's 6 Critical Money-Making Rules for Investors / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Face the facts -- investing isn't easy. If it was, everyone would be successful. Successful investing takes hard work and discipline. Famed financial analyst Robert Prechter has identified the 6 critical rules successful investors follow. Learning the rules is the easy part -- putting them into action is what will make you a success. Download Prechter's free 30-page report, Six Critical Money-Making Rules for Investors, now.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Enjoy 8 Free Chapters from Robert Prechter's Conquer the Crash / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: EWI
Prechter's New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller remains a useful read.
In 2002, Elliott Wave International's president Robert Prechter published his New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller Conquer the Crash, a prescient book that explained why a financial crisis was inevitable and predicted almost exactly how it would unfold.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
How to Channel an Impulse Wave on a Price Chart / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Susan Walker writes: How do you choose one lesson from a basic tutorial that is chock-full of excellent information about Elliott wave analysis? You could browse through all 50 sections distributed over 10 lessons. Or you could do what some people do when they open a dictionary: let the book fall open and point your finger at a word. Sometimes you learn more from a random search than a deliberate one.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
How to Spot Trading Opportunities Free Ebook / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Dear reader,
Elliott Wave International's free 47-Page eBook, How to Spot Trading Opportunities, is only available free for another 48 hours. Don't miss out on this valuable resource, created from the $129 two-volume set of the same name. The offer expires Friday, April 23. Learn more here and download your free eBook.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Raising The BAR: Bar Patterns & Trading Opportunities / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
How a 3-in-1 formation in cotton "triggered" the January selloff
For Elliott Wave International's chief commodity analyst Jeffrey Kennedy, the single most important thing for a trader to have is STYLE-- and no, we're not talking business casual versus sporty chic. Trading "style," as in any of the following: top/bottom picker, strictly technical, cyclical, or pattern watcher.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Blaming "Market Manipulators" For Losses is a Huge Obstacle to Success / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
To win, you must accept the fact that losses are part of the game.
In 1984, Elliott Wave International's founder and president Robert Prechter won the U.S. Trading Championship, setting a new all-time profit record of 444.4% in a monitored real-money options account in 4 months. In the average 4-month contest, over 75% of contestants, mostly professionals, fail to report profits.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
How To Buy Stocks In An Extended Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: David_Grandey
What should you do with an extended market or shall we say a market that doesn't pullback? When you look at the indexes, that's what we have right now.
But first let's talk corrections and consolidations -- specifically of issues that are in clearly defined uptrends. We define clearly defined uptrends a stocks that make higher highs and trade above the 50-day moving average.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
How to Set Stop Loss Levels / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
We increasingly receive questions about how to set stop loss levels. Let’s look at one objective, data driven way to do that.
You may be a better way, and that’s good thing, but if you don’t have a way, and you need a way, this discussion may be a helpful starting place to design your own stop loss setting method.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
What You Can Learn From a Multi-Millionaire Who Understood Market Psychology / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
How much do you know about Bernard Baruch?
He's mentioned in the foreword of The Elliott Wave Principle - Key To Market Behavior, A.J. Frost's and Robert Prechter's definitive book on wave analysis (emphasis added):
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Friday, April 02, 2010
Jim Rogers' Trading Secret / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes: If you're a trader, you're a loser.
That's what a Journal of Finance study found.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
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By: INO
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Monday, March 29, 2010
How to Apply Fibonacci Math to Real-World Trading / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyone Else, Too - The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ground. But for those who ask how an esoteric mathematical relationship can apply to price charts and trading, here's a quick lesson. Everyone who uses Elliott wave analysis will sooner or later want to try using Fibo techniques, and Elliott Wave International's Jeff Kennedy has written about five of them in a Trader's Classroom column. For an example of why people are so fascinated by Fibonacci, read part of Kennedy's article here:
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Successful 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 simply "buy and hold" it. 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.
Accordingly I set out below some parameters to help these new "traders" avoid the worse pitfalls and hopefully guide them towards the mindset required for long term success.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Stock Market Lessons From Legendary Small Cap Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Joseph_Dancy
It has been said that Shelby Davis was one of the best investors the public has never heard of—unlike the well known Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway fame.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
What's Your Investment IQ? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Many of the things you think you know about investing are part of a mythology designed to make you bounce around between investment products. Modern day "conventional wisdom" just isn't all that its cracked up to be. Concepts you worship are inaccurate; indices and averages you trust do not tell the complete story; the basic investment concepts still work --- but Wall Street won't tell you what they are.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Video on How to Day Trade Spot Gold & Stock Indexes / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Chris_Vermeulen
Last week was an exciting one for intra-day traders who follow the spot gold and major stock indexes. Actually, since early November 2009 the market has been performing very well for us.
As we all know the market is consistently changing its price patterns and momentum from up, sideways to down, which in turn affects everyone’s trading results for any given month.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Paper Trading Is Only Useful For Testing of Your Methodology / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Paper Trading Is NOT What Will Teach You To Trade
This is an excerpt from Elliott Wave International's free Club EWI resource, "What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful" -- a classic Special Report by EWI's president Robert Prechter.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Learn Elliott Wave Theory Analysis - FREE / InvestorEducation / Elliott Wave Theory
By: EWI
Learn Elliott Wave Analysis -- Free
Often, basics is all you need to know. March 5, 2010
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
How to be a Contrarian Stock Market Investor / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
Contrarian investors believe that following the crowd leads to losses and missed opportunities. When the crowd reacts to news or speculation about a stock or the market, the price can rise of fall so far, that has mis-priced the value of the company or the market.
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