Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Learn to Trade Using Stop Losses to Lock in Profits (Video) / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
This little trading tip can and will make a difference in your trading results in 2009.
Stops are enormously important part of a traders arsenal of trading tools. Some traders confirm that stops are the most important part of their trading armour.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Stock Index Trading: Learn to Trade with the Trend / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
Today we looking at trends and how important they are in trading.In particular, we're going to be looking at the DOW (DJI) and how it has continued to trend since June of '08.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Shareholders Beware! Corporate Rights Issues Could Lose You Money / InvestorEducation / Investing 2009
By: MoneyWeek
There's about to be a rush of companies issuing new shares. And it could well be a trap for investors.
Companies use rights issues to try to tap their shareholders for cash by offering them first dibs on new stock offerings, normally at a chunky discount. And some analysts reckon this dash for cash is a harbinger of better times ahead. (More on that bullish view in a minute).
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Friday, February 13, 2009
How to Succeed in the Current Market Conditions / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Nazy_Massoud
These are uncertain and confusing times. Everywhere you look, any conversation you listen to, it is about the economy and its impact on our lives. We hear about deficit, raising taxes, unemployment and lack of liquidity. It is enough to make everyone enter a negative emotional spiral.
How can you deal with these uncertain times?
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Is the Media the Perfect Contrary Stock Market Investing Indicator? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Joseph_Toronto
Capitulation theory holds that when everyone throws in the towel and is “sure” the market is going further down, that it will then actually go up. A derivative theory, the front page/cartoonist theory holds that when you finally see doom and gloom on the front page of newsmagazines or in the cartoonist's columns, then literally everyone “knows” the market is going down further and, yep, at that point it starts to go up… or so goes the theory.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Potential Dangers of Investing in Exchange Traded Notes (ETN's) / InvestorEducation / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Money_and_Markets
Ron Rowland writes: Mike Larson is off today, so he asked me to fill in for him. And one thing that I think Mike and I both agree on is that ETFs, or exchange traded funds, are one of the best things that ever happened for small investors.
You may already know about the advantages they have over conventional mutual funds … liquidity, low costs, transparency, diversification, and more.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009
How to Identify and Trade Big Market Moves Using MarketClub Alerts / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
Hello, this is Adam Hewison. I'm very excited about today's video. My new video is only seven minutes long, but shows you how to use MarketClub's Alert Tool to catch big moves. It's no surprise that it is titled, "How to catch the big moves using MarketClub Alerts." I think it's the right title as we have seen some tremendous moves that you would have caught using our Alert Tool.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 06, 2009
Clean Money - John Rubino: Book Review / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: David_Shvartsman
274 pages. Hoboken, New Jersey
John Wiley & Sons.
2009. 1st Edition.
The bouyant stock market environment of the past several years is gone, and the financial wreckage of 2008 is still sharp in our minds as a new year starts to unfold.
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Monday, February 02, 2009
Mike Shedlock (Mish) Vs Peter Schiff: Analysts Clash / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Mike Shedlock last week fired a broadside attack onto Peter Schiff (Dr Doom's) record of financial forecasts for 2008, which culminated with a statement that illustrated and implied that many of Peter Schiff's clients may have actually lost between 30% to 60% of the value of their portfolios during the volatile trading and investment environment of 2008. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 31, 2009
President Barack Obama: The Temperament of a Champion Stock Trader / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Investment_U
I think President Barack Obama would make an exceptional short-term stock trader.
I've never met the man, personally. And I know nothing about his stock portfolio or whether he even has one.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
FusionIQ Trading System Signals / InvestorEducation / Trading Systems
By: John_Mauldin
- Trading With the Big Boys
- FusionIQ
- GM, AIG, and Alcoa -- Are They Still in Your Portfolio? >
- La Jolla, New York, and Las Vegas
This week we are going to do something a little different. I am in Bermuda taking a little weekend R&R after a speech, as well as working on my book. There is not the time for the usual letter this week, but I have asked Barry Ritholtz to write about his new trading program, FusionIQ, for reasons I will talk about below.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Trading with Fibonacci, the Best Kept Market Secret / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: INO
Two months ago, I wrote a blog on Fibonacci that many people are still talking about. This timeless lesson I learned over 30 years ago in the pits of Chicago is one that I still use today.
How this amazing Italian mathematician figured this out is way beyond my pay scale, but I can say without hesitation that it works.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Investing in 2009, Six Mistakes You Must Avoid / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Q1_Publishing
“Our first priority is managing risk.”
Seven months ago I had a chance to attend a presentation by investment manager David Burrows. You're not going to find his name in the Wall Street Journal or a quote in a Bloomberg news article, but that doesn't mean he's not worth listening to. He is.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
How to Trade the Forex Markets, Euro and the U.S. Dollar / InvestorEducation / Forex Trading
By: INO
Today, we are dissecting and examining one of my favorite markets ... the Forex market. The Forex market is the biggest in the world and is traded on a 24/7 basis.
What makes these markets so exciting is the fact that they have a very strong tendency to trend, that is, once they get started in one direction they tend to continue in that direction for some time.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wall Street Snake Oil Salesmen Selling Deflation / InvestorEducation / Scams
By: Oxbury_Research
Wall Street Snake Oil - I'm sure that movie buffs are familiar with the snake oil salesman character which appeared in many Western films. He was a “doctor” with dubious credentials that traveled by covered wagon from town to town. The fast-talking salesman would sell “medicine”, such as snake oil, using lots of marketing hype and bogus “evidence”. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stock Selection Fundamental vs Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
Every once in a while, I like to flip the TV channels and watch Jim Cramer on CNBC. It's not that I think that Jim Cramer is a spectacular trader, I just think he is a talented and amusing guy. The last time I tuned on the tube, CNBC's Jim Cramer was naming his top five picks to get you through these recessionary times. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
A Contrarian's Viewpoint Of Technical Analysis In Today's World / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Submissions
Fred Carach writes:
When I broke into the stock market in 1961 if you wanted to learn technical analysis you were immediately pointed to Edwards & Magee's book," Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends" which was the bible of the industry from its first edition in 1948 until its last edition in the 1970s. Of course technical analysis really got its formal start with the publication of the famous "Dow Theory" in a series of articles written by Charles Dow in the Wall Street Journal between 1900 and 1902. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
How to Ponzi Scam Proof Your Stocks Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
I've been in the financial arena for over 30 years. I must say I that I am appalled to see scum like Bernie Madoff stealing money from honest people. In many ways he's committing one of the most heinous of crimes. He's destroying the financial standings of unsuspecting victims for his own selfish greed. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A Bernie Madoff scam cannot exist under “traditional” portfolio management / InvestorEducation / Scams
By: Joseph_Toronto
“Traditional” asset management carries with it one cardinal rule which, by definition, simply does not permit a Bernie Madoff style fraud, ponzi scheme, or any other generic scam. By now most have read about the collapse of the Bernie Madoff hedge fund as roughly $50 billion of investor funds vanished in what turned out to be a gigantic ponzi scheme and the largest scam ever.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Dumb and Dumber, Taking Investment Advice from Wall Street / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Oxbury_Research
Dumb and Dumber is the title of the 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. The title could also be applied to the current behavior of both institutional and individual investors. Both type of investors are cowering in the corner, afraid of the bogeyman – deflation. Both types of investors are eagerly purchasing Treasuries at zero per cent or even negative interest rates. Read full article... Read full article...