Analysis Topic: Investor & Trader Education
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Are You Trading For Thrills Or Dollar Bills? / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
According to Ori and Rom Brafman in their book “Sway” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a rather interesting experiment. They gathered participants and placed them in a MRI like machine and gave them a computer monitor and a joystick. Then they played a game.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Would You Pay Over $200 For A $20 Bill? Don’t Be Too Sure / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
I just read a very interesting book. It is called “Sway”: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.
Max Brazerman is a professor at The Harvard Business School and introduces his new students to a game at the beginning of the semester. He auctions off a $20 bill with only two rules to the game.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
How to Make a Million Trading Financial Markets Using Trendlines / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Who can blame them? After all, fundamental analysis -- based on past company earnings, rating agency projections and the like -- proved to be of little value during the bust.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Learn the Most Powerful Trading Tools Including Elliott Wave Theory, MACD, Fibonacci / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Who can blame them? After all, fundamental analysis -- based on past company earnings, rating agency projections and the like -- proved to be of little value during the bust.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Why Are We Such Suckers For Prediction? / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
I keep CNBC on all day while I work. Perhaps I think I will miss something, or maybe it’s the background noise that’s appealing. In any event, what I always find amazing is the parade of experts making one prediction after another. I think I would fall out of my chair if I heard one of them say “Well, to tell you the truth Mark, I have no idea”.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Ultimate Technical Analysis 50 Page Handbook, Download Now / InvestorEducation / Technical Analysis
By: EWI
Today more and more investors are warming to the fact that psychology moves markets and therefore fundamental analysis, which fails to properly measure mass investor psychology, must be flawed.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A Mindset Is A Terrible Thing To Waste / InvestorEducation / Trader Psychology
By: Charles_Maley
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Keep Your Options Open / InvestorEducation / Options & Warrants
By: Charles_Maley
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right - BILL DIXON
My experience is that most people who trade options do not do very well. A major reason is that most option traders don’t know how options are priced. Without having a basic understanding as to how they are priced, it’s difficult to understand how, and why, they will change in value. This makes formulating good trading strategies practically impossible.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Financial Crisis a Crime Story? / InvestorEducation / Resources & Reviews
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Asks Danny Schechter in his new book THE CRIME OF OUR TIME, Was The Economic Collapse “Indeed, Criminal?” which reveals how an ongoing crime built up on pervasive subcrime mortgage fraud, predatory securitization, unchecked leveraging, and phony insurance scams that lost trillions, cost millions of families their homes, devastating financial markets and western economic security. Schechter argues “We need a jailout, not a bailout.”
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Friday, September 18, 2009
I Like My Information Sliced Thin / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Charles_Maley
Painting can’t be taught, only found – PICASSO
I was watching the New England Patriot/Buffalo Bills game last night, and it dawned on me just how good professional football players are at adapting to unforeseen changes to their game plan. When necessary, professionals (in any game) will act out of instinct without hesitation. They know it’s crucial to trust yourself when your game plan is threatened, otherwise no decisions are made.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Simple? Yes - Easy? No / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Charles_Maley
Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon - THOMAS BLOUNT
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wealth Building and Wealth Preservation / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: Andrew_Abraham
Wealth building is one issue…and is hard to accomplish.
Wealth preservation in todays economy is probably much harder to accomplish.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Robert Prechter's Five Tips for How To Trade Successfully / InvestorEducation / Learn to Trade
By: EWI
Take it from the person who won the United States Trading Championship with profits of more than 440% in 1984 – there are five things that every successful trader needs to know how to do:
Friday, September 11, 2009
What Rate of Investment Return Are You Seeking This Year? / InvestorEducation / Investing 2009
By: Andrew_Abraham
All too many investors have over estimated the rate of return they are looking for. Many times they take on way too much risk without realizing the implications. Risk and return is a double edged sword. The question I always ask or think…is how much risk do I need to put on or invest for x% rate of return.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
How to Outsmart 75% of Other Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Back in mid-June, more than 75% of the investors responding to a CNNMoney poll said they were planning to buy stocks - many of them aggressively.
Of the 41,572 people polled, it now looks like those 31,179 bullish investors kept their word.