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Predicting Stock Market Movements - Wall Street spins reality in whatever manner it can to make most investors unhappy, thus increasing new product sales. Your confusion, fear, greed, impatience, and need for a quick panacea fuels their profit engines, not yours. Learn how to deal unemotionally with Wall Street events and shun the herd mentality.
The Rally Is Coming! The Rally Is Coming! - The market has never and will never be a one way ticket to ride (smile Beatles fans). None of the important aspects of the voyage (advances, declines, speed, beginning, or end) are predictable, by anyone, no matter how overpaid or well credentialed. Sooner or later, some gutsy financial gurus will declare the stock market oversold and full of bargains.
Investment Book Reviewed by University Professors - `The Brainwashing of the American Investor` is direct, hard-hitting and brutally honest--- The title implies a strong message, and the book does not let the reader down. Once Steve Selengut debunks the notion that Wall Street is on your side, he tells you how to take control of your own investments. His strategy is easy to understand and takes the guesswork and emotion out of investing.
Investment Performance - It`s Better Than You Think - The Working Capital Model (WCM) approach to portfolio performance evaluation eliminates the tears and fears because it is based on more than the current market value illusion of wealth--- a number that won`t sit still long enough to ever be meaningful. Market value, within the WCM, is used only to determine what to buy and/or when to take profits
Asset Allocation for Foundation and Endowment Investment Portfolios - Foundations, Endowments and other Not-for-Profit organizations come in all shapes and sizes. The assets that they control and manage for the benefit of countless projects, charities, and causes is staggering in total and it has become a primary market for the vast array of investment products developed by Wall Street financial institutions
Calculating Your Investment IQ - So many terms, ideas, and strategies; so little time and money! Here is a list of thirty mostly-true or mostly-false comments for you to kick around with your friends and fellow investment bloggers:
Investment Performance Analysis Using the Working Capital Asset Allocation Model - It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just cannot know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections... even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market Values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages.
Stock and Bond Trading Powers Modern Asset Allocation - For most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would contain: little if any attention is given to the Quality of the equities selected
Asset Allocation: Investing by the Numbers - Asset Allocation is an investment planning tool, not an investment strategy... few investment professionals understand the distinction. Investment strategies are used to implement the asset allocation formula that investment planning produces.
Just Another Credit Crunch? - Many investors are beginning to think that income investing is every bit as risky as equity investing, but nothing has really changed in the relationship between these two basic building blocks of corporate finance.
Investor Political Priorities - A Survey - 90% of all Americans are investors and, as such, there are issues that we need to hear about from the man who would be king. None of our could-be leaders are addressing the issues that would allow us to achieve our financial goals. This is my short list for the presidential candidates. Where they stand on these issues will certainly influence our economic future. Which of these is most important?
Technical analysis, what is it and why is it important to me? - The problems start when we try and figure out what is low and what is high, that is where technical analysis comes in.
Understanding Technical Analysis - Stocks need to be understood before making any major moves. This can be accomplished by a few methods known as analyses. Technical analysis is one of the most useful methods to understand the trends of the stock market.
The Logic Behind Technical Analysis - The Efficient Market Hypothesis does not recognize the true importance of interpretation. Saying that data (publicly available information) acts on market prices omits the key step.
Stock Trading through Technical Analysis - As an investor enters into a stock market, he needs guidance from
experts who can fetch him good returns. Since the stock market appears alien
to a first-timer there are several people who can help investors with
the necessary information and strategies.
Technical Analysis for Non-Professional Stock Traders - Technical analysis is a premier tool for many professional traders. It gives them a lot of information upon which they can base their trading decisions. The days that these tools were only available to the professionals have past.
Technical Analysis Explained - Technical analysis is as the name suggests the observation of stocks using chart data in order to predict ups or downs of any given stock. Those who practice this are generally not concerned about the overall value of a company.
Financial Technical Analysis Using Volume - Only the price and the number of transactions are known daily and captured as charts for financial technical analysis. Even though volume is such an important element, very few technical traders make full use of it in helping them with their trade entries and exit.
Technical or Fundamental Analysis (Forecasting) - In this article I compare these two methods of forecasting in the stock market. I will give the reasoning that why technical analysis is superior to fundamental analysis.
Technical Analysis - Using Support & Resistance Correctly - If you are trading with technical analysis one of the keys to making longer term profits is being able to use support and resistance to make profits. Most novice traders however fail to trade with support and resistance correctly so here are some tips.
Fundamental Analysis versus Technical Analysis Trading - Well ideally you want to base your stock picks and investments by looking at both fundamentals and technicals. Because a company with strong fundamentals will typically have a longer term increase in price and performance.
Better Understand Technical Analysis and Some Indicators - We could say, all wealthy traders use technical analysis but not all technical analysis traders are wealthy although T.A. is the most precise way of trading the Forex market.
Using Naked Options System to Buy Options - In some cases a trader who may have access to an uncovered options trading system, may not be willing to trade uncovered options, or is simply unable to do so because of margin requirements set by an options broker. In such case the question is how to adjust an uncovered options trading system to buy put and call options.
Selling Covered Calls - The covered calls options strategy provides traders the ability to generate additional income from investments in a neutral market. An options trader who wishes to benefit from a fairly neutral market may consider selling covered calls.
Short Stock Market History - A stock exchange is a place where company stocks and other securities are traded. Nowadays trading is less and less linked to take place in such a physical space. Modern markets are electronic networks that deliver advantages of speed and low cost on transactions. A stock exchange is one of the most important components of a stock market.
Isn`t It Time for a Better Trading Index (TRIN) Indicator? - The Arms Index, also known as the Trading Index (TRIN), was developed by Richard Arms in 1967 and since then has become a well-known indicator used to determine market balance. At the time, the idea was revolutionary.
Options Investing Strategies - Money management options trading strategies dictate how much to invest (and reinvest) in each trade. We have compiled three of the most popular investment strategies below with explanations of how these strategies are applied in the options trading.
A Simple SBV (Selling and Buying Volume) Trading System - A simple trading system based on the selling and buying volume oscillator. The number of online professional trading newsletters services very quickly realized the value of analyzing the volume represented in the SBV oscillator and embedded it into their trading system to generate options signals.
Online Trading System – Which one is right? - By searching “Options Trading System” as an exact phrase in Google you will receive over 40,000 results. Because of the leverage that the options market provides, this market has became one of the most popular among speculative investors.
Selling Options Short versus Buying Options. - In a majority of situations it is not available to the retail traders simply because of the margin requirements on selling options short. Some options broker may require $100,000 in the trading account in order to allow uncovered options trading.
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