Posts Tagged ‘stock market’
Five Fatal Flaws of Trading
Close to ninety percent of all traders lose money. The remaining ten percent somehow manage to either break even or even turn a profit — and more importantly, do it consistently. How do they do that?
That’s an age-old question. While there is no magic formula, EWI Senior Instructor Jeffrey Kennedy has identified five fundamental flaws that, in his opinion, stop most traders from being consistently successful. We don’t claim to have found The Holy Grail of trading here, but sometimes a single idea can change a person’s life. Maybe you’ll find one in Jeffrey’s take on trading. We sincerely hope so.
The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Kennedy’s Trader’s Classroom Collection, Volume 4. Learn how to get 14 more actionable trading lessons — FREE — below.
Why Do Traders Lose?
If you’ve been trading for a long time, you no doubt have felt that a monstrous, invisible hand sometimes reaches into your trading account and takes out money. It doesn’t seem to matter how many books you buy, how many seminars you attend or how many hours you spend analyzing price charts, you just can’t seem to prevent that invisible hand from depleting your trading account funds.
Which brings us to the question: Why do traders lose? Or maybe we should ask, “How do you stop the Hand?” Whether you are a seasoned professional or just thinking about opening your first trading account, the ability to stop the Hand is proportional to how well you understand and overcome the Five Fatal Flaws of trading. For each fatal flaw represents a finger on the invisible hand that wreaks havoc with your trading account. Read the rest of this entry »
Should Stock Investors “Fret Over Economy”? No — See Chart to Understand Why
The idea that the economy leads the stock market is false
As the DJIA fell 2% to close below 12,000 on August 2, one theme rang across major financial websites. This CNN headline summarizes it:
Stocks sink as investors fret over the economy (Aug. 2)
The belief that the economy drives the stock market is common knowledge; it’s Investing 101; the idea gets pounded into investors’ heads, over and over again, by various pundits, daily.
But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false.
The strength or weakness of the economy does not lead the stock market higher or lower. The economy follows the stock market. Read the rest of this entry »
Using Moving Averages To Improve Your Trading
The Trend Is Your Friend: Using Moving Averages To Improve Your Trading
By Elliott Wave International
Many traders and investors use technical indicators to support their analysis. One of the most popular and reliable also happens to be an indicator that has been around for years and years — moving averages.
A moving average is simply the average value of data over a specific time period. Analysts use it to figure out whether the price of a stock or a commodity is trending up or down. It effectively “smooths out” the daily fluctuations to provide a more objective way to view a market.
Although simple to construct, moving averages are dynamic tools, because you can choose Read the rest of this entry »
What Does a Fractal Look Like?
And What Does It Have to Do with the Stock Market?
Fractals are common in nature but you don’t expect them in the stock market. But as you’ll see in this article fractals are found almost everywhere and by understanding them you can better predict the future direction of the stock market.
May 26, 2011
By Elliott Wave International
If the word ‘fractal’ comes up at all in conversation, that conversation is probably being held in a mathematics department. However, anyone who is interested in the Wave Principle and how it applies to the stock market may have stumbled across the phrase “robust fractal.” If you want to know more about what it means in that context, here’s an excerpt from Elliott Wave International’s primer on fractals that explains the connection.
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Excerpted from The Human Social Experience Forms a Fractal
by Robert R. Prechter
In the 1930s, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered that aggregate stock market prices trend and reverse in recognizable patterns. In a series of books and articles published from 1938 to 1946, he described the stock market as a fractal. A fractal is an object that is similarly shaped at different scales. Read the rest of this entry »
Gold Elliott Wave- How Long and How High?
In today’s editorial, David Banister takes a look at Gold and where it could be going. He provides an excellent possible scenario that matches with my views and experience exactly. He is projecting a rally to the $1500 range with a pull back from there and a major take-off for the final wave to the blow-off top from there. This is exactly what we would expect based on Elliottwave patterns. Tim McMahon- editor
Gold How to Play it Now
David Banister-www.MarketTrendForecast.com
Regular readers of my articles on Gold over the past few years know that I have a theory on this Gold Bull market. In summary, it’s that we are in a 13 Fibonacci year uptrend that started in 2001, and now we are in the final 4 years of that uptrend. It is in this last 5 year window that I theorized started in August of 2009 that investors really get involved. As the crowd comes in, prices push higher and higher, and then more and more investors come in and so forth.
The very recent rally has pushed us up to about $1,420 per ounce, on the way to my projected Read the rest of this entry »
Beginner’s Guide To Understanding Market Charts
You don’t need computerized technical analysis to understand market trends
Being able to “read” a market chart is a rare skill even among professionals. Most investors focus on “the fundamentals”: Things like unemployment numbers, earnings, Fed statements, etc. But just like a picture is worth a thousand words, a chart can tell you a lot about technical conditions of the market — at a glance.