Today we break down the wall of investing in Chinese companies. We give you what we learned about investing in China from the World Money Show & we give you a freebie that we already did our homework on. – Captured Live on Ustream at www.ustream.tv
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on crowd psychology and how it relates to trading the stock, futures, and forex markets. The best summary that I have seen on this subject, as well as a great book on trading in general is Dr. Alexander Elder’s book Trading for a living. As the Trader and Psychologist points out in his book, people think differently when acting as part of a crowd than they do when acting alone. Dr Elder points out that “People change when they join crowds. They become more credulous, impulsive, anxiously search for a leader, and react to emotions instead of using their intellect.” In his book Dr. Elder gives several examples of academic studies which have been done which show that people have trouble doing simple tasks such as choosing which line is longer than the other when put in a situation with other people who were instructed to give the wrong answer. Perhaps no where is the strange effect is the psychology of crowds seen than in the financial markets. One of the more recent examples as I have spoken about in my other lessons of the effect that the psychology of crowds can have on the markets is the run-up of the NASDAQ into 2000. As you will find by pulling out the history books however, this is not an isolated incident as financial history is littered with similar price bubbles created and then destroyed in the same way as the NASDAQ bubble was. So why does history continue to repeat itself? As Dr. Elder points out in his book, from a primitive …
The Stock Market Companion provides an easy understanding of evaluating what to do with stock holdings when political events like the unrest in Eqypt affect the stock market.
www.theinvestorwatch.com The current market has come up substantially since it’s bottom in early March. Should you invest now and how should you invest if so? Listen to what Suze Orman thinks about investing in the current market.
Investing in nanotechnology involves finding companies that specialize in this practice and researching what the companies are about. Discover more about investing in nanotechnology and historical trends of investing in other types of technology, with insight from a futures and options floor trader in this free video on investing. Expert: Mark Griffith Bio: Mark Griffith has graduated in economics and philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge. He has been a futures and options floor trader at LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange). Filmmaker: Paul Volniansky