Posts on Finance and Trading the Markets Index

Number of Articles: 173

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Before Investing

1. Personal finance and money management.
2. Achieve your Financial Independence and Early Retire (The F.I.R.E movement).
3. Asset creation for a lifetime.
4. Insurances, one can Get to Protect his or her Investment Capital.

Learning from Others

1. Personal Finance Lessons From Those Who Achieved It and Then Lost It — Part 1
2. Personal Finance Lessons From Those Who Achieved It and Then Lost It — Part 2

Starting

1. Introduction.
2. Frequently Asked Questions on Trading.

Topics on Economic History

1. Financial history in a timeline.
2. The Templar Knights and The Invention of Banking
3. The Financial History of the Medici Family
4. How Switzerland went from a Poor Nation to the Wealthiest Nation in the World
5. The Mr. Crawfurd versus the Royal Bank Case of 1749
6. America Before, During, and After the Gilded Age — Part 1
7. America Before, During, and After the Gilded Age — Part 2
8. America Before, During, and After the Gilded Age — Part 3
9. The History of The House of Morgan
10. Navigating the Financial Odyssey of the Banking Rothschild Dynasty: A Journey through Niall Ferguson’s Lens — Part 1
11. Who is Elon Musk? The Answer Might Surprise You — Part 1 — Early Life and Past Portfolio

Crisis, Bubbles, Scams, and Frauds

1. The Tulip Mania during the Dutch Empire.
2. Charles Ponzi: The Man Who “Started” It All.
3. The Story of a Great Depression.
4. How Bernie Madoff Scammed the World.
5. My Notes on How to Analyze a Company According to Martin Shkreli — Part 1

Economics

1. What Really is Money?
2. Adam Smith: The Father of Economics.
3. How the economy works.
4. An Introductory Course to Central Banking
5. The War Between Supply and Demand, and the Debate of the greatest modern Economic thinkers.
6. The Economy Under the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
7. What Exactly is Inflation?
8. Essentials of Microeconomic Theory: A Concise Exploration

Financial Markets

1. Financial markets, its players, products, and product derivatives.
2. An Overview of the Sovereign Wealth Funds Market

Trader’s & Investor’s Lifes

1. The different kinds of traders.
2. Trading sessions, trading days, and trading hours.
3. Your Common Trading Lingo Guide.
4. A Collection of Great Historical Quotes for Every Trader and Investor.

Bonds

1. Introduction to Fixed Income Assets: Bonds

Dividend Investing

ETFs

1. An introductory guide on ETFs.
2. ARK, and their innovative and actively managed ETFs.
3. How to invest in the Chinese market with ETFs.
4. India: How to invest with ETFs.
5. Gold ETF suggestions for investors and traders.

Stocks, Fundamental Analysis, and Value Investing

1. Sectors, Industries, and Company Examples.
2. The Father of Value Investing and his Best Disciple. The Story of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet.
3. The IPO and the stock market.
4. The Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) investment technique.
5. Your One-Stop Guide on Value Investing.

“Ethical” Investing

1. Ethical Investing with Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).

Topics on Accounting

Financial Reporting and Analysis

1. Balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. How to read business reports.
2. Introduction to Financial Statements: Corporate Earnings with the Income Statement

Valuation & Corporate Finance

1. Explaining the Time Value of Money Concept.
2. The Comprehensive Guide to Present and Future Value
3. The meaning of each Finviz’s scanner search attribute.
4. The “Rule #1” of long-term investing.
5. “Rule #1” in practice!
6. Scan for Value Stocks According to their “Scores”

Relative Valuation

Absolute Valuation

1. Intrinsic Valuation Methods — The Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
2. The Art of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis in Investment Decisions (Theory)
3. Simplifying Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Company Analysis

Technical Analysis

1. Stock Trader’s Resources for Creating your Watchlist and Generating Trading Ideas.
2. Efficient markets hypothesis and technical analysis. Does technical analysis work or not?
3. Financial market order types.

Price Action and Charting

1. Introduction to charts.
2. The basis of technical analysis. The Dow theory.
3. Your starting guide on price action and Japanese candlesticks.
4. The Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio, and How to trade with them.
5. Price Action with Single Candlesticks.

Indicators & Other Topics

1. Indicators for Traders: Relative Strength Index (RSI)
2. Indicators for Traders: Donchian Channel
3. Indicators for Traders: Average True Range (ATR)
4. Indicators for Traders: Bolinger Bands

Market Breadth Indicators

Strategies

1. How to Create a Trading Strategy and a Trading Plan.

Momentum Trading

Trend Following Trading

1. Trend Following: A complete guide into TurtleTrading and their legacy.

Mean Reversion

Topics on Risk Management

1. Basic Money and Risk Management for Traders.
2. The Kelly Criterion and Position Sizing.

Portfolio Management

1. Portfolio management 101 with “Portfolio Performance”.
2. Ray Dalio’s “All-Weather” Portfolio Template.
3. The US Congress Investing Performance and the Nancy Pelosi Portfolio.
4. How to Profit in a Bear Market or Hedge against it.

Topics on Trading

1. The US Investment Championship

Day Trading

1. My Notes and Thoughts on David Green, a Wall Street Trader.
2. Tom Hougaard, the Best Loser Wins.

Swing Trading

Growth Stocks (Technofundamental)

1. The Story of a Stock Operator Named Jesse Livermore.
2. How a Dancer Turned Out to be one of the Greatest Traders: The Life and Work of Nicolas Darvas.
3. One of the most Influential Traders of the 20th Century. The life and Teachings of William O’Neil.
4. Technical Analysis Lessons from Stan Weinstein.
5. The Trading Style of Mark Minervini.

Foreign Exchange (Forex)

1. Basic terminology and a bird’s view on forex trading.
2. Brokers to choose from if you are a Forex trader.
3. Forex Trader’s Resources for Creating your Watchlist and Generating Trading Ideas.
4. The Man Who Broke the Bank of England: George Soros and the Black Wednesday.
5. An Introduction to the Triangular Arbitrage and the Forex Markets.

Macroeconomic Analysis

Cryptocurrency Trading

1. Blockchain and the Byzantine Generals Problem.
2. What exactly is a Blockchain.
3. How to Use the Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer.
4. Cryptocurrencies. What they are and how they work?
5. Your choices on Android Cryptocurrency Wallets.
6. How to earn your first free cryptocurrencies.
7. Crypto Trader’s Resources for Creating your Watchlist and Generating Trading Ideas.
8. Centralized Exchanges (CEX) for Aspiring Cryptocurrency Traders.
9. All the details about the FTX Crypto Exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, and his Arbitrage Crypto Trading.

Smart Contract Platforms & Utility Tokens

1. Top Generic Blockchain Smart Contract Platforms and How They Work. Part 1
2. The 450+ free applications of the Blockstack (STX) project and its cryptocurrency.
3. Cardano, the internet of blockchains.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

1. DeFi 101: DEXs, Yield Farming, Liquidity Providing, and More.
2. The Ethereum, Dai, and Maker Cryptocurrencies.
3. Buy smaller cryptocurrencies with Uniswap.
4. SwissBorg: Your Personal Multifunction Cryptocurrency Wallet.
5. The Most Interesting Stablecoins on the Market.

Other

1. Cryptocurrencies in the Privacy Coin Category.
2. A complete guide to Basic Attention Token (BAT) for content creators and YouTubers.
3. Top Cryptocurrencies in the Artificial Intelligence Category.

On-Chain Analysis

Futures and Commodities

1. Commodities: The Sweat of the Sun, Gold — An Introduction of the Market.
2. Commodities: Crude Oil, an Introduction to the Black Gold.
3. Introduction to Futures Contracts and the Inter-Market Spread Trading Strategy.

Prop Style Trading

1. An Introduction to the Auction Market Theory, and its Tools.
2. Popular Charting Software Applications that Focus on Volume-Trading and Market Profile.
3. An Introduction to the Tools Used by a Prop Futures Trader

Ninja Trader Platform

1. Volume Trading with the NinjaTrader Platform — Part 1.

Sierra Charts

1. A Beginner’s Guide to the “Sierra Charts” Charting Platform — Part 1

Option Trading

1. Stocks versus Stock Options as a speculating vehicle.
2. A beginner’s guide in options.
3. Determining the fair market value of options contracts
4. The four basic options trades and their risk profile.
5. Option Trader’s Resources for Creating your Watchlist and Generating Trading Ideas.

Options Strategies

1. The wheel investment strategy.

Income Strategies

1. Income Trading with Options Strategies: the Vertical Spreads
2. Income Trading with Options Strategies: Short Strangle and Short Iron Condor
3. Income Trading with Options Strategies: Short Straddle and Short Iron Butterfly

Topics on Mathematics and Statistics for Finance

1. Science, the Scientific Method, and Finance
2. The Philosophy of Mathematics and its Relation to Finance.

Algebra

1. Everything you need to know about Mathematics, and Python. Part 1

Calculus

Statistics & Probability

Descriptive

1. A Relatively Quick Statistics Crash Course. — Part 1
2. A Relatively Quick Probability Crash Course — Part 1 — Basics
3. A Relatively Quick Probability Crash Course — Part 2 — Bayesian Probability
4. A Relatively Quick Probability Crash Course — Part 3 — Random Variables & Probability Distribution
5. A Relatively Quick Probability Crash Course — Part 4 — Bernoulli Trial and Discrete Random Variables

Inferential

Quantitative Finance

1. Homo Economicus and the Rational Expectations Theory
2. The History of Quantitative Finance.
3. Harry Markowitz: the Father of the Modern Portfolio Theory.
4. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) by William Sharpe.
5. Eugene Fama and The Efficient Market Hypothesis.
6. James Simons — The Life of a Quant.
7. The Story of the Long-Term Capital Management Fund (L.T.C.M.).
8. Nobel Prize Winners in Economics and Their Contributions to Economics and Finance — From 2023 to 2012.

Excel for Investors and Traders

1. Microsoft Excel: Inserting financial data and prepare it for analysis.

Financial Data Science

1. Introduction to SQL Databases for Financial Data Analysis — Theory.
2. Python, Virtual Environments, and Docker: Unifying Development and Deployment

Cloud Computing

1. Navigating the Clouds: An Overview of Cloud Computing
2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Explained
3. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Explained
4. A Quick Overview of Microsoft Azure

Time Series Analysis

Risk Modeling

Artificial Intelligence for Finance

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
2. An Interview with an Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT).

Algorithmic (Systematic) Trading

Python for Investors and Traders

1. How to prepare your computer for python coding.
2. Useful Python libraries for Finance. Part 1
3. Useful Python libraries for Finance. Part 2
4. Not just another quick Python crash course
5. Not Just Another Quick Object-Oriented Python Crash Course — Part 1

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Backtesting & Strategy Development

Behavioral Finance

1. The Teachings of Daniel Kahneman, and Cognitive Biases in Investing and Trading

Sentiment Analysis

Trader’s Psychology & Health

1. Stay healthy and sane as a trader.
2. 10 psychological traps that are going to hurt your trading.

Journaling

1. Trader’s log journal and performance indicators.
2. A List with the Best Trading Journal Software Solutions.

Resources

1. Top trading and finance books per category out there.
2. Forum communities for traders and investors.
3. Top Reputable Reports One Could Read to Stay Relevant in Today’s World — Part 1

Tools & Setups

Other Types of Investing & Trading

- P2P Investing

- REITs

- NFTs

1. What’s All the Fuss About Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)?

Taxation and Trading as Business

1. Work from Wherever You want. The Digital Nomad Lifestyle.
2. Hit the Ground Runnin’ and Jump Start your Business as a Trader.

- Countries

• Canada
• Cyprus
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Sweeden
• Switzerland
• UK
• USA