Investment Lessons

Investment LessonsLearn more about how to make smart decisions with your money. Take the lessons here and increase your knowledge of proven investment strategies.

Lesson 1 - Trendlines - the Basics

What is a trendline? A trendline is the simplest of all the technical analysis tools, yet one of the most effective...

Lesson 2 - Trendlines - Intermediate Concepts

In this lesson, we will talk more about trendlines, and how to interpret them...

Lesson 3 - Trendlines - Intermediate Concepts Part 2

In our first two lessons on trendlines, we learned that there are specific rules relating to trends...

Lesson 4 - Moving Averages

In this lesson, we will begin to discuss moving averages, and how these can be applied to trendlines to get a better view of market movement...

Lesson 5 - Moving Average Convergence-Divergence

One of the most useful indicators in technical analysis is the Moving Average Convergence-Divergence, or MACD. The system was developed by Gerald Appel, a well-known and very respected technical analyst...

Lesson 6 - Momentum

Momentum is the measure of rate of change in prices. As true in investing as it is in physics, bodies in motion tend to remain in motion. And, like in physics, when the body in motion strikes something, the momentum, or motion, slows or stops. If there were a way to determine this momentum, it would provide a valuable tool in predicting price movements. Welcome the momentum oscilator. It is easy to calculate, highly visual in interpretation...